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How to upgrade Debian Wheezy (7) to Debian Jessie (8). This tutorial explains how to upgrade your Debian system from Wheezy to Jessie in a few simple steps.

It has been widely reported that the Navy is insisting on using Windows XP, but what cannot be talked about enough are the security implications of this... an upgrade to either a newer version of Windows or to some Linux or other open-source option would make things vastly more secure for the sections of the Navy...

The Internet of Things is not only adding billions of sensors and billions of terabytes to the Internet. It is also forcing a fundamental change in the way we envision Information Technology. For the first time, more data is being created by devices at the edge of the Internet rather than from centralized systems.

Béla Markus has announced the immediate availability of piCore 6.1, a special edition of the Tiny Core Linux operating system specifically designed for the Raspberry Pi single-board computer (SBC).

The Simplon course was developed in France to teach skills in Linux, Ruby on Rails, CSS, Javascript, Meteor.js and other web development langauges. Co-founder Andrei Vladescu-Olt attended the opening of the SAP-funded laboratory, and explained that there’s more to the course than coding.

It was recently brought to our attention that there's a Linux kernel-based operating system out there developed in Havana, Cuba by students at the University of Computer Sciences and sponsored by the Cuban government.

Global retailer Ikea has built its reputation around common-sense Swedish design. In an entertaining session at the Red Hat Summit here, Magnus Glantz, IT manager at Ikea, detailed the flavor of common sense it used to patch for the recent Shellshock vulnerability that impacted Linux systems.

Sometime in the near feature, Ubuntu will have an all-new packaging system, called Snappy Personal, which is another innovation from the developers of the world's most popular free operating system.

The ZIDOO X9 is one of the first Android powered mediaplayers with an HDMI input, so you can record from any (unencrypted) HDMI source.

This box features one HDMI input, offers 4K resolution and runs on Android 4.4.2.

This article provides a quick roundup of 6 deduplicating encryption backup tools.

I occasionally find myself waiting several hours for a process to complete; sometimes it’s just a very lengthy ‘make’ command, but it more often some benchmark program that needs to run for a while before generating any useful results. I got tired of being chained to my computer while these things run, so I wrote a small python script that executes an arbitrary command and text me the status when it completes. This article will show you how to use my script, in the hopes that others will also find it useful.

Fuel CMS is a lightweight, highly customizable CMS built with the very popular PHP framework CodeIgniter. You can create custom modules, views and controllers and use the CMS part only when you need it. It is a hybrid of a framework and a CMS.

On June 27, Canonical's Alejandro J. Cura sent to emails to the Ubuntu Touch mailing list, informing users and developers about the latest developments in the mobile operating system that powers Ubuntu phones.

Concrete5 is a powerful open source content management system (CMS) written in PHP.

ownCloud Desktop Client 1.8.3 is a small release that fixes some of the most annoying issues reported by users since the previous stable version of the software.

Distance is a beautiful neon survival racer that I finally had a chance to play, and what I found really did surprise me.

Novius OS is an open source cross-channel content management system designed as an applications platform. In this blog article we will explain how to install Novius OS on a CentOS 7 VPS with Apache, PHP and MariaDB,

According to Linus Torvalds Linux Kernel 4.2 may be the biggest release, as he stated on his Google Plus page.

Yesterday evening Linus Torvalds revealed interesting information about the next major version of the Linux kernel, which will be released within a few days as the first release candidate version.

Ringo de Kroon, Manajaro community support and IRC manager, had the great pleasure of announcing a few minutes ago the immediate availability for download of the Manjaro Linux Cinnamon 0.8.13 distribution.

In recent weeks Aewin, ASRock, BCM, BioStar, ECS, and MSI have collectively announced a dozen Braswell based Mini-ITX boards that are all able to run Linux. In late March, Intel announced four Pentium and Celeron branded processors under the Braswell code name, and earlier this month they reached market. The Braswell chips, which have already […]