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A full review of Edubuntu 13.10.

In an earlier article ("GNU Awk 4.0: Teaching an Old Bird Some New Tricks", published in the September 2011 issue of Linux Journal), I gave a brief history of awk and gawk and provided a high-level overview of the many new features in gawk 4.0.

I have an interest in application deployment systems, having created three different application bunding system (1,2, 3). These were all experiments in the area of desktop applications, but recently there has been some interesting motions in related areas, namely Docker.

A new version of the open-source WordPress content management and blogging platform, Version 3.7, has been officially released, providing users with improved stability and security. The impact of the new WordPress platform on the Web as a whole is nontrivial, as WordPress currently is the technology behind some 72 million Websites.

Ever wondered how useful instance storage (ephemeral disk) could be? Ephemeral disk is a temporary storage that it is added to your instance, and depending on your instance type the bigger is such storage.

Today in Open Source: Should Linux replace Windows XP? Plus: A review of Edubuntu 13.10, and an OpenMandria Lx preview

Sage Electronic Engineering, has released a free board support package for AMD’s community-backed Gizmo SBC equipped with its open source, Coreboot-based SageBIOS bootloader.

With the Fedora 20 beta coming up I decided to see where the latest Fedora 20 packages are now at for their support of Wayland and the GNOME Shell Wayland session. In particular, looking at whether the session is still buggy and how the XWayland performance is for Linux gaming.

The shopping cart software allows online shopping customers to accumulate a list of items for purchase and process their orders.

All shopping cart software listed in the article are open-source and free for use.

Today, transparency is a critical aspect in all areas of government. With Internet access, citizens are looking for more information about what is going on in their cities and are looking for more ways to hold their government representatives accountable. One of the best ways to provide transparency and make it easier for citizens to obtain the city services they require is to become an open source city. An open source city is one that uses a variety of new tools, including apps, to make information availble to citizens and interact with them as well. Following are 10 tools to help open source cities maintain transparency.

This update on a popular list reveals a changing relationship between proprietary and open source software, due to cloud computing's influence.

Learn to write bash scripts in Linux which support multitasking asynchronous execution, and running PHP scripts from the terminal.

So you’ve got an idea for an app? For those aspiring to occupy a small portion of digital real estate in the pockets of countless smartphone users, this is an important step. But before the first line of code can be written or the IPO is filled, there is another equally important consideration which must be made. “Which platform do I develop for?” While the answer seems fairly obvious to those of us who frequent this particular online destination, the decision to develop for one platform over another can weigh on more than just your heartstrings. So why do developers choose Android?

Netbooks generally struggle when attempting to run mainstream operating systems so a lightweight operating system such as Lubuntu should be a perfect alternative. I have spent a week running Lubuntu on an ageing machine and this review looks at how it fared.

Greetings fellow Linux users, and welcome to the second part of our glorious OpenVPN series. When last we met we learned how to set up a simple OpenVPN encrypted tunnel between a home server and a remote node, such as a laptop. Today we're adding refinements such as how to daemonize OpenVPN so we don't have to start it manually, use Network Manager for easy connecting to our remote server, and access services.

Neocolonialism - Buy votes. Extract wealth. Exploit the working class. Negotiate. Backstab. Manipulate parliaments. Manipulate the International Monetary Fund. Manipulate the world. The map is upside-down.

Gartner forecast that Android tablets of all brands will exceed iPads for all of 2013 for the first time, with 91.5 million (49.6 percent) Android tablets shipped compared with 89.6 million (48.6 percent) Apple iPads. Gartner said just over 3 million (1.7 percent) Windows tablets will ship.

By day, Red Hat product manager Burr Sutter works to make developers more successful and productive with open source tools, technologies, and techniques. So it's no surprise that he wants to ensure his own children know how to solve technical problems as well. So when summer vacation rolled around this year, Sutter encouraged his son to complete some courses on CodeAcademy and to sign up for a couple of iD Tech Camps. In this interview, Sutter talks about why he wants his children to know how to fix the tech tools they use every day, how he balances that with other "kid" activities, and more. Parents who are looking for a way to get their children to learn code, to fix their computers, or just learn how online communities work may pick up some tips from Sutter's experiences.

Cinelerra, one of the popular open-source video editors and compositors for Linux, hadn't seen an official update since July of 2012 but pushed this week was a source package for their next major release...

Left 4 Dead 2, Valve’s swan song for its aging source engine, has finally stepped out of beta for Linux. Left 4 Dead 2 is now officially available with many official fixes in tow. The 4 year old game offers the following fixes over the last beta release.