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The UBPorts project launches its first update for mobiles with Ubuntu Phone
UBPorts has recently released a new update called OTA-1 that significantly improves the performance of Ubuntu Phone ...
Libreoffice 6 is coming to our desks this year
The future new version of LibreOffice will not be LibreOffice 5.5 but will be called LibreOffice 6, a change that indicates new features in the distribution ...
Gentoo will discontinue security support for the SPARC platform
The aging Gentoo distribution will also stop supporting the SPARC platform, starting with draining the platform's security support ...
MESA 17.1.2 comes with 70 enhancements for Linux gaming
The MESA 3D developer Juan A. Suarez Romero has been in charge of announcing this new release that is ...
Lubuntu 17.10 will have LXQT as a functional desktop
Lubuntu 17.10 continues with its development and will finally incorporate LXQT as a desktop but it will not be the main desktop of the distribution ...
Open-source plastic filament for 3D printers
Yes, it is a rare title, but IC3D is the new plastic filament that you can check as a consumable for your ...
SteamOS keeps getting better despite its apparent lethargy
SteamOS started out as a very interesting project, but Valve seems to have been putting it aside for not having ...
Security alert: bug in sudo CVE-2017-1000367
There is a serious vulnerability in the famous sudo tool. The vulnerability is due to a bug in the programming of ...
Windows Defender ported to Linux thanks to Tavis Ormandy
The latest in oddities is Windows Defender on Linux, yes, this is not a joke. We are not taking you ...
Slimbook Pro, a tough rival for Macbook Air with a free spirit
The Spanish brand Slimbook has presented its new equipment, the Slimbook Pro, a lightweight laptop but with a lot of power and powered by Free Software ...
Minimalist apps for wearables thanks to EFL
In the era of IoT and wearables, many developers are trying hard to develop new apps for this type ...
What if Telefónica used Linux? What would have happened?
The WannaCry ransomware has caused Telefónica to have serious problems with its computers. But what would have happened if Telefónica had Gnu / Linux?
Limit Theory: the ambitious game that could come to Linux
Limit Theory is an ambitious video game that is still in development, but it already has some nice demo images for ...
Automotive Grade Linux: the open-source project for cars
AGL or Automotive Grade Linux is an open source and collaborative project to create Linux-based systems for ...
Canonical will continue to give importance to Ubuntu although it will go public
Canonical shares are still in the news. The intention of taking the company public as well as continuing with Ubuntu has recently been confirmed ...
pfSense 2.3.4: new version of the open source firewall
We have already talked about pfSense and other similar systems to implement firewall systems to give them an extra point of security ...
Red Hat and Amazon integrate RHEL and OpenShift on AWS
Just as it was done with SUSE, Red Hat also wants to be present in what is one of the ...
Ubuntu Phone will no longer have support in June, but we still have Plasma Mobile
Ubuntu Phone will be discontinued in June. However, mobiles will continue to have Linux thanks to the KDE Plasma Mobile project ...
Ubuntu 17.10 will be called Artful Aardvark
Ubuntu 17.10 will have the nickname of Artful Aardvark as well as many new features, including the arrival of Gnome as the default desktop ...
Windows security even more in question
Microsoft's Windows operating system security has always been in the spotlight, but now even more ...
Linux 4.11 RC7 Release!
On April 16, the new candidate version of the Linux kernel was released, I'm talking about Linux 4.11 Release Candidate 7…
Ubuntu 17.04 is already among us, this is the new thing we will find in Ubuntu
The new version of Ubuntu is now available. Ubuntu 17.04 is now ready to download and to reach our teams, something that many were already waiting for ...
Unity 7 will continue to be in Ubuntu according to Mark Shuttleworth
Unity 7 will continue to be in the official Ubuntu repositories, at least that is what Shuttleworth has indicated in their social media profiles ...
Review of the gaming landscape in Linux
The panorama of gaming in Linux leaves us this week lights and shadows, although lately as you know the lights ...
Ubuntu abandons Convergence and Unity in favor of Gnome
At the end of yesterday, the founder of Ubuntu, Mark Shuttleworth, announced through the Ubuntu blog, the ...
