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When you move from "that other operating system" to Linux, you're going to find that in most ways you'll be in familiar territory. However, that's not always the case. We sometimes do things a little differently around here.

FedEx is making you an offer you can't afford to accept. It's offering to give you $5 (actually, it's a discount on orders over $30) if you'll just install Adobe Flash on your machine.

Germain automaker Daimler indicates that it's betting much of its future on Linux by investing in two Linux projects.

WordGrinder is an old fashioned command line program that doesn't try to do a lot of things. It's purpose is to get the job done, and stay out of the user's way while doing it.

If your young child is showing an interest in learning computers, an introduction to Scratch and these instructional videos by Al Sweigart might be in order.

Humankind has outgrown the need to have monsters hiding under our beds. Now we let them hide in our phones, computers and microwave ovens.

The sorry state of IoT security needs regulating, not only because it's disruptive to the Internet, but because it poses a threat to public safety.

Should the U.S. armed forces begin releasing software under an OSI approved open source license rather than as public domain?

A congressman for Georgia has proposed legislation that would give victims of attacks rights to identify hackers and disrupt attacks.

It's not ready yet, but an out-of-the-box open source and enterprise ready solution for user session recording is in the works.

Some words for thought from this week's video on nteract: "Open science isn't truly open and open source isn't truly open."

Cost might be the last thing to consider when deciding on whether to adopt an open or closed source solution.

For the uninitiated, OpenStack is a platform designed to give enterprises the ability to run an AWS style cloud platform from their data centers. It's a huge undertaking, consisting of nearly 20 sub-projects, all of which have supplied updates to this edition. And while Ocata might be seen as something of a maintenance release, it's not without some new goodies added to the mix -- mostly revolving around containers.

Now that Thunderbird is back in the Debian repositories, the decade long dispute that led to all Mozilla products in Debian being rebranded has ended.

If you're a SysAdmin, or work anywhere on the Ops side of DevOps, a rescue disc should be an essential part of your arsenal. With a bootable rescue system, either on a CD or on a thumb drive, you can recover a password, detect and remove a rootkit or other malware, repair a Master Boot Record, retrieve data from a damaged drive and more.

Open data is an important concept at Code for America, which addresses the widening gap between the public and private sectors in their effective use of technology and design.

The GPL is the grandaddy of open source licenses, and is not only the license used by Linux, but is the license that gave birth to the open source movement. It was designed with the purpose of giving computer users control of their machines, guaranteeing that software would be freely available and modifiable by users. It has served that purpose well.

People involved in the maker movement are coming up with all sorts ideas to both help the planet and improves people's lives -- such as this idea for an open source village.

Considering that System76 chose to unveil its new design plans to The Linux Gamer, we can't help but wonder if a System76 mean Steam Machine isn't in the works.

"Software Freedom" shouldn't mean "use free software or else." It should mean you are free to use the software you choose.