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Linux Lite 2.0 includes updated applications, Whisker Menu as the default menu, Linux Lite software repositories, sound control from the tray, descriptive title bars in terminal windows, and more than twenty popular applications that you can easily install from the terminal window. This release also offers a new system font called Droid Sans, tabs in the file manager, and dialog boxes for auto-login.

CentOS has upgraded a lot packages, and the post that I've wrote 1 year ago no longer works in CentOS 6.5 updated up-to-date. I did a research and it looks like this will be the first tutorial in 2014 how to install owncloud in centos with nginx, postgresql and ssl.

War Thunder announced a little surprise for us in their E3 video! A Linux version that they have been showing off.

The Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV 3.4) platform, released today, provides new features that make hypervisor-based virtualization easier to deploy and manage.

With concerns over online privacy at its highest since the birth of the internet, we speak exclusively to the anonymous developers behind Tails.

For many users, the command line tool “diff” on Fedora is the go-to when wanting to compare the differences between two files. However, there are also a healthy selection of graphical tools available in Fedora for comparing the differences between two and even three files. Three of the graphical diff tools available in Fedora are Meld, Kompare and Diffuse.

Artemis-OS 2.3 is now available. Artemis-OS is a new Kubuntu-based Linux distribution used for penetration testing. Changelog: v2.3 - Bug fix, and Iso has been made smaller!

In today's open source roundup: Linux Mint 17 Xfce and KDE RC released. Plus: Deepin 2014 RC released, and a review of Linux Mint 17 MATE by DistroWatch.

A “Steamboy” handheld gaming console teased in a video appears to be the first portable Steam Machine to emerge for Valve’s Linux-based Steam OS platform. A Steamboy Project site registered under a Steamboy Machine copyright posted a teaser video of what looks to be the first handheld console form-factor Steam Machine (see farther below). The video shows a handheld device with a screen in the middle that resembles a cross between the now-delayed Valve Steam Controller and a Sony PlayStation Vita device.

Controversial Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich has left the open source web company, but its path forward remains unclear and the clock is ticking.

The Antergos installer offers a choice of six desktop environments – Cinnamon, GNOME 3, KDE, MATE, Openbox and Xfce. This review features materials from test installations of the Cinnamon, GNOME 3, and KDE desktops.

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. OpenStack around the web There's a lot of interesting stuff being written about OpenStack—here's a sampling: read more

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.4 brings updated KVM virtualization to RHEL 7 and OpenStack.

HP's The Machine, which promises to revolutionize computing through non-volatile memory, will also revolutionize the software world through an open source OS developed at universities.

Finally I've designed answer-file creating ml2_conf.ini -> /etc/neutron/plugins/ml2/ml2_conf.ini..

Battle Group 2 is a fun looking action and strategy game from Bane Games that has been released onto Steam. It's a good looking and action packed naval action game where you control powerful warships, satellite weapons and more.

Years ago, in a graduate computer science course, I was tasked with implementing an algorithm for "variational image segmentation by motion detection." The algorithm was, as they say, a doozy. Tersely described over the course of half a dozen papers, it had dozens of subroutines, which when implemented grew to span thousands of lines of MATLAB code. But there was one subroutine, mysteriously called the "numerical upgrading" routine, whose description was mysteriously absent from the scientific record. Without this small but vital routine, the whole marvelous image segmenting machine just sputtered and ground to a halt. Crash! Panic! Woe.

“Pushing that button was one of the more impactful clicks of my career,” says Microsoft’s C# lead architect Anders Hejlsberg. The click in question was made on stage at Microsoft’s Build conference in April, and its effect was to publish the .NET Compiler platform, codenamed Roslyn, as open source under the Apache 2.0 licence.

"One of the great things about Linux, especially for web developers or server administrators, is that all of the basic tools you need to get set with your remote server and files tend to be included and well integrated into the system from the get go. You don't necessarily need to install an FTP client, a code editor or a special terminal emulator."

Windows XP was around for a long time and as such the hardware used to run Windows XP varied from Pentium II machines to dual core processors with many gigabytes of RAM. Therefore one Linux distribution doesn't necessarily fit for all Windows XP users. This article lists 5 reasons why and when Lubuntu would be a good choice.