Fedora 26 Alpha Version and Other Versions Now Available
The alpha version of Fedora 26 is now available, a version that brings new features such as new software and new official flavors based on Fedora 26 ...
Mesa 17.0.2 is now available for Ubuntu 16.04.2 and Ubuntu 16.10
Thanks to Timo Aaltonen it is now possible to have MESA 17.0.2 in old versions of Ubuntu, but you have to use a special repository ...
Huawei will use SUSE Linux for its servers
The Chinese mobile giant Huawei until now had servers with Windows Server and Microsoft's RHEL and ...
Microsoft continues to charge for patents to attack Linux
Microsoft seems to have reconciled with Linux, it has used the system for some of its products, it has integrated it into the ...
Erle Robotics gives us a forecast of the future of robotics
We have already written several articles about the Spanish startup Erle Robotics, which despite its youth has already given ...
Firefox 53 will not work on computers with a processor older than Pentium 4
The new version of Mozilla Firefox 53 will not work on some computers, especially those with a processor older than the Pentium 4 ...
Manjaro KDE 17 now available
Manjaro KDE 17 is the new version of Manjaro with the KDE desktop, a version that has the nickname of Gellivara and is now available to everyone ...
The first Linux kernel 4.11 release candidate is now available
We already have the first Release Candidate of kernel 4.11. This version is still unstable but it helps us to know the news that the new kernel will bring.
Alpha Litebook, the elegant Gnu / Linux notebook
Alpha Litebook is a laptop for those looking for Gnu / Linux as an operating system. A laptop that also has a low price and interesting hardware ...
PCLinuxOS 2017.03, a new iso image for the most stable
PCLinuxOS 2017.03 is a new iso image of this popular Linux distribution with KDE Plasma as the main desktop. This version brings with it ...
Mozilla buys Pocket to incorporate it into its products
The Mozilla Foundation has announced the purchase of Pocket, a later reading service that has long been incorporated into the Firefox browser ...
Linux From Scratch 8, a new version of an old distribution
Linux from Scratch 8 is the new version of this unique distribution in which the end user has to create and compile it to have it on the PC ...
Valve Brings SteamVR Support to Linux
Virtual reality, or VR technology for its acronym in English, is becoming a revolution, no ...
Mageia 6 will appear this 2017, but it is not known when it will be
Mageia 6 keeps going. Although we do not know anything about its development and the schedule has not been fulfilled, the version of Mageia 6 will arrive this year ...
elementaryOS launches an App Store campaign
The famous elementaryOS distro, based on Ubuntu and with the lightweight desktop environment known as Pantheon to create a ...
Fedora 25 ISO images get updated
The Fedora team has released a new ISO image of Fedora 25 spins and Labs, ISO images containing the latest system security patches ...
Finally Munich will abandon Gnu / Linux and change it for Windows
Munich has changed its mind and will now change computers with LiMux, its Gnu / Linux distribution, for computers with Windows 10 and Office 365 ...
MacOS applications will arrive on Gnu / Linux this year
The Darling project will sound during this 2017. The project that seeks to bring MacOS applications to Linux has increased its number of developers and ...
Mozilla fires the Firefox OS team
Mozilla has totally canceled Firefox OS. Thus, the Foundation has fired all the developers who worked on the official project ...
Brotli: a new compression algorithm to speed up the Internet
Although we usually focus on talking about Linux or software for this platform, whether they are open source projects or ...
Fedora 26 LXQT, the new spin that will arrive this 2017
Fedora 26 LXQT will be the new spin of Fedora that will be maintained with Fedora 26 LXDE, another official and light flavor of the Fedora distribution ...
AsteroidOS the new smartwatch operating system debuting on GitHub
We always try to cover all new projects and this is one example of this. On the famous page ...
KillDisk has a variant that affects Linux
KillDisk is a ransomware-type malware that encrypts the contents of the hard drive when it infects a system. This type…
Ubuntu Budgie looking for official logo and wallpaper
Ubuntu Budgie continues with its development. They have recently created some votes and surveys on the logo and the wallpaper that must be official
Kodi 18 will be called Leia, in honor of the Star Wars character
Leia will be the nickname of Kodi 18, a version that will be a tribute to the protagonist of Star Wars and especially to the saga itself that turns 40 ...
