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Paradigm is a tentative attempt to create four different desktop paradigms for users to choose from once they start up their aging computers when using LXLE. Just because a computer may be aging shouldn't hinder your work flow. LXLE default programs are easy to understand once you understand the philosophy. 'If your going to save system resources with a light system, then you should spend those resources on more capable programs.'

Another little detail to keep in mind: Just because a service is located in Europe, Australia, Canada or New Zealand does not mean that your government (you know which one I’m referring to, right?) cannot get access to the data. Companies in those countries will happily make a clone of their servers hard disk drives and ship it over here.

Feng Office's tag line is: Unleash your team's potential. It's an open source collaboration platform for teams and businesses that began as an academic project at UdelaR University. Interested students worked on the initial research and development, and today it remains an open source project.

Probably you’ve heard about the NSA surveillance program PRISM, XKeyscore and the GCHQ’s Tempora. If you did not, you should start looking up for information, because we have bad news, you are being tracked down.

MathJax is a cross-browser JavaScript library that displays mathematical equations in web browsers, using MathML, LaTeX and ASCIIMathML markup. MathJax is released as open-source software under the Apache license. This article contains MathJax basic tutorial and quick reference.

Fresh out of five days at OSCON and all the fun events around Portland that week, a group of devoted hackers came to our Tizen Devlab and Hack to check out Tizen‘s open source, HTML5-based mobile OS, which is being brought to the world by the Linux Foundation with support from Samsung and Intel.

Sam Lantinga has announced the release of Simple DirectMedia Layer 2.0. SDL 2.0 is a new major version after being in development for more than 7 years.

Download the free Chromecast app to manage your Chromecast settings. The Chromecast app lets you set up your Chromecast to work with your wi-fi network. You can also manage the settings for your Chromecast such as your device name and wi-fi password.

The development team behind the famous and popular Evolution email client used in many Linux operating systems, reached unstable 3.10 Beta 1 version earlier today, August 18, 2013.

After the release of GLib 2.36.4, the development team behind the GLib libray software for the GNOME desktop environment, announced the availability for testing of the development version 2.37.5.

Brian Manderville, the developer of the Descent|OS Linux operating system announced recently on his blog that the upcoming release of his distribution will no longer be based on Debian or anything else.

The Cheapskate's Corner is back, just in time to introduce some amazing deals to you before they expire.

Unigine Engine developers have talked about their latest round of improvements to their cross-platform visual masterpiece.

Now that Mir is living in the Ubuntu 13.10 archive, new Phoronix benchmarks have been conducted to look at the current performance impact of routing the graphics through XMir rather than running an X.Org Server directly on Ubuntu Linux. For this latest XMir testing, the System76 Gazelle Professional laptop with an Intel Core i7 "Haswell" CPU sporting Intel HD Graphics was benchmarked for 2D and 3D environments.

The GNOME developers behind the GNOME Settings Daemon application, a daemon run by all GNOME sessions to provide live access to configuration settings and the changes done to them, announced the development version 3.9.5.

StarMade is a Minecraft inspired 3D sandbox space shooter. You can visit many worlds, build your own ship and a lot more.

The GNOME Project announced the availability for download and testing of the fifth development release towards the GNOME Chess 3.10 application for the upcoming GNOME 3.10 desktop environment.

Linux is largely written today by programmers working for large companies, but, keeping in touch with its roots, the Linux Foundation is offering travel expenses to the next Linux Kernel Summit for Linux kernel hobbyist programmers.

The most common question on Reddit is "Which distro should I use?". This article looks at one request for a distribution that would be more of a challenge and more customisable than Ubuntu.

Our goal is to provide a ready to use and easy to install desktop and laptop optimized operating system based on Debian's testing branch and the latest stable release of GNOME desktop environment. We have our own software repositories and build servers to build and provide all the necessary updates and missing features in Debian testing branch. Parsix GNU/Linux 5.0 (code name Lombardo) brings lots of updated packages, improved installer system, systemd init system and other quality new features. This version has been synchronized with Debian Wheezy repositories as of August 7, 2013. Parsix Lombardo ships with GNOME 3.8 and LibreOffice productivity suit by default.