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OpenTeacher is an opensource application that helps you learn a foreign language vocabulary. Just enter some answers and questions in your native and foreign language or download them from internet, and OpenTeacher tests you.

It was discovered that exactimage, a fast image processing library, does not correctly handle error conditions of the embedded copy of dcraw. This could result in a crash or other behaviour in an application using the library due to an uninitialized variable being passed to longjmp.

ImageMagick could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.

To install software on Linux systems, users will be using one of many installation-file formats. However, each Linux distribution only supports one or more types of installation files. For instance, RedHat-based systems use RPM files for installing new applications. A Debian-based system cannot read an RPM file. So, what if a RedHat user finds an application that they want to install, but the installation-file is a DEB file? Thankfully, there is a program called Alien that can convert installation-files.

The NILFS file system was created by Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) at the Research and Development department of CyberSpace Laboratories. NTT was established in 1952 as a Japanese telecommunications company owned by the government. NILFS was released under the General Public License (GPL).

There are so-called startup services in Linux which are set to launch automatically when a Linux system boots up. These startup services, including basic system configurations as well as various add-on services, are needed for a particular Linux system to operate as expected. This tutorial describes how to check what startup services are enabled on boot in Linux.

Need storage that can handle your business's leap from terabytes to petabytes? Red Hat want you to try its latest Red Hat Storage.

Audacity, everyone’s favorite open-source audio manipulator, matures into version 2.0.4. And with it come a bevy of changes that you are sure to exploit upon installation. Here is a list of the changes and improvements from the release notes.

While Oracle is readying VirtualBox 4.3, VMware has released VMware Fusion 6 and VMware Workstation 10 as their latest desktop virtualization offerings. There's a great number of new features present...

It has been confirmed that Nuclear Dawn, the RTS/FPS hybrid game from Interwave studios, is being courted for the Linux platform.

Help us out here amateur psychologists: Linus Torvalds has just unleashed his second shouty rant in as many days. Do we need to worry, or is the moon in a particular phase that makes this kind of thing more likely? Has Portland's water supply taken a turn for the worse? Or are we simply seeing a frustrated middle aged man letting his psyche hang out?

The following tutorial will teach all Ubuntu users how to install an unofficial Google Drive client, called Grive, on their healthy Ubuntu operating system(s).

Halfway is a turn-based strategy game taking place a few hundred years in the future. You take control of a small group of people who are witnesses to a violent overtake of their spaceship by an unknown species.

Most of what you need for mathematics in PHP is already part of the PHP core and no installation is required to use these features.

Intel’s answer to the Raspberry Pi is here – but at nearly six times the price, can it tempt buyers back to x86?

I'm not writing to complain about your choice of programming languages (Visual Basic? Seriously??) or about the A my daughter earned in your class. And, actually, my daughter had no specific complaints about you as a teacher. I, on the other hand, have plenty of feedback for you.

The right Linux server for your business just might be the one that offers your staff the level of support they need.

GNS3 is an open source, GUI Network Simulator. It can be used to simulate complex networks while being as close as possible from the way real networks perform, all of this without having dedicated network hardware such as routers and switches.

Every year, a select group of university students and recent graduates join Red Hat’s North American summer intern program. The application and interview process is vigorous. In 2013, we received more than 5,800 applicants and hired only 71. But for those chosen, a Red Hat summer internship offers unique opportunities to learn, grow, and network.

Continuous delivery is defined as a process in which software development teams focus on deployment and refinement over and above any imperative to work on new features. As a technical discipline this is fine in principle, especially if we know where we want to head with the project in hand.