Linux-Native Task Management? Check.

Task management programs are commonplace in our busy lives, but it seems that every system lacks something. Google ... http://bit.ly/OoXWxQ

Book Review - Artist's Guide to GIMP, 2nd Edition

"One picture is worth a thousand words" stated Fred R. Barnard.  No quote could be quite as memorable as this nea ... http://bit.ly/VG6zas

Drupal Special Edition

As Linux Journal's resident Drupal nerd, I could not be more pleased to bring you this special Drupal issue. Drupal ... http://bit.ly/QH21dE

Ubuntu's New DNS: Unknown Host

If you're the type of person who installs Ubuntu's server edition, you're also likely the sort of person who knows ... http://bit.ly/T1uSJz

October 2012 Issue of Linux Journal: The Kernel

The Seats Are Bolted DownOne of my favorite Linux kernel analogies is that of an airplane losingaltitude. In the ... http://bit.ly/WeZ3AV

ZaTab: ZaReason's Open Tablet

Quite a few options existas far as Android tabletsgo. Some of them are great choices for personal entertainment a ... http://bit.ly/OY8Coi

Non-Linux FOSS: AutoCAD Alternatives

Although AutoCAD is the champion of the computer-aided design world,some alternatives are worth looking into. In f ... http://bit.ly/QV7xdb

The Sysadmin's Toolbox: iftop

Who's using up all the bandwidth, and what are they doing? Useiftop to find out. more ... http://bit.ly/RituVH

An Introduction to GCC Compiler Intrinsics in Vector Processing

Speed is essential in multimedia, graphics and signalprocessing. Sometimes programmers resort to assembly language ... http://bit.ly/P62nKS

Experimental animation and video techniques in Linux.

Animation and video editing in Linux can be treacherous territory. Anyonewho has tried working in these media prob ... http://bit.ly/PqW85x

Stop Waiting For DNS!

I am an impulse domain buyer. I tend to purchase silly names for simple sites that only serve the purpose of an ins ... http://bit.ly/OxQuvO

Audiobooks as Easy as ABC

Whether you love Apple products or think they are abominations, it's hard to beat iPods when it comes to audiobooks ... http://bit.ly/RSt2yf

Making Lists in Scribus

You might as well know from the start: Making bulleted or numbered lists in Scribus isn't as easy as in the average ... http://bit.ly/QfpVNG

Fritzing, the Hot New Electronics Designer for Real People

Fritzing is the sophisticated new electronics application with the funny name. It is a powerful tool for making sch ... http://bit.ly/SqOWuF

Nexus 7 - First Look

I had the opportunity to test drive a friend's Asus (Google) Nexus 7, the latest entry into the tablet space. It h ... http://bit.ly/P1TJfF

Skateboarding with Greg Kroah-Hartman

After the Linux Kernel Summit was done, the Linux kernel panel had wrapped and the LinuxCon and CloudOpen keynotes ... http://bit.ly/TrJTcE

Government's 7 Common Challenges to Embracing the Cloud

The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently published a report highlighting what government users ha ... http://bit.ly/TqkFvt

LinuxCon and CloudOpen Media Takeaways

The LinuxCon and CloudOpen 2012 conference held in San Diego last week were an epic success. Three days of keynotes ... http://bit.ly/Q8S2OH

30 Linux Kernel Developers in 30 Weeks: Julia Lawall

We're just back from a week of in-person collaboraiton at Linux Kernel Summit, Linux Plumbers Conference, LinuxCon, ... http://bit.ly/Q8S48Y

Defining the Open Cloud

Last week at CloudOpen we had a short panel discussion about what makes an “open cloud.” Surprisingly, some f ... http://bit.ly/NQ0LJt

Open Cloud Roundup: Top Headlines Week of Sept. 4

The news and analysis on open source cloud computing keeps flowing after the CloudOpen conference in San Diego last ... http://bit.ly/NQ0JkL

Open Cloud Roundup: Top Headlines Week of Sept. 4

The news and analysis on open source cloud computing keeps flowing after the CloudOpen conference in San Diego last ... http://bit.ly/P5a86p

Kobo Announces Smallest eReader in Kobo Mini, Kobo Glo, and Kobo Arc 7-Inch Android Tablet

Kobo makes some great eInk devices and just announced their new lineup of ebook readers, including a much improved ... http://bit.ly/P4MnLK

Defining the Open Cloud

Last week at CloudOpen we had a short panel discussion about what makes an “open cloud.” Surprisingly, some f ... http://bit.ly/NeNDfo

Alcatel-Lucent apiGrove — A New, Open-Sourced API Management Service

Alcatel-Lucent is open-sourcing a new API software engine and management platform called apiGrove that is meant t ... http://bit.ly/NeFxmM

Gingerbread Still Dominant with 57.5 Percent Android Ownership

Ice Cream Sandwich is now running on 20.9 percent of all Android-based devices, according to new data from Google. ... http://bit.ly/NeFx6u

Valve's Steam Linux Beta About To Drop?

A lot of Phoronix readers have been writing in this morning with the feeling that the Steam Linux Beta is likely ab ... http://bit.ly/NeFx6c

Distribution Release: Ubuntu Christian Edition 12.04

Jereme Hancock has announced the release of Ubuntu Christian Edition 12.04, an Ubuntu-based desktop Linux distribut ... http://bit.ly/NeFzuU

Integration, Alignment Key After Cloud 'Arms Race'

Analysts say it's too soon to tell if IT vendors that bought cloud companies have gained, but they should focus on ... http://bit.ly/Oq6Jfv

First Attempt At Linux Kernel Secure Boot Support

Matthew Garrett published the first patches this week that take an initial stab at the Linux kernel UEFI Secure Boo ... http://bit.ly/Oq6IZ3

Dell: Give Our Transformation Time

It took IBM a decade to transform from a hardware giant to a software and services juggernaut. Dell is in year thre ... http://bit.ly/NeFwzn

QEMU 1.2 Released

Version 1.2 of the QEMU processor emulator has been released. "Even though this was the shortest release cycle in Q ... http://bit.ly/NeFzeo

Microsoft, VMware and Amazon Jockey for Pole Position in Race to Manage the Cloud

Three companies each have their own method of linking an organisation’s datacentre with public clouds, but each o ... http://bit.ly/NeFwzj

Microsoft to Add 1,000 Employees in China

The software giant is growing its operations in the country with this recruitment drive, particularly research and ... http://bit.ly/Sn6qYS

Google: 1.3 Million Android Devices Activated Every Day

Eric Schmidt says that the number of Android devices activated each day has now grown to 1.3 million, but only a sm ... http://bit.ly/TYUaZQ

Enlightenment E17 Has Secret Release Plans

More information concerning the plans to finally release the Enlightenment E17 window manager will be revealed soon ... http://bit.ly/TYUaJu

X Server 1.13 has Better Hybrid Graphics Support

Version 1.13 of X Server has been released by the X.org developers and it offers improved support for hot-pluggable ... http://bit.ly/Trpxib

Samsung Sells 20M+ Galaxy S IIIs In 100 Days: A Benchmark Or A Red Herring For Apple, Nokia, Amazon?

Nokia and Motorola had their day in the device spotlight yesterday, and today it Amazon’s turn, with Apple’s ne ... http://bit.ly/TrpvqG

QEMU 1.2.0 Improves Live Migration

The new version of the open source system emulator, used in both the KVM and Xen virtualisation platforms, now supp ... http://bit.ly/TrprY4

Government's 7 Common Challenges to Embracing the Cloud

The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently published a report highlighting what government users ha ... http://bit.ly/TnU4gY

Design Frameworks

Want your site to look good, even though you're not a designer? Try a designframework. more ... http://bit.ly/OnpTTt

LinuxCon and CloudOpen Media Takeaways

The LinuxCon and CloudOpen 2012 conference held in San Diego last week were an epic success. Three days of keynotes ... http://bit.ly/QmceOP

Citrix Podio for iPad Debuts with BYOD in Mind

The new Podio for iPad app is boasted to complete Citrix's vision for empowering the mobile workforce. ... http://bit.ly/Qmcdus

World's First Linux Ultrabook Laptop Costs as much as a Windows Version

The ZaReason UltraLap 430 offers your choice of Linux OS, but has a starting price of $899. ... http://bit.ly/NS3cVQ

Why HTML5 is in Trouble on the Mobile Front

HTML5 promises great things for smartphone developers, but is yet to deliver in full. That leaves developers with a ... http://bit.ly/R8Yp8m

Supercomputing Takes a Slight Pause in Q2 as Big Systems Drive Sales

With all of the relatively cheap computing power available today, and with the expanding focus from traditional sup ... http://bit.ly/Q0B1sf

openSUSE 12.2 Arrives with Linux 3.4 and GRUB 2.0

Following a two-month delay, the developers at the openSUSE project have published version 12.2 of their Linux dist ... http://bit.ly/Q8tPWX

GE Software: The Bay Area's Giant Startup

GE is building a formidable Software Center in San Ramon as part of its goal of transforming industry sectors and b ... http://bit.ly/Q0AZ3F

AV Test Lab Examines Android Security Programs

The AV-Comparatives test lab has examined 13 security programs for Android smartphones. As well as the core anti-vi ... http://bit.ly/Q0AXZH

