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Git has become the most popular version-tracking platform around for open-source projects. Whether you're using GitHub, Gitorious, Bitbucket or similar, or even if you're hosting the git repository yourself, accessing the code is something us Linux users take for granted.

ConnectBlue announced a tiny multi-wireless COM with Bluetooth 4.0, dual-band WiFi, and dual-Ethernet connectivity, and running Linux on a TI Sitara SoC.

Every release, Fedora packages up a bunch of what we call Supplemental Wallpapers. These are additional wallpapers for Fedora users to use instead of the official default wallpaper. Submissions are now open for anyone to submit a freely-licensed wallpaper. If you want to install these wallpapers on your current Fedora 20 system, install the heisenbug-backgrounds-extras-gnome package, and the wallpapers will show up in the GNOME wallpaper settings.

The focus of this article is to select the finest Pascal books which are available to read without charge. Each text has a lot to offer for a budding Pascal programmer. So get reading and learning.

GroundWork has released a solution for monitoring the performance of various parts of the OpenStack open source infrastructure for cloud environments. OpenStack, the open source cloud operating system, offers some metering tools as parts of the core OpenStack code. But it lacks a robust performance monitoring framework, which is why GroundWork has rolled out a new solution for tracking the performance of various parts of the OpenStack public and private cloud infrastructure.

The quick and easy process of using the Xen Project Hypervisor on current releases of CentOS

The National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) of the government of India strives to make all government services available to the citizens through the use of Information Communications Technology applications. For one, the Localization Portal has been developed for dissemination of information and providing basic localization tools and services. Another initiative is the FUEL Project, providing linguistic resources needed for localization and included as a reference standard in the Best Practices For Localization of e-Governance applications in Indian Languages.

After playing with the test ISO image that was made available, I can confirm that the “core desktop experience” of Plasma Next will indeed be no different from that of the current KDE workspace. The desktop effects will, however, be much better and smoother.

At the end of this month, thousands of entrepreneurial citizens from across the United States and the world will come together to improve their communities and the governments that serve them as part of the National Day of Civic Hacking from May 31 - June 1, 2014.

The Qualcomm rep who showed it to us (and is holding it in the photos below) emphasized that the MCM was purely a “proof of concept” being shown around to prospective OEMs, and would not necessarily end up going into production. Still, in light of the recent flurry of Snapdragon-based computer-on-modules (COMs) from embedded board vendors (see “Related posts” list farther below), we can’t help wondering if Qualcomm might be preparing to market its Snapdragon SoCs more aggressively to makers of devices outside the realm of consumer smartphones and tablets.

KANOTIX LinuxTag2014 is available. KANOTIX is a Linux distribution based on Debian GNU/Linux. It usually contains the latest packages and kernels, carefully patched with fixes and drivers for most modern hardware. Although it can be used as a live CD, it also includes a simple graphical installer for easy hard disk installation. The user-friendly nature of the distribution is further enhanced by a custom-built Control Centre and specialist scripts. KANOTIX is supported on a multilingual forum, Wiki and IRC channel by the distribution's active and friendly user community.

The Xen open source virtualization hypervisor community is helping to lead the new Virtualization Special Interest Group of the CentOS Linux distribution.

World of Animals, our leading wildlife sister magazine, has launched a major awareness campaign to stop the senseless slaughter of endangered rhinos in Africa. From issue 7, on sale today, 10% of the worldwide profits from the magazine will be donated to the Ol Pejeta Conservancy, an organisation with a proven reputation for fighting poachers and protecting its animals.

There’s something different about OpenStack Summit Atlanta. Maybe it’s the attendance, the new arrivals, the latest projects, the announcements, the talks, or the community coming together. Really, it's a combination of all these things. And, while I can’t compare this summit to past OpenStack events, I can sum up my experience from the first three days in one word: excitement!

Q4OS 0.5.11, a desktop operating system designed to offer a classic style user interface and bearing an uncanny resemblance to Windows XP, has been released and is now available for download.

Managing A Headless VirtualBox Installation With phpvirtualbox (Ubuntu 14.04 LTS) phpvirtualbox is a web-based VirtualBox front-end written in PHP that allows you to access and control remote VirtualBox instances. It tries to resemble the VirtualBox GUI as much as possible to make work with it as easy as possible. It is a nice replacement for the VirtualBox GUI if you run VirtualBox in headless servers (like in the tutorial VBoxHeadless - Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox 4.3 On A Headless Ubuntu 14.04 Server). This tutorial explains how to install phpvirtualbox on an Ubuntu 14.04 server to manage a locally installed, headless VirtualBox.

Variscite announced a COM based on Qualcomm’s 1.7GHz quad-core Snapdragon APQ8064 SoC, supported with Android and Linux, and usable from -40 to 85?C. The VAR-SOM-SD600 builds upon the same Snapdragon APQ8064 system-on-chip as another computer-on-module announced this week: CompuLab’s CM-QS600. Qualcomm’s 1.7GHz, quad-core SoC is also known as the S4 Pro, and Variscite refers to […]

Ubuntu Kylin 14.04 LTS Trusty Tahr is the latest version of ubuntu-derivative based on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, it come with many improvement and updates. Ubuntu Kylin is free operating system based on Ubuntu that especially designed to support the chinese community who love the world’s most popular free desktop operating system.

I’m asked this all the time: is using Linux on the desktop more secure than Windows?

The 22-member Faculty Council voted 20 in favor, with 1 against and 1 absention. From the announcement, the award was carefully evaluated by an international honorary doctoral committee, which included Prof. Noam Chomsky of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).