China is one of the countries where Microsoft really has a hard time making its modern operating systems more popular, as authorities not only that started an anti-trust investigation against the company but they also banned Windows 8 on government computers.

At the same time, Chinese officials are trying to dump Windows completely in the country and are now pushing local users to Linux, an open-source alternative which, in their opinion, is much better and more secure than Microsoft’s operat… (read more)

Bio-Linux, a fully-featured, powerful, configurable, and easy to maintain bioinformatics workstation built on the Ubuntu operating system, has been upgraded to version 8.0.5 and is now available for download.

The Bio-Linux operating system is based on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr), and the previous version was using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. The developers only use LTS releases and that means that upgrades for this distro don’t come along all that often.

This Linux distribution is aimed at scientis… (read more)

Teddy Floppy Ear – Mountain Adventure is a new game developed and published by Forever Entertainment on Steam. The makers of the game also released a Linux version and it is now available with a 15% discount.

The Steam for Linux platform has many games, but very few of them are actually aimed at children. There are a few that can be safely played by small kids, but not nearly enough.

“Based on a famous Polish cartoon, Teddy Floppy Ear stands out as a great entertainment for our younglings. T… (read more)

A few Linux kernel vulnerabilities have been found in Ubuntu 14.10 (Utopic Unicorn) operating system and they have been corrected.

The Linux kernel for Ubuntu 14.10 (Utopic Unicorn) has been upgraded and a few issues have been fixed by the devs. This is regular update work and it’s unlikely that you were affected by any of these bugs.

“A race condition with MMIO and PIO transactions in the KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) subsystem of the Linux kernel was discovered. A guest OS user could exploi… (read more)