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Bitcoin is the most established digital currency available today. It provides a safe, anonymous way to send and receive a virtual currency everybody trusts. However, managing bitcoins is not quite as simple as managing a bank account. In this article I will explain how to manage your bitcoins using Electrum. Please note that in this article I will provide working knowledge of how to use Electrum, without entering the mysterious land of cryptography and technical details of Bitcoin.

Recently Linux Kernel 3.18.15 has been announced. The Kernel includes several bug fixes. Latest Linux Kernel includes new features, bug fixes and improve security. Updating/Upgrading Linux Kernel is recommended.

Cinnamon 2.6, the latest version of cinnamon desktop environment has been released and announced few week ago by linux Mint Developer (Clement Lefebvre) via Linux Mint Segfault blog

The desktop is full of eye candy. It enhances the visual experience and, in some cases, can also increase functionality of software. But it also makes software fun. Working on the command-line does not have to be always serious. If you want some fun on the command-line, there are lots of commands to raise a smile.

This article lists 3 ways in which Debian needs to improve and not one is to do with the product itself. The website is ridiculously complicated, live ISOs are not UEFI bootable and the installer has over 20 screens.

Allwinner, a fabless semiconductor design company from China is joining the Linux Foundation. Allwinner is known from its SoCs for Android tablets and other devices.

This guide shows how to dual boot Windows 8.1 and Debian Jessie. This is a fairly simple process but not necessarily obvious as the Live Disks are useless on UEFI based computers.

Fedora 22 KDE is an Fedora Spins based-on Fedora 22 featuring KDE Plasma 5 as the main desktop environment. Fedora 22 KDE Plasma comes with many pre-selected top quality applications that suit all modern desktop use cases – from online communication like web browsing, instant messaging and electronic mail correspondence,

React Native – It's Javascript with a hint of nutritious, ad-friendly lock-in Facebook has ruled out a return to platform-neutral HTML5 for mobile, dedicating itself to a future of React Native – its own Javascript framework.…

List of Linux Real Time scenarios & Issues with their solutions

In this tutorial we are going to provide you with step-by-step instructions on how to install Trident on an Ubuntu VPS. Trident is one of the best open source social content management platforms. It is used to create responsive, highly customizable and easy to manage social network websites.

Secure, well-managed, compatible with apps – think about it. Four months ago, BlackBerry announced it was porting key features of its BlackBerry OS software to Android and iOS – stuff like its onscreen keyboard, Universal Search, and the notification Hub.

Kevin Gunn dropped an email on June 12 informing us about an exciting new update for the Unity 8 and Mir technologies of the Ubuntu Linux operating system.

Version 5.11.0 of KDE Frameworks has been released. KDE Frameworks are 60 addon libraries to Qt which provide a wide variety of commonly needed functionality in mature, peer reviewed and well tested libraries with friendly licensing terms.

The Linux Foundation has issued a call for papers for Embedded Linux Conference Europe, which this year joins LinuxCon + CloudOpen in Dublin from Oct. 5-7. Like last year, the Linux Foundation’s LinuxCon Europe show is being co-located with CloudOpen Europe and Embedded Linux Conference Europe, with a single registration. This year the show moves […]

Hello, open gaming fans! In this week's edition, we take a look at Ouya's potential acquisition, Steam's Summer Sale, new Linux games, and more! Open gaming roundup: June 7 - 13, 2015 read more

Parrot revealed 13 new Linux-based mini-drones including new jumping and airborne models with headlights, an airborne cargo quadcopter, and a hydrofoil. Parrot’s 13 new mini-drones expand upon last year’s similarly toy-like Rolling Spider and Jumping Sumo. The products are all selling for 199 Euros ($220) or less in France. By comparison, Parrot’s higher end AR.Drone […]

One thing he said really did catch my attention: “Overseas they don’t really trust proprietary software anymore.” Yup. I’ve been saying that here on FOSS Force for a while — like from the moment Snowden began giving us the lowdown on the NSA. I got a chance to ask him about that later on. He said that he and some of his open source business cronies were talking about that recently. He said the Snowden revelations are costing the proprietary guys and gals billions. I said that might explain Microsoft’s new Transparency Center in Belgium.

The Document Foundation published recently details about the immediate availability for download and testing of the third Beta release of the upcoming LibreOffice 5.0 open-source office suite.

Users are being urged to upgrade OpenSSL to prevent eavesdroppers listening to otherwise encrypted connections undermined through the LogJam vulnerability thought to be the NSA's crypto-cracking tool of choice.