When Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella extolled his company’s love for Linux—an open source operating system it previously opposed—it would be natural to assume that commitment came with a few caveats. On Monday, the company doubled down on its love for ...
Gamers with AMD hardware may want to wait before upgrading thanks to the deprecation of AMD’s Catalyst Linux drivers Timing and support issues have left Ubuntu users with Radeon graphics cards in a bit of a pickle. Ubuntu 16.04 LTS ...
Microsoft today announced that it is joining the Eclipse Foundation — the open source group that’s probably best known for its Eclipse IDE, but which also offers a number of other developer tools. With this, Microsoft is joining other Eclipse sponsors ...
It is difficult to believe that the first Hadoop cluster was put into production at Yahoo, 10 years ago, on January 28th, 2006. Ten years ago nobody was aware that an open source technology, like Apache Hadoop will fire a ...
The arrival of the €30~€35, wireless-enabled, Raspberry Pi 3, following a similarly 64-bit, $40 (€36) Odroid-C2 SBC a few weeks ago, represent a big speed boost for Linux hacker boards but not a sudden switch to 64-bit ARM computing. The default Linux distributions ...
It was a lousy day for Linux Mint, a popular Linux desktop distribution. Clement Lefebvre, head of Linux Mint, revealed that the Mint web site had been hacked. Lefebvre wrote on Sunday, “Hackers made a modified Linux Mint ISO, with ...
The original Raspberry Pi went on sale four years ago, and more than 8,000,000 units have shipped since then. Raspberry Pi computers are used in schools and universities, in factories and other industrial applications, in home automation and hobby projects, ...
Libreoffice is immediately available for Linux, MacOS X, Windows and available in localised version (Maltese version in development) The Document Foundation has announced LibreOffice 5.1, a full featured open source office suite which compares head-to-head with every product in the ...
The Cinnamon desktop environment has been at the fore of our recent new look into ubuntu vs mint installations We’re putting the paint roller down for this post. Instead, we will show you how to install the latest stable release of Cinnamon ...
Firewatch looks awesome, for the style, the story and the gameplay. It’s available day-1 for Linux and SteamOS. Sadly, the developer has not responded to my request for a key, so that I may personally cover the game review. ...
Google Chrome is to drop support for all 32-bit Linux distros from March, 2016. The change, which brings the platform in line with that of Mac OS X, will apply to all x86 Linux builds, regardless of distribution or version number. Users affected ...
Many folks who need web hosting these days want the simplest method for managing servers. To many, it is expected that graphical-user-interfaces (GUIs) are provided along with hosting. The good news is that many of the best hosts offer top-rated control ...
Canonical and BQ have had the great pleasure of informing OSSMalta and its followers today about the upcoming availability of the world’s first Ubuntu converged device, the BQ Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Edition tablet. The BQ Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Edition tablet will ...
Episode 2 in The Linux Foundation’s ‘A World Without Linux’ video series is now available to watch. After last week’s look at how there’d be no internet without Linux, this latest episode posits a related tack: “a world without Linux would mean a world without ...
A new video series has been launched to mark the 24th anniversary of the Linux Kernel. The Linux Foundation aim to use the six-part series, which is titled ‘A World Without Linux’, to raise awareness about Linux and how it plays ‘an integral ...