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With the x32 ABI for Linux finally coming together, Ubuntu developers are making plans to support this interesting ABI in the future...

Bitcoin mining is so last year. Put your expensive GPU to use cracking passwords.

When the Bitcoin mining craze hit its peak, I felt the tug to join this new community and make some easy money. I wasn't drawn only by the money; the concepts behind Bitcoin mining intrigued me, in particular the new use of graphics processors (GPUs). With a moderately expensive video card, you could bring in enough money to pay off your initial investment and your electricity bill in a relatively short time.

This infographic provides an overview of three big open source content management systems: WordPress, Drupal and Joomla!.

How a Unix killer crawled from the dot-com bust Comment Making a Linux distribution is easy, and lots of people have done it and continue to do it. All you have to do is get the source code and integrate the pieces you like and slap your logo on it.…

This article takes a detailed look at the design principles, the basis for deploying VPN, and the IPSEC protocol concept, providing a description of the general features of IPSEC and of the mechanisms required for its implementation. This article was specially selected for translation by developerWorks Russia as an example of developerWorks world-wide offerings.

Window Buttons is an extension that displays the minimize, maximize and close window buttons on the top GNOME Shell bar, like in Unity. The buttons order or theme can be customize and the extension comes with 5 built-in themes: Ambiance, Radiance, Zukitwo, Zukitwo Dark and a generic (default) theme.

Patrick Verner proudly announced last night, May 14th, that his Parted Magic 2012_05_14 Linux distribution is available for download.

Murmurs about Google's supposed plans to launch its own tablet soon are growing to a roar. Source code from Google and Samsung indicate that a Nexus tablet is in the works, Slashgear reports. "It seems logical that it will be a Google Nexus device consistent with the Nexus smartphone, but the problem is there's nothing unique about the Nexus smartphone," suggested Andrew Eisner, director of community and content at Retrevo.

Making a Linux distribution is easy, and lots of people have done it and continue to do it. All you have to do is get the source code and integrate the pieces you like and slap your logo on it. Making a commercial Linux distribution that makes enough money to cultivate innovation and stability in the kernel is not so easy, however. Very few companies have done it, but Red Hat is one of them – and its Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) marks its 10th birthday today.

ViSolve Healthcare IT offers OpenEMR consulting, customization, implementation, training and support. OpenEMR is one of the most popular open source EMR/EHR that is ONC-ATB Ambulatory EHR 2011-2012 certified. ViSolve Healthcare IT team has extensive experience with OpenEMR. As a prominent member of OpenEMR Board, ViSolve team has contributed significantly towards Meaningful Use Compliance and helped attain ONC Certification successfully.

Even Oracle might not have known what it had when it brought Google to trial, but when the trial began to turn around the idea of copyrighting APIs, it couldn't have gone better for an old-school enterprise software company with a lot to lose if the cloud and open source continue to take over IT.

The GNOME developers behind the Nautilus project, the graphical file manager for the GNOME desktop environment that makes it easy to manage your files and browse your filesystem, announced version 3.4.2.

Adobe's double fault: too snazzy and doesn't work on Apple kit Next month’s Wimbledon tennis championship in London will serve up more player data than ever before and, for the first time, deliver live video to game fans over the web.…

This tutorial shows how you can set up a Xubuntu 12.04 desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge.

When Peter Volkerding built the Slackware Linux distro back in 1993, the Linux Planet was a very different place.

A Paradigm shift: A change in the basic assumptions, or paradigms. A shift in the distinct concepts or thought patterns in epistemological context. That is to say, new premises. All my life I've been a hard working Linux user. I tried to maintain my OS, keep up with my optimizations. But recently my attitude towards computing changed greatly. It was a slow change, spread over a year; but change I did. Before starting to explain what I am talking about I should say that there is no better way of doing things, there is only doing.

Puppy Linux 5.3.1 is a big change from the earlier version of Puppy. It has even more automated tools and wizards now. At the same time, It is still lightning fast and feature rich, as it was before.

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Wine enables you to run some Windows programs on Linux. If we work on wine I think Linux the desktop will become extremely popular and successful. I'll explain why. You often here people say things similar to gaming on Linux is rubbish..

While FreeBSD 10 is preparing to fully switch to LLVM's Clang compiler and deprecate GCC, don't expect such a compiler change to happen in the Fedora camp in the foreseeable future. Fedora engineers have issued a statement reaffirming their commitment to GCC and stance on "alternative compilers" within this Red Hat distribution...

As the One Laptop Per Child initiative goes from strength to strength around the world, there are signs that Pakistan may be getting the message too, after the Punjab government began handing out 125,000 free Ubuntu-based laptops to college and university freshers. Chairman of the Punjab Information Technology Board, Umar Saif, said the project was designed to “facilitate better access to educational content and tools”, adding that it was the first project of its kind on such a scale to use open source software.