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In this article, we will discuss how wild-cards can be used to make life easy for a command line user through some practical examples.

Today in Open Source: Is Linux boring? Plus: How to Find Android tablet apps, and Crunchbang Linux is a minimalist's dream distro!

An article about looking for a new distro and deciding to return to Xubuntu 12.04, which looks great and is stable. Xfce remains a desktop environment worth considering.

The new SolydXK ISO images include the latest updates from the August update pack. Some things are changed, and some are new. Here's a short list: the default start menu has been replaced by the Whisker menu, this menu has a built-in search function, and you can easily change your favorite programs list; the wicd network manager has been replaced by NetworkManager, NetworkManager supports mobile broadband by default; KDE has been upgraded to version 4.10.5; the Zurmo CRM software has been upgraded to version 2.0.21; for those who'd like to try them all, we've released a SolydXK Multi DVD, the DVD consists of all five distributions.

Portwell unveiled four Linux-friendly embedded computers based on its WADE-8015 Mini-ITX board, which in turn incorporates Intel’s 4th Generation (Haswell) Core i7/i5/i3 processors, which potentially range up to 3GHz. The new Shoebox, Desktop, 2U rack mount, and fanless embedded computers all provide for triple displays, support legacy ISA and PCI expansion cards. The new Portwell […]

This review of Elementary OS is based on the goals of the project and asks three questions. 1. How stylish is Elementary OS 2. How lightweight is Elementary OS. 3. How usable is Elementary OS?

Did Bill Gates finally get fed up with Steve Ballmer's dismal performance and crazy antics?

Next time you walk by a parked Tesla and its sunroof is opening and closing with nobody sitting inside or around it, you could be witnessing a hacker moment. For all of its strengths as a car, the Model S reportedly has a weak spot: the security of its API (application programming interface) authentication, according to an article in the O'Reilly Community by George Reese, executive director of cloud management at Dell. Tesla develops and uses its own API authentication protocols, which have made access to certain Model S functions too easy for hackers, Reese says - himself a Model S owner.

A member of Google's program to expose its always-on Glass devices to the real world, the sophomore at the University of Tampa in Florida regularly wears the devices to class and out around the city. People are not worried about being around an always-on device, while the convenience and connectedness of the device is just cool, Pettenon says.

While working on linux boxes system admin usually get this error “No Space left on device” While df commands shows lot free space on the same partition or device.

Oh, those terrible people at Google. In the latest "Scroogled" ad, Redmond says Google is peddling vitamin supplements to kids. And that's not all.

Canonical has announced that the next Ubuntu Developer Summit will take place from Tuesday 27 August to Thursday 29 August 2013, from 2 PM UTC to 8 PM UTC, via the usual Google+ Hangouts.

Viber Media has released a native Linux client of their popular software for making free calls, texts, and picture sharing. The free Viber service is now officially supported on Fedora and Ubuntu, among other Linux distributions...

Password-based authentication is so prevalent online that you probably won’t be able to count how many passwords you are using. In fact, according to NorSIS Password Survey 2012, the average minimum number of private passwords per person is 17. Another research has found that 82% of people have forgotten their password at lease once. This tutorial describes how to manage multiple passwords on Linux with KeePassX.

Clinovo is a Clinical Research Organization (CRO) that partners with life science companies to streamline their clinical trials. Their CTO Marc Desgrousilliers is managing the development of ClinCapture, their open source Electronic Data Capture (EDC) system. In this interview, he tells us more about why healthcare needs open source and why it is the future of clinical trials. this interview with Marc Desgrousilliers.

Linux is blessed with a good range of open source education software. The purpose of this article is to identify top notch open source software targeted at instructors and educational institutions.

Ren'Py, created by Tom Rothamel (@renpytom on Twitter), is an a open source tool for developing visual novels. Visual novels are the computer game equivalent of a "Choose Your Own Adventure" novel. Writing a basic game script is super simple and adding in game/programming logic (using variables, if statements, jumping to a different section of the script, etc.) is not very hard.

Dr. Richard Stallman, the Free Software Foundation’s founder, explains how Free software affects matters of control and power

By making simple modifications to common Motorola phones, researchers in Berlin have shown they can block calls and text messages intended for nearby people connected to the same cellular network.

David Herrmann is on a coding spree this summer. His latest set of ten patches this week provide for device management support using systemd's logind service...