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Spanish phone maker BQ launches its 2nd Ubuntu Phone this month; the Aquaris E5 Ubuntu Edition.

Microsoft announced they will contribute to the OpenSSH project, so the connectivity between Linux and Windows gets a boost.  

According to a tweet from the Linux Foundation, it appears that the next Long Term Support version of the Linux kernel will be 4.1.

“John the Ripper is an open source password cracker that is used by security researchers to help audit, crack and test password security. The core project is sponsored by security vendor Openwall led by developers Alexander Peslyak and Roman Rusakov. Thanks to funding from security vendor Rapid7, leaders of the open source Metasploit project, Peslyak … Leggi tutto

Credit card credentials are easy to obtain and difficult to secure. An unhackable credit card could be on the horizon, thanks to technology based on quantum computing.

A recent security breach at phpbb.com resulted in an intruder obtaining and publishing thousands of member names and passwords. A design flaw, a.k.a. bug, in a mailing list application was responsible. An analysis of the passwords revealed some interesting facts about the types of passwords people use when creating accounts at web sites. The most … Leggi tutto

Organizations want to build more secure Web applications, but they are having trouble identifying development best practices that really make a difference.

A seven character password with special characters can be hacked in less than three minutes.

A consideration of how differently the consumer PC software market may have turned out if GNU and the Free Software Foundation had built free/”open source” software to replace MS-DOS and Windows, rather than Unix.

It’s been a fairly normal week, although I can’t say that the rc’s have  exactly started shrinking yet. No, the rc’s haven’t been all that big to begin with this release cycle, and things have been fairly calm, but I’d be happier if we didn’t have noise in raid5 and device-mapper at this stage. That … Leggi tutto

A hackable “Zymbit Orange” IoT box offers internal RPi SBC, Arduino shield, Atmel Wingboard, wireless, and touch display options, plus cloud-based access.  

It’s free It’s easy to use It’s stable and secure It runs free and open source software (FOSS) It’s versatile

The “Internet of Things,” or IoT, has the potential to change the way we interact with the devices and objects in our homes and lives. A simple, customizable open source operating system designed for these types of embedded systems would make it easier for a lot of manufacturers to bring viable products to the market. … Leggi tutto

Mandriva is being liquidated, according to a notice posted by the company. Read more: http://uk.businessinsider.com/mandriva-goes-out-of-business-2015-5?r=US#ixzz3bb0n6u5i

The first point release for “jessie” (8.1) is scheduled for Saturday, June 6th.

Le casse acustiche  sono fondamentali per ascoltar musica.  Sono il punto cruciale della filiera, fanno la differenza. Contano più dell’adozione di  flac invece di ogg vorbis, di un raffinato preamplificatore al posto del computer, di un amplificatore  mosfet pura classe  A  o valvole invede di un D . Il recupero delle vecchie Canton GLE 70, … Leggi tutto

This year, I attended my first PyCon, which was held in Montréal from April 8-16. PyCon changes location every two years and this year was the second one held at the Palais des Congrès in Montréal, Canada.

This tutorial shows how to install a Debian 8 (Jessie) minimal server. The purpose of this guide is to provide a minimal Debian setup that can be used as basis for our other Debian 8 tutorials and the perfect server guides here at howtoforge.com.

According to the official release notes of the Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet) operating system released by Canonical on April 23, 2015, this is the first ever version of Ubuntu to ship with the controversial systemd init system by default.

The new Arch Linux 2015.05.01 image includes all the updates that have been released during the month of April 2015, and it is the first ISO based on the recently released Linux 4.0 kernel (Linux kernel 4.0.1 is the actual version that will be installed).

The controversial “systemd” comes to an OS known for stability.

L’ultima versione disponibile è supportata per nove mesi e garantisce tutte le novità più recenti.

Don’t look now but Ubuntu has become the Linux for clouds. On the AmazonElastic Compute Cloud (EC2), for example, Ubuntu is the most popular operating system by an almost two to one margin. 64 percent of production OpenStack users have also chosen Ubuntu to stay on top. Canonical, Ubuntu’s parent company, is adding even more … Leggi tutto

Cloud infrastructure wouldn’t be possible without open source. You can’t work in IT without at least some knowledge of Linux. It is a foundational knowledge that is just expected of new hires. Development, operations, networking, or storage—doesn’t matter—Linux and the open source ecosystem are central to any infrastructure today. But it isn’t just Linux. The … Leggi tutto

The GCC development team, through Jakub Jelinek, announced the immediate availability for download of the final release of GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) 5.1.0, a major version that includes numerous attractive features and dozens of improvements in various areas.

In September 2014, rumors were flying that Apache OpenOffice was floundering and might soon merge with LibreOffice.

