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This article explains one user's perspective on Ubuntu and why he had to stop using it in favour of Scientific Linux.

The gameplay in Toki Tori is a blend of two genres. While it looks like a platform game, it's a puzzle game at heart. Looks very colourful too!

Datamation has great list of free, fun open source apps and games. If you're looking for some software, check out this list.

The Chaos Engine is a top down shooter that was originally on Amiga, it is being revamped to work on modern computers but it is basically a full recreation.

In this article, apart from basic usage, learn how to display Julian Calendar, date of Easter, week number, months in a range etc.

With Apple's OS X 10.9 "Mavericks" having better OpenGL performance and in compliance with OpenGL 4.1 rather than being GL3-limited as with existing OS X releases, new benchmarks were carried out at Phoronix to see how well Apple's OpenGL driver stack on the current OS X 10.9 developer preview compared to Ubuntu Linux when testing the Intel graphics driver.

In the fall of 2010, I asked the biology class I teach at Western Carolina University for volunteers to help map the campus. Three years later, dozens of students have participated in learning how to use aerial photography and cartography techniques created by Public Lab.

Mozilla is joining with over 60 leading technology companies, startups, investors, technology trade groups and civil society groups today to call on the US government to allow the release of information pertaining to national security requests for user data. Mozilla … Continue reading

Linux users may get bored of the system sounds and wish that they could change them. Thankfully, users can customize the sounds and download more. There are numerous Linux system sounds on the Internet that are free and legal to download.

GitHub, the popular open-source development community site, is finally getting its licensing act together. It's high time since Black Duck has found that 77-percent of GitHub projects have no declared open-source license.

Last month, Massimo Banzi, co-founder of the Arduino project, held a workshop at the Foundation Achille Castiglioni in Milan called: Arduino and the light. Participants created an interactive lamp digitally manufactured and designed by Habits Studio. After an introduction about the potentiality of Arduino and to the fundamentals of interactivity, Massimo Banzi led participants through exercises to discover the basis of Arduino and some sensors. Then, over the weekend, everyone built their own lamp, making it interactive by using the components of TinkerKit!—a collection of different sensors and actuators to make prototyping much easier as you can directly hook them up to the Arduino.

Fans of the Enlightenment desktop / window manager may finally see the lightweight solution packaged for Fedora 20...

KDE developer Sergio Martens went on an emergency bug fixing marathon recently, discovering and fixing several bugs related excess memory usage across many core KDE applications and KDE PIM. These improvements are expected to land in KDE 4.11.

Salix Xfce 14.0.1 is ready. There have been a lot of updates in the 14.0 branch, including several security updates that prompted this new release. Salix Xfce 14.0.1 is based on Xfce 4.10 and it comes with an updated 3.2.45 kernel that fixes several security issues, LibreOffice updated to version 4.x, Java security updates, an update to Midori, our main browser, to version 0.5.2 along with an updated Webkit engine that includes a lot of stability fixes, plus a lot more security updates to several packages like Flash plugin, Pidgin, Perl, X.Org etc. A couple of minor bugs that were also present after the original 14.0 release are fixed now.

Top 10 PHP Tips & Tricks for Developers. 1) Go OOP 2) Stay Away from Anything Ending With _once() 3) Develop With Error Reporting On 4) Use A Framework If You Need One and more...

What exactly don’t these guys know about you? Or what can’t they know about you? For most people, the shocking answer, is not much. You see, privacy died about 10 years ago.

Unison is a free, cross platform file synchronization tool that enables us to keep two set of file replicas (instances) on two different systems or on different disks of the same system. Unlike simple mirroring or backup utilities, it updates both replicas of a distributed directory structure. It detects and displays the conflicting updates. Unlike a distributed filesystem, Unison is a user-level program; there is no need to modify the kernel or to have root user privileges on either host

Helal Linux 4 is available. Helal Linux is an Ubuntu-based distribution with a goal of providing a modern a stable operating system with pre-configured system settings, supporting both Arabic-speaking and Muslim users.

So this post just gives the IDEs that I’ve come to consider the best, from the perspective of a rookie coder, for Octave, Python, and R. All three IDEs are available in the repository of your favorite Linux distribution.

Sometimes our internet speed will become painfully slow. We will curiously sit to get things done faster, but our internet speed will irritate us. Today we will see how to choose a fastest DNS servers that accelerates our internet speed a little more than the normal usage.