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I love Bitcoin. It's not a secret; I've written about Bitcoin mining and cryptocurrency in the past. I'm the first to admit, however, that we're at the very beginning of the cryptocurrency age.

Unity 8 is not ready for regular use, but Canonical is improving it all the time. Users need to know that despite all the important changes and improvements announced for the Unity 8, it won't be terribly different from the current implementation.

The operator of an underground marketplace hosted within the Tor network has reported a flaw in Tor that he claims is being used for an ongoing denial of service attack on the site.

App Runtime for Chrome (ARC) Welder gives developers and anyone with a computer will be able to test and running the Android application (Apk) inside the Google Chrome web browser with a minimum amount of effort

Container-happy Linux startup CoreOS has launched a beta program for a new distribution of software designed to let enterprises run their own infrastructures the way large-scale software companies like Google run theirs.…

The next incremental update of LXLE has been released, ticking it up to 14.04.2 along with the last 32bit version of LXLE ever, which is based on 12.04.5. The 32bit closely mirrors the changes to the latest 64bit edition of the OS.

ChaletOS 14.04.2 is available. ChaletOS is a beginner-friendly Linux distribution based on Xubuntu and featuring the Xfce desktop. It provides a simple and intuitive desktop interface, modest hardware requirements and five years of security support.

Thanks to CoreOS, Kubernetes, Google's secret sauce for managing containers on its clusters, is on its way to your data center.

Cube’s $399, Ubuntu-based “i7-CM” tablet has an Intel Core M CPU and an 11.6-inch HD display. Meanwhile, an Ubuntu-driven “MJ Tech” tablet has broken cover.

The Ubuntu MATE developers are preparing for the launch of the latest 15.04 branch of the operating system. One of the features to be present in Ubuntu MATE 15.04 is Compiz integration, and one of the developers has put together a video showing all the cool stuff to be available.

MakuluLinux unity Desktop, it is Rock Solid Stable, Fast, Secure, Safe and Simply Beautiful and offers some unique features. Now sporting a unique 3 panel system that allows the user complete control of his system without even needing to minimize a window. This release is 64bit with EFI support and offers the Constructor tool to re-spin your own custom ISO. There are so many more features that simply make this Edition stand out ! It is not just unity, it is Makulu Unity.

When I took it out of commission, I decided I was through with Windows for good. No more dual booting. No more keeping a Windows machine running all day just to process plastic. No more blue screens. No more rebooting for no apparent reason except that’s what Windows wants.

Crossfade 0.90 is available. Crossfade is a cross-platform digital DJ system for USB flash and portable hard drives. Crossfade GNU/Linux allows you to use a USB drive with your music collection to DJ on any modern PC (with an x86 or x86_64 CPU), including Apple Macs, using the DJ program Mixxx.

XFS is a File system which is designed for high performance ,scalability and Capacity point of view. It is generally used where large amount data to be stored / used on the File system.

In today's open source roundup: See the new features and changes in Ubuntu 15.04. Plus: The Samsung Galaxy S6 versus Apple's iPhone 6. And five command line tools for browsing the web and downloading files.

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

IPv6 is coming! Or so we have been hearing for years, yet despite sys admins bracing themselves for years the great IPv4 crunch hasn't happened yet, although it is getting tighter. In the mean-time how can one get some experience with IPv6? Most tutorial focus on setting up tunnels, is fragmentary and incomplete. This post hopes to provide a complete step by step guide to setting up your own IPv6 and in the process highlight some challenges with IPv6 in an IPv4 world.

ApacheCon is coming up, and within that massive conference there will be a glimmering gem: a forum dedicated to Spark. read more

The XKCD webcomics are funny because they are usually right on the money, with just a side dish of ridiculousness. The latest one is called Operating Systems and encompasses everything that is done wrong in this world, with just a single drawing and small, smart text about Richard Stallman.

RaspAnd is a Linux distribution which makes it possible to run Android 5.1 Lollipop on a Raspberry Pi 2.