OpenShift: Exclusive Interview With Red Hat's Bryan Che

In an exclusive interview with Muktware Bryan Che, Senior Director (Product Management and Marketing for the Cloud ... http://bit.ly/Ihu0Mp

Ubuntu 12.10 Open For Development With GCC 4.7

Development on Ubuntu 12.10, the Quantal Quetzal, is now officially underway... ... http://bit.ly/IhtXQN

Azul Launches Zing 5.2 JVM With Support for Ubuntu Linux

Azul Systems announced that its Zing 5.2 Java Virtual Machine (JVM) now features support for the Ubuntu Linux distr ... http://bit.ly/JXkD86

The Problem With Big Data Is That Nobody Understands It

The concept of Big Data—the practice of acquiring, analyzing and interpreting ridiculously huge data sets—is so ... http://bit.ly/IhoR70

LG to Open Up Multi-Screen Cloud Streaming Service

The company says that the LG Cloud service will launch in beta tomorrow, and allow for the consuming of multime ... http://p.ost.im/p/egwT7F

Linux and Gaming: Full Steam Ahead

There's been virtually continuous cause for celebration here in the Linux blogosphere over the last month or so ... http://p.ost.im/p/ephY9u

Collabora Keeps Pushing PulseAudio For Android

Arun Raghavan while working for Collabora has made additional progress in his porting of the PulseAudio stack to An ... http://bit.ly/IPFpoM

OpenMAMA Project Delivers First Release of Middleware Messaging API

The Linux Foundation announced that the OpenMAMA project has announced version 2.1 of the technology -- the fir ... http://p.ost.im/p/egKkq2

Tails 0.11 incognito Live System Released

The new version of the live Linux distribution designed to protect user privacy and anonymity switches to the E ... http://p.ost.im/p/epYdJ5

Django Migrates to GitHub

The Django web application framework has switched its version control system to Git. The developers have also c ... http://p.ost.im/p/epeb3J

Trying Out AMD's Radeon Gallium3D LLVM Compiler

Last week the R600 LLVM compiler was hooked up for AMD's open-source Gallium3D driver. This LLVM shader compiler is ... http://bit.ly/JMQvOo

Google Drive Clients for Linux in the Works

Google's cloud storage service launched without support for desktop Linux, a fact that several community projec ... http://p.ost.im/p/epevUR

Where Open Source Meets the Cloud: A Guide

With all of the recent debate over open source cloud computing platforms, including OpenStack and CloudStack, i ... http://p.ost.im/p/epMnC6

VMware Patches Vulnerabilities in ESX 4.1

Some unpatched versions of VMware's ESX enterprise-level computer virtualisation product are vulnerable to priv ... http://p.ost.im/p/epannu

Stable Kernel Updates 3.0.30 and 3.3.4

Greg KH has released two stable kernel updates: 3.0.30 and 3.3.4. Both have the usual pile of important fixes in ma ... http://bit.ly/IfcJWm

Distribution Release: Proxmox 2.1 Virtual Environment

Martin Maurer has announced the release of Proxmox 2.1 "Virtual Environment" edition, an open-source virtualization ... http://bit.ly/Ii4DxO

Is Open Hardware Creating a More Open World?

International science grid this week covers some open hardware projects. "The Village Telco project has created a c ... http://bit.ly/KbdToJ

Ice Cream Sandwich Leak Spotted on Droid Razr

Android 4.0 build spotted in the wild as Verizon's update schedule for the Razr leaks on the same day. ... ... http://bit.ly/JNURTA

Weekend Project: Get to Know LocalWiki for Local Information Sites

Wikis have a well-earned place among the ranks of content management systems (CMSes) as the de facto solution for c ... http://bit.ly/IwX7vE

Apache OpenOffice Lagging Behind LibreOffice in Features

Michael Meeks today posted the results of his side-by-side comparison of OpenOffice.org derivatives. The release of ... http://bit.ly/K969n4

The Open-Source Linux Graphics Card Showdown

Earlier this week I provided Intel Core i7 3770K Linux benchmarks for the Ivy Bridge launch-day followed by initial ... http://bit.ly/IXd9Qh

PHP 5.4.1 and PHP 5.3.11 released

The updated versions of the open source scripting language correct more than 60 bugs, including some related to sec ... http://bit.ly/K968j4

Cassandra 1.1 Brings Cache Tuning, Mixed Storage Support

Apache has dished out another serving of Cassandra, the open source NoSQL database popular for handling big data. T ... http://bit.ly/IEE2L4

