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The team behind Linux Mint unveiled its latest update this week—Mint 17 using kernel 3.13.0-24, nicknamed "Qiana." The new release indicates a major change in direction for what has quickly become one of the most popular Linux distros available today. Mint 17 is based on Ubuntu 14.04, and this decision appears to have one major driver. Consistency.

The Fedora 21 release is progressing, and in a recent email to the development list, Jaroslav ?ezník (the Fedora Program / Schedule Manager) points out that we are a mere 2 weeks away from the Change Freeze milestone (scheduled for July 7th 2014).

In today's open source roundup: Download the latest version of Peppermint. Plus: Ars Technica reviews Linux Mint 17, and Five popular distros based on Ubuntu.

What does it take to be a system administrator? Find out how to equip yourself with the skills you need to start a new career in Linux. Being a system administrator is a sometimes strange and difficult role: nobody knows you exist unless there is a problem, and then it’s instantly considered your fault. Your number one priority is to enable your users or developers unimpeded access to systems you are managing. If there’s a problem it needs to be solved as swiftly and efficiently as possible. You need to see and understand the problems before they come up. Do you still want to be a system administrator? If so, what are the core tasks? How can you become a better system administrator? We’ll be answering all these questions and more over the next few pages, so get your notepads at the ready…

Elon Musk and crew at Tesla Motors made some big waves last week. In case you missed this recent news roundup, it was announced that Tesla is effectively relinquishing their patent portfolio—particularly around charging stations.

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Máirín Duffy just blogged that there is now a clear winner in the Fedora.next branding / logos design process. There were many iterations, and some great ideas during the process of brainstorming and designing the logo.

The latest list of the fastest supercomputers in the world is out -- and not only does Linux rule, it's almost eliminated all of its competition.

A company that topped the list of obvious casualties in the post-PC era has thrived due to surprising changes to the way it does things. Most especially, how it works with developers.

Coding advanced asynchronous I/O with Python's new high-level streams API.

Debian squeezes more life out of its 'oldstable' branch

Explore Software Defined Networking (SDN) network management via software abstraction layers as a method to enhance and optimize your Infrastructure as a Service in the areas of interoperability, user and provider expectation management, developer and administrator requirements, and effective risk mitigation.

Linux Foundation executive director Jim Zemlin talks to Wall Street about tomorrow's technology and what role open source will play. At the invitation only Linux Enterprise End-User Summit held at the Convene Center Financial District, Jim Zemlin, the Linux Foundation's executive director, told an audience of several hundred Wall Street executives and top Linux developers what he sees as the future of technology.

What it was like to develop "open source software" before it even had a name

At this point, I have more usernames and passwords to juggle than any person should ever have to deal with. I know I’m not alone, either. We have a surfeit […]

Bring civilization to Sproggiwood, a story-driven, turn-based roguelike set in a world of mischief and wonder. One moment, you’re a simple farmer from the peaceful island of Clog -- the next, you’re lured through a mysterious portal by a talking sheep.

Apache Tomcat is the most popular open-source Java web server. If your web site is expecting more traffic as your business grows, a single instance of Tomcat will probably not scale with the growing traffic. In that case, you might be thinking to run Tomcat in a "clustered" environment, where web server workload is distributed […]Continue reading... The post How to configure a Tomcat cluster on Ubuntu appeared first on Xmodulo. Related FAQs: How to install Apache Tomcat on CentOS How to install LAMP server on Ubuntu How to configure SNMPv3 in Ubuntu, CentOS and Cisco How to set up a secure Apache webserver on Ubuntu How to install and configure KVM and Open vSwitch on Ubuntu or Debian

Youtube-dl is a small command-line program to download videos from YouTube website and other sites that don't provide direct links to the videos served.

Open source is the combined contributions of millions of independent volunteers. This single concept brings with it a few inherent realities. In this article let's look at a few potentially concerning points about the nature of open source contributions.

A few weeks back, I wrote about the end of Windows XP having a galvanising effect on the use of free software in China. Of course, other parts of the world face the same problems of finding something to replace Windows XP, and others are also turning to free software...

Mirantis has announced a new, upper-level OpenStack open source cloud computing training and certification offering.