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The good news is that I can run X in OpenBSD 5.6 on my AMD A4 APU-equipped HP Pavilion g6 laptop. Before now, starting X would cause a kernel panic. The bad news is that the laptop runs very, very hot. But there's a way to shave 20 degrees C right off the top with a single command.

The Chakra team is happy to announce the second release of the Chakra 'Euler' series, which follows the KDE Applications and Platform 4.14 releases. The main reason for providing this new ISO image, in addition to providing a new KDE release, is that Chakra has now implemented the /usr merge changes. If you already have Chakra installed on your system manual intervention is needed, so please follow the instructions on how to properly update. For new installations using this ISO image, this is of course not needed. Core packages: Linux kernel 3.16.4, X.Org Server 1.15.2, systemd 216.

In today's open source roundup roundup: Groupon backs off claims to the GNOME trademark. Plus: Nine of the best Linux distributions, and a proprietary Linux would have cost more than one trillion dollars.

Cloud-flinger Rackspace has joined Microsoft’s new army of cloud service providers. Rackspace is now running Microsoft’s Cloud Platform at all of its US data centres

Microsoft, fixin' to broaden the appeal of its .Net software development platform, has committed to delivering a new version of the toolset that is not only language agnostic but also cross-platform and entirely open source.

Today Microsoft announced that the .NET core framework, which powers web applications using the ASP.NET libraries, will be open source on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. But what are the implications for Mono, the existing open source project which already provides .NET support on Linux and the Mac?

Microsoft showered application developers with new tools on Wednesday, including a preview of the next release of Visual Studio and an all new version of the IDE that offers the full flexibility and extensibility of the flagship Visual Studio product, free of charge.

Perform powerful calculations with NumPy, SciPy and Matplotlib

In today's Android roundup: Microsoft didn't make Office free for Android users out of the goodness of its heart. Plus: An Android user sues Apple over lost text messages, and check out Android Wear 5.0 Lollipop's new features.

This paper provides installation instructions for Debian linux 7 & Asterisk on a new platform.

Using Docker containers to deploy virtual applications might be a good idea, but how can an enterprise actually monitor what's going on? GroundWork believes its BoxSpy project is up to the task.

Microsoft ports .NET to Linux and Macintosh and open-sources the entire stack.

Grab your swords, as Chivalry: Medieval Warfare is looking like it's getting close to a Linux release at last.

OpenGL is a well-known standard for generating 3-D as well as 2-D graphics that is extremely powerful and has many capabilities. OpenGL is defined and released by the OpenGL Architecture Review Board (ARB). This article is an introduction to OpenGL that will help you understand drawing using OpenGL.

Automating and aligning workflows makes new tasks simpler and enables team members to switch between different components easily.

Talend 5.6, the latest version of the open source big data platform, introduces new support for Apache Spark and Storm, as well as better Internet of Things integration.

Ingenic’s tiny “Newton2? wearables module is smaller and more power efficient than the original, and runs Linux or Android on a MIPS-based Ingenic M200 SoC.

The rise of malware designed to infect Linux servers' distributed denial-of-service attacks has earned greater attention from VirusTotal, the Google-owned go-to tool for malware hunters. For security researchers that need to stay on top of emerging malware threats, the VirusTotal malware database has become an integral tool.

The version of ownCloud in Ubuntu's Universe repositories is old and full of "multiple critical security vulnerabilities." It's no secret. The ownCloud project itself asked Ubuntu to remove it so users wouldn't have vulnerable server software.

This is the simplest hacking guide that works on any HTTP enabled authentication website. It even worked on Facebook (when HTTP was the authentication method). Who can do it? Anyone from any operating system, be that a Linux, Windows or Mac with Wireshark. The implications are massive, but do we even realize it in our everyday usage?