MariaDB Gets Alpha of Galera Clustering

The MariaDB team and Codership have brought Galera Clustering's scalable multi-master replication to the MySQL fork ... http://bit.ly/Q0AVB5

Special Report: Technology Innovation: TV Makers Join Forces Against Smartphone Giants

For TV makers to hold back Apple and Google, both making steps to take a slice of the market, they have to develop ... http://bit.ly/Q0AXsH

Apache Wicket Bounces to a 6

With a revamped JavaScript client side based on jQuery, a more OSGi-compliant server side and experimental WebSocke ... http://bit.ly/Q8tIL5

Github Resume Transforms Your Github Account into a One-Page Resume

Github Resume is a webapp that takes your Github account and turns it into an attractive one-pager that highlights ... http://bit.ly/Q8tFil

Linux Mint Founder Calls Nautilus 3.6 a Catastrophe

Discussing his project's new fork of the GNOME file manager, Clement Lefebvre calls Nautilus 3.6 a catastrophe. The ... http://bit.ly/REI8ak

Nokia's Turnaround Hopes Come to Focus with New Lumia Phones

CEO Stephen Elop is betting big on features such as its PureView camera and the generational shift in Windows to po ... http://bit.ly/REI6iQ

Slidecast: Overview of Intel Parallel Studio XE 2013

In this slidecast, Intel Tool Evangelist James Reinders presents an overview of the new Intel Parallel Studio XE 20 ... http://bit.ly/REI4Y8

KDE Delivers First KDE SC 4.9 Update

Version 4.9.1 has been released to address significant bugs in the Kontact Suite and Dolphin file manager, as well ... http://bit.ly/RlwRHk

Netflix Open Sources Eureka for Mid-Tier Load Balancing in the Cloud

This week, Netflix has open sourced its Eureka service, which handles many infrastructure tasks for Netflix's Amazo ... http://bit.ly/REI2zx

ARM Worried About Economic Uncertainty

ARM, which powers a diverse array of hardware ranging from smartphones to servers, is bracing itself for subdued sa ... http://bit.ly/RIs9E7

Interfacing Disparate Systems

When hearing the word interface, most people probably think of a Graphical UserInterface or a physical hardware in ... http://bit.ly/RIcd4O

Enterprise Mobility: How Fast Can Development Go?

There's never been a better time to be a mobile developer, writes Forrester analyst Michael Facemire. ... http://bit.ly/RDcDxk

Windows Server 2012 Launches as Cornerstone of Microsoft's 'Cloud OS'

Microsoft is making available the final Windows Server 2012 bits for test and/or purchase as of Sept. 4. ... http://bit.ly/PZl9pR

Oracle Appeals Five-Year US Copyright Case Against SAP

Oracle has rejected SAP's offer of $306 million to settle a copyright infringement case launched in 2007, according ... http://bit.ly/OLORg2

Linus' F-You Brought NVIDIA Optimus Support To Linux

Good news for Linux users, NVIDIA is finally working on a new vesion of its non-free drivers for Linux which will b ... http://bit.ly/RhGZkD

VMware Secures Server Products

VMware has shipped updates for open source components of its various server products, including refreshed Java, Ope ... http://bit.ly/RhGVRS

Nemo, Cinnamon 1.6 and MATE 1.4

I’m taking this opportunity to relay two pieces of Cinnamon news to the Linux Mint community. Cinnamon 1.6 previe ... http://bit.ly/NaQFB3

Acer to Release Six Smartphones in 2013, Including Windows 8 Device

Acer has confirmed its plans to release six new smartphones in 2013, running either Windows 8 or Android. ... ... http://bit.ly/RhGVB8

SystemRescueCd 3.0.0 Introduces Support for Modules

Version 3.0.0 of the Linux distribution for administering and repairing systems introduces support for SRM modules ... http://bit.ly/RhGQO5

Participatory Culture Creates a Sense of Belonging

In 2005, I started a new job working as the public geek at the Takoma Park Maryland Library, a public library in th ... http://bit.ly/PZ4rqB

Slidewall Uses Your Photos or Images from the Web to Keep Your Linux Wallpaper Fresh

Linux: Slidewall is a free utility for Linux systems that will rotate your desktop background at an interval you se ... http://bit.ly/Q2d7IZ

Video: Managing HPC Clusters with MOAB

In this video, Chad Harrington from Adaptive Computing describes the coming wave of virtualization technologies in ... http://bit.ly/NOiV8t

Android Rules the Roost in EU, U.S.

Google-owned Android has jumped by more than 20 percent in share in the U.K., Germany, France, Italy and Spain mark ... http://bit.ly/OVplHd

Day: Taking GNOME 3 to the Next Level

Allan Day previews the upcoming GNOME 3.6 release. "I’m more excited about this release than any since 3.0. The l ... http://bit.ly/ShaOIV

Another ARM Video Decoder Being Reverse-Engineered

While the binary wall has yet to fall with ARM SoC vendors in terms of providing open-source drivers -- namely when ... http://bit.ly/OLOjH2

Qubes 1.0 Security Desktop Distribution Released

Version 1.0 of the Qubes security-oriented desktop distribution has been released. "Generally Qubes OS is an advanc ... http://bit.ly/NKlHS4

Mandriva Specialist ROSA Releases Enterprise Distribution

ROSA, previously known for Mandriva fork ROSA Marathon 2012, has released a test version of an enterprise Linux dis ... http://bit.ly/O92pWp

Hardware Hacks: Learning the Pi, DSLR hacking and the Cubieboard

This week Hardware Hacks looks at a new online course on building an OS for the Raspberry Pi, hacking a battery gri ... http://bit.ly/RHxmft

Razor-Qt Desktop Still Being Developed, v0.5 Is Near

While there hasn't been a new release since February, like the Trinity KDE 3.5 fork, the Razor-qt desktop environme ... http://bit.ly/Q2clLS

Ubuntu's New App Developer Upload Process Proposal

The Ubuntu folks have run into an interesting problem with their application upload process: "Despite our best inte ... http://bit.ly/Q2ciQg

Free Resources for Picking Up Programming and Development Savvy

Khan Academy, the innovative online education startup that has drawn backing from Google and Bill Gates, continues ... http://bit.ly/Qjc374

Sneak Peek: openSUSE 12.2 and KDE

Meet openSUSE: friendly, welcoming, vibrant, and active. We believe in collaboration, open governance and creating ... http://bit.ly/Q2cf74

30 Linux Kernel Developers in 30 Weeks: Julia Lawall

We're just back from a week of in-person collaboraiton at Linux Kernel Summit, Linux Plumbers Conference, LinuxCon, ... http://bit.ly/OPYpoy

Xfce 4.10, the Sane Linux Desktop

Xfce 4.10 is the latest release of the excellent Xfce desktop, full of useful incremental improvements and no shock ... http://bit.ly/PI0oLp

Oracle: Leading with Linux, Then and Now

Adopting Linux as a platform has helped change Oracle over the past 15 years from a fragmented, decentralized behem ... http://bit.ly/RwY6TZ

{Video} Epic Community Song from LinuxCon, Features Linus Torvalds

The Linux and open cloud communities this week at LinuxCon and CloudOpen came together to advance technology for th ... http://bit.ly/Oz14EP

IBM SmartCloud Optimized for Managing, Drilling Data from Consumer Devices

IBM's latest SmartCloud addition tracks customer intelligence on consumer devices with the promise of enhanced cust ... http://bit.ly/NH9yYb

Apple, Google in Secret Patent Settlement Talks?

Behind the scenes, Google and Apple CEOs Larry Page and Tim Cook have been in talks over the two companies' patent ... http://bit.ly/O9sdNK

Hipsters Hacking on PostgreSQL

With the rise of NoSQL, it's easy to assume that old-school relational databases are simply living out their dinosa ... http://bit.ly/T2IUOk

ownCloud Offers Three-Hours Test Drive To Business Customers

ownCloud has announced deal with Standing Cloud to offer a rapid-deploy cloud file sync and share service. The 'dea ... http://bit.ly/PGiayn

Bits Blog: The China-U.S. Smartphone Gap Grows Larger

In China, smartphones are poised to become even more widespread than they are in the United States. The reason: a h ... http://bit.ly/PGi9dN

NetBSD 6.0 RC1 Released

NetBSD 6.0 RC1 is now available for this BSD alternative to FreeBSD... ... http://bit.ly/O1eCfv

Microsoft Hardware's First Windows 8 Devices

The Wedge Mobile Keyboard, Wedge Touch Mouse and Sculpt Touch Mouse have one thing in common — they're all design ... http://bit.ly/Rue5Ot

Fedora 18 To Be Delayed By Another Week

Fedora 18, Spherical Cow will be delayed by another week, due to some outstanding bugs that are blocking its releas ... http://bit.ly/Rue5xW

Amidst Confusion About the Open Cloud, Support Will Settle the Score

The Linux Foundation's interesting LinuxCon and CloudOpen conferences are winding down today in San Diego, Caliorni ... http://bit.ly/O1ezR8

Installing The PHP WebDAV Extension On Debian Squeeze

Installing The PHP WebDAV Extension On Debian Squeeze This article shows how you can install the PHP WebDAV extensi ... http://bit.ly/Rue50S

LinuxCon Live Blog: IaaS v. Paas Panel, Citrix and Oracle

Today is the last day of LinuxCon and CloudOpen 2012. Don't miss any of the action! We'll be live blogging the morn ... http://bit.ly/Rue7G7

