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Version 1.3.0 of Roundcube Webmail has been released. The main feature of this PHP-written email web client is that Ajax technology is used to display the user interface, which gives a modern and smooth impression. Roundcube Webmail…

OpenSUSE Leap 42.3 was released on Wednesday. Leap 42 is the successor to openSUSE 13.2, with '42' being the answer to the ultimate question about Life, the Universe, and the Rest. Leap 42 is based on SUSE Linux Enterprise, so it should…

Canonical has put Ubuntu on the Windows Store so Windows 10 Insiders can download and install the distro from Microsoft's app store. It is a version that is aimed at the use of Bash within Windows 10.It concerns Ubuntu 16.04 LTS,…

Researchers at security firm Qualys have discovered a vulnerability in sudo that allows a local attacker on the list of sudoers to gain root privileges on a vulnerable system. Patches are now available.Qualys describes the vulnerability…

MariaDB originated as a fork of MySQL after it was acquired by Oracle in 2009/2010. For an overview of the differences between MariaDB and MySQL you can visit: this one and this one pages right. It is a powerful open source database…

Canonical has released Ubuntu 17.04. Zesty Zapus is the latest in a line of 26 releases to feature alliterative names with animals in them. Unity is still the desktop environment, but that will change with the release of 18.04 next…

Dell has launched sales of two Precision laptops that can ship with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. In their most extensive configuration, the mobile workstations can be equipped with a Xeon quad-core, Nvidia Quadro P5000 GPU and a UHD screen.Dell…

The second so-called point release of version 16.04 of Ubuntu Linux has been released. Originally it was intended that it would be released in January, but due to problems, the release has been postponed several times. Ubuntu 16.04 is…

Canonical is dropping support for 32bit PPC processors with version 17.04. The organization has announced this. According to Canonical, there has been little interest lately and that was reflected in the number of downloads of the…

Version 16.10 of Ubuntu Linux has been released. A new version is published twice a year and the year and month of publication form the version number. Version 16.10 is codenamed Yakkety Yak and runs on Linux Kernel 4.8. Apart from…