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There's not a whole lot that has changed in this distribution in a year. Of the things that have changed, most are positive, and the negative ones are not showstoppers by any means, which makes me even happier about this distribution than I was a year ago!

CompuLab unveiled an SODIMM-style COM and related SBC based on a dual-core, 1.5GHz Cortex-A15, TI OMAP5432 SoC, and supported with Linux and Android OSes. CompuLab’s “CM-T54″ computer-on-module is its most powerful ARM-based COM yet. Although the module lacks the quad-core option of the company’s Cortex-A9 Freescale i.MX6 based CM-FX6 COM, it advances to a more […]

This is the 2nd part in my series of interview style articles attempting to find out about Linux from the developers point of view. Shane Remington and Kendall Weaver are part of the Peppermint OS team. Find out why Peppermint stands out from the crowd and how it all started.

antiX MX-14 is available. "MX-14 "Symbiosis" is a special version of antiX developed in full collaboration with the Mepis Community and using the best tools and talents from each distro. It is a midweight OS designed to combine an elegant and efficient desktop with simple configuration, high stability, solid performance and medium-sized footprint. The base depends on the excellent upstream work by Linux, Debian, and Xfce. MX-14 also incorporates the independent and innovative development products Whisker Menu, simsu and gottet, QupZilla Browser, smxi and inxi."

This is an overview of 20 movie players available for Linux. Except the popular ones like VLC or Totem, I also overviewed several TV applications and several movie players for the terminal, which use ASCII characters for visualization, which is a really interesting option.

One of the biggest updates ever to a major language finally ships, delivering many new and very interesting features.

Apache HTTP server could be made to crash if it received specially craftednetwork traffic.

Tallowmere is a 2D indie action roguelike procedural death labyrinth platformer for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux, featuring randomly-generated levels, enemies, weapons, and gore.

It’s been a relatively quiet week. Snapshot support in virt-manager, automatic latest-code repos with dgroc, Fedora Plasma KDE-based product proposal, and Fedora Atomic Initiative. Fedora is big project, and it’s […]

A user who was dual-booting Xubuntu and Windows 8 has reported that one of the latest updates for Windows 8 has actually deleted the GRUB and switched UEFI to secure boot.

To tackle systems with UI and realtime determinisitc requirements Toradex and Antmicro have put together a solution based on a Colibri Vybrid VFxx Computer-on-Module (CoM) using Linux and eCos on a multicore ARM processor.

Star Conflict is a beautiful looking space-based free 2 play MMO that has finally be confirmed for Linux. We have known it was going to happen after the previous hints, but it is good to get solid confirmation.

In today's open source roundup: The Samsung Galaxy Note Pro is a whopping 12-inch tablet! Plus: A review of Linux Mint Debian Edition 201403, and CoderDojo teaches young people technology skills.

"Say 'goodbye' to Disqusting third-party comments with HashOver, a free and open source PHP comment system under the GNU Affero General Public License. HashOver adds a "comment section" to any website, by placing a few simple lines of JavaScript or PHP to the source code of any webpage. HashOver is a self-hosted system and allows completely anonymous comments to be posted, the only required information is the comment itself."

For many years, we've written about the Business Software Alliance's (BSA) ridiculous snitch program. This is where the organization (which represents a bunch of software companies, but more or less takes its orders from Microsoft, Adobe, Apple and Autodesk) promises to give people large cash rewards for snitching on friends and colleagues who happen to be using unlicensed software. The BSA insists that this is one of their best tools -- which they then use to raid small companies for questionable "audits" that often completely destroy those businesses.

The best way to explain 3D printing to someone is to show them. But since Jeff Moe can’t carry around one of his Lulzbot 3D printers, he has taken to packing 3D-printed parts in his pocket so that he can show them off when he runs into people who aren't familiar with the concept."A lot of time when you're explaining it, people are thinking of a 3D movie or something like that," said Moe, CEO of Aleph Objects, the largest manufacturer of open source 3D printers. "I literally carry around parts with me and show people the different things that 3D printers can do because that explains it a lot better," Moe said.

LaciOS Beta 0.1 has been released. The LaciOS project is a GNU/Linux distribution based on Debian's Testing repositories. The distribution strives to be an easy to use desktop operating system.

Belief in a more collaborative process. Perseverence to make things better. Shared knowledge and access for all. These are the things that come to mind when I think about the work the e-NABLE community is doing. Though they're on a trajectory without a clear future, their vision is crystal. To share what they've created with the world and allow the natural course of innovation and invention to change lives—without the obstacles of patents and the barriers of cost.

Avnet announced a COM based on Xilinx Zynq-7000 ARM/FPGA SoCs, and supported by an optional baseboard, power module, FPGA mezzanine card, and Linux BSP. Avnet Electronic Martketing’s “Xilinx Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoC Mini-Module Plus” incorporates the Xilinx Zynq-7000 system-on-chip, which integrates and links dual 1GHz Cortex-A9 cores and FPGA circuitry via an AXI interconnect. The […]

As far as network management is concerned, Nagios is one of the most powerful tools. Nagios can monitor the reachability of remote hosts, as well as the state of services running on them. However, what if we want to monitor something other than network services for a remote host? For example, we may want to […]Continue reading... The post How to set up Nagios Remote Plugin Executor (NRPE) in Linux appeared first on Xmodulo. Related FAQs: How to monitor common services with Nagios How to monitor BGP sessions with Nagios How to install and configure Nagios on Linux How to configure Nagios for audio alerts and mobile notifications How to edit a remote file over ssh