Linux Today

This brief guide explains how to find out the physical connected state of network cable in Linux.

 webupd8: Google Earth had quite a few issues on recent Linux distributions.

Nmap was released 19 years ago on September 1.

Linus Torvalds: So rc5 is noticeably bigger than rc4 was, and my hope last week that we were starting to calm down and shrink the releases seems to have been premature.

What's new in Tails 2.6 RC1?

Any developer considering releasing open source software needs to have a plan to monetize it.

 FreedomPenguin: Does Mageia 5 have what it takes to compete with today's top distros?

Effective project management relies as much on perception as reality.

Ars: As LibreOffice soars, OpenOffice management considers retiring the project.

 ubuntugeek: webERP is a complete web based accounting and business management system that requires only a web-browser and pdf reader to use.

ZDnet: Other companies -- Canonical, SUSE, and Mirantis -- all plan on being OpenStack powers, but Red Hat shows it's determined to be number one with its latest OpenStack cloud release.

 HowToForge: While Google Drive is no doubt one of the most popular (if not the most popular) cloud storage services available today, what's really sad is that there is no official Drive client available for Linux.

Nixcraft: Learn how to use Let's Encrypt to install a free SSL certificate for Nginx web server along with how to properly deploy Diffie-Hellman on your nginx server to get SSL labs A+ score.

The Open Source Initiative (OSI), working with the Schodack Central School District in upstate New York, developed the FLOSS Desktops For Kids Incubator Project.

Take action by signing the pledge and urge universities not to sell patents to patent trolls.

ostechnix: Find if a specific package is installed or not in Linux and Unix distributions.

techrights: The growing danger of a Linux Foundation which is funded not just by proprietary software giants but also direct opposition of Linux and serial violators of the licence of GNU (GPL)

eWEEK: The alleged attacker behind the 2011 breach of kernel.org is arrested as details on the actual attack now emerge.

By default the Arch Linux ISO doesn't comes with graphical user interface and we need to install manually which is suitable for us.

Polari is a simple IRC Client designed from the ground up to integrate seamlessly with the latest GNOME 3 desktop environment

 hackerboards: The "Poplar Board," based on HiSilicon's quad-core Hi3798C V200 SoC, is the first SBC to implement Linaro's "96Boards Enterprise Edition TV Platform" spec.

softpedia: The first major new feature will be support for using GNOME Games as a Flatpak on any GNU/Linux distribution that supports this universal binary standard.

Phoronix: The Unity 7 Low Graphics Mode reduces shadows, drops blur and fade effects, and reduces other animations to ease up the rendering workload

InfoWorld: The first public alpha of Fedora 25 rolls in Mozilla's Rust language as a standard-issue component

The Bridge Authority is a simple but essential piece of the Tor Network.

TechRepublic: Docker's competitors think it's not playing fair, but enterprise adoption tells a different story.

Announced back in July, the Crossover for Android Preview by Codeweavers is finally here.

Downloading YouTube videos has been one of the most common user activities since the rise of the world's most popular entertainment content website.

 FOSSforce: Did you know that MS Word on Linux using Wine works better than Word on Windows?

 NetworkWorld: Here's a map of the status of open-source laws around the world

Purism announces the creation of its Advisory Board, comprised of acclaimed experts from the Free Software community

Chinese Internet search giant Baidu has decided to open source its deep learning platform.

How to configure Static IP address in Linux and Unix

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise, OpenSUSE Leap 42.2 just hit beta

eSecurityPlanet: The CTO of the Linux Foundation discusses how the governance structure for the Core Infrastructure Initiative is changing to promote better security.

RockMongo is a free, open source GUI database administration tool for MongoDB, just like phpMyAdmin to MySQL/MariaDB.