Samsung Overtakes Nokia as the World's Biggest Phone Manufacturer [Factoid]

Samsung has just toppled Nokia's 14-year run as the world's biggest vendor of mobile phones in terms of shipments. ... http://bit.ly/IhEDo9

SugarCRM 6.5 Adds Just a Touch of Sweetener

SugarCRM has just debuted a controlled release of version 6.5 of its flagship open source CRM offering. In many way ... http://bit.ly/IxL9kq

Match the Big Data Job to the Big Data Solution

In the rush to play in the Big Data game, it's easy to forget the fundamentals. The fear of being left behind can c ... http://bit.ly/Iecb38

Consumerization vs. Vendor Lock-In

The term, "vendor lock-in" strikes terror throughout the IT community. And yet in reality, many companies are pur ... http://bit.ly/IWYyV5

AVG Antivirus For Linux/FreeBSD Plus Qmail Mail Server

AVG Antivirus For Linux/FreeBSD Plus Qmail Mail Server This document describes how to deploy AVG Antivirus for Linu ... http://bit.ly/IoLI6E

Study Says iOS Still Trumps Android at Work

There is no doubt that, despite being a very young mobile operating system, Android has achieved considerable succe ... http://bit.ly/IoLGMb

Open Source Cloud Roundup: Top Stories of the Week

Not to over-inflate the horse race nature of the cloud computing space right now, but this is an exciting time to w ... http://bit.ly/IVd27O

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS strikes Hyper-V first with Microsoft

Cloud before politics, says Canonical There’s a little love and yet a lot of rivalry between the latest Ubuntu bu ... http://bit.ly/IsurDW

Distribution Release: Edubuntu 12.04

Edubuntu 12.04, a new release of the specialist Ubuntu remix designed for schools, is ready for for download: "Afte ... http://bit.ly/IjB8hg

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Today we released the highly-anticipated Ubuntu 12.04 LTS release after a busy six month development cycle. The rel ... http://bit.ly/Is21cq

Oracle v. Google: The Trial and the Errors

With all the fabulous and exciting technologies to talk about here in the world of FOSS -- the shiny, brand-spankin ... http://bit.ly/KfeX6L

Distribution Release: BackBox Linux 2.05

Raffaele Forte has announced the release of BackBox Linux 2.05, an updated version of the project's Ubuntu-based di ... http://bit.ly/JIRrS2

Meeks: A LibreOffice/Apache OpenOffice Comparison

Michael Meeks has posted a comparison of new features added to LibreOffice and the upcoming OpenOffice 3.4 releas ... http://bit.ly/KeeYqU

Miha’s Retrospective on Grid Engine

Clipped from: my-inner-voice.blogspot.com (share this clip) Sun Alum Miha Ahronovitz writes that Grid Engine has de ... http://bit.ly/JGioZq

Distribution Release: Kubuntu 12.04

Kubuntu 12.04, a new version of an Ubuntu variant featuring the KDE 4.8.2 desktop, is out: "The Kubuntu community i ... http://bit.ly/Kfet0d

A Video Of The Source Engine On Ubuntu Linux

Here's a very brief video of Left 4 Dead 2, one of Valve's Source Engine games, with the OpenGL renderer running na ... http://bit.ly/JIR1Lv

The Numbers Are In On Android's Brief History

As the Google/Oracle trial continues, The Verge has published a complete internal presentation from Google's Andy R ... http://bit.ly/Iev8G5

AMD Catalyst 12.4 Linux Graphics Driver Released

Yesterday while the Phoronix server infrastructure was being hammered by the exclusive Valve Linux work, AMD releas ... http://bit.ly/IsT0Dh

Sony's Tablet S flavored with Ice Cream Sandwich

The company says that the Tablet S will prompt users to update the system software when they connect to a Wi-Fi net ... http://bit.ly/IzkSX6

Canonical Delivers Ubuntu Version 12.04: Precise Pangolin

Canonical has announced the release of the latest version of Ubuntu: version 12.04 LTS, which you can get here. Dub ... http://bit.ly/IRcP6k

Deploy Your Own Cloud with Debian Wheezy

The Debian Project produces an entirely Free operating system that empowers its users to be in control of the softw ... http://bit.ly/I263d6

Tales From the Server Room: Zoning Out

Sometimes events and equipment conspire against you and your team to causea problem. Occasionally, however, it's l ... http://bit.ly/ImcEOM

A RAW Feast on the Linux Darktable (Photo Editor)

The Darktable RAW photo editor, light table and workflow manager takes a different approach to photo editing and ma ... http://bit.ly/IKlXta

Introducing CloudOpen: Why Now and Why The Linux Foundation?