Qt 5 Beta Released, Promises Improved Graphics

Qt, a C++ GUI and application framework is up for a new major release. Lars Knoll announced the release of Qt 5 bet ... http://bit.ly/O1eywn

{VIDEO} Live from LinuxCon/CloudOpen: OpenStack's Jonathan Bryce

Hosting an event with so many talented people gives us a unique opportunity to steal a few minutes with members of ... http://bit.ly/NZRfmH

Slideshow: LinuxCon and CloudOpen Highlights

The past 24 hours have flown by so quickly here at LinuxCon and CloudOpen in San Diego. We've seen great speakers ... http://bit.ly/Q5qxY9

Quotes from the Kernel Panel at LinuxCon in San Diego

A highlight of yesterday's excellent LinuxCon and CloudOpen conference was definitely the kernel panel featuring Sa ... http://bit.ly/PveEbt

LinuxCon Live Blog: SUSE, Red Hat and Author Phil McKinney

Follow our live coverage of the LinuxCon and CloudOpen keynotes on Thursday afternoon, starting at 4:30 p.m. Pacifi ... http://bit.ly/PveBwc

Intel Hopes to Revolutionize the Way You Charge Your Mobile Devices

The company will team with IDT to add wireless charging capabilities to a reference chipset in 2013 that could even ... http://bit.ly/RrjdTw

Making your Energy Efficient Datacenter Pay Off. Literally.

A cash reward is the result of careful planning and design. ... http://bit.ly/PuSk1v

Windows 8 Secure Boot: A Roundup of Linux Distros' Plans

There's been no end to the controversy generated in the Linux community by Microsoft's Windows 8 Secure Boot plans, ... http://bit.ly/OBS8QF

Linux's Brilliant New Gaming Career

The legendary Mark Twain is said to have once observed, "If you don't like the weather in New England, just wait a ... http://bit.ly/Uef6OB

How To Get Your Ph.D. Project Included In The Linux Kernel

The Linux kernel is the world’s largest collaborative development project. Almost 3,000 individual contributors w ... http://bit.ly/Uef4q1

Samsung, Carriers to Modify Infringing Devices, Report Says

The company is also reportedly considering reducing its reliance upon Android in favor of Microsoft's Windows Phone ... http://bit.ly/SVSFPZ

GNOMEbuntu Will Be Available This October

There is good news for all GNOME users. It's official and GNOME Shell edition of Ubuntu is coming this October. ... http://bit.ly/Uef6xS

IDC: Android-Crazy China Passes U.S. As Smartphone Leader, But India’s Growing The Fastest

The latest figures out from IDC confirm that this is the year that China will overtake the U.S. as the world’s bi ... http://bit.ly/SVSFiX

Red Hat Adds BPM to JBoss with Polymita Buy

Red Hat is to build in more business process management functionality into its JBoss middleware after it purchased ... http://bit.ly/SVSDrh

Codethink Releases Baserock 1.1

Codethink announces version 1.1 (aka Secret Volcano) of its Baserock Embedded Linux software. Baserock is a Linux b ... http://bit.ly/OM1acp

OpenStack Gains New Leadership, and a SUSE Launches Its OpenStack Cloud

The might of OpenStack's very big backers has become more and more apparent in recent weeks. Announcements from Red ... http://bit.ly/SVSBjn

VMware Has to Wait for OpenStack Decision

A long board meeting meant that the OpenStack Foundation's board didn't get around to discussing VMware, Intel or N ... http://bit.ly/OM184t

News and Live, Online Keynotes from LinuxCon and CloudOpen

As The Linux Foundation's LinuxCon and CloudOpen conferences kick into high gear in San Diego, Calif., you can get ... http://bit.ly/OM19Fw

Huawei Shows Off Early Version of Emotion UI for Android, Packs a 'Stock' Skin Too

Huawei didn't have any new hardware to show during its packed press conference, but it did have an early version of ... http://bit.ly/OM19Fi

Live Blog from LinuxCon: Qualcomm, Facebook and Twitter Keynotes

Follow our live coverage Thursday morning starting at 9:15 a.m. with a keynote from Rob Chandhok of Qualcomm, Ami ... http://bit.ly/OM17xt

Slideshow: LinuxCon and CloudOpen Kick Off in San Diego

LinuxCon 2012 was off to a great start in San Diego Tuesday with a full day of Linux training and the Linux Kernel ... http://bit.ly/OsbsOy

{VIDEO} How Much Do You Really Know About Linux?

LinuxCon and CloudOpen are off to a great start, and there is still a lot to come. In fact, the man (that would be ... http://bit.ly/N0t8D0

Live Blogging LinuxCon: Wednesday Afternoon Keynotes

Live coverage of LinuxCon and CloudOpen 2012 starts again this afternoon at 4 p.m. with a keynote from Linus Torval ... http://bit.ly/Rnrmbz

Trine 2 from Frozenbyte

One of the great things about independent game companies is that they realizeLinux gamers exist—and we're willin ... http://bit.ly/Qzd7W7

Live Blogging LinuxCon: Wednesday Morning Keynotes

Welcome to LinuxCon and CloudOpen 2012! We'll be live blogging the morning keynotes here. Join us at 9:15 a.m. for ... http://bit.ly/OrrmZr

Sony Mobile Tries Open Path to Android Success

Some six months after Sony took full control of Sony Ericsson, following a $358 million quarterly loss by the renam ... http://bit.ly/OrrkAW

Time for Android to Radically Change the UI

The patent infringement verdict against Samsung is a firm shot across the bow of Android. Google risks a continual ... http://bit.ly/PQG4sI

Raspberry Pi Gives Users What They Asked For: MPEG-2 and VC-1 Support

After the lack of MPEG-2 and VC-1 caused an outcry among fans using the cheap Linux computer as a media centre, Ras ... http://bit.ly/NCoLtm

Distribution Release: Turbolinux 12.5

Turbolinux, Inc., one of the world's oldest surviving Linux companies in the world, has announced the release of Tu ... http://bit.ly/RssbUJ

Google Summer of Code 2012 Wraps Up

Google has announced that their Summer of Code program has come to an end, revealing that the overall success rate ... http://bit.ly/Rssdf6

Heartbroken App-Maker Qt Sneaks Into Android's Bed

The effort towards a Qt library for Android is progressing, with a fourth and final alpha release being sent out th ... http://bit.ly/PtFBe9

Mozilla Measures Interest in its Open Source Projects Using Site Metrics

David Boswell has a couple of interesting posts (here and here) about how he is using metrics to measure how effect ... http://bit.ly/MZSRv9

Microsoft Gives Android Punters Some Official SkyDrive Love

Android now has an official SkyDrive client, bringing Microsoft's cloud storage to Google's handsets and dragging a ... http://bit.ly/MZSQYg

Intel OpenGL Performance: OS X vs. Windows vs. Linux

As mentioned last week when publishing the OS X 10.8 vs. Ubuntu Linux benchmarks, a large Intel OpenGL driver perfo ... http://bit.ly/MZSQY8

FreedomBox 0.1 Released

The very first release of the FreedomBox software has been announced. "This 0.1 version is primarily a developer re ... http://bit.ly/Or6Fg7

What Users Want for the Cloud

Today is opening day of LinuxCon and the first-ever CloudOpen. It represents the culmination of months of preparati ... http://bit.ly/Or6EJf

Live Blogging LinuxCon: Jim Zemlin's Morning Keynote

Welcome to LinuxCon and CloudOpen 2012! We'll be live blogging the morning keynotes here. Join us at 9:15 a.m. for ... http://bit.ly/PO8Qg3

Apple, Qualcomm Failed to Buy TSMC Chip Exclusive Rights

According to reports, Apple and Qualcomm failed in their bids to invest for exclusive access to TSMC chip supplies. ... http://bit.ly/OJNkaB

MIPS Aims Challenge at ARM Tablet Dominance

Displaying a new processor design, MIPS Technologies hopes to challenge ARM's reach in the high-end mobile device m ... http://bit.ly/PO8N42

IBM's Angel Diaz: 3 Projects Creating User-Driven Standards for the Open Cloud

IBM wants a set of interoperability standards for the open source cloud to emerge through a collaborative process, ... http://bit.ly/RkfVRW

The Sysadmin's Toolbox: sar

As someone who's been working as a system administrator for a number ofyears, it's easy to take tools for granted ... http://bit.ly/MY57MM

The Sysadmin's Toolbox: sar

As someone who's been working as a system administrator for a number ofyears, it's easy to take tools for granted ... http://bit.ly/Pocvgu

Microsoft: Our Datacenter Offerings are Software-Defined, Too

VMware isn't the only company on the "software-defined datacenter" train. With Windows Server 2012 and its virtual- ... http://bit.ly/NvesgF

Pabst CIO Ben Haines Brewing Cloud First IT

Pabst Brewing Co. is battling giants in the beer market and its secret weapon may be more nimble IT. That reality m ... http://bit.ly/U8DSjd

I.B.M. Mainframe Evolves to Serve the Digital World

Executives said the company’s new line of mainframe computers can tackle any trend in corporate computing, from t ... http://bit.ly/Nv8zzS

