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The following tutorial will teach Ubuntu 12.10 and Ubuntu 13.04 users how to install the recently released LibreOffice 4.1 open source office suite on their operating system(s), replacing the old 4.0.x version.

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This article describes how you can upgrade your Fedora 18 system to Fedora 19 with the help of the Fedora Updater (FedUp). The upgrade procedure works for both desktop and server installations.

Open TTD is a wonderful new revamp open source expansion of the classic Transport Tycoon Deluxe and with a price tag of free, it’s a great, inexpensive, and fun way to waste your time. This free price tag was brought about by the gaming community’s development of replacement software. Up until 2009 you had to have the Transport Tycoon Deluxe software which was no longer being supported by developers. But now, thanks to fan devotion, this is a completely free classic transport simulation tycoon-style game that all players can love, so let’s see what the fuss is all about.

Next week, security professionals and hackers will descend on Las Vegas for the Black Hat security conference and Def Con 21. Security vendors and news organizations often talk about precautions and offer security advice this time of year, but Chris Hadnagy, from Social-Engineer Inc., has some additional thoughts, which focus on the human side of security.

While AMD has their open-source Linux driver stack, their GPU's BIOS hasn't been open-source though in years prior there was talk of reverse-engineering the ATI BIOS. That project didn't pan out but now there's a new developer claiming to have an open-source video BIOS for Radeon hardware.

The following tutorial will teach Arch Linux users who use the GNOME desktop environment how to enable thumbnails for video files.

With no practical alternative, a small tech group has launched a campaign to rally consumers against the use of passwords for logging into websites and services. The Petition Against Passwords, launched on Wednesday, is the brainchild of think-tank TechFreedom and rivals Clef and LaunchKey, which sell password-less technology. As of Thursday, the group had several hundred signees.

One common and stupidly simple way hosts are compromissed is weak SSH passwords. You would think people have learned by now, but evidently there are still enough systems with root passwords like 12345 around to make scanning for them a worthwhile exercise. As a result, one of my favorite honeypot tools is kippo, and we have talked about the tool before.

Dconf, a low-level configuration system who's main purpose is to provide a backend to GSettings on platforms that do not already have configuration storage systems, reached stable version 0.16.1 and development version 0.17.0.

The fruits of our labor has culminated in 213 software group tests covering the whole spectrum of open source software. There is also a dedicated section helping newcomers to Linux migrate away from Windows. We have also researched the finest free Linux books and free programming books, the latter covers all popular programming languages.

Multiple vulnerabilities has been discovered and corrected in ruby: The safe-level feature in Ruby 1.8.7 allows context-dependent attackers to modify strings via the NameError#to_s method when operating on Ruby objects. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix

Paragon Evolved is a science fiction first-person shooter developed by two people using the Unity game engine. It has a very early demo available to try and it's looking good!

To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have highlighted our favourite Python IDEs. Hopefully, there will be something of interest here for anyone who wants to quicken their pace of Python development.

Intel developer Sarah Sharp's challenge to Linux creator Linus Torvalds on the kernel mailing list, asking him to stop abusing and cursing at developers, appears to have been carefully planned.

If you are not much experienced with using workspaces then here are a few tips that might help you in working with them.

Google’s Android 4.3-powered, second-generation Nexus 7 tablet went on sale today at the Google Play Store and also showed up at Best Buy several days ahead of schedule. Meanwhile, new features of Android 4.3 have emerged, including 4K resolution support and a hidden, user-controllable permission manager.

The Free Software Foundation's latest open-source project it's trying to push along is Replicant, a fully-free Android Linux distribution for select mobile devices.

Remember Bespin, the city in the clouds in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back? Bespin was the place Han Solo, Luke Skywalker, and Princess Leia flew to in hopes of temporarily escaping the wrath of the Empire. Unfortunately, it didn't work out very well for them since Darth Vader nabbed all of them. But there's also a Linux distro that also lives in the clouds and it's called Peppermint Four. No need to worry though, the Empire doesn't know about Peppermint Four so you should be safe.

Most VirtualBox users may think that VirtualBox is only intended for use in a desktop environment. However, VirtualBox can in fact run on a headless server, and VirtualBox VMs launched in headless mode can be managed remotely from an external VirtualBox client. This tutorial describes how to set this up.