I am pleased to announce CloudOpen, our new conference celebrating and exploring the open source projects, techno ... http://bit.ly/IcOXy3

See the Steam client running on Linux; likely available by the end of the year

One of the most popular posts we've ever had on opensource.com was "Steam for Linux confirmed." Unfortunately it wa ... http://bit.ly/K5rrxt

Linux Mint Debian Edition 201204 arrives with MATE 1.2 and Cinnamon 1.4

The new version of Linux Mint Debian Edition is based on the 3.2 Linux kernel, and includes a choice of Cinnamon 1. ... http://bit.ly/K5r1r0

Video: Leveraging Lustre to Address the I/O Challenges of Exascale

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGdsLP6ESag In this video, Eric Barton from Whamcloud presents: Leveraging Lustre to Addres ... http://bit.ly/Jq6JJi

A RAW Feast on the Linux Darktable Photo Editor

The Darktable RAW photo editor, light table and workflow manager takes a different approach to photo editing and ma ... http://bit.ly/IS2hmI

git.kernel.org mirror at Google

Google has announced that it has put up a (read-only) git.kernel.org mirror at kernel.googlesource.com. "kernel.goo ... http://bit.ly/Ilalvl

Kansas City explores open government, civic life, and innovation

The exploration of open government and civic participation in Kansas City has already begun. This weekend, a new ch ... http://bit.ly/IlakYk

Valve is working on Steam and Left 4 Dead 2 for Linux

Valve, best known for games like Half Life and Portal, is reportedly working on a Linux version of the Steam client ... http://bit.ly/IbELpy

Distribution Release: Swift Linux 0.2.0

Jason Hsu has announced the release of Swift Linux 0.2.0, a lightweight desktop distribution with IceWM - now based ... http://bit.ly/IDUvhe

Job of the Week: Sofware Engineer at Whamcloud

Whamcloud is seeking Software Engineers in our Job of the Week feature. Position Summary Primary role will be to su ... http://bit.ly/I80opR

Intel pushing for more Thunderbolt adoption

Thunderbolt technology has had a slow start, but this should change within the next year or two. ... ... http://bit.ly/I80jCo

Most Popular Linux Distribution: Ubuntu (and Its Variants) [Hive Five Followup]

There are Linux distributions of all shapes and sizes, with varying levels of complexity and difficulty. Some are s ... http://bit.ly/IQ07Ec

Scientific Linux 5.8

Scientific Linux 5.8 has been released. "We want to thank all those who have contributed helping us build and test ... http://bit.ly/IaUmDx

NGINX Version 1.2.0 Released

NGINX 1.2.0 is the latest production-quality release of the stable branch, incorporating over 40 new features and o ... http://bit.ly/JwIbTT

Oracle v. Google shows the folly of U.S. software patent law

Oracle v. Google has all the ingredients of an epic, high-stakes courtroom battle: a damages claim of up to $1 bill ... http://bit.ly/Im07Kk

Google's Eric Schmidt defends Android in court

Google Executive Chairman testified that the Android team developed a "cleanroom" implementation that uses a comple ... http://bit.ly/JX6F39

Mercurial - Revision Control Approximated

A short while ago, an article appeared in Linux Journal implying Git was the be-all and end-all of source code revi ... http://bit.ly/InaHnT

Distribution Release: Linux Mint 201204 Debian

Clement Lefebvre has announced the release of Linux Mint 201204 "Debian" edition: "The team is proud to announce th ... http://bit.ly/IfQcqH

Mercurial - Revision Control Approximated

A short while ago, an article appeared in LinuxJournal implying Git was the be-all and end-all of source code rev ... http://bit.ly/JDD8yc

Mercurial - Revision Control Approximated

A short while ago, an article appeared in LinuxJournal implying Git was the be-all and end-all of source code rev ... http://bit.ly/IPkkdl

Samsung details Ice Cream Sandwich upgrades for American carriers

Samsung has published a list detailing which carrier variants of its phones and tablets will be blessed with Androi ... http://bit.ly/IPchgH

UK Government Open Standards Consultation closes soon

As the the UK Government's Open Standards Consultation nears its end, the Open Rights Group is asking members of th ... http://bit.ly/JEZAZ6

