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It's been 15 years since leaked memos revealed Microsoft's anti-Linux and open source strategy. Here's how it failed.

The United States energy grid is composed of many moving and non-moving cyber security assets that all have to, to some degree, speak the same language. The language of machine-to-machine communications has become big business lately, however devices that control how the power gets from the plant to your light switch have been talking their talk for many years.

One Laptop per Child, the education not-for-profit that provides cheap low-cost laptops to children in developing countries, is building a new device in partnership with Datawind, makers of the $50 (£29) Aakash tablets.

The Sabayon wiki, forum, and bugzilla installations have been hacked by an unknown party and all the usernames, emails, and encrypted passwords have been compromised.

Puppet is an open source configuration management tool from Puppet Labs.Puppet Resources are the building blocks that puppet uses to model system configurations.

Yet another ISO image of the powerful Arch Linux operating system has been released today, November 1, 2013, by the Arch Linux developers.

Today in Open Source: Preloaded Linux systems? Plus: Android Kit Kat missing features, and Microsoft's commitment to open source

Via Technologies announced a line of ARM-based Via Springboard SBCs supported with Android and Linux BSPs, and support services from prototyping to pre-production testing and diagnostics. The first Springboard is the $99, Pico-ITX-based VAB-600, built around a Via WM8950 SoC with a single 800MHz Cortex-A9 core, and featuring an I/O extender card and an optional […]

The following tutorial will teach you how to install the Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander) operating system on your personal computer, netbook, or laptop.

This week, we discuss cloud migration myths, if BlackBerry and Secusmart thwarted US surveillance of Chancellor Merkel and focusing completely on UX.

The release of Fedora 20 has been delayed by another week -- both the due-out beta and the final release -- over unresolved bugs...

It's hard to believe, looking at the modern computing world, but there is still more to life than Windows or Unix… and today, most of the alternatives run on vanilla x86 hardware and are free.

Rolf Sommerhalder has already written on my blog about his life in Linux and his favourite Desktop Environments. This time round, he decided to let us know about his own distribution he uses. This is guest post on Linux Notes from DarkDuck.

The latest version of Google's Android Linux-based operating system is out. Here's what you need to know about it today.

BirdFont is a free, Open Source font editor written by Johan Mattsson using Vala programming language. It lets you create vector graphics and export TTF, EOT & SVG fonts. It is available for Windows, Linux, Mac and OpenBSD platforms.

SiT!, Support Incident Tracker, is a Free, Open Source web based ‘Help Desk’ or ‘Support Ticket System’ application which uses PHP and MySQL for tracking technical support calls/emails. SiT! can be used to manage contacts, sites, technical support contracts and support incidents in one place. Also we can send emails directly from SiT!, attach files and record every communication in the incident log.

This month on Phoronix there was a heck of a lot of Linux and open-source content: there were over 32 featured-length articles (more than one per day) and 262 news stories (more than eight stories per day) written by your's truly. The Linux 3.12 kernel and Ubuntu / Mir activity were the most popular happenings of October.

Configure your Ubuntu 13.10 to work behind a proxy

The following tutorial will teach all Linux users how to install SSH on their systems, in order to access their computers remotely from an Android tablet of smartphone.

I'll describe my recent success with adding watermarks to a document. As often happens when I want to do a quick document or need to work on a .doc file, I turned to LibreOffice for this task. The major part of this post, then, will be occupied with how to add watermarks to documents created in or edited with LibreOffice/OpenOffice.