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After the fuss that has been made about the article that appeared on the Elementary website last week, one question sprang to mind: "Can you make money with Linux or is it a labour of love?"

Lennart Poettering, the creator of systemd, has announced the immediate availability of systemd 219, a release that includes numerous improvements, specifically for Btrfs hookup, networkd, and containers. Many bugs have also been fixed in this release.

Every so often, a bug shows up in an open-source application that just make me go ..huH? That's the case with Mozilla firefox bug 949446 which has the ominous title of: "Source Code Disclosure of every possible project"

Keynote sessions from the 2015 Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit will stream live Feb. 18, with topics including the kernel, IoT, drones, and lots more. The Linux Foundation describes its annual Collaboration Summit as a gathering of its corporate members along with invited participants including core kernel developers, distribution maintainers, ISVs, end users, system vendors, and […]

Big patent trolls see court wins, twice in two weeks. Will it matter for reform?

Steven Shiau has released a new testing version of his Clonezilla Live CD distribution that allows users to easily and quickly clone disk drives, an operation that is also known as disk imaging. Clonezilla Live 2.3.2-22 is a testing (read: unstable) release based on the Debian Sid software repositories as of February 17, 2015.

SuiteCRM is a fork of the popular open source SugarCRM Community Edition. To install SuiteCRM on an Ubuntu VPS follow the very easy steps described.

The Frugalware Developer Team proudly announced on the immediate availability for download of the Frugalware Linux 2.0 computer operating system, a general purpose and independent GNU/Linux distribution that has been created from the ground up for people who are not afraid of text mode.

Want to run your Oracle DBMS on your OpenStack private cloud? Tesora has the technology you need.

This document describes how to install and configure WordPress MU with the latest version in market of WordPress 4 on Ubuntu 14.04.

SUSE Enterprise Storage, the latest offering from the open source vendor, introduces a new distributed, scale-out storage solution to the market, based on Linux and Ceph.

As much as I love using it, Atom is a memory hug. Used long enough, it will be using up more RAM than Firefox.

Testing the most recent Nova-Docker driver on Ubuntu 14.04 in devstack environment recoverable between reboots. Recently new patch... However,nova-docker containers have been lost after every reboot due to bridge br-ex came up with no IP and running ./rejoin-stack.sh didn't help much. This post describes workaround for this issue.

“You’ve done enough Ken. Maybe it’s time to let someone else have a go at this. What’s the point of struggling through your recovery while manning Reglue. It’s not like you have any obligation to anyone to do this further. No one would blame you for taking your retirement and enjoying it.”

OpenMW, an open source implementation of The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind game engine and functionality that is still under development, has just been upgraded to version 0.35.0 and is now ready for download.

In today's open source roundup: Is it a good idea to run Adobe Flash on your Linux system? Plus: Are boutique Linux distros worth considering? And Bodhi Linux 3.0.0 has been released.

Before installing full kernel source on your Linux system, ask yourself whether you really need the full kernel source. If you are trying to compile a kernel module or a custom driver for your kernel, you do not need the full kernel source. You only need to install matching kernel header files, and that's it.

Pivotal announced today it was open sourcing key parts of its Big Data Suite, giving customers, partners and third party developers the ability to build upon and adapt these powerful tools, while still offering a commercial version of its own with support and enterprise features.

Do you like 'em big and round, or would a slimmer version 4.0 excite you? Linus Torvalds is “running out of fingers and toes” and therefore wonders if it might be a good time to tip the Linux Kernel over into version 4.0.…

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