Google Drive Is Alive: 5GB of Free Dropbox-Like Storage on Google's Servers [Video]

Google Drive, the long-rumored web-based file storage tool, launches for real today. It's a little Dropbox, a dash ... http://bit.ly/Jma0vC

Theming Update Planned for Ubuntu 12.10, Codenamed Quantal Quetzal

Ubuntu 12.10, which is scheduled for release in October, will be called Quantal Quetzal. Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttl ... http://bit.ly/IlmwHy

Looking at the PostGIS 2.0 Release

The PostGIS database project made its long-awaited 2.0.0 release in April, marking the culmination of more than two ... http://bit.ly/Jm2K33

A Quick Yocto-Grid

Here in Hillsboro, Oregon, we have an open office area, and I really wanted a monitor set up which would display th ... http://bit.ly/J7gyd6

US Patent Office Declares Oracle Patent Valid After Reexamination

The US Patent Office has reexamined one of the Sun patents that was initially invalidated and has declared it as va ... http://bit.ly/I4wmAg

Open Source Adoption on the Rise in the French Government

France is currently spending 15 per cent of its annual governmental IT budget on open source software. Both preside ... http://bit.ly/Js4065

Mozilla's Plans to Compete in the Smartphone Market Are Advancing

For quite some time now, Mozilla has been ramping up its effort to become a serious player in the mobile operating ... http://bit.ly/IjXlIS

Google Shutters Several Projects, Including Picasa for Linux

Ever since its inception, Google has been known for its "throwing spaghetti at the wall" approach to new product de ... http://bit.ly/IzDh4n

CentOS 6.2 - Installing mod_spdy With Apache 2 - Level Novice

SPDY (Speedy) is an experiment with protocols for the web. Its goal is to reduce the latency of web pages. mod_spdy ... http://bit.ly/IibbYV

IBM Announces Linux Servers with POWER7 CPUs

Computers with IBM's POWER7 have been available for the AIX, IBM i (formerly OS/400) and Linux operating systems, b ... http://bit.ly/IlGC8Q

Ubuntu 12.10 Named as Quantel Quetzel

The challenge of coming up with a code name for the successor to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, "Precise Pangolin", has been met ... http://bit.ly/IjXmN2

Intel Core i7 3770K Ivy Bridge Linux Performance

Intel is finally announcing the first Ivy Bridge processors this morning. I have been extensively testing out the I ... http://bit.ly/I6RR5b

Long-Term Maintenance for Linux 3.2

A Debian developer plans to maintain Linux 3.2, which will be used in Debian 7.0 Wheezy and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, as a ... http://bit.ly/I5udrW

Start Fine-Tuning Sudo on Linux

The sudo utility is one of the workhorses of Linux, but it's often not used as skillfully as it could be. If you're ... http://bit.ly/Iib13I

Open Data Takes a Ride with Geeks on DaBus

One of the first publicly available open dataset/API from the City County of Honolulu is the one made available by ... http://bit.ly/IlGvdt

New data points to demand for Linux skills, training in Asia

With the Linux Foundation Enterprise End User Summit coming up on April 30, we revisited the data collected for ou ... http://bit.ly/IhMgEN

New Products

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AMD To Drop Radeon HD 2000/3000/4000 Catalyst Support

In what will certainly be controversial and disappointing to some Radeon Linux desktop users, AMD will soon announc ... http://bit.ly/IEBMBf

The Day my Mind Became Open Sourced

I can remember so clearly the exact day my mind became open sourced. It was a crisp and sunny November day in 1973. ... http://bit.ly/Ial3E4

What Ubuntu 12.10 Won't Be Codenamed

With the release of Ubuntu 12.10 due out next week, Mark Shuttleworth will soon be announcing the codename of the s ... http://bit.ly/HYYWVd

Ruby 1.9.3 Update Fixes RubyGems Security Problem

Version 1.9.3-p194 of the open source programming language fixes a number of bugs and addresses a security hole in ... http://bit.ly/JeMLBk

An Interview With Linus Torvalds (TechCrunch)

TechCrunch has an interview with Linus Torvalds. "Would some kernel people prefer getting tucked in at night instea ... http://bit.ly/HYYRkq

How To Set Up WebDAV With MySQL Authentication On Apache2 (Debian Squeeze)

This guide explains how to set up WebDAV with MySQL authentication (using mod_auth_mysql) on Apache2 on a Debian Sq ... http://bit.ly/HYfHyn

