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The topic came up when an old friend, Richard, and I began an email exchange to catch up after a number of years. He’s a senior Linux admin for one of the major New York City hospitals and the topic turned to some things we’ve noted over time. We talked about how Linux isn’t. It isn’t in the public awareness. It isn’t in stores. It isn’t offered by OEMs in any real quantity. It isn’t visible at all. Richard stated that it was probably better that way.

CompuLab’s three Linux-friendly x86 COM Express modules include a Type 10 COM with 5th Gen Core CPUs and Type 10 COMs with Atom E3800 and AMD G-Series SoCs. CompuLab is known primarily for its mini-PCs, but it has also introduced a number of ARM computer-on-modules in recent years, including the SODIMM-style, Snapdragon 600 based CM-QS600. […]

Server-side JavaScript tools reunited under wing of Linux Foundation The Node.js open source project and its fork, io.js, have decided to kiss and make up, with the aid and support of the Linux Foundation.…

These days, smartphones and tablets have all but overtaken the PC in terms of user adoption. Even those folks who own desktop PCs usually spend far more time in front of their smart phones or tablets.

Hanselman: 'I didn't expect this little tweet reply to cause a ruckus'. Microsoft will release its blog authoring tool, Live Writer, as open source, according to a tweet from developer evangelist Scott Hanselman.

The latest security update for OpenSSL cryptographic library includes a fix for a vulnerability that permits a threat actor to weaken the encryption mechanism that secures communication between two parties.

How to install and configure VSFTPD server on Debian. VSFTPD is the default FTP server in the Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, Fedora, NimbleX, Slackware and RHEL Linux distributions.

As of right now, the data that moves between Wikipedia.com and most users is unencrypted, which increases the chances that someone else may be eavesdropping on you. That, however, is about to change: On Friday, the Wikimedia Foundation announced that it's moving its sites toward HTTPS by default, so that all data transferred between you and its servers will be encrypted.

It would appear that Clement Lefebvre already published the ISO images of the Release Candidate (RC) version for the upcoming Linux Mint 17.2 (Rafaela) operating system on the main servers.

Inforce upgraded its Inforce 6410 SBC to a “6410Plus” model, with the same Snapdragon 600 SoC, but with new GPS, MIPI-CSI, and MIPI-DSI features, and more.

Last Friday, Dota 2 - Reborn Beta has been announced, which will not only get a completely new user interface, but will also be powered by the new Steam-Engine "Source 2", which will finally be replacing the 10 years old game engine "Source".

Apple announced iOS 9 on Monday, and while watching the keynote, I had just a little bit of déjà vu. Most of iOS 9's new features seem to be squarely aimed at Apple's biggest rival in mobile: Android. Specifically, they were about catching up to Android.

Cinnamon, one the default desktops of Linux Mint (alongside Mate) has recently been updated. Version 2.6 has a boatload of fixes, tweaks and improvements. Here are some of them:

LinuxConsole 2.4 has been released. This release is easy to try or install.

The CD ISO contains all libraries, the LXDE Desktop, drivers and the game "Supertuxkart". The DVD ISO comes with many applications like libreoffice or the game 0ad.

IBM is putting considerable resources behind Apache Software Foundation’s Spark to ready the platform for machine learning duties such as pattern recognition and object classification.

In today's open source roundup: DistroWatch reviews Chromixium OS 1.0. Plus: Steam adds more Linux games to huge summer sale. And three ways to improve Debian Linux.

The Rupert Murdoch controlled Sunday Times of London finds itself embroiled in controversy today, over both a front page article that appeared in the paper yesterday and a related DMCA Notice it issued against the U.S. based political website The Intercept.

There is a common misconception among GNU/Linux users that our systems never ever need to be defragmented. This stems from the success of the journalized filesystems used by most distributions including EXT2,3 and 4, JFS, ZFS, XFS, ReiserFS and BTRFS. Fragmentation though can still be an issue though, especially for users that use space limited disks that may not offer many file allocation options.

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Fedora 22 was released recently and it has been a rock solid release. However, systems with Pre-Sandybridge era, Intel-based graphics solutions have seen some issues. For example, an Intel 4 series motherboard with G41 chipset and GMA X4500 graphics might produce a... Continue Reading →