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With the support of the Linux Foundation's Core Infrastructure Initiative, the NCC Group will be auditing OpenSSL's source code for problems.

Use these Chromebook tricks to squeeze more productivity out of Chromebook and make it more efficient.

VMware has been accused of violating Linux's open-source license, the GPLv2, in its ESXi product line.

Wireshark, the world’s most popular free network protocol analyzer software, has been updated recently to version 1.12.4, a release that introduces a large number of improvements, addresses lots of bugs, updated protocol support, as well as new and updated capture file support.

At the heart of ESXi (now called vSphere) is VMware’s proprietary kernel, called VMkernel, which interfaces between ESXi’s virtual machines and the physical hardware it’s installed on. Hellwig alleges that VMkernel is a derivative work of the Linux kernel, including his contributions (which are found in Linux’s SCSI subsystem and radix tree implementation), and that VMware must therefore provide the VMkernel source code to its customers according to the terms of the GNU GPL version 2. VMware apparently disagrees.

This case is interesting because it relates to one of the most contentious issues in interpreting the GPL: whether loadable kernel modules (LKMs) are derivative works of the Linux kernel...

It's Debian all o'er agin, I tells ye! The Ubuntu Project is set to move forward with a plan to make a controversial system management tool a key part of Ubuntu Linux.…

A coalition of 63 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from around the world are calling on national governments to support the establishment of a special rapporteur on the right to privacy within the United Nations.

Five of those security and security-related features were announced today and are on track to be included in the next edition, which should be PC-BSD 10.1.2.

A new stable release of the Gnumeric open-source spreadsheet editor used in numerous distributions of GNU/Linux and desktop environments, including GNOME, has been made available for download recently fixing numerous issues with the ODS (OpenDocument Spreadsheet) file format.

In this tutorial, we will explain how to install Fail2ban on an Ubuntu 14.04 VPS. Fail2Ban is a Python application that monitors log files to detect potential intrusion attempts. Fail2ban scans the log files looking for specific patterns that indicate an attack. It uses iptables to block IPs that show the malicious signs such as brute-force attempts on SSH, HTTP, FTP, SMTP ..etc. This guide should work on other Linux VPS systems as well but was tested and written for Ubuntu 14.04 VPS.

There are times in life when less is really more, and that’s quite true with certain Linux distributions. Bodhi Linux 3.0 is a desktop distribution that uses the Enlightenment window manager to provide a light-weight alternative to other distros that use full-blown desktop environments such as Cinnamon, MATE, Unity, etc.

A new Wine version has been released and its makers have implemented a number of important new features, not to mention all the smaller fixes that have been added as well.

VMware has been accused of violating Linux's open-source license, the GPLv2, in its ESXi product line.

Criminals setting up fake domains for phishing are prone to use the same words over and over and spotting those words can help identify malicious sites, according to a new threat detection model from OpenDNS.

Christoph Hellwig, who holds copyrights on portions of the Linux kernel, alleges VMware combined proprietary source code with open-source code in its ESXi product line but has not released it publicly as required by the General Public License version 2 (GPLv2).

Valve has revealed the Steam Machines and the companies that are going to build them, alongside some of the hardware configurations, so the real question now is this: will you buy a slightly overpriced PC with non-descriptive hardware that runs Linux?

The KDE student programs team is happy to announce that KDE has been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015. This will allow students from around the world to work with mentors on KDE software projects. Successful students will receive stipends from Google.

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The credit card sized, open-spec Udoo Neo SBC features Freescale’s Cortex-M4-enhanced i.MX6 SoloX, plus Arduino compatibility, WiFi, Bluetooth, and sensors. Seco’s Udoo project unveiled a tiny “Udoo Neo” single board computer designed for Android- and Linux-based Internet of Things devices including robots, drones, wearables, and smart appliances.

Fedora is a big project, and it’s hard to keep up with everything. This series highlights interesting happenings in five different areas every week. It isn’t comprehensive news coverage — […]