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How To Add PPP Kernel Support To OpenVZ Containers If you are trying to build a VPN tunnel from within an OpenVZ container to some other system, you will most likely get the error message /usr/sbin/pppd: Sorry - this system lacks PPP kernel support. This tutorial explains how you can add PPP kernel support to your OpenVZ container so that you can start VPN connections from your container.

We reveal some of the people and things you'll be able to see at the Linux User Raspberry Jam on 5 April in Poole, Dorset

An update of iso image of SparkyLinux 3.3.1 Base Edition is out.

While installing the Boxee+ hack on my media center I found out that all my movies needed to be saved in individual folders of the same name. This needs to be done for Boxee+ and XBMC to display fanart. With thousands of files, this was going to be a huge manual task. After searching for a tool to complete this task I decided to make one.

A Kickstarter project called Soap combines router and home automation features in a quad-core, Android-based tablet with 802.11ac, ZigBee, Z-Wave, and BLE. The Soap project has already surpassed its $80,000 funding goals, and there are still some packages left at discounted prices until the campaign closes Mar. 23 at 10:34 AM EDT. The touchscreen-enabled Soap […]

In February, I gave a talk at DevConf in the Czech Republic about Fedora.next — background on where it came from, what problems it’s trying to solve, what we are […]

Planetary Annihilation has some more spit and polish now as they work through their Gamma phase of development, they have recently improved art, the lobby, the AI and more!

Pragmatism seems to have replaced idealism in open source. Has corporate success ruined this once utopian branch of software development?

Microsoft apparently processes hundreds of these requests monthly in a process that appears to be just another order of business – a stark contrast from its vehement public outcries against bulk National Security Agency surveillance programs that collect similar user data.

This is just magical, Crypt of the NecroDander is a hardcore dungeon crawling (roguelike) rhythm game. It features an epic sound-track and the ability to play with your own music.

You use LibreOffice for your documents, perhaps Scribus for making a company brochure, and edit most documents online. You’ve heard of TeX – in the context of mathematical equations, mostly – but why would you use it to lay out everything from invoices to 100-page PDFs? Quite simply, because it produces beautiful-looking documents that are easy to maintain, and using a simple markup that makes keeping track of document evolution and changes far simpler than it is with word processors and desktop publishing packages.

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: Amarok merges advanced track statistics importers (a GSoC project) KDevelop allows language plugins to provide styles to formatters Konsole stores terminal size in the profile, each profile can now set desired column and row size; allows users to specify css file for tab bar style (this can be used to set minimum width of the tabs, distinguish active tab, etc) Kwallet replaces SHA with PBKDF2-SHA512+Salt Porting to Qt5 and Frameworks 5 continues, we have initial ports of kfind and konq. Read the rest of the Digest here. Dot Categories: Developer

CRYENGINE one of the most advanced game engines around powering a ton of games has finally announced official Linux support, so Crytek how about some Crysis on Linux?

Adlink is readying four PC/104-style SBCs using Intel Atom E3800 SoCs, and offering SATA, GbE, USB, and multimedia ports, plus stackable PCI and ISA buses. Despite having absorbed PC/104-creator Ampro, Adlink isn’t the first embedded boardmaker out with Bay Trail on the PC/104 form-factor. That distinction appears to belong to ADL, which demonstrated its new […]

A new book on open source education teaches school leaders and parents why kids need to see coding as more than cool. Energizing Education through Open Source: Using Open Source Software to Enhance Learning by Christopher Whittum makes a strong case for deploying the Linux OS and its academic software in schools. This book should be required reading for developing computer-driven curricula.

Starbound the really fantastic 2D universe sandbox game has pushed out a small content update into its stable branch on Steam, including some wild weather!

According to a secret document provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, the agency tracks down the private email and Facebook accounts of system administrators (or sys admins, as they are often called), before hacking their computers to gain access to the networks they control.

Web servers running a long-outdated version of the Linux kernel were attacked with dramatic speed over two days last week, Cisco Systems said on Thursday.

ZTE’s ZTE9 joint venture unveiled a Tegra 4-based media player and game console, and ZTE announced an IPTV/OTT STB, both featuring Android and video chat. Like Huawei, ZTE is a major Chinese telecom equipment provider that has more recently moved aggressively into mobile devices. They primarily serve up Android phones and tablets, but ZTE has […]

Some financial services companies are looking to migrate their ATM fleets from Windows to Linux in a bid to have better control over hardware and software upgrade cycles.