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These are the ten most read articles on FOSS Force for the month of October, 2016.
1. We’re From Microsoft and We’ve Been Remotely Watching Your Computer by Ken Starks. Published October 4, 2016. It’s getting harder and harder to scam little old ladies these days. They’ll just up and switch to Linux on you.
2. Pixel Takes Raspbian to the Next Level by Isaac Carter. Published October 12, 2016. Raspbian, the Raspberry Pi’s most well known distro, has an exciting new look and feel with Pixel.
3. They Said Nobody in Jordan Knew About Linux but They Were Wrong by Robin “Roblimo” Miller. Published October 13, 2016. In this story, “Roblimo” takes us back to 2002, to an open source conference in a country where the common belief was that “nobody knew anything about Linux.” Boy, were they in for a surprise.
4. Fedora Warns Against ‘dnf update’ in Graphical Environment by FOSS Force staff. October 5, 2016. Users of Fedora 24 might want to put any update plans on hold until this bug issue is resolved.
5. Open Source Explained in Less Than Three Minutes by Phil Shapiro. Published October 7, 2016. Free Code Camp is an organization that teaches people to code. As part of this free training, student coders produce free code needed by nonprofit organizations. Free Code Camp doesn’t accept donations, but you can support them by buying t-shirts, hoodies and audiobooks through their store.
6. Our First Look at Linux Mint 18 Cinnamon by Christine Hall. Published July 25, 2016. A month after Linux Mint 18 “Sarah” was released we decided to take it for a spin and have our first ever look at the Cinnamon desktop.
7. Homicide Commits Suicide, HP Says It’s Sorry & More… by Christine Hall. Published October 7, 2016. Also included in this “Week in Review”: Judge seems to make software patents illegal, Mageia mourns a contributor, Yakkety Yak frozen, KDE’s new release, and getting ready for All Things Open.
8. Endless OS 3: Linux for the Net Less by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols. Published September 29th, 2016. This Ubuntu-based Linux distribution provides the Internet for those who don’t have 24×7 access to the net.
9. Kicking the Tires on Arch Based Antergos by Christine Hall. Published May 30, 2016. We decided to take the Arch Linux based distribution Antergos out for a test drive. Here’s how it handled, out in traffic and on the track.
10. In Search of a Linux Calendar by Christine Hall. Published January 7, 2016. “It was time to do some calendar hunting. And because I’d saved myself from Google’s always-at-the-ready suite of online tools, I started my search with…well, Google.”
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Ubuntu-based CAINE (Computer Aided INvestigative Environment) GNU/Linux distribution is designed by Italian developer Nanni Bassetti to be a complete digital forensic environment, and it's been updated on October 31, 2016, to version 8.0.
On October 31, 2016, people celebrated Halloween all over the world, and it looks like fans of the popular, open-source, free, and cross-platform Calibre ebook management software had a reason to party all night long as well.
On October 31, 2016, Linux kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman was proud to announce the release and general availability of the sixth maintenance update to the Linux 4.8 kernel series.
The release of the Debian GNU/Linux 9 "Stretch" operating system is upon us, and Debian developer Jonathan Wiltshire informs us today, October 31, 2016, about the supported hardware architectures for the upcoming release.
The developers behind the Calamares universal installer framework designed for GNU/Linux distributions have updated the open source software, recently, to version 2.4.3.
Salix OS developer Dimitris Tzemos announced this past weekend the availability for download and public testing of the first Release Candidate (RC) development version of the upcoming Salix Xfce 14.2 Live Edition.
This past weekend, the Kodi development was quite busy, and it looks like they've pushed yet another Beta towards the upcoming and highly anticipated Kodi 17 "Krypton" open source and cross-platform media center.
SystemRescueCd, a popular Gentoo-based Live GNU/Linux distribution designed for system rescue and recovery operations, was updated the other day to version 4.9.0, a maintenance release adding new technologies and components.
A day early than expected, the final release of the Linux Lite 3.2 Ubuntu-based GNU/Linux distribution has been officially announced today, October 31, 2016, by developer Jerry Bezencon.Emoji — we’ve covered various different ways you can enter these perennially popular little pictograms on your Ubuntu desktop. But if you only ever use them to respond to people on Facebook, web forums or in another browser-based service, you there’s an easier way to enter them. You don’t need to install any panel applets, or […]
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Short Bytes: Apart from the Apple and Microsoft event buzz, this week we also read about some big updates from Linux...
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"Does the world need a new computer mouse?" asks Penclic. "Yes it does!" says the Swedish peripherals developer. Most devices in our lives have undergone extensive changes through the years, notes Penclic, save the unlucky, unglamorous computer mouse. more>>
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