Lumina 1.2, the lightweight desktop from BSD, is now available
Lumina 1.2 is the new version of the lightweight Lumina desktop. A desktop that was born for BSD but has reached Gnu / Linux for all users ...
Ubuntu will also stop having the 32-bit PPC architecture
Ubuntu 17.04 will no longer have the 32-bit PPC platform ISO image, a decision they have recently made and announced for the few users ...
Severe vulnerability detected in Ubuntu
A series of quite serious vulnerabilities have been detected in the Ubuntu operating system, a security hole that allows code to be executed.
Linux already exceeds 86 million users
It seems that Linux is only installed by three hackers or geeks, that is, a minority. But it turns out I know ...
Kernel 4.9 is now available, the last great version of 2016
The new kernel 4.9 is now available to everyone. This new version already has more than two million lines of code with support for new hardware ...
SolBuild, a new system for creating Solus packages
Solbuild is the new program that Solus will use to create its new packages to install in its distribution, something that can be done in other distros
SUSE Acquires HPE Technology Assets to Power the Cloud
The German company SUSE, which is so closely linked to the world of Linux and free software, does not stop innovating and ...
Khronos Group has a new member: Razer
Khronos Group is another consortium for the implementation of open standards that has attached members, such as the Linux Foundation. In order to…
Soon we will have a smartwatch with Gnu / Linux thanks to the Jolla team
Jolla, the creator of Sailfish OS, has managed to bring her operating system to a smartwatch, an option that is based on Linux that will be soon ...
Devuan Gnu + Linux already has beta 2
Devuan Gnu + Linux already has a beta of its next version, a version that will be based on Debian but without Systemd Init, while beta 2 must be tested ...
Tor Phone, a mobile with Android but with the quality seal of the Tor Project
Tor Phone will be a new mobile that Android and the Tor Project will use to give more security to our mobile. All about the Linux kernel ...
Hosting also has its Black Friday
Black Friday arrives to bring interesting discounts on products and services, such as the hosting that we present for you to set up your online platform.
They find a vulnerability in GStreamer
A vulnerability has been found in GStreamer, one more vulnerability that makes the operating system more insecure but updates quickly ...
Microsoft releases the first preview of SQL Server for Gnu / Linux
Microsoft has publicly released the first preview of SQL Server, its relational database technology that will come to Linux for free.
A hacker manages to hack the Nintendo Classic Mini and install Gnu / Linux
A Japanese hacker has managed to get the Nintendo Classic Mini to get its share of Gnu / Linux, something he has achieved through a serial cable ...
TrueOS the successor of PC-BSD
PC-BSD is one of the different BSDs that we come across, along with FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Dragon Fly, NetBSD, etc. Normally each one ...
OpenIndiana 2016.10: the new version of free UNIX is here
OpenIndiana 2016.10 «Hipster» is now available if we want to download it and try it on our computer. This new release has updated ...
USB Killer: software alternative in Linux
USB ports are undoubtedly one of the most widely used today, allowing us a good transfer rate ...
SQUID App: the always fresh news app from Sweden to Spain
SQUID App is an application that is already available in Spain for Android, and that of course you can also run ...
Ubuntu Zesty Zapus, the next version of Ubuntu that ends the alphabet
Ubuntu Zesty Zapus will be the last version of Ubuntu to have a nickname or at least to use a letter of the alphabet, but what will come next?
Looking for a Mini-PC with Linux? MintBox Mini can be your solution
Linux Mint and Compulab have released the second version of the MintBox Mini, a Mini-PC that incorporates and was created to carry Linux Mint and not Windows ...
openSUSE Tumbleweed was the first distribution to offer Gnome 3.22
openSUSE Tumbleweed is the first distribution that has officially incorporated the new Gnome 3.22 version, thanks to being a rolling release.
Opera 40 for Gnu / linux is now available and with VPN included
The new version Opera 40 is now available. A version of the popular web browser that natively includes a free unlimited VPN service ...