Video: Moab Configuration at Indiana University

In this video, Jenett Tillotson from Indiana University presents: Moab Configuration at Indiana University. Recor ... http://bit.ly/JeMLkG

Cycle Computing Spins up 50K Cores on AWS for Viral Research

Jason Stowe and the crew from Cycle Computing has upped the Ante once again this week with the announcement that co ... http://bit.ly/HYYSVq

VMware CEO Sees OpenStack as Lacking Maturity

Earlier this week, we covered a post from VMware that seemed to brush off all three of the emerging open source clo ... http://bit.ly/IakZEk

Android App Player for PCs Out in First Beta Version

When the Android mobile OS (which isn't very old) was in its infancy, many critics expressed concerns that Apple ha ... http://bit.ly/JbFjLO

Weekend Project: Discover Linux Astronomy Tools

Considering Linux's foothold in everything from embedded devices to supercomputers, describing the project's growth ... http://bit.ly/JeMKNG

Grab the Geeko by the Horns: The Boosters are Hiring

SUSE, our founder, partner and sponsor, has put out a couple of job openings for the openSUSE Boosters Team! Are yo ... http://bit.ly/IcySFm

Open cloud top stories of the week

With the OpenStack Folsom Design Summit happening this week, much of the open cloud news has revolved around OpenSt ... http://bit.ly/JoxGPy

Reaching Exascale with Volunteer Computing?

Over at the ISC Blog, Ad Emmen from Genias Benelux writes about the possibility of building an Exascale computer us ... http://bit.ly/I7x2lF

Morphlabs Launches OpenStack-Based Cloud Rack

Morphlabs has released a Dell PowerEdge C2100-based server rack that comes pre-loaded with NexentaStor and OpenStac ... http://bit.ly/HSBVVl

Mageia 2 Is Nearly Done With Last Beta

The third and final beta release of Mageia 2 Linux is now available... ... http://bit.ly/JgdjWG

Interview: Marc Hamilton on the New HP Cloud Services

In this video, HP’s Marc Hamilton discusses the company’s new HP Cloud Services, which will offer public, priva ... http://bit.ly/IX6atG

Q.bo Open Source Robot Now Available to Pre-Order

After several years of development, Spanish firm TheCorpora has completed its 45 cm tall Q.bo robot. It is availabl ... http://bit.ly/HVvgXC

Universal IPSec VPN client for Android 4.0

A German firm is in the process of releasing a VPN client for Android 4.0 that supports all IPSec variants and is d ... http://bit.ly/J5lcyO

Linus Torvalds now a Millenium Technology Prize Laureate

Torvalds is being recognised for his creation of Linux and is one of two laureates for the Technology Academy Finla ... http://bit.ly/HSBUkb

Linux Creator Linus Torvalds Named a Technology Laureate

Linux creator Linus Torvalds has recieved one of the technology commmunity's highest honors: He's been named a Mill ... http://bit.ly/HTHy0B

How to Run the New Chrome OS Environment Without a Chromebook

Google is revamping its Chrome OS platform with a new desktop environment and window management system. We took a c ... http://bit.ly/JgdgKv

HP to Certify Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Server on Select ProLiant Systems

Canonical has announced that HP will certify the next server edition release of the Ubuntu Linux distribution, 12.0 ... http://bit.ly/IBj3GG

Installing MySQL-Frontend Chive (A phpMyAdmin Alternative)

This guide explains how to install the phpMyAdmin alternative Chive. Chive is a free, open source, web-based databa ... http://bit.ly/I7wUTa

Manage Your Database with Adminer

If you're looking for a simple way to manage your database effectively, you might want to have a look at Adminer. I ... http://bit.ly/I7wUmc

Interview With Apper Author, KDE Developer Daniel Nicoletti

We interviewed KDE developer Daniel Nicoletti, who also happens to be the author of Apper. ... http://bit.ly/I5l9Rp

GIMP 2.10 To Be Fully Ported To GEGL Core

GEGL in GIMP is finally going to be going full-speed. For GIMP 2.10 the open-source imaging program's core will be ... http://bit.ly/Jiy9CI

SoftLayer Tailors HPC clouds with GPU lining

SoftLayer is getting into the modern hybrid supercomputer racket with the launch of GPU-enhanced server instances. ... http://bit.ly/HTpNCe

Creating a Mashup Dojo Widget

Dojo is a powerful user interface toolkit that lets developers build interactive web applications. In a previous ar ... http://bit.ly/HQgc08

