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The Neptune team is proud to announce the release of Neptune 3.3. This release features Linux kernel 3.10.12 and is exclusively meant to run on 64-bit CPUs. The KDE Plasma Desktop ships with version 4.11.2. Chromium was updated to version 29, VLC to 2.1 and LibreOffice to version 4.1.2. We ship with the latest and greatest multimedia codecs pre-installed, as well as the Flash player. For wireless diagnosis we ship Wireshark, Aircrack-ng and kismon. We made a lot effort in cleaning up the system and removed Eclipse as well as the Muon software center and qapt-deb-installer. We removed pavucontrol which is no longer used as we don't ship PulseAudio. Linux kernel 3.10.12 comes with patched zram to prevent freezes. We also added a renewed quick installation manual.

There are several web-based database management tools available on Linux. Among them is Adminer which is a PHP application. Adminer can fully support the administration of various databases including MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, SQLite, and Oracle. This tutorial describes how to set up a web-based management system with Adminer, and how to manage databases in web interface.

This week we look at the Web browser at 20, 9 hot mobile development skills and 3 cloud lessons from Netflix.

You've probably heard of OpenStack. It's that cloud software that's getting a lot of attention from big names in the IT industry and major users like CERN, Comcast and PayPal. However, did you know that it's more than that? It's also the fastest growing open source community in the world, and a very interesting collaboration among technology vendors and users.

Awk is a very nice language with a very strange name. In this first article of a three-part series, Daniel Robbins will quickly get your awk programming skills up to speed. As the series progresses, more advanced topics will be covered, culminating with an advanced real-world awk application demo.

BossConstructor is a game about building, tweaking and flying your own spaceship! The game will include about 25 missions which will test both your design and piloting skills.

BRITISH COMPUTER DESIGNER the Raspberry Pi Foundation has shared with us its image of the gold Raspberry Pi case that Japanese firm Sony promised it when it reached one million units built in the UK.

Have you been in the situation where you needed to move everyone’s mail from one provider to another? It’s a pain to do using the mail client one at a time, but with this guide, you’ll be able to create a csv with everyone’s info and run one command to fire it all off.

Backyard haunted houses, carving pumpkins, elaborate decorations, jumping out to scare trick-or-treaters; Halloween is packed with the DIY spirit. People’s desire to be scared or scare others is primal. It’s the “fight or flight” response, the deep psychological need to survive. Halloween give many the chance to feel the fear, since back in our minds we know there is no real danger. Perhaps it is just the excitement that drives us to walk through that haunted house. Either way, it’s fun for both the builder and the viewer.

First there was the bug bounty, and now there's the patch bounty: Google has launched a new program that pays researchers for security fixes to open-source software.

Ahhh… Nothing gives me more pleasure than the opportunity to mention my two favorite things together in one article; Sega & Linux.

In case you haven't heard, Valve Corporation has released nearly everything about the Steam Box but the box itself. We now know that the Steam Box is a Linux-powered gaming console to run Steam games, and it even has its own Steam Controller. Furthermore, the Steam OS will be available to use on a desktop PC to turn your living room into a Linux-based nirvana.

A review of and appreciate for Kupfer, a helpful application launcher that can also easily open files from within its interface. If you don't like using a mouse, you'll love Kupfer.

Mozilla released version 1.1 of its Linux-based Firefox OS operating system, adding MMS support, push notifications, and performance improvements. Meanwhile, Telefonica, Deutsche Telekom, and Telenor announced plans for launching Firefox OS phones in South America and Europe, following “very successful” early sales. Mozilla has released the first major update to its Linux-fueled, HTML5-focused Firefox OS […]

Data security is something that most people don’t want to think about. In our age of persistent connectivity, most data users, whether they are on a desktop, laptop or cell phone, connect to their data without thinking of the security risks of transmitting their data by connecting to a public network or an unsecured network of any kind. And most users think of data security in terms of malicious hacks on Windows and maybe a Mac once in a while. No one would ever think of screwing with Tux, he’s so cute and all, and everyone loves good old open-sourced Linux, right? Well, no, yes and yes, but . . .

International Day of the Girl is today and a reminder how an open education is critical to the empowerment of women worldwide. In the western world, we often take universal public education for granted. In many parts of the world, however, millions of girls do not attend school and are denied an education.

The Medibuntu repository has been unmaintained for several months, and has become more and more useless over the years. The project is now considered abandoned, and we recommend to disable the repository if you are using it.

Sooner or later, your operations are going to need to scale out to bigger and better servers. You'll have to migrate your application to new hardware. Here's how to do it.

If you own an HTC One or another Android model that lacks a microSD slot, you can still add extra storage. Here's how.

The Raspberry Pi Foundation announced it has sold 1.75 million of its Linux-ready, open platform Raspberry Pi single board computers (SBCs) to date, with one million of them manufactured in the U.K. In other Pi news, the foundation announced a deal in which the $25 Pi Model A and the $30 Pi Camera Board are […]