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A virtual private network, or VPN, encrypts your information while you're online and can prevent other people from knowing your actual geographic location. Find out the best VPN service with the easiest installation for Chromebooks.

GNOME has dwindled far from its former glory. Regaining dominance depends overcoming its image problem.

I am what you could call a practical free software advocate. This means that while I love open source software and everything it stands for, at the end of the day I really just need a computer that works for the tasks I need accomplish. Most people in the world are exactly like me, except they don't care in the slightest about free software. They just want a computer that works.

Time Warner is already beginning to hemorrhage customers due to Google Fiber rolling-out in two large areas of Austin. Not to be outdone, AT&T also polluted the airwaves in an attempt to make us believe they have already stepped into the age of gigabyte, with an advertising campaign that was misleading at best. Their gigabyte service only covers a few square blocks.

CAINE which is an acronym for Computer Aided INvestigative Environment is not out with its 6.0 release. CAINE is built on top of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and used the MATE desktop envionment. CAINE is focussed on providing forensic investigation tools. Among the tools that CAINE provides is the Volatility Memory Forensics platform to examine system memory. The open-source Inception tool for memory manipulation.

Why the World Beyond Windows? Simple: Windows may be found on the vast majority of PCs, but there’s more to the world of computing than Microsoft alone—and most of it is powered by Linux.

No tool in existence protects your anonymity on the Web better than the software Tor, which encrypts Internet traffic and bounces it through random computers around the world. But for guarding anything other than Web browsing, Tor has required a mixture of finicky technical setup and software tweaks. Now routing all your traffic through Tor may be as simple as putting a portable hardware condom on your ethernet cable.

How many times you have been hit by unit tests failing because of environment differences between you and other team members? How easy is it to build your project and have it ready for development? Vagrant provides a method for creating repeatable development environments across a range of operating systems for solving these problems.

Vision Components has launched two Linux-based, smart machine vision cameras and a COM built around a Xilinx Zynq SoC, each supporting up to 4.2MP video. Over the last decade, smart cameras for machine vision have been transitioning from DSPs to systems that combine DSPs or FPGAs with ARM or x86 processors running Linux. The latest […]

The Humble Weekly Bundle IndieCade 2 features 7 popular indie games, and 4 of them are available on Linux! As always, pay what you want, get amazing games, redeem them on Steam if possible, and get also all the soundtracks!

The elementary OS Freya developers are now looking to get some wallpapers from the community, which will eventually be added to the final version of the operating system.

This tutorial show how to replace it with FirewallD, a firewall application with support for network zones (also IP zones). FirewallD comes with a command line client (firewall-cmd), a graphical interface firewall-config and an applet appropriately named firewall-applet.

When the open-source OpenStack Icehouse platform was released in April, the Trove database-as-a-service project was one of its key new features. Fast forward six months, and the OpenStack Juno release is set to debut on Oct. 16, complete with a long list of updates and improvements to Trove. -

Open source drone control software Dronecode has been adopted by the Linux Foundation, supporting agriculture and hobbyists. The proliferation of drone and drone tech throughout the world has been increasing quite a lot over the past few years, especially with hobbyists and the commercial sector. The Linux Foundation has decided to jump in on open source project Dronecode to give it a much larger open source push that will help everyone out.

Linux Mint is a Linux based desktop level operating system for the home users and companies can use it at no cost and which is as efficient, easy to use, and elegant as possible.

Install Ganglia on Ubuntu 14.04 Server (Trusty Tahr). Ganglia is a scalable distributed monitoring system for high-performance computing systems such as clusters and Grids.

This time, the effort being launched is called the Dronecode Project, and the code it supports controls a much hotter platfrom than a telecom backbone: unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), more popularly known simply as "drones."

SUSE and MariaDB have partnered to optimize SUSE Linux Enterprise for IBM Power servers.

It’s that easy. Just open Chrome, go to Netflix, open up an account (if you don’t already have one) and voila!, in no time at all you can be catching up on all of the episodes of Burn Notice and The Shield that you might’ve missed in over-the-air syndication (oh yeah, I also refuse to pay for cable). I have Netflix working now on two Linux Mint boxes, so it should be working on all Ubuntu derivatives. On Friday, Swapnil Bhartiya reported on The Mukt that according to his tests, Netflix is also working out-of-the-box on openSUSE and Arch Linux as well.

This document describes how to install and configure Git and GitHub.