Active in Cloud, Amazon Reshapes Computing

Amazon is quietly upending the world of business computing through its cloud operations, a vast resource that gives ... http://bit.ly/Nv8wUR

Ubuntu to Drop Alternate Installer

The alternate installer, required when users want to configure cryptsetup, Logical Volume Manager (LVM) or software ... http://bit.ly/Nv8wUN

Apple Seeks US Ban on 8 Samsung Devices

After its patent victory over Samsung in a U.S. court, Cupertino followed that up by filing a court request to ban ... http://bit.ly/Nv8wnN

Don't Forget the People in e-Health: NSW Health CIO

NSW Health's CIO is pushing for a change in how IT is used in healthcare systems, after having personally felt the ... http://bit.ly/Nv8w7i

Global Microserver Consumption Set to Soar: Intel

Initial adoption of microservers has been very industry specific, but Intel is expecting uptake from more enterpris ... http://bit.ly/NAB1KS

Samsung Announces Drive Link, a Car-Friendly App With MirrorLink Integration

Until self-driving cars become mainstream, it's best to keep eyes on roads and hands off phones. With this in mind, ... http://bit.ly/Nv8vAd

GNOME 3.6 Beta Arrives with Redesigned Message Tray

GNOME 3.5.90, the first beta release of GNOME 3.6, includes a redesigned message tray and changes to the way users ... http://bit.ly/NAAZCW

NFC Token for Android Smartphones

With the aid of key fob token YubiKey Neo, supported smartphone apps can be protected with a one-time password. To ... http://bit.ly/NAB0Xu

Follow Our Live Coverage from LinuxCon and CloudOpen

Today I'm headed to sunny San Diego for the LinuxCon and CloudOpen conferences. Woohoo! This will be my first Linux ... http://bit.ly/Nv8v3c

Intel Quad-Core SoC Processors Detailed in Leaked Documents

Leaked documents suggest that Intel's new Atom System-on-a-Chip processors will come in one, two, and four core var ... http://bit.ly/NAAXuG

The Nexus 7's Single Biggest Advantage

Google's Nexus 7 tablet has a killer spec sheet, an enviable operating system, and cutthroat price. But all of thos ... http://bit.ly/Nv8tII

Sony: We Need to be More 'Customer Focused'

Sony will be boosting its research and development in cloud computing, display panels and aim to be more customer-c ... http://bit.ly/Nv8qN9

Dell's Project Stratus Device Management Console Goes into Public Beta

Another result from Dell's purchase of Wyse Technologies earlier this year: the company can now offer a unified, cl ... http://bit.ly/NAAY1I

Announcing the Winners of the LinuxCon Find Skater Tux Competition

Today we're very excited to announce the winners of our "Find Skater Tux" competition, which invited community memb ... http://bit.ly/NSkOqa

Winning T-Shirt Contest Designs On Sale This Week at LinuxCon

Brian Beck took first place in this year’s “Inspired by Linux” t-shirt design contest. We followed up with hi ... http://bit.ly/NX7o82

Gnome Sudoku: Final Look

One of the games that specially was given importance in GSoC was Gnome Sudoku. Chris Baines has posted a screenshot ... http://bit.ly/PkmdpG

Samsung's Android Phone Strategy Can Withstand a Legal Setback

The news of Apple's legal victory over Samsung is still making its way through the tech world. In case you missed i ... http://bit.ly/NWXCmh

Enterprises See Growing Open Source Cloud Appeal

The growing maturing of OSS and support from IT vendors make open source cloud deployments an appealing choice, but ... http://bit.ly/Pkmbhx

Big Data Bites Back: How to Handle Those Unwieldy Digits

Data is easy. It comes in tables that store facts and figures about particular items – for example, people. The c ... http://bit.ly/NWFRUa

VMware Not Cloud Leader — Next Generation Providers Filling Gaps, Creating New Categories

VMware will spend this week seeking to convince us that it will take the mantle as the cloud leader. But the realit ... http://bit.ly/Ns1PTz

Intel Releases New Version Of Their GPU Tools

Version 1.3 of intel-gpu-tools was released with "too much stuff changed", well, with 177 changes compared to the e ... http://bit.ly/NWFQQb

Samsung Goes Big With 5.8-inch Galaxy Player

Ahead of the IFA show, the company upsizes its Android device for playing music, video, and games. It's edging clos ... http://bit.ly/NWFOYp

Interconnects Are Newest Twist in Intel vs. ARM

Over at EE Times, Rick Merritt writes that interconnects are the newest front in the war over server microprocessor ... http://bit.ly/Ns1Qqy

VMware Applies to Join OpenStack

VMware, Intel and NEC's applications to join the OpenStack Foundation are to be discussed at the first full board m ... http://bit.ly/NWFOHV

A Set of Stable Kernel Updates

The 3.0.42, 3.4.10, and 3.5.3 stable updates are out with the usual pile of important fixes. There are some reports ... http://bit.ly/NWFOHS

Radeon Gallium3D Now Does MSAA On R600

Thanks to the great work of Marek Olšák, the prolific independent contributor to Mesa/Gallium3D that is still at ... http://bit.ly/NWFQzw

Samsung Issues Internal Memo Over Apple Loss, Promises Victory

The company says that eventually "the market will side with those who prioritize innovation over litigation." ... ... http://bit.ly/Ns1OPl

Google: Apple vs Samsung Does Not Relate to Android's Core

Commenting on the outcome of the lawsuit between Apple and Samsung on patent and trade dress violations by Samsung, ... http://bit.ly/NWFOb2

Apple-Samsung Case Muddies the Future of Innovation

For companies that emphasize distinctive design, the Samsung patent verdict was a validation of their efforts. ... http://bit.ly/Ns1Oz3

KDE 4.10 KWin To Properly Support AMD Catalyst

KWin, KDE's compositing window manager, will better play with the AMD Catalyst binary blob in the KDE 4.10 release ... http://bit.ly/Ns1OyX

openSUSE 12.2 Release Publicity: Call for Contributions

As we enter the final straight towards the release of openSUSE 12.2, the openSUSE Team is busy preparing the releas ... http://bit.ly/Ns1OyT

Intel Graphics Mature Greatly with the Linux Kernel

As a prelude to the forthcoming Windows 7 vs. OS X 10.8 vs. Ubuntu Linux benchmarks that are looking at how Intel O ... http://bit.ly/NWFMQy

What Does Overqualified Actually Mean? [Jobs]

Of course rejection hurts, but to tell your friends and family (and yourself) that you were turned down because you ... http://bit.ly/Ns1NuY

30 Linux Kernel Developers in 30 Weeks: Martin Petersen

This week is the annual migration of Linux kernel developers from all over the world to the Linux Kernel Summit, wh ... http://bit.ly/SI3ULU

What I'm Looking Forward to at LinuxCon Next Week

We have been preparing for next week for months. From picking the venue to coordinating mini-summits to shifting th ... http://bit.ly/Sx4nQQ

Best Linux Keyboard Shortcuts

Keyboard shortcuts on Linux are like a box of chocolates: you never know what you're going to get. ... http://bit.ly/P8zpOj

Windows 8: Why IT Admins Don't Know Best

Memo to IT depts: get out of users' way or expect to be out of a job in the long run. ... http://bit.ly/Nqqkun

IT Security Pros Must Increase Risk Appetite

The tech team will need to overcome their risk-averse mindsets and work closely with other departments such as lega ... http://bit.ly/NKUH4z

Install Banshee 2.5 In Ubuntu

Banshee team announced the release of version 2.5 a few days ago. The new version now supports better integration w ... http://bit.ly/NOyKNs

Development Release: PC-BSD 9.1-RC1

Kris Moore has announced the availability of the first release candidate for PC-BSD 9.1: "The RC1 images for the up ... http://bit.ly/OelFQg

Pop Culture References for Open Source Principles

From Nine Inch Nails to Star Trek, open source principles are represented in much of pop culture. Ruth Suehle, comm ... http://bit.ly/OelEvP

Apple's Tim Cook Notches First Year as CEO

It's been a year at the helm for Apple's top executive, who is under more scrutiny than just about any corporate ho ... http://bit.ly/NOyJsV

Samsung Reveals the Design Story Highlights for the Galaxy S III

Samsung was very keen to let us know that its latest flagship phone was designed for humans. Now, the latest in the ... http://bit.ly/OelGUg

Fedora 17 Doesn't Change The Apple MacBook Pro

Following yesterday's OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion vs. Ubuntu Linux benchmarks and the OS X vs. Linux power consumption ... http://bit.ly/NOyIW0

Zarafa Collaboration Platform 7.1 Released

Expanded cluster and backup abilities will improve availability for the groupware solution, which also includes a n ... http://bit.ly/NOyGgQ

Linux Mint 14 “Nadia”

Linux Mint 14 will be named “Nadia” and should be available at the end of November 2012. In Kim Stanley Robinso ... http://bit.ly/OelAvU

Rackspace Tool Checks the Health of Clouds

The monitoring technology is designed to let IT admins keep an eye on clouds no matter where these are hosted so th ... http://bit.ly/OelzIs

Unreal Engine 3 Now Sort Of Works On Linux

Without Wine, it's now possible to run Unreal Engine 3 on Linux... ... http://bit.ly/OelzIo

Open Cloud Roundup: Top Headlines Week of Aug. 20

This week's open cloud headlines feature a new OpenStack disribution release from Piston Cloud, an open source virt ... http://bit.ly/SttzI2

Open-Source Virtualization Management Coming for KVM, Xen and VMware

If your company runs multiple hypervisors than Convirture's beta of its open-source virtualization management progr ... http://bit.ly/SZLNgb

Basic Web Design with Drupal 7

Drupal is one of the most popular and versatile platforms for Webdesign. It's free, open source and will run on Li ... http://bit.ly/NIOpCk

Enhancing Virtual Terminals with Byobu

Just as a window manager enhances an X session, Byobu enhances a virtual terminal, making it easy to open new tabs ... http://bit.ly/QvpKvu

What Mobile Tech Companies are Doing Right

The mobile technology space is highly competitive which keeps companies hopping trying to come up with the best way ... http://bit.ly/SZa2uR

Cameras: The New Frontier for Android?

