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Part of being a good open source citizen is contributing to the projects and programs you use and care about most—and learning how to code can be a big part of that. But with so many programming languages out there, picking the right entry point into coding can be a challenge. read more

This tutorial describes the installation of Gnome 3 and VNC on a headless server (server without monitor) to turn it into a Linux Desktop that you can access from anywhere over the internet with VNC. The server that is used for this setup is a root server in a datacenter that runs just a minimal Ubuntu 14.10 operating system.

The Fedora 22 Alpha release has arrived, with a preview of the latest free and open source technology under development. Take a peek inside! Get Fedora 22 Alpha Workstation Get […]

TI launched a kit for its Sitara AM437x SoC, focused on multi-protocol industrial communication and motor feedback. with dual PRU-linked Ethernet ports. In only a week, embedded Linux developers looking to tap the powers of the Texas Instruments Sitara AM437x system-on-chip have seen their options advance from one to three. Last week, MYIR launched a […]

'Rowhammer' attack flips bits in memory to take control of the OS Last summer Google gathered a bunch of leet security researchers as its Project Zero team and instructed them to find unusual zero-day flaws. They've had plenty of success on the software from but on Monday announced a hardware hack that's a real doozy.…

In this config you will learn what is a referer spam traffic, how it is generated and most importantly how to block referer spam on the Linux apache webserver. A referer spam is yet another nuisance invented by spammers causing unaware system admins, marketers or site owners to inadvertently visit or link back to the spammer's site via publicly published access or referer logs on a victim's website. This may consequently lead to a lower search engine ranking, as well as to drain your server's resources.

It has been a while since I wrote the first two articles in my series on Docker security. This article will give an update on what has been added to Docker since then and cover new functionality that is going through the merge process with upstream Docker. read more

The Linux development community now has an organized way to deal with the eternal problem of developer conflict.

Alejandro Di­az had the pleasure of announcing Softpedia a couple of days ago about the immediate availability for download and upgrade of Escuelas Linux 3.0.23, an open-source computer operating system that is currently still based on the Bodhi Linux 2.3 distribution and uses the software repositories from the upstream Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) distro, built around the Enlightenment E17 desktop environment.

The other option is to install Prey and still encrypt the disk, so that in the unlikely event the disk is decrypted without the configured passphrase, Prey will be able to call home and hopefully, help you recover the unit. If you go this route, remember to also have a backup system in place. You can’t lose your data by backing it up.

GNOME developers are pretty serious about their new toy called Nuntius, which will help them provide notifications from Android phones to the GNOME desktop.

A self-described security "amateur" discovered hundreds of Internet-connected devices ranging from cameras to industrial control systems that were connected to the Internet without even basic password protection -- meaning they could be easily turned on and off or otherwise manipulated with a single click of a mouse.

The Vuze (formerly Azureus) BitTorrent client has been updated to version 5.6, a major release that includes numerous improvements to the graphical user interface, new and updated plugins, as well as a number of improvements and bug fixes over the previous version. Vuze 5.6 is now available for download for Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows computer operating systems.

Ubuntu MATE 15.04 Vivid Vervet Beta 1 is now available to download and install for testing. based on mate desktop environment 1.8.1 and added new features, Ubuntu MATE becomes an official of ubuntu flavors.

In today's open source roundup: Check out the Steam Machines in Valve's hardware store. Plus: A review of Bodhi Linux 3.0, and Linux on a new Macbook?

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Atomic Host has been released as the open source company's main platform for running Linux containers via Docker.

A waterproof safe dropped into the deepest part of the ocean is not as 'secure' as it is useless. It's possible to overdo security and end up damaging productivity.

Mozilla will include a new SSL (Secure Sockets Layer)/TLS (Transport Layer Security) certificate checking mechanism in the upcoming Firefox 37 browser release, which is scheduled to become generally available on March 31.

Like many distros these days, Bodhi is built on top of a Ubuntu base, in this case using version 14.04 LTS as its core. However, Bodhi is anything but just another cookie cutter distro. From it’s inception back in 2012, the main purpose of the project has been to offer a Linux distribution that fully takes advantage of the lightweight but full featured and elegantly beautiful Enlightenment desktop environment.

Nicolas Dichtel and Thierry Herbelot pointed out that the directories in the /proc filesystem used a linked list to identify their files. But, this would be slow when /proc directories started having lots of files, which, for example, might happen when the system needed lots of network sockets.