Surveon adds Linux-based NVR3304 to Professional Series

Enterprise NVR solutions provider, Surveon Technology has announced the Linux-based NVR3304 will be added to its Professional Series.

Moto Z2 Force hands-on—Motorola bets the farm on Moto Mods, loses

Remember the Moto Z? The Lenovo-controlled redesign of Motorola's flagship smartphone bet the farm on a modular phone idea, and the modular system kind of sucked. The modules were expensive, only worked with brand-new Motorola smartphones, and didn't offer anything useful over a non-modular version of the same accessory. To limit the effect the bulky modules would have on the phone, Motorola slimmed the phone down as much as possible, resulting in the removal of the headphone jack. Motorola sacrificed a lot to make the modular phone idea work, but at the end of the day the modular system never delivered a compelling use case.

Samsung Adds Galaxy J3 and Galaxy J7 Phones to its Unlocked by Samsung Portfolio

Polyverse Announces Full Zero-Day Protection for 10,000 Linux Open-Source Applications With a Single Line of Code Download [Ed: Misleading headline, weak marketing]

Should the ‘KEG’ Stack Replace the LAMP Stack?

For years, the LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Python/Perl) has been an oasis for developers looking to build modern apps without getting locked into the desert of some big vendor’s ecosystem. It’s a convenient, widely used open-source framework that makes application architecture easy for developers.

Short maintenance downtime window coming up

The blog runs on a server in the Teklinks datacenter, and that will be replaced by new hardware. Since this involves driving to the datacenter and doing physical work (thanks Robby Workman!) the slightly longer-than-usual downtime is needed.

openSUSE Leap 42.3 Released With New Features — Download Now

The developers of openSUSE Leap operating system have shipped the latest version in the form of openSUSE Leap 42.3. This fixed release distro is powered by Linux kernel 4.4 and allows you to choose a variety of desktop choices, including KDE 5.8 and GNOME 4.20. This release comes with about 10,000 packages and shares even more source code with SUSE Linux Enterprise.

Debian/TeX Live 2017.20170724-1

Yesterday I uploaded the first update of the TeX Live packages in Debian after TeX Live 2017 has entered Debian/unstable. The packages should by now have reached most mirrors. Nothing spectacular here besides a lot of updates and new packages.

CowerSnail Backdoor Targeting Windows Devices

Newly Discovered CowerSnail Backdoor Targets Windows Computers

Researchers detect CowerSnail Linux virus during ongoing investigation

QEMU 2.10 Working On Xen 9pfs Support, MIPS EVA

QEMU 2.10 is under development as the next step for this important piece of the open-source Linux virtualization stack. As of yesterday, QEMU 2.10-rc0 is now available for testing.

Etcher Image Writer Scores a Sizeable Summer Update

A bunch of handy new features and bug fixes recently landed in Etcher, the open-source, cross-platform image writing tool. In this post I’m going to run you through a few of the more notable additions, though feel free to peruse the full change-log yourself for more details. You’ll now see image name, drive name, and a relevant icon (where supported) in Etcher’s desktop notifications — perfect for when you’re writing an image in the background.

5 Excellent eBook Reader Apps for Ubuntu

Wondering what the best ebook reader for ubuntu is? So were we, so we tried a bunch to write this list of the 5 best ebook reading apps available on Ubuntu.

Dealing with program recordings

Adobe to kill off Flash plug-in by 2020

Adobe Systems has said that it plans to phase out its Flash Player plug-in by the end of 2020. The technology was once one of the most widely used ways for people to watch video clips and play games online. But it also attracted much criticism, particularly as flaws in its code meant it became a popular way for hackers to infect computers.

HTML5 Games Are Improving - Perfect For Ubuntu & Linux

We talk a lot about the different features and perks of various operating systems and the programs that work on them. There's often a decent amount of coherence between similar systems (or even similar versions of the same systems). But there’s one area that one Linux system vs. another, or Ubuntu vs. Windows can bring about problems, and that's gaming.

Dying Light's free 'Content Drop #0' is now out, Techland now have their own store

Dying Light [Steam, Gemly], one of the best Zombie games available on Linux (seriously it is!) has a free update and Techland have announced their own store.

Slime-san: Blackbird's Kraken is a huge free update & standalone is now available

Re:Legend, a co-op monster raising RPG is planning a Linux & SteamOS version

Re:Legend [Kickstarter] just caught my eye after it ended up in my inbox, the Kickstarter didn't actually state Linux/SteamOS support so I reached out to the developer. Turns out, they're planning it! My question was this: "For PC, you only list Steam, which is a bit confusing. Is that Windows only, or will a Linux/SteamOS version be included too?"

Wine Staging 2.13 released with more Direct3D 11 goodies and performance fixes