Using mod_spdy With Apache2 On Debian Squeeze

SPDY (pronounced "SPeeDY") is a new networking protocol whose goal is to speed up the web. It is Google's alternati ... http://bit.ly/I2Blmj

Physical Memory Analysis with the LiME Linux Memory Extractor

The LiME Loadable Kernel Module allows digital investigators to perform physical memory analysis on Linux and Linux ... http://bit.ly/HSv2Ut

GIMP 2.10 Will use 16-bit Colour Depth Throughout

Two GIMP developers took a few weeks off and successfully ported many of the program's features to the GEGL library ... http://bit.ly/HQ6vPg

Open Source Transport Tycoon Deluxe Clone Updated to Version 1.2

Version 1.2.0 of the open source clone of MicroProse's Transport Tycoon Deluxe urban planning and simulation game a ... http://bit.ly/JasW1I

Mesa Makes Way For Assembly Shaders To GLSL IR

Intel's Ian Romanick has made progress in his long side-project of compiling OpenGL assembly shaders to GLSL IR. He ... http://bit.ly/HTXXIe

VMware Blog Post Targets Open Source Cloud Platforms

Last year, Citrix Systems announced that it had completed the acquisition of Cloud.com. Cloud.com had many notable ... http://bit.ly/I2oeSa

BSD Release: FreeBSD 8.3

FreeBSD 8.3 has been released: "The FreeBSD Release Engineering team is pleased to announce the availability of Fre ... http://bit.ly/ILm5Gd

AMD's FX-8150 Bulldozer Benefits From New Compilers, Tuning

After looking at how Intel's Sandy Bridge processor performance has evolved with the new GCC 4.7 compiler and Apple ... http://bit.ly/ILm459

Science the GNU Way, Part I

In my past several articles, I've looked at various packages to do allkinds of science. Sometimes, however, there ... http://bit.ly/I47SI1

Fedora 17 Beefy Miracle Goes Into Beta

The Beefy Miracle, a.k.a. Fedora 17, had its delayed beta release this morning... ... http://bit.ly/HPW3YF

Rackspace to Deliver Production-Scale, Supported OpenStack Cloud Platform

With the OpenStack spring conference taking place in San Francisco this week, there is already a wave of OpenStack- ... http://bit.ly/IV4Skh

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Kepler On Linux

After some delays in getting the hardware, we finally have our extensive review of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 "Kepl ... http://bit.ly/I0cdwH

Exascale: Raising the Stakes

Following the progress on the road to exascale is an interesting and entertaining exercise as more players get invo ... http://bit.ly/IV4L8j

DDN Embraces Chroma Central Management System for Lustre Made Simple

Today Data Direct Networks announced that the company is offering Whamcloud’s Chroma Enterprise central managemen ... http://bit.ly/HQDGiO

Distributed Replicated Storage Across Four Storage Nodes With GlusterFS 3.2.x On Ubuntu 11.10

This tutorial shows how to combine four single storage servers (running Ubuntu 11.10) to a distributed replicated s ... http://bit.ly/HQPu6v

Natterer: Goat Invasion in GIMP

On his blog, Michael Natterer writes about some major progress in making GIMP work with the Generic Graphics Librar ... http://bit.ly/IMJ6h9

Linux Mint Debian: Now with Cinnamon!

There's a new Linux Mint in town, and something new has been added. Specifically, Mint's Cinnamon desktop is now pa ... http://bit.ly/I0c8c7

Complexity, Uptime and the End of the World

Poorly implemented monitoring systems can drive an administratorcrazy. At best, they are distracting. At worst, th ... http://bit.ly/J3vrOK

KDE4 Activities for Fast Efficient Workflow

KDE4 Activities are misunderstood, which is unfortunate because they are powerful, fast tools for organizing comple ... http://bit.ly/ISyom0

GoGo on openSUSE

openSUSE 12.1 was one of the first major Linux distributions to include the new programming language Go. Recently, ... http://bit.ly/HRQWmT

Mandriva's Future to be Decided at the End of April

The COO of Mandriva has asked the community of the Linux distribution to provide feedback on their expectations for ... http://bit.ly/HOgZQi

Microsoft fields tough questions about open culture at the company

A flurry of press coverage came with the news two weeks ago that for the first time Microsoft had made the top-20 l ... http://bit.ly/IOAGHl

Open Source 3D Drivers for New AMD and NVIDIA GPUs

The Nouveau driver now offers 3D support for the GeForce GTX 680's Kepler graphics chip; a rudimentary driver to su ... http://bit.ly/IOAIPD

Oracle Accidentally Release MySQL DoS Proof of Concept

A test script included with the source code for a recent MySQL update revealed the nature of the flaw and provided ... http://bit.ly/HKWYsJ

Oracle, Google patent trial starts today

They're finally going to trial after two years of litigation over Android and Java. What's really at stake here for ... http://bit.ly/HOgVQs

Cars and FOSS: Sweet Ride, or Crash in the Making?

