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MakuluLinux LxFce combines both LXDE and Xfce to bring a `best of both worlds' desktop environment to the end user, making use of the LXDE backend allows the system to run smooth and snappy no matter how much RAM is being used. Xfce frontend brings more user friendly front end applications to manage your system. The combination has been designed to compliment each environment offering strengths on both sides and none of the weaknesses.

Digitally signed firmware makes open source hardware acceleration a no-go The Linux community's on-again, off-again relationship with Nvidia appears to have soured once more, amid reports that the GPU maker is back to its old tricks – and worse – when it comes to open source hardware drivers.…

Drupal is a very widely used open-source content management system. It initially was released in 2001, and recent statistics show Drupal as the third-most popular content management system, with just less than 800,000 Web sites utilizing Drupal as a content management system.

Data Modul’s 3.5-inch MS-98F3 SBC can run any 4th or 5th Generation Intel Core ULT chip, and offers dual mini-PCIe, GbE, and SATA connections. Data Modul’s MS-98F3 is the first embedded board we can recall to offer support for two different generations of Core processors. The 3.5-inch form-factor single board computer ships with a 4th […]

In today's open source roundup: Check out Google's new site for Chromebooks. Plus: Dooble privacy browser released. And five notable changes in Ubuntu 15.04.

The Blue Screen of Death is a common occurrence on Windows systems, less now than a few years ago, but it still happens. Seeing one on a Linux system is like spotting a unicorn, not impossible, but highly unlikely.

The latest release of Toutou, SlaXen 6.0 RCX, offers users Openbox 3.5.2 and a new side panel for quickly launching new applications. Though SlaXen 6.0 does not offer a default web browser, there are six different browsers available to the user at install time. SlaXen 6.0 ships with mtPaint, Foxit Reader, AbiWord and Gnumeric. Additional software can be acquired from available PET packages.

Oracle started Beta-testing for the upcoming new major release, VirtualBox 5.0.

NGINX (pronounced "engine x") is an open source, high-performance HTTP server and reverse proxy server. read more

NCR hurls Google's Linux at Windows XP walls Banks have a new option for finally unhitching from Windows XP on tens of thousands of ATMs – Google’s Android.…

This week in Santa Clara, Opensource.com is attending OpenStack Live, a two day conference with six hands-on tutorials and 18 sessions along with keynotes and panel discussions featuring a wide range of speakers including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. read more

Scientific Linux 7.1 x86_64 released." This release delivers a number of changes, including: "abrt - removed the recommendation to open an upstream support case; Anaconda - modified the installclass library so that it correctly identifies Scientific Linux; DHCP - changed to remove upstream's bug report URL; GRUB - this package has been modified to recognize the Scientific Linux Secure Boot key; Apache httpd - changed the default index.html to remove upstream's branding; ipa - changed package requirements to remove upstream's branding; Linux kernel - this package has been modified to recognize the Scientific Linux Secure Boot key.

Case studies about open source project participants and users are a great way to showcase your project and how it works in the real world. Such studies will highlight interesting features of your software, demonstrate different (and potentially unique) ways your project is in use, and foster positive communication among members of your community. read more

Bigger than Justin Bieber and infinitely more interesting NASA has let it be known its working on an API portal so it can put more data into developers' hands.…

Toutou Linux is a lightweight operating system based on the Puppy distribution. Toutou is optimized for French speaking users and provides a friendly user interface based upon Openbox. The latest release of Toutou, SlaXen 6.0 RCX, offers users Openbox 3.5.2 and a new side panel for quickly launching new applications.

Today, we are going to explore how to position elements in your applications within the space they occupies in your application window.

Docker's CEO explains why the open-source Docker container technology is taking off, and why he's raising more money.

This new release, Hanthana Linux 21, ships with several desktop environments such as GNOME, KDE, XFCE, Sugar, LXDE. There are several editions of Hanthana 21, for general usage (Hanthana 21 LiveDVD), educational purpose you can use Hanthana 21 Edu and Hanthana 21 Dev can be use for software development purposes.

The bait--a trove of phony "stolen" data including several thousand Social Security numbers, credit cards, names, and email addresses--was swallowed within the first few days of being planted in the Dark Web. And when the 12-day experiment was over, the data had traveled to more than 22 different countries and been viewed nearly 1,100 times.

The following tutorial is targeted at Ubuntu 15.04 users who don't want to wait for Ubuntu 15.10 and want to install Linux kernel 4.0 on their Vivid Vervet distributions today.