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The NSA has huge capabilities – and if it wants in to your computer, it's in. With that in mind, here are five ways to stay safe.

While Ubuntu developers no longer release development milestones, many of the Ubuntu derivatives continue using the traditional development model, with regular alpha and beta releases. Yesterday was the beta 1 release day for many of them, including Lubuntu.

The new Snowden revelations are explosive. Basically, the NSA is able to decrypt most of the Internet. They're doing it primarily by cheating, not by mathematics.

Secure Shell is an xterm-compatible terminal emulator and stand-alone ssh client for Chrome. It uses Native-Client to connect directly to ssh servers without the need for external proxies.

If the NSA has a backdoor, some other organization -- whether organized crime, a well-funded rival, or another country looking for an edge for its industry -- might have the ability as well. The flaw in building a way around any security protocol is that no matter how altruistic those reasons may be, once there is a flaw, anyone can exploit it.

Kubuntu 13.10 Beta 1 is now available for testing. It contains a bunch of new and updated features: KDE Plasma and Applications 4.11, Muon Discover, User Manager, Wireless Setup in Installer, KDE Telepathy with Better Text Editing and Improved Notifications, New Network Manager applet, and more.

Orbiting inside Shuttleworth's latest break with convention Review Looks can be deceiving, as proved by the first beta of the latest Ubuntu – version 13.10, or Saucy Salamander – which is available today.…

A little over a month ago I ran a small scale experiment to gauge the appetite for funding the improvement of core Linux technologies via crowd funding.

This week, we look at smartwatches in the enterprise, protecting your network from NSA spying, and balancing software security resources versus risk.

Community is vital to an open source project. An active and supportive community is the heart of the project. However, having an open source licence is not enough to bring users and developers to your project and build a community. This document looks at what makes a successful open source community.

VirtualBox comes with a suite of command line utilities, and you can use the VirtualBox command line interfaces (CLIs) to manage VMs on a headless remote server. This tutorial describes how to create and start a VM without VirtualBox GUI.

The National Security Agency is winning its long-running secret war on encryption, using supercomputers, technical trickery, court orders and behind-the-scenes persuasion to undermine the major tools protecting the privacy of everyday communications in the Internet age, according to newly disclosed documents.

"the agency used its influence as the world’s most experienced code maker to covertly introduce weaknesses into the encryption standards followed by hardware and software developers around the world."

An interview with members of the Manjaro team about Manjaro Linux, Arch Linux, and the challenges and advantages of a rolling release distribution. The team also discusses the future of Manjaro.

The basis of this review is to determine whether Korora meets it's objectives which are to provide a complete, easy to use computing system that “just works” out of the box.

La Vida is a life simulation game that being developed for Linux and has just launched on Kickstarter!

Businesses really, really want trained Linux professionals, and the Linux Professional Institute wants to help by providing a new training program for middle-school students on up.

Congatec announced two Linux-ready Type 6 COM Express computer-on-modules based on Intel’s 4th Generation Core (“Haswell”) processors. The more compact Conga-TC87 supports Intel’s higher-integration, lower-power embedded processors, while the larger Conga-TS87 offers more PCI Express lanes and USB 3.0 ports, and higher performance graphics including PEG compatibility. Congatec unveiled the larger “Basic” sized (3.75 x […]

The Xubuntu team is happy to announce the release of Xubuntu 13.10 'Saucy Salamander' beta 1 today. With this beta, we hope to have all of the most important features ready. We now seek people to actively test and identify bugs so we can squash them before our final release. Some of the highlights of the release include: new version of Xfce Settings with a new dialog to set up your monitors; improved themes with GTK+ 3.8 support and bug fixes; a new tool to change your theme colors; updated version of Gnumeric.

DataStax, a key NoSQL database provider, is preparing to hire a channel partner program leader. Backed by $45 million in recent venture capital funding, DataStax plans to focus its Big Data solutions on six types of partners while also driving international growth, according to Executive VP John Schweitzer Here's the update.

Well folks a lot of you saw this one coming, GOG.com have officially responded to us to state that Linux support just isn't happening anytime soon. Quite sad news really, was hopefull on this one since they are such a big name and a pretty decent store too.