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Fedora 22 was released yesterday... so I updated the Fedora 22 OpenVZ OS Template I created to be current and submitted it to contrib. For the fun of it I made a screencast that shows making a Fedora 22 container and then installing the MATE desktop environment along with a handful of common desktop applications and how to access everything via x2go.

"Developed many years before by some high-strung, compulsive assistant, the Bulletin was simply a Word document that lived in a shared folder both Emily and I could access. Only one of us could open it at a time and add a new message, thought, or question to the itemized list. Then we'd print out the...

SSHFS is a handy tool to share files securely. It is a filesystem based on the SSH File Transfer Protocol. In this tutorial we will see how to install SSHFS with from the CentOS repository with the yum command and also how to compile it from source.

The Supreme Court issued a ruling today in Commil USA v. Cisco Systems, one of two patent cases it heard this term. On one key issue, the opinion favors Commil, a "patent troll" that won a $64 million jury verdict against Cisco. But other findings mean that the non-practicing entity won't be getting a payday any time soon—and a final section of the opinion is wholly dedicated to reminding judges to sanction misbehaving patent plaintiffs, something that didn't even come up in this case.

Xfce's Power Manager was getting behind the times, but it has been updated and ported to GTK+ 3.14. As you can imagine, this is an important update, and it packs other changes as well.

The UK government has decided, as foreshadowedby The Reg, that it can do without extended support for Windows XP.

A worm that targets cable and DSL modems, home routers, and other embedded computers is turning those devices into a proxy network for launching armies of fraudulent Instagram, Twitter, and Vine accounts as well as fake accounts on other social networks. The new worm can also hijack routers' DNS service to route requests to a malicious server, steal unencrypted social media cookies such as those used by Instagram, and then use those cookies to add "follows" to fraudulent accounts. This allows the worm to spread itself to embedded systems on the local network that use Linux-based operating systems.

Solus is not new, but its concept kind of is. The story of Solus starts a few years ago, back in 2012, when Intel employee Ikey Doherty announced the first ever version of his distro, called SolusOS, based on Debian GNU/Linux and built around the GNOME 2 desktop environment.

This morning, I worked on an Ubuntu Server 14.04 guest who’s disk space has been increased by the VMWare host. LVM was configured on the guest during installation, so that simplified the process of getting the extra space rolled into the original partitioning scheme. Below is a set of instructions that I was able to use on this live server without interruption in service.

Today KDE releases a bugfix update to Plasma 5, versioned 5.3.1. Plasma 5.3 was released in January with many feature refinements and new modules to complete the desktop experience. This release adds a month's worth of new translations and fixes from KDE's contributors. The bugfixes are typically small but important.

Ubuntu Edge was the superphone from Canonical that never raised the money it needed to become a reality, and the community is still asking about it, two years later. The truth of the matter is that not making the Ubuntu Edge phone is probably the biggest mistake the company ever made.

We are proud to announce the official release of Fedora 22, the community-driven and community-built operating system now available in Cloud, Server, and Workstation editions.

SUSE's latest release of SUSE Cloud comes ready to run on both public and private clouds.

We are proud to announce the official release of Fedora 22, the community-driven and community-built operating system now available in Cloud, Server, and Workstation editions. Fedora 22 has built on the foundation we laid with Fedora 21 and the work to create distinct editions of Fedora focused on the desktop, server and cloud.

Install Freeradius on ubuntu 15.04 Server and manage using daloradius

In today's open source roundup: Richard Stallman lashes out against Windows and OS X. Plus: Microsoft's Cortana is coming to Android. And Steam might not be helping the growth of Linux gaming.

After a much delayed Fedora 21, Red Hat's community Linux project gets back on track.

An $89, peer-to-peer “Brease” private file server on Kickstarter features four USB 3.0 ports, a GbE port, 256-bit AES, mobile support, and media streaming.

If you update your Fedora 22 install using DNF on the command line, you may notice that some of the packages that are downloaded and installed still have the release label of fc21 in the package name. For example, if... Continue Reading →

The longtime leader of Kubuntu, Jonathan Riddell, appears to be out of any leadership position relating to Ubuntu for at least twelve months. This decision has caused some to criticize the Ubuntu Community Council for their decision made in relative private -- a decision that was also backed by Mark Shuttleworth.