With the frequent focus on mobile machinations and desktop deliberations here in the Linux blogosphere, it would be ... http://bit.ly/IScb7F

Debian Project News - April 16th, 2012

Welcome to this year's eight issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue in ... http://bit.ly/HZJg3h

Raspberry Pi $35 Mini System Starts Shipping

The credit card-sized Linux system is being delivered to first 10,000 customers worldwide this week. ... http://bit.ly/HZD8V9

Remotely Unlock Fully Encrypted Debian Squeeze

In the past I have written several howtos for remotely unlocking fully encrypted Debian installations. With the adv ... http://bit.ly/JqqUFC

Canonical's AWSOME Move - Amazon Tasks Sent to OpenStack

Canonical, the commercial sponsor of the Ubuntu distribution of Linux, has announced the beta version of AWSOME, a ... http://bit.ly/IOADvk

Miss our Collaboration or Legal Summits? Here are some resources

Last week, we had our biggest turn-out ever for our Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit and our Legal Summit held ... http://bit.ly/HEp1dg

Red Hat and IBM Sign on to OpenStack Foundation

OpenStack moves a step closer to creating a foundation for governing the open source cloud stack and the change in ... http://bit.ly/HIPX8l

Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Approaches Stable State

Nouveau, the reverse-engineered open-source graphics driver for NVIDIA's entire range of graphics processors, is re ... http://bit.ly/HIPP93

Exclusive: Zipwhip to open source ‘Textspresso’ machine and release cloud texting for Ubuntu

It’s a pretty nice dream. On your morning commute, you send a text message to the office espresso machine with yo ... http://bit.ly/HDtUTX

Firefox Gets Click-to-Play Option for Plugins

A new option introduced in the nightly builds of Mozilla's open source browser lets users choose to display content ... http://bit.ly/I95WNH

openSUSE 12.2 Milestone 3 Released with GNOME 3.4

Following a short delay, the openSUSE project release team has published the third milestone for version 12.2 of it ... http://bit.ly/IhgXcv

Microsoft Creates Open Source Offshoot

Jean Paoli, General Manager of Interoperability Strategy at Microsoft, will be leading the new wholly owned subsidi ... http://bit.ly/HRgzp5

Improving Linux DRM For Embedded Systems

A set of Direct Rendering Manager patches have appeared to ease the development of targeting DRM drivers for embedd ... http://bit.ly/IlEWJU

HPC Pitfalls: The Costs of Free Software

Douglas Eadline is continuing his series of posts on HPC Pitfalls this week by taking on the notion that Free Softw ... http://bit.ly/IEjzmQ

How To Simulate Network Devices Using SNMP Simulator

This tutorial explains how you can simulate network devices for testing purposes with the free Verax SNMP Simulator ... http://bit.ly/HFBiiL

Gaming Freedom with Liberated Pixel Cup Contest

The Creative Commons, Free Software Foundation, and OpenGameArt have joined forces to organize a free culture licen ... http://bit.ly/HyaACC

Bohemian Broadband and the FOSS/Maker Culture

Last month, Verizon announced their HomeFusion broadband Internet service, which provides faster-than-DSL Internet ... http://bit.ly/HA0wJz

10gen Announces MongoDB Hadoop Connector

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openSUSE 12.2 Milestone 3 Hits the Street

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MariaDB 5.5.23 Arrives with Performance Improvements

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Calligra 2.4 Released

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Open-Source ARM Mali Graphics Driver Achieves...

