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VMware workstation is a virtualization software at the desktop level.In this post we will discuss the installation steps of VMware Workstation 11 in Ubuntu 14.04 & 14.10

Interested in keeping track of what's happening in the open source cloud? Opensource.com is your source for what's happening right now in OpenStack, the open source cloud infrastructure project.

Open source projects are best as a team effort. Never be afraid to ask for help. Even though I did the bulk of the development work for a long time with Bodhi, I had other people helping with art work, documentation, website and providing support. Even small projects should not be a one man team.

The Debian project has announced that Debian 7.8 has been officially released and is now available for download. It packs numerous security fixes and a small number of important modifications.

Red Star turns into death star Well, that didn't take long: mere days after North Korea's Red Star OS leaked to the west in the form of an ISO, security researchers have started exposing its vulnerabilities.…

Ubuntu and Xubuntu are different in many ways. Ubuntu has a modern UI and fully featured applications whereas Xubuntu is lightweight and highly customisable. This article looks at the differences between the two.

AirMech is a fun and free 2 play MOBA that has a Linux test build out now, but the developers want to know if it's worth doing it.

On this site is archived all the content from Dr. Dobb's that was published on the Web through December 31, 2014.

Xfce is one of my all-time favorite Linux desktops. So I’m always happy when a new release of it is available for Linux Mint. Yes, Linux Mint 17.1 Xfce has been released and you can download it today. This version of Linux Mint comes on the heels of the release of Linux Mint 17.1 KDE.

Wine (Wine is not an emulator) 1.7.34 has been released and is packed with quite a few important improvements, besides the regular changes that are made to support applications and games from the Windows platform.

LaTeX is a high-quality document preparation system and document markup language which was written by Leslie Lamport. It is a very mature system and has been in development for more than 20 years. It includes features designed for the production of technical and scientific documentation.

An updated Bio-Linux 8 version is now on the website in ISO and OVA variants. The key changes are: addresses a recent issue with the desktop failing to start on VirtualBox due to incompatible drivers; updates various packages, notably QIIME and Bowtie-Bio tools; adds the pandaseq paired end assembler; adds the updated beginner's tutorial specific to Bio-Linux 8. As usual, there is no need to download this version if you are an existing user. All updates to existing packages will be applied to your system through the update manager and new packages are all available via apt-get or Synaptic.

The cloud industry is in a very peculiar position when it comes to the enterprise.

To help bring everyone up to speed, each of the major components of OpenStack recently gave short presentations to explain what their (sometimes changing) core mission is, what each project accomplished in the last release, and what they're working on for Kilo, the next release due out later this year.

GamingOnLinux is running the first ever Linux Game Of The Year awards, so it's time to vote for your favourite projects to get them noticed.

CVE-2014-9034 was published recently, highlighting an issue that “allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a long password that is improperly handled during hashing” due to phpass usage.

The installation of MongoDB on a Linux VPS is very simple and today we will show you how to do that.

Hello, open gaming fans! In this week's edition, we take a look at Open Source Virtual Reality (OSVR) by Razer, old school DOS games in the browser, and more!

A cursory review of Manjaro KDE, by a once manic distro-hopper. New old laptop? Time to throw something easy and fun on there that's NOT Windows! Conclusion? Manjaro's better than ever, maybe a good choice even for a the novice Linux user.

The website Linux Advocates is no more. The site, which focused on a variety of Linux issues, went offline on January 7th with little fanfare and no advance notice. The site had been being published for two years, having gone live in early 2013.