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Since the NSA is in the news, anybody use SELinux in their environments? 4 Recursion Jun 2013 Jul 2013 0 2409

Full disk encryption with OpenBSD: a howto 9 Recursion Jun 2013 Jun 2013 1 6841

PlayStation 4 Will Be Running Modified FreeBSD 1 Recursion Jun 2013 Jun 2013 1 1676

Geek porn warning: Post your rig 3 Recursion Jun 2013 Jun 2013 0 2542

Unix Guru Evi Nemeth Missing, Feared Lost At Sea 5 Recursion Jun 2013 Jun 2013 1 2284

Linux 3.10 officially released 0 Recursion Jul 2013 Jul 2013 0 1515

SUSE Updates Enterprise Linux Server with Secure Boot 0 Recursion Jul 2013 Jul 2013 0 1411

Linus shouts out Windows 3.11 with the release, 20 years later, of Linux 3.11 0 Recursion Aug 2013 Aug 2013 2 1453

X.Org Foundation Loses Its 501(c)(3) Status 5 Recursion Aug 2013 Aug 2013 0 2013

Change.org petition, ARM SoC changes for Linux 3.12 invite Torvalds’ fury 0 Recursion Sep 2013 Sep 2013 1 1543

GNU Make 4.0 Brings New Features, Extends With Guile 0 Recursion Oct 2013 Oct 2013 3 1293

It's Ubuntu Release Day! 1 Recursion Oct 2013 Oct 2013 2 1520

OpenBSD 5.4 is released, many small irritants fixed 0 Recursion Nov 2013 Nov 2013 2 1532

Wow, systemd is a PITA on a server 1 Recursion Nov 2013 Dec 2013 1 1601

Anybody downloaded SteamOS yet? 1 Recursion Dec 2013 Dec 2013 0 1444

Debian bumps stable to 7.4, drops seamonkey support 0 Recursion Feb 2014 Feb 2014 0 1883

GAH!!! Debian votes to move to systemd 3 Recursion Feb 2014 Feb 2014 1 2270

Tux the evangelist 1 Recursion Feb 2014 Feb 2014 4 1376

Canonical shuts down Ubuntu One cloud service 3 Recursion Apr 2014 Apr 2014 1 1568

Linus Torvalds suspends key Linux developer 8 Recursion May 2014 May 2014 0 3219

Huh... I'm actually enjoying using KDE 4 Recursion Sep 2014 Oct 2014 4 1725

Anybody else using Musl libc? 1 Recursion Sep 2014 Mar 2015 0 1670

Remote exploit vulnerability in bash CVE-2014-6271 2 Recursion Sep 2014 Sep 2014 1 1804

OpenSuSE 13.2 release candidate is out 2 Recursion Oct 2014 Oct 2014 0 1717

"Nature" to make all articles free to view... but not on Linux. 2 Recursion Dec 2014 Dec 2014 3 1923

Alpine Linux 3.1.0 released 0 Recursion Dec 2014 Dec 2014 1 1449

Huh. 2014 was the first year since 1992 without a Slackware release 0 Recursion Jan 2015 Jan 2015 0 1443

Wow: Microsoft releases .NET for Linux, code editor for Linux 1 Recursion Apr 2015 Apr 2015 1 1760

Mandriva closes shop 4 Recursion May 2015 Sep 2015 0 2454

84-Year-Old Volunteer Rebuilds, Sends Linux Laptops to Africa 1 Recursion Jun 2015 Jun 2015 4 1826

Open Source and Free Software Continued...

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Firefox now blocks all versions of Flash Player by default 1 Recursion Jul 2015 Jul 2015 5 2064

Free software fans land crucial punch in Ubuntu row – but it's not over 1 Recursion Jul 2015 Jul 2015 1 2063

Find the Perfect Linux-Compatible PC with Ubuntu's Hardware Database 1 Recursion Aug 2015 Aug 2015 1 1890

Happy 24th birthday, Linux kernel 1 Recursion Aug 2015 Aug 2015 4 1709

OpenBSD 5.8 released with many, many new features 0 Recursion Oct 2015 Oct 2015 1 1732

Canonical previews 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" -- overlay scrollbars are back 0 Recursion Oct 2015 Oct 2015 1 1554

Debian mourns the passing of Ian Murdock 0 Recursion Jan 2016 Jan 2016 5 2157

Microsoft announces SQL Server for Linux 2 Recursion Mar 2016 Mar 2016 1 2559

TP-Link blocks open source router firmware to comply with new FCC rule 2 Recursion Mar 2016 Mar 2016 1 2738

