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System76 is specialized in selling laptops & desktops with Ubuntu Linux pre-installed. Their latest offer is the 14-inch Lemur laptop. The Lemur laptop features a 14 inch display and an Intel Core i3 Broadwell CPU.

After half of year of development, Ken Mays has announced earlier this week the availability of a new OpenIndiana release, 2015.03, dubbed Hipster. OpenIndiana is the continuation of the OpenSolaris operating system, and this new release introduces several updated packages, an alternative desktop environment, and various under-the-hood improvements.

How could I have missed ONLYOFFICE? If not for a How to Forge article on installing it, I would have never known that it existed as a hosted alternative to Google Docs/Spreadsheets or that you can self-host the software, though I’m not sure how functional the roll-your-own version is at this point.

The Asus Zenbook UX305 is a thin and light laptop ... but what if you’d rather run Ubuntu? The good news is that Ubuntu 15.04 64-bit works whether you disable secure boot or not. All you need to do is prepare a flash drive, insert it, reboot the computer, and hit the Esc key during boot to bring up the boot options menu.

NAB Show presentation “Ubuntu — Radio Ready” describes RFA’s adoption of Linux, which began with system administrators and spread much further. Today, the RFA studios and broadcast network are powered by Ubuntu and Ubuntu Studio.

So far, I’ve been able to identify just six of such container-native operating systems, as they are called, but trust me, there will be many more to come.

This could be something. This could be nothing. It remains to be seen. Regardless, it’s time to think seriously about buying hardware that is built for Linux, from manufacturers like ZaReason, if you want your choice of distros, or System76, if you want your choice of distro (as long as it’s Ubuntu) — as you should be doing already, of course.

Denx announced an “MA5D4″ COM that runs Linux on Atmel’s SAMA5D4 SoC, plus a baseboard kit that adds a touchscreen and CAN, serial, HDMI, USB, and camera ports. Like Denx Computer Systems’s recent, Freescale i.MX6-based Denx M6R computer-on-module, the MA5D4 is supplied with the Yocto Linux based Embedded Linux Development Kit (ELDK) distribution from sister […]

The PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the April 2015 issue.

Mozilla on Friday warned against a government policy that could require phone companies to hold on to customer data longer than their business purposes require. Advocates for National Security Agency reform have cautioned against such a measure for the past year.

The home of tomorrow will be smart and it will be a part of the Internet of Things, but what operating systems will be behind everything? Canonical wants to make Ubuntu Snappy Core the engine for the house of the future, and that's the reason it's sponsoring the Mega Hackathon: Hack the Home event.

Earlier this week came word that the massive denial-of-service attacks targeting code-sharing site GitHub were the work of hackers with control over China's Internet backbone. Now, a security researcher has provided even harder proof that the Chinese government is the source of the assaults.

Review April brings not just showers but traditionally a new release of Ubuntu, this time 15.04. With Ubuntu 15.04 will come Xubuntu and with that an update to Linus Torvalds’ briefly favoured Linux desktop (Xfce), version 4.12.

The results are in from the cryptanalysis phase of the TrueCrypt audit, and they show-nothing. Well, maybe not "nothing," but certainly no signs of a deliberate backdoor from the NSA or any government entity, fears of which date back to the autumn of 2013, post-Snowden, and ignited talk to have the open source encryption software audited.

Wine developers announced that a fresh version of the application has been released and is now available for download. This is still the development branch, but the developers have not slowed down, and they are still making important changes.

In today's open source roundup: New Chromebooks and Chromebit HDMI sticks. Plus: Tor Browser 4.0.6 released. And should Linux game developers target 32-bit or 64-bit systems?

Mozilla has pushed the first point release of its recently announced Firefox 37.0 web browser to mirrors worldwide. The new version will be available to users via the application’s built-in updater.

Newark Element14 launched a $20 motor control add-on for AMD’s Gizmo 2 SBC, and MinnowBoard.org tipped a new “Lure” LED add-on for the Minnowboard Max. From the start, the Raspberry Pi and the BeagleBoard (BeagleBone) projects have followed the Arduino project’s lead in providing Shield-like expansion modules to attract hobbyists and third party developers. Several […]

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LinuxCertified,Inc. a leading provider of Linux training, will offer weekend Linux system administration bootcamp on April 18th - 19th, 2015 in South Bay (CA). This workshop is designed for busy information technology professionals and is designed to cover the most important Linux administration areas.