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I'm a big believer in stories, less of a believer in rhetorical questions. It's taken me a while, but I've learned to avoid the question, "What is DevOps?"

Peppermint OS 5 is a unique Linux distribution due to the way that it integrates web applications into the desktop.

This should make it a great fit for the internet archive and the 2000+ games that have just been added. Unfortunately the chemistry just isn't quite right.

"A real coder doesn't use an IDE, a real coder uses [insert a text editor name here] with such and such plugins." We all heard that somewhere. Yet, as much as one can agree with that statement, an IDE remains quite useful. An IDE is easy to set up and use out of the box.

William Shatner Linux has a propensity for staccato performance across the board on all hardware, and on older hardware it tries to kiss female aliens. If you’re not in that select demographic of users, though, you should be OK.

CompuLab’s tiny “Fitlet” PC runs Linux or Windows on a dual- or quad-core 64-bit AMD x86 SoC, and offers generous expansion options including multiple HDMI, GbE, USB, and SATA ports, WiFi, BT, and cellular wireless, and more. CompuLab today unveiled its latest mini-PC: the “Fitlet.” This tiny, fanless x86 architecture system consumes just 0.22l of […]

You are invited to participate in a mapping event with OpenStreetMap (OSM) that will kick off on January 16, 2015 called #MapLesotho Mapathon! Last year, we had 5 out of 50,000 American OSM users participate. By contrast Germany had over 200 and Poland over 40. Let’s show the world that America can map with OSM!

You can find the opened and closed bug report here. Sadly this patch has yet to make its way into the default Ubuntu 14.04 repositories (and who knows if it ever will) so to resolve the issue you need to update your Mesa packages. You can do this via the Xorg Edgers PPA with the following commands:

The Linux community has pressured the GOG developers to remove the password-protected archives that were present in a number of their games, making the contents of those titles accessible to all the platforms.

In the following article we are going to guide you through the steps of installing Selfoss on a CentOS 7 Linux VPS.

Anacron is a service that runs after every system reboot, checking for any cron and at scheduled jobs that were to run while the system was down and hence, have not yet run.

Mainstream support ends today, so get out your cheque books if you want support Today, January 13th, is the day on which Windows 7 passes from mainstream support into extended support.…

As we enter 2015, it’s a good time to reflect on the state of paleontology and the state of open access. Because I’m a dinosaur paleontologist (my apologies to the other 99% of life that ever lived), this post will of course address that clade in particular! read more

Sony updated its decades-old Walkman media player line with an aluminum model running Android 4.2, featuring high-res audio, and priced around $1,120. The NW-ZX2 is the first Walkman to integrate Sony’s new LDAC codec technology. LDAC provides an enhanced wireless audio experience by transmitting digital audio data “three times more efficiently than previous Bluetooth connections,” […]

There is no shortage of security focussed Linux distributions and you can add Pentoo to that list. Unlike many of the others that typically use some manner of Debian based system as a base, Pentoo is based on Gentoo Linux. So instead of RPM, or a .deb based system, Pentoo leverages the Gentoo Porage system for package management.

Ubuntu Touch already has a good selection of apps and more are added everyday, but it looks like Will Cooke from Canonical managed to get the Writer tool from LibreOffice to run on a phone. This opens up a wealth of opportunities.

Basho was once all that and a bag of chips in the NoSQL space, but over the years they've been surpassed by better funded competitors such as Couchbase, MongoDB and DataStax. After an executive exodus last year, they have a new team and $25M in funding to attempt a comeback.

Despite my affinity for the Linux desktop, I'm still part of the Mac world, thanks to my wife and her preference for OS X.

While many in the traditional Linux community criticize and don't take Chrome OS seriously, it is perhaps the most popular Linux distro for notebook computers.

In today's open source roundup: Nine Linux distributions worth watching in 2015. Plus: Security problems in North Korea Linux 3.0, and Xubuntu or Linux Mint Xfce for an old laptop?

CloudPassage has unveiled advanced security tools for containerized applications running in Docker, the open source virtualization platform.