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Dimitris Tzemos proudly announced earlier today, January 13, the immediate availability for download of the stable release of the Slackel 1.0 Openbox Edition Linux operating system.

The suicide of American online activist Aaron Swartz has ignited a debate about the cost of academic journals and access to information. Swartz, 26, known for his work on RSS and co-founding social news website Reddit, took his life over the weekend. He was facing charges for allegedly downloading millions of academic journal articles from the subscription-only academic database JSTOR, using a laptop hidden in the basement of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

A protest over his prosecution was held on Sunday afternoon (local time) at MIT in Massachusetts.

This tutorial shows how to set up a standalone storage server on Ubuntu 12.10. Instead of NFS, I will use GlusterFS here. The client system will be able to access the storage as if it was a local filesystem. GlusterFS is a clustered file-system capable of scaling to several peta-bytes. It aggregates various storage bricks over Infiniband RDMA or TCP/IP interconnect into one large parallel network file system. Storage bricks can be made of any commodity hardware such as x86_64 servers with SATA-II RAID and Infiniband HBA.

With its patch update next Tuesday, Oracle plans to close a total of 86 holes in its software. 18 vulnerabilities were discovered in the free MySQL relational database alone; two of these can be exploited without authentication

For someone new to Linux, or a veteran user who hasn’t yet found their “perfect” distro, there’s a new distribution in town that can meet their needs: elementary OS.

A mix of adventure classics like Megaman and the legend of Zelda with a unique art style and story driven horror-adventure experience.

Canonical CEO, Mark Shuttleworth, discusses Ubuntu for Android and the full Ubuntu Phone OS convergence experience.

The Evince developers have announced earlier today, January 12, the immediate availability for download and testing of the fourth development release of the upcoming Evince 3.8 document reader for the GNOME 3 desktop environment.

Replay Games is happy to announce that it will be releasing two popular titles on Linux!

Replay Games has written into Phoronix to talk about two commercial game titles that they will be bringing to Linux...

The Steam beta for Linux has been running for little over two months now, and there has been a slow trickle of new titles being added to the list. Here’s a look at a few titles.

Many of the current games are ones that featured in the Humble Indie Bundle previously, so I imagine sales figures for those would not be that great, but it is nice to now be able to have these games as part of Steamplay, the buy-once-play-anywhere feature of Steam.

An internet forum application is an online discussion site where individuals hold discussions in the form of posted messages. This type of software is a very powerful tool to run online communities, to disseminate information, share experiences and ideas, receive online support, interact with others learning new intercultural skills, and much more.

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

Decided to do a short video review of Rebellin Synergy which can be downloaded at a cost. Rebellin Synergy is super fast! It’s faster than Windows and what’s more, it’s faster than several other major Linux distributions out there! Feel the nimble response of the Synergy kernel.

Well now this interesting a new Unity3D game popped up on Desura called Frozen Nightmare, I contacted the developer about possible Linux & Mac ports and I am pleased he has now confirmed them and even said thanks to me for it!

The GNOME Disk Utility developers have announced earlier today, January 12, the immediate availability for download and testing of the GNOME Disk Utility 3.7.1 storage device management tool for the GNOME 3 desktop environment.

In addition to the two peculiar games coming to Linux being done by Replay Games, another unique title coming to Linux is Euro Truck Simulator 2...

oday i return to the topic of encryption and security and in particular I’ll show how to simply encrypt a file with GnuPG, this can be really usefull to encrypt a single file where you have your passwords or some personal information that you want to keep safer.

GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG or GPG) is a GPL Licensed alternative to the PGP suite of cryptographic software. GnuPG is compliant with RFC 4880, which is the current IETF standards track specification of OpenPGP. Current versions of PGP (and Veridis’ Filecrypt) are interoperable with GnuPG and other OpenPGP-compliant systems.

This software is frequently integrated with mail client so it can sign, crypt or do both actions on the mail you send and receive, and now we’ll see how to use it on the command line to encrypt a file.

Aaron Swartz, who was arrested in 2011 and charged with stealing millions of scientific journals from a computer archive at MIT, is dead at 26.

A co-founder of Reddit and activist who fought to make online content free to the public has been found dead, authorities confirmed Saturday, prompting an outpouring of grief from prominent voices on the intersection of free speech and the Web.