“I’ve always been fascinated by the early days of the computer revolution. Today we take tremendously powerful machines for granted but it was not always that way. As a personal project I decided to implement an early eighties era microcomputer on the Arduino Uno to demonstrate just how powerful even the most basic of our … Leggi tutto

The stable edition of Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet) is just around the corner, so this is a good time to take a look at the features that are going to be implemented in the new release and see what important packages have been updated. Changes galore, but most of them under the hood Systemd replaces … Leggi tutto

Date Sun, 12 Apr 2015 15:41:30 -0700 Subject Linux 4.0 released From Ima Sheep <> Linux 4.0 released So I decided to release 4.0 as per the normal schedule, because there really weren’t any known issues, and while I’ll be traveling during the end of the upcoming week due to a college visit, I’m hoping … Leggi tutto

Available unlocked on the BQ Aquaris E4.5 The world’s first Ubuntu phone is now available for sale all over Europe, direct from the manufacturer, BQ. The Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition includes an 8 megapixel camera, dual SIM and best of all, no network lock.   € 169.90 General Colour: Black Screen Screen size: 4,5″ Screen Technology: … Leggi tutto

The Blender Institute’s sixth film project, codenamed Gooseberry, is in deep into the most open production from the Blender Institute yet. If you’ve been following the project so far, then you already have a sense of what Blender means by an “open production”—lots of sharing.

The Linux Shell supports a variety of web application of various kind be it torrent downloader, dedicated downloader or Internet Surfing.

The latest version of vnStat 1.13 has been released on January 18th, 2015 and includes several following features and fixes. Features Statistics remain available even after system reboots Monitor multiple network interfaces at the same time Multiple output options Sort the data by hour, day, month, week or get the top 10 days Generate png … Leggi tutto

Wine is an Open Source, command line and most popular software that allows users to install and run Microsoft Windows applications and games on Linux. Wine Team recently released Wine 1.7.40 development version with many bug fixes and improvements. Let’s see what’s new in this release. How To Install/Update Wine 1.7.40 Wine 1.7.40 on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid … Leggi tutto

While there’s no download link or an official announcement, the release notes of the upcoming Mono 4.0.0 framework have been published recently on the project’s website, and we have to admit that the changes are quite impressive, despite the fact that Mono is no longer a popular project on the open-source community.

I tempi cambiano ed oggi più rapidamente che mai. Le aziende hanno sempre di più necessità di accedere dall’esterno alle risorse I.T. interne. Oggi la via maestra è attivare una connettività in fibra almeno 50/50. Le nuovissime VDSL fibra, seppur di rilevanti banda nei due versi,  sono oggette ad un’eccessivo intevento da parte dei fornitori … Leggi tutto

Vevo (stylized vevo) is a video hosting service owned and operated by a joint venture of Universal Music Group (UMG), Google, Sony Music Entertainment (SME) and Abu Dhabi Media.[3] It launched on December 8, 2009.[4] The videos on Vevo are syndicated across the web,[5] with Google and Vevo sharing the advertising revenue.[6] Vevo offers music … Leggi tutto

The Asus Zenbook UX305 is a thin and light laptop that offers a pretty great value. For $699 you get a 2.6 pounds notebook with 8GB of RAM, 256GB of solid state storage, a 13.3 inch full HD matte display, and an Intel Core M Broadwell processor.

Linus Torvalds had the pleasure of announcing the fourth Release Candidate (RC) version of the upcoming and highly anticipated Linux 4.0 kernel. According to Linus, Linux kernel 4.0 RC4 is a small release that includes many driver updates and ARM changes.

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced today, March 26, the immediate availability for download of the third maintenance releases for Linux 3.19 kernel, along with Linux kernels 3.14.37 LTS and 3.10.37 LTS. Additionally, Linux kernel 3.18.10 LTS was also unveiled a couple days ago.  

The operator of an underground marketplace hosted within the Tor network has reported a flaw in Tor that he claims is being used for an ongoing denial of service attack on the site.  

There are so many different codecs out in the world — some are extremely popular, and others are barely used. While you’re using Linux, you may come across all sorts of codecs, and you might want to use some codecs rather than others.

Berlin, April 2, 2015 – The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 4.4.2, the second minor release of the LibreOffice 4.4 “fresh” family, with over 50 fixes over LibreOffice 4.4.0 and 4.4.1.  

What does the home of the future look like?

Typically when a network is under my control, I like my servers to have static IPs. Whether the IPs are truly static (hard-coded into network configuration files on the host) or whether I configure a DHCP server to make static assignments, it’s far more convenient when you know a server always will have the same … Leggi tutto

Diamo alcune indicazioni ovvero una semplici linee guida per coloro che intendano allestire un network residenziale. La prima scelta riguarda se utilizzare esclusivamente connessioni WiFi. Le tecnologie moderne sono tali da permettere l’utilizzo esclusivo di connessioni WiFi, ma si può preferire di realizzare delle tratte con cavo, soprattutto tra piani diversi, zone di utilizzo intenso … Leggi tutto

Torvalds spoke to what he thought was a larger concept of “diversity” than what has been mentioned a lot in recent stories on the topic, including economic disparity, language, and culture (even between neighboring European countries). “There’s a lot of talk about gender and sexual preferences and race, but we’re different in so many other ways, too,” … Leggi tutto

The latest version of the stable Linux kernel, 3.12.36, has been announced by Jiri Slaby and it has arrived with a fair number of changes and improvements.

CompuLab’s tiny “Fitlet” mini-PC runs Linux or Windows on a dual- or quad-core 64-bit AMD x86 SoC, and offers generous I/O, plus modular expansion options.