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KDE Applications 15.04.1 are now available in Kubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet) via a handy PPA repository that is available right now.

Whenever I watch episodes of Battlestar Galactica, it breaks my heart when they avoid Cylon hacking by disconnecting all networks....... Anyone who has had their Wi-Fi go down knows just how much we depend on computer networks in our every day lives.

NagiosQL is a web based administration tool designed for Nagios, but might also work with forks. It helps you to easily build a complex configuration with all options, manage and use them.

LinuxGizmos.com and Linux.com would like your help in choosing the top 10 community backed single board computers (SBCs) that run Linux or Android. Read our detailed post describing this year’s survey, and then fill out our short 2-minute survey.

How to set-up Tomcat 8 with Nginx reverse proxy on an Ubuntu 14.04 VPS

Microsoft would love to get some of Android's mobile market share, and here's one way they're trying to do it in China.

It's June 1st, so it is time to get your hands on a new ISO build of the world's most customizable, lightweight and acclaimed GNU/Linux operating system, Arch Linux.

You may not have noticed, but people often become attached to their favorite technology. This could be a mobile phone, a programming language, or a text editor. When you work on someone else's project, you generally have to go with whatever the prevailing tools and languages are, but when it's your own project, you get to choose the toys. Documentation requires technology, too, but most people have less of a pre-set opinion about documentation tooling than they do about web frameworks and version control systems. So how is a project to choose? read more

Immediately after unveiling the Dell Inspiron 15 3000 Series Ubuntu Edition laptop, the renown hardware manufacturer also published details about their smaller, 14" Dell Inspiron 14 3000 Series laptop powered by Ubuntu Linux.

Peppermint is excited to announce the launch of our latest operating system Peppermint Six. Lightweight and designed for speed, Peppermint Six delivers on that promise whether using software on your desktop, online, or using cloud based apps.

It’s important to note that neither of these are high dollar top-of-the-line laptops requiring deep pockets to buy, but affordable Inspiron 14 3000 Series laptops priced for the rest of us. The laptop announced two weeks ago comes with a 15? screen and sells for somewhere between $250 and $350, depending on the configuration. The laptop announced today, which defaults to slightly lower specs and comes with a smaller 14? screen, is priced at $219 and up.

A short while ago I was reviewing one of my Twitter lists and I happened upon a tweet that led me to NethServer, an open source project that featured a product the likes of which I had been looking for in recent months. read more

Linus Torvalds just released the latest release candidate of the Linux kernel; version 4.1-rc6.

Taiwanese OEM manufacturer ECS released its PCoS Intel (HDMI) Compute Stick.

Dell is making a push to enter the Internet of Things ecosystem, and it's doing so with a new device aptly named Dell IoT Gateway, which is powered by Ubuntu Core, among other things.

Interested in keeping track of what's happening in the open source cloud? Opensource.com is your source for news in OpenStack, the open source cloud infrastructure project. read more

In this tutorial I will show you how to install Tomcat on CentOS. Before letting you know how to install Tomcat on CentOS we should know what Tomcat is.

The Manjaro Development Team informed all Manjaro Linux users about the immediate availability for download of the tenth update for the stable Manjaro Linux 0.8.12 distribution.

The Docker Bench for Security isn't a panacea for container security, but more tools are likely to complement it over time.