It looks like the next frontier for the Android mobile OS is on cameras. First, Polaroid announced an Android-based ... http://bit.ly/OakBgm

Interview: Huawei’s John Roese on the Future of Networking

This week the Hot Interconnects conference kicked off with a keynote by John Roese, VP and General Manager of Futur ... http://bit.ly/O5S2i6

OS X 10.8 vs. Ubuntu Linux: A Battle With No Clear Winner

Since Apple released OS X 10.8 "Mountain Lion" last month, there have been tests going on at Phoronix of this lates ... http://bit.ly/OakDEZ

5 Top Features Of Gnome 3.6

Gnome Shell 3.6 Beta is finally available and we are going to cover some of the top features in this release... ... http://bit.ly/OakDEV

Manjaro Linux: Arch Linux For Newbies

Manjaro Linux is a Linux Distribution based on well tested snapshots of the Arch Linux repositories and will be 100 ... http://bit.ly/OakAsG

5 OSS Up-and-Comers to Watch

From open source management and Web application frameworks to big data and IT provisioning using the DevOps model, ... http://bit.ly/OakD7P

Mesa Set To Lose OpenVMS Support

Support for OpenVMS is set to be removed from Mesa due to lack of maintainership in four years and trimming out the ... http://bit.ly/Oa3RWH

Sony's DASH Sensor Framework for Android Opens for Collaboration

Sony has moved its open source DASH framework to Github for better collaboration; the hardware abstraction layer fo ... http://bit.ly/RGlTTC

Video: A Low-Latency Library in FPGA Hardware for High-Frequency Trading

In this video, John Lockwood from Algo-Logic presents: A Low-Latency Library in FPGA Hardware for High-Frequency Tr ... http://bit.ly/RGlO2k

Linux and Apple: Which Is the Lemon, Which Is the Lemonade?

When life gives you lemons, everyone knows you should make lemonade, as the old saying goes. But what if life gives ... http://bit.ly/PEKKBQ

Radeon Gallium3D Gains Greater MSAA Support

As expected, with Marek Olšák requesting a delay in branching Mesa 9.0 so that he can land more features, support ... http://bit.ly/PJ91bX

Open Source Misrepresented on TV Again, Community Speaks Out

You wouldn't think supporters of open source would be collectively discussing Disney's latest episode of "Shake It ... http://bit.ly/PJ8Zke

Virtual Hosting With vsftpd and MySQL On Debian Squeeze

Vsftpd is one of the most secure and fastest FTP servers for Linux. Usually vsftpd is configured to work with syste ... http://bit.ly/NL5ur8

Turn a Keyboard Into a Computer With Raspberry Pi

The Raspberry Pi is still picking up momentum with different types of DIY projects. If you're looking for a means t ... http://bit.ly/PJ8Xc5

Shader Optimizations Greatly Speed-Up Wayland

Rob Clark, the Texas Instruments developer known for his work on the OMAP DRM driver, DMA-BUF, and hacking a Qualco ... http://bit.ly/PJ8Ygf

CloudOpen Preview: Defining the Open Cloud Stack

Greg DeKoenigsberg is the Vice President of Community at Eucalyptus Systems and is on the opening morning keynote p ... http://bit.ly/PJ8WVN

25 Years Later, Microsoft Unveils A Revamped Corporate Logo

Microsoft has a new look. The company just took the wraps off its new corporate branding. Replacing its previous lo ... http://bit.ly/PJ8WVw

Fedora 18 Spherical Cow Has Been Delayed

A Go/No-Go meeting today was held today concerning the Fedora 18 Alpha release. It was decided the F18 Alpha needs ... http://bit.ly/PyiCCQ

VMware CTO: How the Software-Defined Datacenter Benefits Enterprises

The next generation of foundational IT innovation is largely being implemented above the hardware. ... http://bit.ly/REhS26

Identity a Needed Link in Enterprise Security Chain

Identity's ultimate value to enterprise security lies in its ability to provide contextual aspects for date and res ... http://bit.ly/SorE66

Linux 3.6-rc3: Nothing That's OMG! Scary!

Six days after releasing the Linux 3.6-rc2 kernel, Linus has released the third test release of the forthcoming Lin ... http://bit.ly/Py6IsL

Gartner: Mobile Is Not The Edge, But The Center, Of Your IT Universe

Devices may occupy the physical periphery of your company's tech infrastructure. That's not stopping mobile from be ... http://bit.ly/OxaqAZ

4 Steps to Start Building a Hybrid Cloud

As hybrid clouds become an ever more attractive option for corporate IT, this is a good time to start thinking abou ... http://bit.ly/RDu436

Rethinking the Viability of the Windows 8 Tablet

Windows 8 is designed for tablets first according to the flood of reviews on the web since it was RTM. As excited a ... http://bit.ly/Nh66Je

Adobe Flash Player Update Patches Six Critical Holes

Adobe has released an update for its Flash Player software that closes six critical vulnerabilities spread over a v ... http://bit.ly/MMYMUf

Node.js Set to Land on Engine Yard's PaaS

The addition of Node.js to Engine Yard lets customers host highly scalable web services on the platform, and helps ... http://bit.ly/MMXNnh

VirtualBox 4.1 Update Improves Stability

Version 4.1.20 of Oracle's desktop virtualisation application has been released with fixes for crashing bugs and be ... http://bit.ly/NgVkCR

5 Areas Most Likely to be Outsourced in IT: Survey

New survey of 200 executives finds close to half plan to hire contract talent to fill cloud and mobile development ... http://bit.ly/NgVhHe

OpenStacker Stuffs Free Moxie on USB

The people who stuffed an enterprise-ready version of the OpenStack cloud onto a USB stick have devised a cut-down ... http://bit.ly/NgVk62

Malaya Hospital Prescribes Virtualization for Healthcare Sector

University of Malaya Specialist Centre's IT head says the journey to virtualization is a necessity for medical inst ... http://bit.ly/NgVhqK

Rackspace Sets Up First Australian Datacentre

The cloud service provider is launching its 9th datacentre globally, at Erskine Park in Western Sydney. ... http://bit.ly/NgVjPo

Distribution Release: PCLinuxOS 2012.08

PCLinuxOS 2012.08, a new version of the project's easy-to-use, Linux-based operating system for x86 desktops or lap ... http://bit.ly/OwJhhK

A New Collaboration Aimed at Automatically Backporting the Linux Kernel

The Linux Foundation's Driver Backport Workgroup is working on automatically backporting the Linux kernel, which wa ... http://bit.ly/NgVjiv

Build Your Own Flickr with Piwigo

In 2006, the family computer on which our digital photographs were storedhad a hard drive failure. Because I'm obs ... http://bit.ly/RdVPwJ

Mobility; It’s not a Device, It’s an IT Architecture

IT needs to address mobility as an architecture issue and consider a myriad of technology, infrastructure and polic ... http://bit.ly/RA9Bfn

Samsung Tailors Security for Enterprise Mobility Push

South Korean electronics giant aims to win over enterprises concerned with bring-your-own-device trend and Android ... http://bit.ly/SjBCqN

PowerTOP 2.1 Supports GPUs and More Languages

The latest release of the open source tool to diagnose power consumption on Linux machines adds several new transla ... http://bit.ly/Ni7q8U

Dell Forms Desktop Virtualization Solutions for Government

Dell's formula for desktop virtualization for government: take one part access virtualization we got when we acquir ... http://bit.ly/Ni7pSh

Data-Centric Emphasis, Skills Demand to Escalate

Emphasis on data will see businesses including those in Singapore increasingly seek out professionals skilled in ex ... http://bit.ly/ShVIAc

Stable Kernel Tree Status, August 2012

As I posted to the linux-kernel mailing list, the 3.4 kernel tree will be the next long-term kernel that I will be ... http://bit.ly/Ni7plg

SUSE Aims for One-Click Enterprise Deployment on OpenStack

SUSE plans to roll out the first release of its enterprise-ready, private cloud solution based on OpenStack this ... http://bit.ly/ShVIA7

Systemd to Secure System Log Information Against Attacks

Systemd can now secure log data on system processes stored in its journal, preventing attackers from silently wipin ... http://bit.ly/NhSAiD

McAfee Looks to Combat Vehicle Viruses

Intel's McAfee security unit is working on ways to prevent vehicles from becoming vulnerable to malicious software. ... http://bit.ly/PtUqS2

Google's Motorola Takes on Apple

Over the weekend, Google's subsidiary Motorola Mobility has lodged a complaint with the ITC, trying to ban iOS devi ... http://bit.ly/PtUscO

Intel Mesa Now Officially OpenGL ES 2.0 Conformant

Intel's Mesa driver for Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge graphics are now officially compliant against the Khronos OpenG ... http://bit.ly/PtUpO3

Linux 3.4 to be Maintained for Two Years

Linux 3.0 will be maintained for at least one more year; Linux 3.4 will be promoted to long-term kernel status. Lin ... http://bit.ly/PtUrFP

Embed a Raspberry Pi Into a DSLR Camera for Wireless Tethered Shooting, USB Backups, and More ...

