This is how to you can turn your Raspberry Pi 2 into a pretty powerful retro console. It runs emulation station and can emulate over 20 consoles right up to the n64 era. Step 1: What You Need A raspberry ...
Linux users have long had a love-hate relationship with Nvidia. On the one hand, Nvidia’s proprietary graphics drivers have always been the best-performing ones for windows and Linux gaming. On the other hand, Nvidia has been so hostile to the open-source ...
Wine is an open source project that, on the face of it, seems to offer something wondrous: the ability to run Windows applications under Linux (or any other open source OS). It does this by attempting to recreate the Windows ...
An application that allows users to root their Android devices is taking advantage of a security flaw in the Linux kernel that has remained unpatched on Android since its discovery two years ago. An application that allows users to gain ...
Dell wants push more users from Mac and Windows to Linux with it’s Project Sputnik effort. In a world of PCs dominated by Windows and Macs, Dell’s line of “Project Sputnik” laptops with Ubuntu Linux have secured a cult following. ...
Here are some tips to help protect your sensitive data Over the past few years, millions of PCs from around the world have been locked or had their files encrypted by malicious programs designed to extort money from users. Collectively ...
Linux Mint is hardening its servers and planning changes to its operating system. Linux Mint users were exposed to a troubling vulnerability in February, when the Linux Mint website was hacked and distributed malware-infested ISOs for a day. The forum user ...
OnePlus might “Never Settle” for playing along with other brands. The Android OEM that has already made an iPhone case is this time collaborating with Canonical to bring the Ubuntu OS (formerly Ubuntu Touch OS) to the OnePlus One. Not ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
Malta is one of those places where the small size allows one to see significant migrations to GNU/Linux desktop in their full glory. Notice the ascendance of GNU/Linux in the same week that school started that year. The peak usage ...
Google Earth has been around for years, yet it still makes my jaw drop. I mean, seriously, for centuries the only way to get a “bird’s-eye” view of our planet was to spin an actual globe. Now we can “fly” ...