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Updated xymon package fixes security vulnerability: A security vulnerability has been found in version 4.x of the Xymon Systems & Network Monitor tool.

Wow the awesome news doesn't stop, Tropico 5 the island city builder will come to Linux as stated in their official announcement!

For speeding up the development of KDE Frameworks 5, developers at Blue Systems are near exclusively focusing upon the development of these frameworks for the next three months.

Epoptes is an open source computer lab management and monitoring tool. It allows for screen broadcasting and monitoring, remote command execution, message sending, imposing restrictions like screen locking or sound muting the clients and much more!

Hybrid graphics cards have long and painful history under Linux. Therefore, if you don’t follow the usual channel (your operating system provided) of installing it, you might run into lots of problems because of inconsistencies between Xorg/mesa, graphics vendor drivers and the kernel. In this tutorial, I will talk about different approaches I take while installing the driver.

It turns out that the NSA's domestic and world-wide surveillance apparatus is even more extensive than we thought. Bluntly: The government has commandeered the Internet.

I like some things about all Linux Desktop Environments. But my favorite is LXDE. For me, it is about customization. I want my desktop my way. And I want it running on a stable distribution. So I was pleased to come across LXLE. Now we are talking. A LXDE desktop with window preview and tiling. Yet, it is easy on resources and very functional. And no compiz! This is LXDE on steroids without any side effects.

Libimobiledevice could be made to overwrite files as the administrator, or access device keys.

Win Enterprises announced a Mini-ITX single board computer based on Intel’s 4th Generation (Haswell) Core i7, i5, and i3 processors, paired with an Intel QM87 chipset. The compact MB-73320 SBC accommodates up to 16GB of DDR3 SDRAM, offers numerous storage, networking, video, audio, USB, and multi-protocol serial interfaces, and expands with both Mini-PCIe modules and standard PCI Express cards.

Gates has been prolific in filing patent applications over the past few years, mostly through a partnership with friends at Intellectual Ventures (IV). That's one of the world's largest patent holding companies, typically described as a patent troll because of its practice of acquiring patents and using them to file lawsuits (notably against Motorola), despite not using the patents to make technology of its own.

The following tutorial will teach Ubuntu and Kubuntu users how to install the newly released KDE SC 4.11 on the Ubuntu/Kubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) and Ubuntu/Kubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail) operating systems.

While working on linux production boxes,some times system admin mistakenly delete LVM partitions. Using the command vgcfgrestore we can recover deleted LVM partitions.

This HowTo is about how to install the openQRM Datacenter Management and Cloud Computing platform version 5.1 on Debian 7 aka Wheezy. It is the starting point for a set of openQRM HowTos explaining different Use-cases with the focus on virtualization, automation and cloud computing.

A few minutes ago, August 15, Greg Kroah-Hartman announced that the seventh maintenance release for the 3.10 LTS branch of the Linux kernel is available for download. Linux kernel 3.10.7 is a pretty big release that brings PowerPC enhancements, updated drivers (including DRM ones), as well as improvements to the EXT4, CIFS, ReiserFS and Btrfs filesystems.

This May I started my internship at Red Hat with the Pulp team. Within a week I had made my first code contribution to an open source project, and before long, I had half a dozen bugs fixed and had added a small feature to the Pulp administration client.

Does no-cost software harm consumers? The FairSearch coalition thinks so, at least when it comes to Google: They say Google engages in predatory pricing when it distributes Android – a Linux-based mobile operating system – without charge.

Here's the new Humble Weekly Sale featuring 4 Linux games plus the pre-order for coming game Prison Architect!

Review of Today in Open Source: Run Windows apps with CrossOver 12.5 or Wine? Plus: System Shock 2 for Linux, and Chromium replaces Firefox in Ubuntu...but not right away

The zRAM Linux kernel module that aims to increase Linux's performance by avoiding paging to disk and optimizing to use a compressed block device in RAM, may finally leave the Linux kernel staging area and be promoted to main. This code that mostly benefits users with limited amounts of system RAM has become quite mature and is becoming widely adopted, which in part is why it's trying to be promoted out of the staging area.

OpenStack will be making many minor improvements, but adding Amazon Web Services API support won't be one of them. Businesses love OpenStack. After only three years, OpenStack corporate backers and users now include Cisco, Red Hat, Rackspace, IBM, Intel, HP, etc., etc. You get the idea. That's all very nice and well, but where does OpenStack go from here?