A computer is a handy tool for photographers, but they're cumbersome to carry around. To solve this problem, photog ... http://bit.ly/QmciKy

Phoronix Test Suite 4.0.1-Suldal Released

A minor update to the multi-platform open-source Phoronix Test Suite benchmarking software is now available... ... http://bit.ly/Qmcg5m

Amazon Web Services Announces Amazon Glacier: Cheap Cloud Storage For Archives And Backups

Amazon Web Services has extended its Cloud-storage offerings today with the launch of a new product: Amazon Glacier ... http://bit.ly/QmciKo

Making Linux Work

The fear of failure factor is one reason why potential newcomers to the Linux operating system never complete the s ... http://bit.ly/Qmcidv

Acer Announces Liquid Gallant and Liquid Gallant Duo

This pair of Android 4.0 smartphones is set to arrive as early as September. ... ... http://bit.ly/PtUocV

Will The New Wave Of Prosumer Tablets Beat The iPad In The Enterprise?

The list of vendors preparing business-minded, consumer-lovable tablets includes HP, Samsung, and, it can be argued ... http://bit.ly/PsI90r

Time for the Next Big Jump in Mobile Tech

While there is lots of activity in both the smartphone and tablet spaces, nothing really new has come along in a wh ... http://bit.ly/PP9Cu4

For Government, 'Key Driver of SOA and Cloud is Reuse': Justice Department CTO

A decade of work on service oriented architecture is paving the way to today's cloud and shared services, says Ajay ... http://bit.ly/Pz8Iyn

Test Your Linux Knowledge at LinuxCon CloudOpen 2012!

So, you think you really know what’s happening with Linux? ... http://bit.ly/PA7Jju

Embarking on the Journey to a Virtualized Environment Challenges Small to Medium Businesses

Many suppliers are encouraging small to medium businesses to jump on the virtualization bandwagon without also expl ... http://bit.ly/PrNwN8

Ubuntu's Unity Decision Affects 2D Performance Too

Last week I delivered OpenGL/3D benchmarks of Ubuntu 12.10 when comparing the performance of the default Unity desk ... http://bit.ly/ORgUh7

Debian Testing a systemd-to-sysvinit Converter

A new tool converts systemd startup configuration into the older sysvinit files, which could help when Linux is not ... http://bit.ly/ORgUOg

Verdict in Apple-Samsung Trial May Echo Through Tech Industry

If Apple prevails in its legal dogfight with Samsung over patents, experts believe its rivals will have a stronger ... http://bit.ly/Qim1l1

Calligra Plans New Professional Writing Program

Currently in development, Author is a new program in the open source Calligra Suite aimed at professional authors. ... http://bit.ly/ORgTd7

Victor Poor, Intel Computer Chip Innovator, Dies at 79

Mr. Poor, a computer engineer and amateur radio enthusiast, collaborated on development of microprocessors that pro ... http://bit.ly/OsTjQU

30 Linux Kernel Developers in 30 Weeks: Johannes Berg

Kernel developer Johannes Berg maintains wireless code in the kernel as well as the iwlwifi driver. Like many devel ... http://bit.ly/OsTkEk

OStatic's Latest Collection of Open Source Cloud Computing Guidance

In 2012, the open source community is making larger than ever contributions to the shift toward cloud computing, an ... http://bit.ly/NY1p5g

Intel HD 2500 Ivy Bridge Graphics On Linux

Since the launch of Intel's Ivy Bridge processors earlier this year there have been many benchmarks of the Intel Co ... http://bit.ly/NY1o1r

Mobility in the Enterprise: Gotchas Abound

IT infrastructure, capacity and multi-channel support are just some of the things that need to be reworked as enter ... http://bit.ly/PyG9kL

Facebook Turns its Attention to Datacenter Backup

Facebook looks to re-imagine the backup process in a dedicated facility... ... http://bit.ly/TKoM34

Discovering and Monitoring Hardware in Linux

Nothing ever need be a mystery on Linux as it has a large number of excellent utilities for discovering hardware an ... http://bit.ly/PtVenC

Xcelerit SDK 2.0 Adds Kepler Support

Getting your algorithm to take advantage of multicore processors and GPUs can be difficult. Enter the Xcelerit SDK ... http://bit.ly/QJovta

CentOS 6.3 Samba Standalone Server With tdbsam Backend

This tutorial explains the installation of a Samba fileserver on CentOS 6.3 and how to configure it to share files ... http://bit.ly/QJouW8

Twitter Edges Out Third Party Clients With Tighter API Rules

Twitter has revealed upcoming changes to the next versions of its API, which will tighten the restrictions around w ... http://bit.ly/QJouFJ

Forget LinkedIn: Companies Turn to GitHub to Find Tech Talent

Because engineers and designers can post their work for all to see, more and more companies are realizing they can ... http://bit.ly/QJoup5

The Arduino Wi-Fi Shield Makes Taking Your DIY Projects Online Simple

We're always fans of a good Arduino project. While a few Wi-Fi solutions have existed to connect your Arduino to th ... http://bit.ly/QJoqWr

PostgreSQL Patches XML Flaws

Two open source libraries, libxml2 and libxslt are insecurely used by the open source database and can let users re ... http://bit.ly/NJmsXk

Portable OpenCL 0.6 Released, Implementing OpenCL 1.2

Version 0.6 of POCL is now available, which is a portable OpenCL implementation that's targeting the Open Computing ... http://bit.ly/NJmrTj

A Power Saving Schema For The Linux Kernel Scheduler

An Intel engineer has proposed introducing a power saving schema for CFS, the Linux kernel's default scheduler. Cod ... http://bit.ly/NJmsGP

Qt 5.0 Beta Not Here Due To Difficulties

While the Qt 5.0 Beta was supposed to be out in July, it was changed to release the Qt 5 beta in early August. We'r ... http://bit.ly/NJmsql

Samsung’s Black Galaxy S III Said To Launch In October With 64GB Of Storage

Samsung’s Galaxy S III is a pretty lust-worthy gadget to begin with, but the Korean electronics giant just won’ ... http://bit.ly/RnxKG1

Is OpenStack an Overly Fragmented Standard?

The year 2012 has been completely game-changing for the OpenStack open source cloud computing platform, which has n ... http://bit.ly/NJms9H

Android Extends Lead in Smartphone OS Market

Android's market share climbs to 64.1% – up 20.7% from 2011... ... http://bit.ly/OFaVfa

Samsung Given Green Light on $822M Korean RD Build

Samsung has received approval from a Seoul district council to construct a new research and development center. ... http://bit.ly/NJme2o

Cisco Makes its Software Defined Network Case: Do You Buy It?

Cisco CEO John Chambers doesn't fear network virtualization and sees VMware as a key partner even if it'll soon be ... http://bit.ly/PtJb9L

Kernel Prepatch 3.6-rc2

Linus has announced the 3.6-rc2 prepatch. "Anyway, with all that said, things don't seem too bad. Yes, I ignored a ... http://bit.ly/StyO6f

The LinuxCon/CloudOpen Experience

Imagine arriving at a conference where you immediately recognize Linux kernel developers from their annual Linux Ke ... http://bit.ly/N70hs0

Jolla's MeeGo UI is Ready to Go, Now Hunting for Mobile Talent

Finnish smartphone startup Jolla is scouting out new talent in Finland and China, where Jolla's CEO Jussi Hurmola r ... http://bit.ly/Ps25Ov

2012 Readers' Choice Awards Survey

It's time to let us know your favorites again in the annual Linux Journal Readers' Choice Awards survey. We will pu ... http://bit.ly/N6KMjR

IBM Buys Texas Memory Systems, Pushes Into Solid-State Storage

IBM's motives are relatively obvious. The company plans to push more solid state storage into data centers. TMS pro ... http://bit.ly/PomYvy

Open Source Cloud Roundup: Top Headlines Week of Aug. 13

OpenStack got a hefty share of the open cloud headlines this week with both Red Hat and Rackspace announcing new cl ... http://bit.ly/N3gBjj

Fujitsu Unveils 'Military-Grade' Android 4.0 Tablet

If you're lifestyle is too rough for an iPad, then the Android 4.0-powered Fujitsu Stylistic M532 could be just the ... http://bit.ly/P0ZREZ

Development Release: Slackware Linux 14.0 RC2

The second release candidate for the upcoming Slackware Linux 14.0 is ready for testing. Patrick Vokerding in today ... http://bit.ly/THyXW6

GNOME Ubuntu Community Derivative Name Proposed

An Ubuntu developer is seeking feedback from the GNOME community about a proposed name for a variant of Ubuntu that ... http://bit.ly/RWrOkE

Debian Celebrates its 19th Birthday

Today, Debian celebrates its 19th birthday. To commemorate the occasion, parties have been organised all around the ... http://bit.ly/RWrQt3

