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Stronghold is a single-player and multi-player real-time strategy game developed by Firefly Studios, and set in historical times. Stronghold was first published on Steam in 2012, and after two years it makes its way on the Linux platform.

A report from The Information (subscription required) claims that Google tried to buy Cyanogen, Inc, the maker of the custom Android ROM CyanogenMod. According to the report, Cyanogen's chief executive told shareholders that Sundar Pichai, the head of Chrome and Android at Google, met with the company and "expressed interest in acquiring the firm." The report says Cyanogen Inc. declined the offer, saying that it was still growing.

In today's Android roundup: Android One is poised to give control back to Google. Plus: Google Play Newsstand updated, and a preview of Android L on the Samsung Galaxy S5.

Sometimes a gift just falls in your lap. This month, it came in the form of an e-mail out of the blue from Jared Nielsen, one of two brothers (the other is J.R. Nielsen) who created The Hello World Program, "an educational web series making computer science fun and accessible to all".

Atmel is sampling a Linux supported, Cortex-A5 based SAMA5D4 SoC that bests the earlier SAMA5D3 with new NEON, L2 cache, 720p decode, and security features. Atmel announced the SAMA5D4 system-on-chip at ARM TechCon 2014, which is underway this week in Santa Clara, Calif. The SAMA5D4, builds upon the foundation of the earlier SAMA5D3 SoC, and similarly uses ARM’s Cortex-A5 processor.

Red Hat's new storage server does more than just help you get a handle on your enterprise storage. It also gives you what you need to manage big data and ready-to-run partner storage solutions.

Play Linux was created because there are no decent Linux distributions for gamers. This review looks at the applications that are installed and asks the question "is there enough to set Play Linux apart from Mint, Ubuntu and Zorin?"

Ubuntu MATE is a new flavor based on Ubuntu that will see an official launch alongside all the other regular ones on October 23, and it's very likely that it will steal the show.

This summer, the Supreme Court made it easier for defendants to collect fees when they win patent cases. The decision is starting to have an effect—the nation's largest patent troll just got slapped with an order to pay $1.4 million in attorneys' fees to NetApp, which it sued in 2010.

What if you treated all of the configuration files and scripts which set up and control your infrastructure like an open source project in their own right? What if you put the code out there for review and allowed developers and operators to work in tandem to ensure a smooth roll out of code to production? That's how the OpenStack Infrastructure team at HP work.

Ubuntu Edge, a revolutionary new smartphone that tried to gather enough funds in one of the largest crowdfunding campaigns ever made, is still wanted by many Linux and Ubuntu fans.

Time series analysis (financial data, web logs, etc.) works best with row oriented databases. A traditional database consists of tables with data ordered by row (row-oriented). When data are organized by rows, data look-up can be done quickly by using a key-value to identify the row and then its associated data. When data are organized by column (column-oriented), operations on columns are extremely fast because there is no key-value look-up. This approach is used for time-series analysis. If you are a kdb+ user or are intrigued with time-series analysis, there are resources waiting for you. First, there is a free version of kdb+ (32 bit) available for download. The free version has all the functionality of the 64-bit version and can be used for commercial, non-commercial, or educational purposes.

OpenVPN wasn’t immune to the Heartbleed vulnerability in OpenSSL, and it’s not going to sidestep Shellshock either. Fredrick Stromberg, cofounder of Mullvad, a Swedish VPN company, reported that OpenVPN servers are vulnerable to Shellshock , the vulnerability in Bash plaguing Linux, UNIX and Mac OS X systems.

A group established to shield Linux from patent trolls has warned OpenStack will be the next big target for intellectual property hoarders. The Open Invention Network (OIN) reckons the open-source cloud is ripe for the plucking by trolls, who would easily be able to box off and claim core technologies as their own.

Increased demand on web based applications and services are putting more and more weight on the shoulders of IT administrators. When faced with unexpected traffic spikes, organic traffic growth, or internal challenges such as hardware failures and urgent maintenance, your web application must remain available, no matter what. Even modern devops and continuous delivery practices […]Continue reading... The post How to configure HTTP load balancer with HAProxy on Linux appeared first on Xmodulo. Related FAQs: How to set up a transparent HTTPS filtering proxy on CentOS How to set up Squid as a transparent web proxy on CentOS or RHEL How to analyze Squid logs with SARG log analyzer on CentOS What are useful CLI tools for Linux system admins How to create a site-to-site IPsec VPN tunnel using Openswan in Linux

Embedded systems need better security In a discussion that will sound familiar to Australian readers, US military development agency DARPA wants to create provably-secure software.…

elementary OS is a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu, and using solely this description users should not be impressed. Something else is happening with this operating system, something that is not fully understood.

This tutorial is the second part of the introduction to Linux command-line. In the first chapter I tried to make a brief introduction to the shell and the basic ways of moving around. Here I will talk about several useful commands, which may be needed on a day to day basis if you're working with the shell.

By getting all the major cloud providers fixed before the flaw was publicly disclosed, the Xen Project likely saved the IT world from a major security nightmare.

Version 7.4.2 of KNOPPIX is based on the usual picks from Debian 'Wheezy' and newer desktop packages from Debian 'testing' and Debian 'unstable'. It uses Linux kernel 3.16.3 and X.Org Server 1.16.1 for supporting current computer hardware. Changes: security fixes in Firefox (Iceweasel 32.0.3), Chromium (37.0.2062.120); GNOME desktop starts again using boot option 'knoppix desktop=gnome', if supported by graphics card; patch for the Bash shell against the 'Shellshock' bug in the environment variable parser; updated udev (215) and dBUS (1.8.8) for automatic hardware management and autostart of systemd components, updated LibreOffice (4.3.2), GIMP (2.8.14), KDE libraries (4.8.4), and more.