By Jim Lynch A Windows zealot trashes Linux Linux has always been a fantastic alternative to Windows for many users. But there are some people who are so attached to Windows that the very …read more Source:: OpenSource
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Subuser uses Docker containers to deliver desktop apps for Linux
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Distributing desktop applications for Linux has long been a headache, in large part because apps have to be repackaged for each Linux distribution. And while an app-containerization technology like Docker …read more Source:: OpenSource
IDG Contributor Network: Can SourceForge regain credibility with Linux users and developers?
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•By Jim Lynch Can SourceForge regain its credibility? SourceForge alienated many Linux users and developers a while back when the site was plagued with malware ads and other problems. Now SourceForge has a new …read more Source:: OpenSource
Linux desktop apps take a packaging cue from Docker
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Flatpak, a project sponsored by the Freedesktop project and engineered mainly by Alex Larsson at Red Hat, is a single application package containing everything needed to run a …read more Source:: OpenSource
IDG Contributor Network: How Linux Mint saved the day for an Ubuntu 16.04 user
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•By Jim Lynch How Linux Mint saved the day for an Ubuntu 16.04 user Ubuntu 16.04 has been out for a while, and it hasn’t been smooth sailing for everyone who has tried to …read more Source:: OpenSource
Linux containers vs. VMs: A security comparison
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•By Jim Reno Developers love containers. They’re easy to use and fast to start. You can run a lot of them on even simple hardware. Startup overhead has always been a bane of …read more Source:: OpenSource
IDG Contributor Network: Block ads via the hosts file in Android or Linux
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•By Jim Lynch Block ads via the hosts file in Linux or Android Ad blocking is all the rage these days, with many users deciding that they’ve had enough of obnoxious ads and being …read more Source:: OpenSource
Fedora 24 beta focuses on containers and the cloud
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•By Serdar Yegulalp The latest edition of Red Hat’s bleeding-edge Linux distribution, Fedora 24, is now available in beta, with the majority of the changes addressing how cloud applications are hosted …read more Source:: OpenSource
Free as can be: gNewSense is true GNU Linux
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•By Serdar Yegulalp The Free Software Foundation’s Linux distribution gNewSense is finally out in its fourth revision after a two-plus-year development cycle. The FSF is best known for its unrelenting advocacy for …read more Source:: OpenSource
IDG Contributor Network: 12 Linux geeks worth following on social media
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•By Jim Lynch 12 Linux geeks worth following on social media Social media isn’t my cup of tea, but many Linux users like it and use it. And there are certainly Linux …read more Source:: OpenSource