GNOME's Ambitious OS Adventure

With all the ongoing debate over desktop environments here in the Linux blogosphere, there's never any shortage of ... http://bit.ly/THyXoZ

Cray to Plug Kepler GPUs into Future Cascade Supers

Cray’s next-generation “Cascade” supercomputer is based on a future Intel “Ivy Bridge” Xeon processors, a ... http://bit.ly/THyWS3

Bits Blog: Boundary: Keeping Cloud Software in Shape

Boundary, a start-up, monitors the performance of applications in the cloud, which can show where slowdowns might b ... http://bit.ly/RWrMJH

State of the Art: Samsung’s Rival for the iPad Loads on the Features

Samsung’s new iPad rival, the Galaxy Note 10.1, is loaded with features, but not all are well organized or practi ... http://bit.ly/THyWRX

Judge Urges Apple and Samsung to Settle Patent Dispute

Judge Lucy Koh warned that both sides faced risks if an intellectual property suit was handed to a federal jury. ... http://bit.ly/RWrMth

Ubuntu 12.10 Drops Unity 2D Desktop

As expected, Ubuntu developers have done away with the Unity 2D desktop environment spin for the forthcoming Ubuntu ... http://bit.ly/THyUJR

Intel Graphics Hit High Point With Linux 3.6 Kernel

Testing of the latest Linux 3.6 kernel that's presently under development has revealed some additional OpenGL perfo ... http://bit.ly/RWrJO6

Mozilla's Firefox OS Has Even Shown Up on the Raspberry Pi

Mozilla has been moving quickly ahead with its mobile operating system, which is dubbed "Firefox OS," and photos of ... http://bit.ly/THyWBD

Freedreno: Complex Fragment Shaders, VBOs

Freedreno, the reverse-engineered open-source Linux graphics driver for Qualcomm's Adreno graphics hardware, contin ... http://bit.ly/THyUtn

Bluewolf: Enterprises, Startups Alike Turning More Towards IT Outsourcing

A new report finds that IT outsourcing is becoming more popular with startups and enterprise companies alike. ... http://bit.ly/RWrLFD

AArch64/ARM64 Linux Kernel Work Still Ongoing

The ARMv8 64-bit architecture enablement, officially known as AArch64, is still ongoing for the Linux kernel... ... http://bit.ly/THyUcX

NVIDIA Releases $299 Kepler Graphics Card

NVIDIA has announced today the release of their GeForce GTX 660 Ti "Kepler" graphics card, a new competitive NVIDIA ... http://bit.ly/RWrL8v

Revealed: Limited Edition I Fight for an Open Cloud T-shirt

Two weeks from today The Linux Foundation will debut CloudOpen. This is a really exciting time in cloud computing, ... http://bit.ly/Ppx3dh

Android Programming with App Inventor

Drag and drop your way to Android programming.MIT App Inventor, re-released as a beta service (as of March 5,20 ... http://bit.ly/TFATyn

6 Tips for CIOs Facing a Cloud Deployment

New technologies almost always pose a challenge for the CIOs who choose to deploy them, but often a big part of the ... http://bit.ly/RX0bcM

HP Launches Three Network and Storage Virtualization Products

It is clear from this product launch that HP is one of a very small list of suppliers that fully understands and ha ... http://bit.ly/NmZ7tU

Security Mindset Must Change With Cloud

Companies need to grasp implications of moving to cloud and develop a roadmap to holistically secure IT systems ins ... http://bit.ly/MyPprf

SanDisk FlashSoft Expands from Windows, Linux Servers to VMware vSphere

SanDisk boasts that FlashSoft for VMware vSphere accelerates application performance by three to five times over. ... http://bit.ly/PkCdFX

Why Apple Doesn't Just Sue Google and Get it Over With

In the complicated world of patent litigation, it's actually easier for Apple to go after Samsung and other handset ... http://bit.ly/R2onJE

Microsoft Halts New Apps on Windows Phone Marketplace

Microsoft has temporarily halted the publication of new apps for Windows Phones following a problem with its digita ... http://bit.ly/RVIJWn

Arch Linux Proposes Switch to Systemd

The developers of Arch Linux have proposed switching the distribution's init system to Lennart Poettering's systemd ... http://bit.ly/PkBIf7

HP Spins Off webOS Into A Brand New Company Called Gram; Mission Unknown

Ever since HP killed off webOS hardware, the fate of the webOS GBU (general business unit) was as yet unknown. But ... http://bit.ly/RVIFpi

KDE 4.9: As Pretty and Peppy as a Linux Desktop Can Be

The latest release earlier this month of the K Desktop Environment, or KDE, is a solid upgrade that could very well ... http://bit.ly/PkBGnz

New Linux Drivers for Old Kernel Versions

The developers of the Linux Kernel Backporting project plan to offer the drivers that come with recent Linux kernel ... http://bit.ly/PZ6HcX

Distribution Release: Webconverger 14

Kai Hendry has announced the release of Webconverger 14, a Debian-based speciality distribution designed for web ki ... http://bit.ly/PkBFQr

Cloud Aids Mobile OS Migration

Such services helpful for data backup before switching mobile operating systems, say users who share other tips for ... http://bit.ly/PkBEvX

IT, Biz Analytics Functions Should Be Split

Singaporean organizations cite lack of multi-skilled staff able to work in both arenas and easier management as rea ... http://bit.ly/PkBCnA

Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 Packing 4G LTE Comes to Verizon on Aug. 17

Verizon subscribers jonesing for a 7-inch LTE tablet won't have to consider springing for the pricey Galaxy Tab 7.7 ... http://bit.ly/PkBDIp

Install Camfrogserver Advanced 6.0 On Ubuntu Linux

This is an updated tutorial on how to install Camfrog Server on Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat).  When I first sa ... http://bit.ly/PkBC7f

Revealed: Limited Edition I Fight for an Open Cloud T-shirt

Two weeks from today The Linux Foundation will debut CloudOpen. This is a really exciting time in cloud computing, ... http://bit.ly/PkBDb9

Ubuntu 12.04.1: LTS Maintenance Release

The current LTS release of the Ubuntu operating system will shortly get its first maintenance release — one of fo ... http://bit.ly/TD1sEp

Canonical: Making the Open Cloud Seamless for Users

Canonical's Vice President of Cloud Kyle MacDonald discusses how Canonical defines the open cloud, the company’ ... http://bit.ly/O8d2T1

Kicking Off a Year of Open Source Everything

Berlin filmmaker Sam Muirhead is attempting to live a completely open source life for one year. Here's why. More  ... http://bit.ly/Pn14qT

TizMee Brings Tizen Apps to MeeGo

Using Qt Cordova, a developer is creating an application which will let Tizen specific applications run on Nokia's ... http://bit.ly/MXk2bs

Oracle Already Puts Out VirtualBox 4.2 RC1

Less than two weeks after VirtualBox 4.2 Beta 1, Oracle's German office has released the first release candidate of ... http://bit.ly/MXk4Qk

Mobile Market Shrinks; Gartner Blames Economy, iPhone 5

Research company says worldwide sales of mobile phones declined 2.3 percent in second quarter amid "challenging eco ... http://bit.ly/OgyEzz

BackTrack 5 R3 Adds Tools for Arduino and Teensy Attacks

The lastest release of the security-oriented Linux distribution adds over 60 new tools to its collection. For the f ... http://bit.ly/OgyEzv

Oracle Releases Unscheduled Fix for Critical Vulnerability

A security vulnerability in Oracle's database servers which was recently revealed at the Black Hat conference has b ... http://bit.ly/MXk42X

Features Coming Up For Xen 4.2 Virtualization

Xen 4.2 will be released in the near future for this one of the leading virtualization platforms available for Linu ... http://bit.ly/OgyGY7

Apple Dominates Tablet Market in Q2 with 70 Percent Share

The next-place company, Samsung, was only able to muster a 9.2 percent share during the period, according to iSuppl ... http://bit.ly/MXjXV6

CFOs See Value in Cloud Computing, Boosted by Open Source Platforms

From staffers in the IT organizations at many enterprises to departmental-level workers, cloud computing deployment ... http://bit.ly/MXjXVc

A Second Look Needed for HPC as a Service

Over at Scalablilty.com, Joe Landman writes that “As-A-Service” (AAS) models do a good job of lowering up-front ... http://bit.ly/MXk0QF

Looking Back at One Year of Tizen

The Tizen project is approaching its one-year anniversary, which makes for a good opportunity to look back at how ... http://bit.ly/MXk0A6

oVirt 3.1 Narrows Gap With Proprietary Virtualization

With new capabilities such as capturing and cloning live snapshots and added hotplug capabilties, the new release o ... http://bit.ly/MXjXEC

Ubuntu 12.10 Is Faster With Intel Hardware

While benchmarks have already indicated ARM performance improvements in Ubuntu 12.10, early testing of this "Quanta ... http://bit.ly/MXk0jM

New Open Source Calligra Suite Release Enhances ODF Document Support

Calligra has published the second stable release of its open source suite that includes word processing, spreadshee ... http://bit.ly/OgyDLT

Android Is Winning

The latest numbers are in: Android is on top, followed by iOS in a distant second. This word comes from Gartner, a ... http://bit.ly/OgyGqY

McRae: Are We Removing What Defines Arch Linux?

