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The Mageia 3 release is on 3rd May, and in the run up to this, the release candidate has been made available for a final round of testing.

ROSA is pleased to announce the second update pack for ROSA Marathon 2012 operating system with an extended (5 years) period of technical support. The pack includes the up-to-date (as of April 2013) versions of applications as well as critical security fixes and updated kernel with extended hardware support. Also, we have re-branded this update pack, which is now called ROSA Enterprise Desktop X1. 'Marathon' is kept as a short code name synonym for the enterprise desktop product line. Marathon RP 2 contains most important backports from ROSA Desktop Fresh development branch that proved to be reliable and stable.

A brute force attack is based on the premise that a computer, or a botnet (which is a group of hijacked computers acting as one), can continue to attempt to guess at usernames and passwords in rapid succession, using such speed that eventually they’ll get in. This is especially true if the password is merely a word from the dictionary, no matter how obscure the word is. Security experts have demonstrated over and over again how quickly such a password can be cracked by using a brute force attack, which is why a “gibberish” password utilizing upper and lower case letters, numbers and symbols is recommended. Not so long ago, a password of eight characters was deemed sufficient length. Nowadays it’s recommended that your password be ten or more characters long.

While many of you, GNOME fans, are still enjoying the newly released GNOME 3.8 desktop environment, the GNOME developers are working hard on the next major version, GNOME 3.10, due for release this Autumn.

ITTIA DB SQL offers big data capabilities for smart embedded systems with limited local resources, enabling a large data set to be distributed across a wide array of devices.

A question that every Linux user should be asking: Where will your Linux Distro be in 5 years? Dietrich Schmitz sets forth his reasons for why Fedora 18 is the best choice.

A Spanish Linux software group has filed a complaint against Microsoft to the European Commission over its controversial implementation of UEFI Secure Boot for Windows 8 hardware.

When I tell people about OpenGamma, reactions are often incredulous. We’ve built a full market risk analytics platform for capital markets—with all the bells and whistles you’d expect, such as a declarative calculation engine, a flashy HTML5 GUI, and a comprehensive analytics library—and we’ve released it under the Apache 2.0 License. And, our key customers and users at the moment are some of the world’s most secretive technologists: hedge fund managers. To an outsider, this may look like a curious combination.

I run KDE Plasma Workspaces on all my devices - Plasma Desktop on my PCs, Plasma Netbook on my, as obvious, netbooks and laptops and Plasma Active on my Nexus 7. The reason I chose Plasma over others is the features and functionality it offers which are missing from every other desktop environments.

However, I do come across users who don't want all these features and functionality and instead need a very limited set of applications and features. They find GNOME or Xfce to be the best solution for their needs. Xfce can be increasingly appealing for older and slower hardware (though I am running Plasma on an Atom powered Dell Mini, which is an extremely slow machine, but I see no issues in terms of performance on this device).

There is now no question that genomics, the study of the genomes of organisms and a field that includes intensive efforts to determine the entire DNA sequence of organisms, has joined the big data club. The development of prolific new DNA sequencing technologies is forcing biologists to embrace the dizzying terms of terabytes, petabytes and, looming on the horizon, exabytes.

We’re not ready to tell you we think it’s safe to reactivate your Java browser plugin–in fact, just the opposite–but we will say that Oracle is at least giving the appearance they’re now serious about addressing browser-side Java’s safety. Early last week they issued a security patch that fixed either 41 or 42 Java security issues, depending on what website you’re reading.

Katherine is involved in a lot of great Linux initiatives. I strongly recommend her Twitter feed, which usually has a few interesting links per day. Katherine is also another subject who says her setup is close to ideal, which is always nice, and impressive, to hear. Also, despite the fact that I might seem obsessed with Fuduntu, it’s just a coincidence that Katherine uses it.

uniCenta oPOS is a proven, reliable Touchscreen Point Of Sale application that meets the needs of a wide-range of businesses. This guide is intended as a relatively easy step by step guide to: Install uniCenta oPOS on Ubuntu.

The largest pure cloud play service of all is based on Netflix's open-source stack running on Amazon Web Services.

GlusterFS is used in environments where high performance, redundancy and reliability are of a premium. The best part is that it’s exceedingly easy to use

The software featured in this article includes high quality standalone tools which help users to recover data in a range of circumstances. There are dedicated Linux distributions which provide lots of useful system administration software including data recovery tools.

My Game Company has just released its 6th Linux game, Word Play Deluxe! This game may look elementary, but don't be fooled - you'll have to think quickly and play skillfully to master it! If you enjoy word searches, you'll love this game!

It is easy to setup ad-hoc wifi router in Linux. The problem is, many devices e.g Android (currently) can not connect to it. Network Manager 0.9.8 brings AP-mode Hotspot. However, since it is not integrated into nm-applet or other easy tools, we will still have to wait some time for a seemless experience. Until then, we will have to rely on hostapd software.

Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail will be released Soon, If you have ubuntu 12,10, 12.04 Precise Pangolin or older version of ubuntu installed on your system, and you want to upgrade to this new release, you can do it by following these instructions.

With the release of the Linux 3.9 kernel being imminent, here's a recap of the most interesting features coming to this next Linux release.