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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.

The developers of Tiny Core Linux, one of the smallest GNU/Linux distribution in the world, were proud to announce the release of Tiny Core 6.3.

Offering both a systemd and OpenRC edition, the Manjaro developers are giving their users a chance to choose for themselves which init system they would like to run. Manjaro-OpenRC boots fast, runs fast, is stable as the Rock of Gibraltar, and boasts an enormous software collection.

We are informing all Chapeau 20 users that they will have to upgrade to the current stable version of the distribution, Chapeau 21, as soon as possible by following the official upgrade instructions provided the devs.

A hackable “Zymbit Orange” IoT box offers internal RPi SBC, Arduino shield, Atmel Wingboard, wireless, and touch display options, plus cloud-based access. We’ve seen several carrier boards and mini-PCs that extend the Raspberry Pi, including Geekroo’s Fairywren Mini-ITX board, and for the RPi Compute Module, the OpenPi and Calao Pinball mini-PC. None of them, however, […]

Odia Wikipedia is one of the first few Indian language Wikipedia projects celebrating such an old age. The Wikimedia community will gather in Odisha's capital of Bhubaneswar on June 3 to celebrate Odia Wikipedia's 13th anniversary. Get more event details. read more

The Nautilus (Files) open-source file manager used in numerous GNU/Linux distributions has been updated recently as part of the GNOME 3.17.2 desktop environment, the second milestone towards GNOME 3.18.

Synergy works really well, it's simple to use, and is an essential utility if you want to control local computers with a single mouse and keyboard.

A native file browser for USB flash drives will be included in the next version of Android (codename M).

Actually, straight forward install RDO Kilo on Fedora 22 crashes due to relatively simple puppet mistake. Workaround for this issue was recently suggested by Javier Pena. Start packstack for multinode deployment as normal to get files require updates. After first packstack crash update /usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet/provider/service/systemd.rb to include "F22" (in quite obvious place) on all deployment nodes

"Time for a new OS... why not try #Ubuntu?" is one of the latest tweets of Dell support.