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On 9th December, 2014 Fedora 21 release happened, next day development team started planning for Fedora 22 release including its schedule, feature planning and meeting all around different product. Fedora […]

These two popular enterprise Linux server operating systems are getting an Active Directory and container friendly refresh.

Nowadays sharing data across different computers is not something new at home or many work places. Riding on this trend, modern operating systems make it easy to share and exchange data transparently across computers via network file systems. If your work environment involves a mix of Microsoft Windows and Linux computers, one way to share […]Continue reading... The post How to share a directory with Samba on Fedora or CentOS appeared first on Xmodulo. Related FAQs: How to run iptables automatically after reboot on Debian How to install RPM Fusion on Fedora or CentOS How to set up Open WebMail in CentOS How to set up Squid as a transparent web proxy on CentOS or RHEL How to install LEMP stack (nginx, MariaDB/MySQL and PHP) on CentOS

Once a piece of software is installed on a user's system, how do you keep it updated? While Linux users typically have a package management system to pull latest versions from a repository of their choice, users of other systems aren't so lucky. We have developed an open source tool to assist in this process, based on an open source protocol from Google know as Omaha. read more

Patent-holding giant Intellectual Ventures (IV) began enforcing some of its massive stash of patents with lawsuits in 2010. But its first case, against Motorola Mobility, ended in a mistrial last year when a jury couldn't agree on the outcome.

Now that case is teed up again with a different set of patents.

Open Source in Education A collection of articles from educators, students, advocates, parents, and more who are implementing open source in education and working toward a more open knowledge base for everyone. The Community School of Excellence Asian Penguins start every club meeting with a call and response. The meeting leader, always a kid, asks the question, "What are we trying to do?" and the kids respond, "Change the world!" The leader then asks, "How do you change the world?" and the kids then respond, "Be crazy enough to think you can!" read more

FreeNX offers a way to securely access your desktop remotely over a local network or the Internet. FreeNX is the OpenSource implementation of the NX protocol, originally developed by NoMachine. The NX protocol is very efficient and allows X-Desktop-Connections over slow network uplinks. The connection is secured with SSL / TLS. In this tutorial we are going to check how to install and configure FreeNX on Ubunru 14.04 (Trusty Tahr).

The Evolve OS team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Evolve OS Beta 1.1. This release focuses on stability and on bringing the core system up to scratch. Please note that as this is an update to beta 1, changes that are intended for beta 2 (such as UEFI support) are be present. Also note Evolve OS is only available as a 64-bit system. Core changes: Linux kernel 3.19.1, GCC 4.9.2, Clang/LLVM 3.5.0, systemd 218. Many Evolve OS packages are now being built with Clang by default and, as such, we have begun to reduce the overall footprint of the system. A live boot Evolve OS beta 1.1 (via USB) will use around 185 - 190 MB of RAM idle on a Thinkpad X1 Carbon, and boots in 2.3 seconds on an Intel NUC (D54250WYK) installation. With our last ISO image some users were unable to boot due to a conflict regarding USB 3. This has since been resolved.

Oracle has announced today the immediate availability for download and update of a new maintenance release of its VirtualBox 4.3 virtualization software for Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows operating systems. VirtualBox 4.3.26 brings a number of improvements and fixes that have been discovered in the previous release, VirtualBox 4.3.24.

Qualcomm’s Raspberry Pi-sized “DragonBoard 410c” SBC runs Android or Linux on the quad-core Cortex-A53 based Snapdragon 410, and offers WiFi, BT, and GPS. Qualcomm Inc. subsidiary Qualcomm Technologies has unveiled the second single board computer to comply with 96Boards Consumer Edition hardware specification from Linaro’s new 96Boards.org community project and standards organization. Qualcomm’s DragonBoard 410c […]

NLTK stands for "Natural Language Tool Kit". It is a python programming module which is used to clean and process human language data. Its rich inbuilt tools helps us to easily build applications in the field of Natural Language Processing (a.k.a NLP). This tutorial shows how NLTK can be installed and used with an example.

I’m excited to announce that David Bryant is joining Mozilla today as our new Vice President of Platform Engineering. David will be based in our headquarters in Mountain View, California. David was most recently at Nokia where he served as … Continue reading

A couple of years after its official release, Valve’s Steam for Linux initiative is making steady progress. It recently notched up a significant milestone when the number of Linux-compatible games on Steam breached the 1,000 mark.

Android Lollipop was released to general availability in October 2014. At this point, less than 2% of Android devices are running the latest iteration of the most widely used platform on the planet. I currently have six different Android devices, none of which are running Lollipop. I check each of them everyday for an update, and not one of them has shown signs of a fresh, candy-flavored Android.

Everyone in the OpenStack community has a vested interested in making it work. Vendors want to sell products or services, while users want a low-cost, convenient means of managing cloud infrastructure

Every time you email someone overseas, the NSA copies and searches your message. It makes no difference if you or the person you're communicating with has done anything wrong. If the NSA believes your message could contain information relating to the foreign affairs of the United States - because of whom you're talking to, or whom you're talking about - it may hold on to it for as long as three years and sometimes much longer.

A new development version for the next maintenance release of the acclaimed LibreOffice 4.4 office suite has been announced today, bringing a wide range of enhancements and bugfixes that improve the overall stability of the software on all supported operating systems, including GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows.

These two popular enterprise Linux server operating systems are getting an Active Directory and container friendly refresh.

The LXDE Spin of the Fedora Linux distribution is the last in our screenshot tours for the Alpha release of the upcoming Fedora 22 computer operating system based on the Linux kernel and various other open-source technologies.

If you work with file archives that come in many different "flavors", you might find this little trick to be a handy one.