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Big Tech Muscle Pledges Support, Money for New OpenStack Foundation

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Citrix Picks Up Podio for Cloud-Based Collaboration

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Distribution Release: Devil-Linux 1.6.0

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MariaDB/MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite3 - Comparing Command-Line Interfaces

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Blue Drop Awards Celebrates Achievements in Open Source Web Development

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Five ways to rev up Linux for the car industry

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OpenNebula 3.4 Reintroduces Clustering Concept to Cloud

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Arquillian Matures with 1.0 Release

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Tizen Developer Conference Agenda Announced

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XBMC Media Center Comes To Debian, Ubuntu

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Colfax Goes Cluster Ready with Sandy Bridge and Bright Comptuing

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Java: Roadmap for JDK 8 proposed

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DoudouLinux: A Starter Distro for Baby Linux Gurus are Born

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Interview: Xyratex CEO Steve Barber on Raising the Bar for HPC Storage

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MythTV 0.25 Hardware Accelerates Video and Adds AirPlay

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Video: Scalability — How to Configure and Manage Scalability for Moab and Torque

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Red Hat Storage 2.0 Beta Includes Hadoop Support

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A NVIDIA Tegra 2 DRM/KMS Driver Tips Up

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New Linux Gaming Benchmarks Published

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Into the Mosh Pit: A Mobile Shell Replacement for SSH

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Intel Lines Up Graphics Changes For Linux 3.5

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HP Takes Aim at Amazon with Public Cloud, Virtual Network Components

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Dear Android Tablets: Stay Crazy

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Google Fixes SSL Certificate Bug in Chrome

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Raspberry Pi Passes Critical Test - Almost Set for Sale

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Blue Systems to Sponsor Kubuntu

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GIMP 2.8 RC 1 Arrives with GPU Acceleration

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OLPC Alone, Not Enough to Improve Education

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Simon Listens Speech Recognition Project Migrates to KDE

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TIOBE: C is Back on Top... Just

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Debian's Diversity Statement

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2.4 Kernel Releases Come to an End

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That's a Wrap: 2012 Linux Foundation Collab Summit Pictures

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Fedora 17 Schedule Slips

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UEFI On Linux Is Like A Pathogen

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Video: OFA Code in Linux Distributions

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Drawing a Wooden Cabinet in a GTK Application

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The Best FTP App for Linux

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Wheeler: Insecure Open Source Software Libraries?

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Weekend Project: Bug Out with Entomologist

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OmniTI Delivers OmniOS to Replace OpenSolaris

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AMD Finally Publishes New Gallium3D Driver (RadeonSI)

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ClearOS,the Missing Link LAN Server

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OBS: Open Build Service Gets Website Integration

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An Experimental GNOME Shell Running On Wayland

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Pros Tips for Extending LibreOffice

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Final Release of Mageia 2 Postponed

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Facebook’s Open Compute Project Seeks New Ideas for Efficient Datacenters

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Hack and /: Automatically Lock Your Computer

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Ubuntu 12.04 Is A Mixed Power Story

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The Green Brick Road to Exascale

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In an Exploding Web Market, Nginx Gaining Against Apache

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Google Does Sandy/Ivy Bridge In Coreboot For Chrome OS

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Counting Contributions: Who Wrote Linux 3.2?

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Facebook’s Open Compute Project seeks new ideas for efficient datacenters

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As Yahoo Trims Down, Open Source Contributions Could Pick Up

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XBMC 11.0 Released

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Announcing New Open Compliance Template

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Slideshow: Live from Collaboration Summit

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How is Linux Built? Our New Report and Video

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Kubuntu Could Be Open To External Sponsors

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LF video: How Linux is Built

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More Cloud Turbulence: CloudStack Heads to Apache Foundation

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How Linux Talks to the Internet of Things: A Look at IEEE 802.15.4

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The KDE and openSUSE Communities Welcome You to COSCUP 2012!

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First Creative Commons 4.0 Draft Open for Public Comment

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Adobe Releases Open Source Malware Classification Tool

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Fedora 18 to use tmpfs by Default

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Yahoo Open Sources MVC Framework Mojito

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Oracle and Google Will go to Trial Over Android Dispute

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Can An ARM-Based Supercomputer Become the World’s Fastest?

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Creating An NFS-Like Standalone Storage Server With GlusterFS 3.2.x On Ubuntu 11.10

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Building an Ultra-Low-Power File Server with the Trim-Slice

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Hands-on: GNOME 3.4 Arrives, Introducing Significant Design Changes

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Linux 3.4-rc1 Kernel Released

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GNOME 3.4: Are We There Yet?

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Icculus Grows Fond Of Open-Source GPU Drivers

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Gentoo 12.1 Released With ZFS Support

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Distribution Release: Fuduntu 2012.2

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Trine 2 Linux Client Released

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Infographic: The Higher Education Bubble, Part One

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Xfce 4.10 Goes Into Preview State

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Q3-Based Reaction 1.0 Beta Released

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