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NoSQL database-start up DataStax is today expected to announce its plans to start developing and selling a graph database for enterprises.…

Remember the days when Ubuntu was a fast and light Linux distribution that worked well on low-end and old hardware? Ubuntu MATE Brings the Speed Back to Ubuntu!

It's six times more powerful than the B+ and you know you want one…

There’s an odd thing happening out there in the world. Some Mac owners are actually replacing OS X with Linux. While there are no numbers available to show how many are doing this, it’s clearly something that has been happening for a while as you can see from this thread on Reddit. I have some thoughts of my own to share about this, and I’ll tell you in this post why some Apple customers might be moving to Linux on their Macs.

In today's open source roundup: Should you use a rolling release distro or a fixed release? Plus: How the philosophy of Linux affects its users, and why Windows 10 needs the Linux desktop.

UBOS is a new Linux distro that I like for two reasons. One is that it works toward making it easy for muggles to set up their own fully independent personal home servers with little or no help from wizards. The other is that it comes from my friend Johannes Ernst.

NI has launched a real-time Linux-based “RoboRIO” robot controller with a Zynq ARM/FPGA SoC and NI’s LabVIEW IDE designed for FIRST robotics competitions. National Instruments (NI) built the RoboRIO specifically for students competing in the FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC), which brings together some 250,000 students every year to run their robots through a variety of […]

Systemd hopes to simplify the growing number of processes across Linux distributions. It’s a worthy goal, but things are never that simple...

The final release of Simplicity Linux 15.1 is finally available for download. Simplicity 15.1 is based on Slacko, and uses the LXDE desktop environment for Netbook and Desktop editions. Also, we are proud to announce the release of our first 64-bit edition: X. X 15.1 is a 64-bit only release and uses KDE as its desktop. Netbook and Desktop editions are our only 32-bit releases for this cycle. One thing we are particularly pleased to bring you this release cycle is the fact that Simplicity Linux can view Netflix content straight out the box. You do not need to update libraries, change agent strings, or anything else. Just use the shortcut or use Chrome to view Netflix content.

Last fall, Open Forum Europe (OFE) initiated an effort to help the European Union (EU) institutions live up to their commitments to support open document formats when communicating with the public. Inspired by the pothole identification and alert site and app, fixmystreet.com, OFE, through its fixmydocument.eu, is giving a crowd-sourced voice to public frustration with software interoperability limitations that stand in the way of citizens who are seeking to communicate and interact with government. read more

The next generation Raspberry Pi 2 was announced by Raspberry Pi Founder Eben Upton on February 2. The biggest difference is the new quad-core 900MHz Broadcom ARM Cortex-A7 CPU which deliver up to six times the processing power of the Raspberry Pi B+.

The new rolling-release Linux distributions are gaining on traditional fixed-release Linux distros.

Last time I discussed a rather high-level view of the Linux philosophy in The impact of the Linux philosophy. There were some really good discussions on it, and many blogs syndicated Opensource.com. read more

This document describes how to install and configure ProFTPD on a Debian Wheezy Server, it will also work on Ubuntu 14.04. ProFTPD is an FTP daemon for unix and unix-like operating systems. ProFTPD is developed, released and distributed under the GNU Public License (GPL), which basically establishes it as free software, meaning that it may be sold, licensed and otherwise manipulated in any way desired.

Boxes is a GNOME application in Fedora that is used to create, manage, and run virtual machines. It was designed with simplicity and ease of use in mind, building upon the […]

Picat (http://picat-lang.org/) is a new logic-based programming language. In many ways, Picat is similar to Prolog, especially B-Prolog, but it has functions in addition to predicates, pattern-matching instead of unification, explicit non-determinism (?=> means a non-deterministic goal), and destructive assignment.

VMware has been actively involved in the OpenStack community since at least 2012 and has been a leading contributor to multiple projects, including the OpenStack Neutron networking effort. With VIO, VMware is providing its customers with a full OpenStack cloud platform that integrates with existing VMware technologies, including vSphere server virtualization.

"We've now completed the VIO beta period and had really good feedback," Dan Wendlandt, director of product management for OpenStack at VMware, told eWEEK

In today's open source roundup: Find the Linux desktop that works best for you. Plus: Is VirtualBox doomed? And why you should get your loved ones off of Facebook.

We’ll be honest, when the Raspberry Pi 2 hit our desk in mid- January we were very excited to crack it open and try it out. From what we had been told this was basically the Raspberry Pi everyone had ever wanted, at least in terms of power.

Because they spend most of their days looking at them, most sysadmins and developers are pretty choosy when it comes to choosing a monospaced type face for use in there(sic) terminal emulator or text editor.