Vim 8, a new stable version of this editor is now available
Today we have received surprising news and it is that after several years of development, the Vim 8 version has been released, a very popular free code editor ...
elementaryOS 0.4 Loki is now available
elementaryOS is a Linux distribution that claims to mimic the appearance of Mac OS X (or Mac OS as they try to call it ...
Debian releases the biggest security update in years
The Debian development team has just announced the availability of a new security update for Debian 8.5.
Florida Man Arrested For 'Fingering' Kernel.org Server
A man from El Portal, Florida, has been arrested for breaking into Linux servers (kernel.org). Specifically ...
Now available Kali Linux 2016.2, a secure security distribution
Kali Linux 2016.2 is now available, a distribution based on Debian but oriented to the world of ethical hacking and computer security ...
A tablet with OpenSUSE is coming
The well-known company MJ Tecnology, is developing a tablet with OpenSUSE installed, something that will see the light very soon, with two different versions.
Fedora 25 will arrive in November with the Wayland server by default
Fedora 25 will be released next November with Wayland as the graphical server, great news for the proponents of this new graphical server ...
Linux Mint is still the most popular distribution
According to distowatch's annual ranking of distribution popularity, Linux Mint is the most popular Linux distribution of all, one place.
Firefox 49 will allow you to use Netflix without special plugins
The Mozilla Foundation has notified that the next version of Firefox 49 will be compatible with services such as Netflix or Amazon Prime as it will not use NPAPI ...
Ubuntu 14.04.5 is now available
Ubuntu keeps updating its versions not only the current version but also the old LTS versions such as Ubuntu 14.04, in this case with Ubuntu 14.04.5
Linux is the most used to carry out DDoS attacks
A Kaspersky lab report on denial of service or DDoS attacks has recently been published. This report indicated that the ...
Ubuntu Forum Has Been Hacked
Friends, we have bad news for you. Canonical just announced that the official Ubuntu forum has been hacked, so ...
Parrot OS 3.0 can now be used from the Raspberry Pi
Parrot Security OS 3.0 (Lithium), the latest version at the moment of distribution to carry out security audits and ...
This is Riffle, the anonymous internet that improves TOR
We have just found out about a new project that has caught our attention. This is Riffle, a new anonymous internet system based on TOR
Solus 2.0 introduces the Sol package manager
Solus OS will reach its Solus 2.0 version, which brings some interesting news. After a long wait, Josh Strobl from ...
Slackware 14.2 is now available, the new version for the most 'slack'
Slackware 14.2 is available now. The new version of Slackware has the latest stable software although in the case of KDE it will come with branch 4 of the Project
This is the Meizu PRO 5 Ubuntu Edition
Developers keep releasing mobile phones with Ubuntu Touch installed. The latest to come out has been the powerful Meizu PRO 5, a considerate phone.
Sony will pay millions to eradicate Linux from the PS3
Sony continues to consider the PlayStation 3 platform important, despite the fact that the PS3 already has several successors. Test…
Aethercast on Ubuntu Touch, a new step to convergence
Last week we talked about how a Meixu Pro 5 had been connected wirelessly to a screen, turning it into a desktop Ubuntu ...
Linux 4.5.4: the new kernel version is out
Linux continues its evolution step by step and without rest. The kernel developers continue to add functionalities, correct bugs, update ...
Krita 2016: go for text and vector graphics
Kirta, the famous free software that we have talked about so many times in this blog, has now launched a new campaign ...
How to install Brave on Gnu / Linux
The Ex-CEO of Mozilla has launched the Brave web browser, a browser that not only blocks advertising but also makes money ...
5 open source tools to automate your home
With IPv6, the IoT ol Internet of things has arrived, now more and more devices will be connected, ...
Wim Coekaerts joins Microsoft now
We have already seen other brain leaks go to companies like Apple or Microsoft. But the staff who work in ...
Cinnamon 2.8.8 available in Linux Mint 17.3
The Cinnamon desktop is one of the hallmarks of the Linux Mint operating system. For lovers of this desk ...
21,7% of programmers use Linux
21,7% of all programmers in the world use Linux to develop their applications, at least this is the data collected by the