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Rugged Turing Phone to Run on Sailfish OS, Not Android

Turing Robotic Industries this week announced that it has uninstalled Google's Android mobile platform in favor ofJolla's Sailfish OS in its yet-to-appear secure smartphone The Turing Phone, molded from a single unit of the Liquidmorphium liquid-metal alloy, is designed to be more durable to absorb shocks and prevent screen breakage....

T-Mobile Wins OpenSignal Speed Tests

T-Mobile's 700-MHz rollout has given its mobile users some of the fastest data speeds in the U.S. market, according to a report OpenSignal released Tuesday OpenSignal crowdsources data on carrier signal quality from users who have its consumer mobile application installed....

Zenwalk 8 Beta Led Me Down a Rocky Road

Zenwalk is a Linux distro that seems to be in a state of flux....

Walmart Opens OneOps Cloud Management to the Masses

Walmart on Tuesday announced that it has posted the code for itsOneOps cloud application life cycle management platform on GitHub The company developed the OneOps platform for building and launching cloud-based applications across varied storage environments that change frequently. It lets e-commerce vendors deploy apps on platforms from Microsoft ...

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Fast Times With Nelum OS

Nelum OS is a light and fast live-installable Linux distribution family offering three separate releases....

Snap-Happy Trojan Targets Linux Servers

Security researchers atDr.Web on Tuesday revealed details of the Trojan Linux.Ekoms.1, which takes screen shots and records audio to acquire sensitive and personal information, mostly from Linux servers Malware for Linux is becoming more diverse and includes spyware programs, ransomware and Trojans designed to carry out distributed denial-of-servic...

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Deepin Takes Linux to New Depths

The latest release of the Linux distro now called"Depth OS" deserves serious consideration. It is fast, reliable and innovative, with an impressive homegrown desktop design dubbed "Deepin Desktop Environment," or DDE....

Dronecode Project Gets More Wind Beneath Its Wings

TheLinux Foundation this week announced an expansion of theDronecode project with investments from new members and the creation of three technical working groups The foundation launched the open source project in 2014 in an effort to create a unified platform for commercial drone technology....

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Solus Project's Virtues Begin and End With Stability

TheSolus Project is much like the little engine that still can't function....

Hack Lets PS4 Run Linux

Hacking teamfail0verflow last week demonstrated a hack of Sony's PlayStation 4 game console that allows anyone running the modification to run the Linux OS on the appliance The demo was part of a lightning talk session at the 32nd Chaos Communication Congress....

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Elementary OS' Freya Dumbs Down Linux

The release last month ofElementary OS Freya version 0.3.2 showed little has changed in this new-style Linux distro that wraps its own lightweight desktop design around the Ubuntu core....

Hats Off to Chapeau Linux's Better Fedora Concept

TheChapeau project's latest version arrived last month and is a good choice for enterprise users who want something a step above the traditional Fedora distro....

Slack Energizes App Development With $80M Fund

Slack this week announced its participation in an US$80 million investment campaign to fund startups that build software that integrates with its own apps The company also announced the availability of an app directory and a new development framework. The goal is to position Slack as a hub for connecting users to other cloud business software....

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Linux Mint Upgrade Sparkles

TheLinux Mint upgrade to version 17.3 Rosa is one upgrade regular users do not want to skip....

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GeckoLinux: This Baby Knows What It's Doing

GeckoLinux is a custom spin of the openSuse project. It offers an impressive variety of options and easier operation than typical Suse-based Linux distros provide GeckoLinux is a newcomer. I mean very new. Its first release was last week. You shouldn't view this distro as a wailing infant, however. It's based on openSuse Leap 42.1 and was leapfrogg...

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Hot New BunsenLabs Linux Eases Pain of CrunchBang Loss

BunsenLabs Linux does a bang-up job of picking up where CrunchBang Linux left off....

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Sluggish Download and Install Subtract From Netrunner's Pluses

TheNetrunner Rolling 2015.11 version is a disappointing release. It seems sluggish and unimpressive right from the start Linux Picks and Pans last reviewed Netrunner in 2013 andgave it five stars. This was the standard Netrunner edition built upon Kubuntu, Ubuntu's KDE desktop version.

EFF Sues Google for Snooping on Students

The Electronic Frontier Foundation on Tuesday filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission, alleging that Google has used personal student data mined from its school Chromebook distribution, and requesting an investigation and an injunction against the practice The EFF also on Tuesday launched its Spying on Students Campaign, an effort to ed...

Top 10 Open Source Developments of 2015

Open source is driving an ever-expanding market. The notion of community-driven development is a growing disruption to proprietary software controlled by commercial vendors, and the free open-source software concept has become a major disruption in industry and technology Open source is so pervasive that people tend to focus on big news items while...

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Vinux Enhances Productivity for Visually Impaired Users

Vinux 5.0 is a striking example of the flexibility and usability of the Linux OS....

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