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When Oracle announced it was discontinuing the development of OpenSolaris, there was shock among the free Unix community. OpenSolaris was...

Using the command-line in your everyday activities more than the GUI sometimes shows the geek you are. If you haven't read the Episode 5...

In every society there is always the good and the bad. The bad are working day in day out to harm the works of...

Mozilla Firefox browser comes with a PDF viewer/PDF plugin by default. Here is a simple tip to disable default PDF viewer in your Firefox. Method...

The Haiku community is living a very peculiar moment these days.  They are witnessing the creation of its Package Manager. Generally considered as the...

The key to networking in Python is the socket module, which provides a library for making network connections using Python. The socket module is used...

Internet media has reported that the NSA, the secretive United States Government Organization, has direct access to servers of some of the biggest web...

I was introduced to the Linux world two years ago and I was amazed by its performance. I did not know much at that...

While we've all been deluged with new Linux releases lately, there's a particular Unix release that flew...

Pligg is an open-source CMS social publishing software that encourages visitors to register on your website so that they can submit content and connect...

With Viber, the mobile-to-mobile free call app, announcing a much awaited multi-platform version it is free calls all the way for users who have...

First off you need to install VLC. Go to videolan.org and follow the instructions there. Why VLC? Because it's one of the best media...

Many geeks know about Puppy Linux and use it for their daily needs, but there are many others that have not heard about Puppy....

A couple of months ago, I got word of a project that an acquaintance of mine as working on. Information...

ProxmoxVE is a complete open-source virtualization management solution for servers. It is based on KVM and container-virtualization and manages virtual machines, storage, virtualized networks,...

LibreOffice 4.1 Beta 1 has finally arrived and once again highlights the exceptional talent of the 600+ developers working under the aegis of The...

The Chakra team has announced the release of Chakra GNU/Linux 2013.05, an updated release of the project's desktop Linux distribution for 64-bit computers. This new...

Tor (The Onion Router) browser makes things more difficult to trace our Internet activities. Using Tor, we can keep our identity more secure around...