US government commits to publish publicly financed software under Free Software licenses 0 Recursion Apr 2016 Apr 2016 4 2669

Any vi/vim users? 2 Recursion May 2016 Jul 2016 0 1906

ZFS imported to Debian Testing 0 Recursion May 2016 May 2016 0 2644

OpenBSD 6.0 released 1 Recursion Sep 2016 Sep 2016 1 2625

CHVote: an open-source electronic voting system from Switzerland 0 Recursion Dec 2016 Dec 2016 1 3037

Guido van Rossum resigns as Python leader 1 Recursion Jul 2018 Oct 2018 1 3850

Microsoft open-sources its patent portfolio 1 Recursion Oct 2018 Oct 2018 3 2206

What is the best zip program? nm 5 rhett o rick Jul 2013 Jul 2013 0 2320

I recently loaded Kubuntu 11.10 to get away from Unity on Ubuntu 11.10. KDE 26 RKP5637 Dec 2011 Mar 2012 2 7611

IBM: We're on the cusp of the Quantum Computing revolution 8 RKP5637 Feb 2012 Mar 2012 2 2816

FYI - TurboTax + Linux works extremely well online. I've done this a couple of 5 RKP5637 Feb 2012 Sep 2012 1 5406

Do you like Mint 13 and if so which desktop are you using? n/t 17 RKP5637 Aug 2012 Feb 2013 0 5426

I had to get a new monitor recently, Linux friendly, and a keyboard that would work with my 9 RKP5637 Sep 2012 Sep 2012 0 3889

Disable / bypass Gmail spam filter 2 RKP5637 Jan 2013 Jan 2013 0 3987

Has anyone tried a Chromebook? I have one on order, the Samsung Chromebook. I need 18 RKP5637 Feb 2013 Apr 2013 0 5231

Google Glasses - How will Google enforce this? 4 RKP5637 Apr 2013 Apr 2013 1 2098

Chromebook to the rescue - Linus Torvalds 7 RKP5637 May 2013 May 2013 1 3407

Has anyone gotten Oracle vbox and Win 10 to update a Garmin via Garmin Express. 4 RKP5637 Sep 2015 Feb 2016 0 3058

The WordPress Re-Installment That DIDN'T Happen 1 Rocknation Jan 2023 Jan 2023 3 2833

Can any recommend an open-source Skype? 8 Ron Obvious Jul 2014 Feb 2016 0 3216

Database schema document creator 3 Ruby the Liberal Jun 2012 Jun 2012 0 3753

Open Source and Free Software Continued...

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rusefi - opensource ecu 2 rus084 Aug 2014 Aug 2014 0 1720

How to use chatgpt with Blender for animation 0 salmannaseem07 Sep 2023 Sep 2023 2 1641

Happy Birthday, Linus Torvalds! 1 SecularMotion Dec 2013 Dec 2013 2 1687

Win for Open Source: SCO Court Case against Linux Hits End of Road 2 SecularMotion Mar 2016 Aug 2016 7 3392

The White House opens its doors to open source 1 SecularMotion Mar 2016 Mar 2016 7 2003

This message was self-deleted by its author 3 SecularMotion Apr 2016 Apr 2016 1 1876

This message was self-deleted by its author 6 SecularMotion Apr 2016 Dec 2017 0 3892

Lithuanian Police Switches To LibreOffice, Saves A Million Euro 1 SecularMotion Aug 2016 Jun 2020 3 2178

Android forum? 5 sellitman Sep 2016 Nov 2018 1 2319

Great free sites for desktop wallpapers 13 Shankapotomus Jul 2012 Jan 2013 0 5830

Freedom Pop moves closer to free internet 2 Shankapotomus Aug 2012 Sep 2012 0 3511

If you are interested in taking away control of digital communication from the isp's... 0 Shankapotomus Aug 2016 Aug 2016 2 3360

I want to create a video tutorial showing screens as I move through the program. S/w ideas? 4 SharonAnn Oct 2021 Oct 2021 0 5591

Does anyone here have a mesh network in their community? 2 shcrane71 Mar 2012 Mar 2012 0 2533

Concerning online free storage.... 3 shraby May 2012 Jun 2012 0 2195

I need an easy to use free program to put text on photos. 15 shraby Jun 2013 Jun 2013 0 3558

Video (youtube, etc..) downloader and to MP3 converter 6 SHRED Dec 2011 Jul 2022 1 8667

FAX software 8 SHRED Jan 2012 Mar 2012 0 3012

FLAC to MP4a file converter for PC 6 SHRED Dec 2011 Dec 2011 1 3397

Two internet privacy tools 3 SHRED Mar 2012 Mar 2012 2 2303

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