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While (U)EFI is frowned upon by many Linux users due to the security disaster known as Secure Boot or other UEFI compatibility problems with running Linux on systems, there are a few benefits...

The latest edition of SUSE's community Linux distribution is ready to use.

A how-to video about keyboard layouts configuration in Cinnamon.

We knew it was coming and yesterday it officially arrived: Viber 4.0 is out on the desktop and it officially supports Linux.

Today we will guide you through the installation process of WordPress Multisite on your Centos VPS.

During the first day of the latest virtual Ubuntu Developer Summit, Canonical developers plotted out the enabling of TRIM/DISCARD support by default for solid-state drives on Ubuntu...

"We detected bugs earlier and our reports were more accurate thanks to the tool," Bethencourt said. "These improvements provided developers more time and OpenSUSEbetter information to fix the problems. "

There were plans originally to ship FreeBSD 10.0 as stable in November, but that isn't going to happen. It's not even clear if FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE will be ready to ship before the end of the calendar year, but at least progress is being made and when the release does happen there's a great number of new features.

Today in Open Source: Download openSUSE 13.1. Plus: A screenshot tour of Linux Mint 16 RC, and Google Drive for Linux. There seems to be quite a bit in this release of openSUSE, far more than I can list here. So be sure to click through on the more link to see a full list of changes and features.

If you're anything like me (and don't you want to be?), you probably have more than one Linux or UNIX machine that you use on a regular basis. Perhaps you've got a laptop and a desktop. Or, maybe you've got a few servers on which you have shell accounts. Using vcsh has several advantages, once you get your head around the workflow.

Ethernet networks can be partitioned into multiple distinct broadcast domains using VLANs. VLAN domains are mutually isolated. Whenever a hosts in one VLAN domain needs to communicate with a hosts in another VLAN domain, the traffic must be routed between the two domains. This is known as inter-VLAN routing.

There are some top notch open source programs that offer a real alternative to OneNote. The purpose of this article is to identify our pick of the finest OneNote equivalents that run natively under Linux.

BlackBerry is a sick company. Will a dose of Android apps give it a shot at health?

Eight months of planning, packaging, adding features, fixing issues, testing and fixing more issues has brought you the best that free and open source has to offer, with our green touch: stable and awesome. This release did benefit from the improvements to our testing infrastructure and much attention to bug fixing. While a combination of over 6,000 packages supporting 5 architectures can never be perfect, we're proud to say this really does represent the best free software has to offer! The latest desktops (five of them!), server and cloud technologies, software development tools and everything in between are included.

AMD unveiled the Radeon R9 290 graphics card at the beginning of November as one step down from the new flagship Radeon R9 290X graphics card. Numerous Windows reviews praised the graphics card for its great performance, but what wasn't clear at the time was how the Linux performance and compatibility was for this new $399 USD graphics card. AMD hadn't offered any review samples to Phoronix for conducting any Linux-based testing and benchmarking, but it's more clear now why that didn't happen: the Linux performance isn't stellar. I bought an XFX Radeon R9 290 and now there's many Linux benchmarks coming out of this graphics card that's riddled by what might be driver issues. I already regret having purchased the AMD Radeon R9 290 for use on Linux; the graphics card is hot, power hungry, noisy, and the OpenGL results aren't too good.

I hear a Canonical dev was more opinionated than knowledgeable and the press blew what he said out of proportion. I wouldn’t mind too much, if we weren’t finding ourselves answering questions from panicked users rather than working on what matters right now (i.e. Mint 16 RC).

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Sensitive files need to be secured on Linux just as they do on Windows. Fortunately, installing and configuring TrueCrypt on Linux is an easy task – you can even use a shell prompt.

A typical Linux server runs in a command line interface (CLI) environment, preloaded with bare essential tools needed to install and configure various headless services. If you are used to GUI-based environment, however, you may wonder whether there is a GUI for Linux server. A typical Linux desktop environment like GNOME, KDE, etc. will probably be too resource-heavy for what it's worth, and not as secure simply because there will be more code subject to potential security vulnerabilities. This tutorial describes how to manage and configure a Linux server with Webmin's web-based GUI.

Ubuntu 13.10 is also known as the Saucy Salamander, Ubuntu is most popular open source or free operating system for your desktop and Servers. In this tutorial we will learn how to install ubuntu 13.10 on your personal desktop or laptop.

The Math is the LibreOffice suite’s formula editor that enables you to use formatted mathematical and scientific formulas in a spreadsheet, presentation, drawing or text document.