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On Friday, March 14, the U.S. announced it’ll relinquish control of the Internet’s root zone file, which contains all information about top-level domain names. According to Ars Technica, the move came as a surprise, although the United States has promised for many years that eventually the system would be put in the hands of an international body.

A little later than expected, but Ground Pounders the turn-based strategy game now has a Linux version on Steam.

Chrome OS uses the Linux kernel, the same kernel which is being used by Android, Amazon Kindle, B&N’s Nook. Linux powers stock exchanges, NASA’s missions and a lot of other things that you may not have imagined. More or less Linux is like the plastic of the modern world – it’s everywhere.

This is a review of openSUSE 13.1. It includes all the usual elements of a review including looking at the installation, the user interface, applications and package manager. There is also a look at what has changed since 12.3.

Keurig's next generation of coffee machines will have a way to prevent any coffee not licensed by Keurig from brewing in the machine as early as this fall. Locking down a thing like coffee seems both trifling and difficult to accomplish—no one has yet described how Keurig can differentiate its own pods enough so that its machines would honor those pods and only those pods...

To suss out the issue of coffee DRM, it makes sense to look at a relatively close analog product with its own rights management and interoperability issues—printer toner cartridges. Each printer company jealously guards its model of cartridges, doing everything it can to make them proprietary and unrefillable, because, of course, the real money in printing is in selling the ink at a very large profit.

Israeli start-up Keepod believes it has a low-cost way to bring the billions living in poverty into the digital age. Keepod has developed a Linux-based operating system that can act as a portable hard drive by plugging it into the USB port of any recent PC...

Just because old games have been freely available for years doesn’t mean we shouldn’t appreciate it when someone does it properly...

The top utility will require no introduction to experienced Linux users. It is a tiny utility that provides a dynamic real-time view of a running system, and is regarded as the standard tool for monitoring processes on a system. It helps with system administration by identifying users and processes that are hogging the system. It is also useful for non-system administrators, helping to track and kill errant processes. However, top is showing its age and there are a bunch of utilities that offer a more feature-laden alternative.

Earlier this week, Ars reported on attacks exploiting an extremely critical vulnerability in the PHP scripting language almost two years after the bug came to light. By going 22 months without installing crucial patches, the responsible administrators were menacing the entire Internet.........Now comes word of a new mass compromise that preys on even more neglected Web severs, some running versions of the Linux operating system kernel first released in 2007...

Trove is the National Library of Australia's online database. It contains almost 400 000 000 digital items, including Australian newspaper articles from 1803 to 1954. Each article has been OCR'ed and the OCR text is presented in a separate box at the left of the page viewer.

The American government conducted a major intelligence offensive against China, with targets including the Chinese government and networking company Huawei, according to documents from former NSA worker Edward Snowden... As justification for targeting the company, an NSA document claims that "many of our targets communicate over Huawei produced products, we want to make sure that we know how to exploit these products."

Contributors are one of the most important assets for volunteer-led Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) projects. With this dynamic in mind, the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) program provides a way for university students to explore open source projects and work with their contributors during the summer.

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?