Allan McRae defends recent and planned changes to the Arch Linux distribution. "The module control is more complex. ... http://bit.ly/OgyDvx

Citrix Eyes Tighter Cisco Ties after VMware's Nicira Purchase

"I think we can actually do more partnering with Cisco as a result of what could be viewed as a competitive move by ... http://bit.ly/OgyFDs

Linux Kernel Poll

... http://bit.ly/OWAt3g

Red Hat Finally Commits to OpenStack for the Cloud

Red Hat, the Linux giant, has at long last decided to throw its full support behind OpenStack. ... http://bit.ly/OeZhot

Experience the Next Automotive Revolution

What does it take to put open source to work in a car? Find out at the 2nd Annual Automotive Linux Summit organized ... http://bit.ly/PeWu13

Red Hat Offers Up OpenStack Preview, Supported Version Planned for '13

Red Hat today made available a preview version of its much anticipated OpenStack cloud distribution based on Enterp ... http://bit.ly/OVbhdB

Prepare Your People For The Future Of IT Service Delivery

The same forces that are eroding some jobs will fuel new ones. Taking a page from Forrester's Service Management an ... http://bit.ly/RItbDC

Plex Media Server + Roku = Awesome

Plex always has been the Mac-friendly offshoot of XBMC. I've never considered using an Apple product for my home me ... http://bit.ly/MU5ysO

FTC Accuses Facebook of Misleading Developers Over Security

An investigation by the FTC has suggested that the social networking site fell short in reviewing and verifying app ... http://bit.ly/RNwDhG

The Open Source Technology Behind Twitter

Without open source, Twitter wouldn't exist. Every Tweet you send and receive touches open source software on its j ... http://bit.ly/NuASfN

First Release Candidate for Slackware 14

The Slackware developers have delivered the first release candidate of Slackware 14. According to the developers, a ... http://bit.ly/NuARZn

Google Confirms 4,000 Motorola Mobility Job Cuts

The search giant will reduce headcount by around 20 percent in an effort to return the smartphone maker to profitab ... http://bit.ly/O2gJtw

Oracle Halts Open-Source HPC Project

Oracle researchers are winding down development of the Fortress programming language for high-performance computing ... http://bit.ly/O2gJcR

Qt's Move Gives FOSS the Jitters

There's been much ado about Linux desktops in recent months, but few would dispute KDE's prominence among them. Tha ... http://bit.ly/PjdU9r

Open-Source Doom 3 Comes To Android

Oliver McFadden's Dante port of the open-source id Tech 4 engine and Doom 3 code-base has been ported to Google's A ... http://bit.ly/Nl6aaG

Calligra 2.5 Available for Kubuntu

Packages for the release of KDE's document suite Calligra 2.5 are available for Kubuntu 12.04. You can get it from ... http://bit.ly/Nl67vA

Wayland Support For Cursor Themes

After several interesting news items in recent days about Wayland, the latest is that Wayland/Weston now has suppor ... http://bit.ly/PjdQ9N

30 Linux Kernel Developers in 30 Weeks: John Linville

This week's profile interview is with John Linville, the maintainer of the wireless LAN subsystem in the Linux kern ... http://bit.ly/Nl67f8

R300 Gallium3D Performance Is Topping Out

Recently I showed benchmarks of the Radeon Gallium3D driver for a mature Radeon HD 4870 graphics card over the past ... http://bit.ly/Nl66HY

Online-Based IT Procurement Useful but Limited

Procuring enterprise IT over Internet has benefits but limited applicability as most investments generally require ... http://bit.ly/OesdwV

ZipWhip Releases Cloud Texting App for Linux Desktop

The company that introduced the Textspresso machine to the world has now released its desktop cloud texting applic ... http://bit.ly/QmJSQI

Call for Articles

Linux Journal is gearing up for our Python issue, and we'd love to get articles from YOU! If you have any Python-re ... http://bit.ly/P5WmQ0

Lenovo, Nvidia Building Convertible Windows RT Tablets: Who Will Buy?

Convertible devices will face a number of challenges, including compromises associated with convergence devices and ... http://bit.ly/Obwmo3

SUSE Details its Secure Boot Plans

SUSE has detailed the UEFI Secure Boot implementation it plans to ship in its commercial products and which it will ... http://bit.ly/QN4VR0

Intel, Chinese Orgs Set Up China Open Source Cloud League

Technical community will work on development and support of OpenStack open source cloud platform and aims increase ... http://bit.ly/NshxIH

GLAMOR 0.5 Acceleration Library Released

Intel's GLAMOR 2D acceleration library over OpenGL is further glamorized by its new v0.5.0 release... ... http://bit.ly/MHrbMH

Top 10 Signs Your Company Doesn't get Open Source

Guy Martin, Managing Principal Architect at Red Hat, gives us the big reasons why companies shy away from using ope ... http://bit.ly/MHVddo

Mesa Release Shake-Up: Mesa 8.1 Is Now Mesa 9.0

Well, there isn't a major Mesa release happening this month as was originally planned. There also isn't going to be ... http://bit.ly/QN4XIu

Samsung Tablet Sales: Teeny Tiny Next to iPad

Samsung appeared to have peaked with the original Galaxy Tab, which is likely why the company is shifting its focus ... http://bit.ly/Nshxs2

IBM has Eyes on RIM Enterprise-Services Unit, Report Says

So far, IBM has held only informal talks, and RIM might not be willing to sell the division until it can see how Bl ... http://bit.ly/NshzjD

Huawei MediaPad 10 FHD Spills the Beans at the FCC

There isn't much we don't already know about Huawei's 10-inch MediaPad FHD, revealing most of its secrets well befo ... http://bit.ly/S7BmGT

Zenoss or Nagios? Your All-Seeing Network Eye in the Sky

Zenoss exposes everything in your network to your keen netadmin eyeballs, and shows how it all goes together. ... http://bit.ly/NshxbD

Top Open Source Cloud Headlines, Week of Aug. 6

Open source cloud headlines this week feature the announcement of board elections for the OpenStack Foundation; R ... http://bit.ly/QJYKwX

Lenovo 'Fine' With Surface; Aims ThinkPad Tablet 2 at Enterprises

Acer can berate Microsoft as much as it wants, Lenovo isn't remotely bothered by Microsoft's Surface tablet. Why? L ... http://bit.ly/QQFQXz

Valve Steams Into Non-Gaming Software Distribution Biz

The games developer and cross-platform distribution firm is set to offer all kinds of software from early September ... http://bit.ly/NlPe06

Digia Buys Qt

The Qt cross platform application framework is being acquired from Nokia by Finnish company Digia in a deal that wi ... http://bit.ly/Nauufh

Hardware Hacks: Raspberry Pi Software and Developer Boards

Software for the Raspberry Pi, a mini-computer alternative with more processing power, and an incredible cost-effec ... http://bit.ly/NautIe

RHEL Clone Scientific Linux 6.3 Released

Version 6.3 of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux clone is now available to download, and features updates to OpenAFS and ... http://bit.ly/ONSfpw

SUSE May Use Fedora's Secure Boot UEFI Solution

Two leading GNU/Linux players have explained their plans about how to deal with secure boot. While Canonical decide ... http://bit.ly/ONSgJW

Apache Cassandra Database Upgrade Due This Fall

Open source NoSQL database will get schema change and virtual node capabilities, and query improvements are also ey ... http://bit.ly/ONSfpm

Intel Announces OpenGL ES 3.0 Plans For Mesa

Coming out of SIGGRAPH 2012 is a new branch of Mesa from Intel's Open-Source Technology Center that's working on fu ... http://bit.ly/MCobkW

Development Release: CrunchBang Linux 11 R20120806

Philip Newborough has announced the availability of an updated set of CrunchBang Linux 11 (code name "Waldorf") dev ... http://bit.ly/OSToPr

Ouya Open Gaming Platform Sails Past Original Funding Goals

The open source Ouya gaming platform, billed as "a new kind of video game console," has hit another milestone, and ... http://bit.ly/ONSdha

Could Android Find Success on the Desktop?

Is Google preparing to do what it was rumored to do for so long, namely bring the Android mobile OS to the desktop? ... http://bit.ly/OXGtcr

GNOME OS Is On the Way - But Mainly for Testing and Development Purposes

The GNOME project, which is facing heavy criticism over usability issues, is to build a touch-capable 'GNOME OS' as ... http://bit.ly/MCoc8h

LinuxCon/CloudOpen Party Details Revealed

LinuxCon is known for its deep technical content and unmatched networking opportunities. This year LinuxCon and Clo ... http://bit.ly/NpSZA1

Adafruit Launches Educational Distro for Raspberry PI

The developers at Adafruit have created a new custom Linux distribution for the Raspberry Pi called "Occidentalis" ... http://bit.ly/TigGyz

Distribution Release: antiX 12

antiX 12, a Debian-based distribution designed to run efficiently on older and low-specification computers, has bee ... http://bit.ly/MzYlxG

The Top Features Of Fedora 18 Spherical Cow

With Fedora 18 entering its feature freeze and branching today, here's a rundown of some of the most interesting fe ... http://bit.ly/MzYjpC

Ubuntu for Beginners: System Settings

In the previous article you were able to find out what Ubuntu software center is capable off. Today you are going t ... http://bit.ly/O54WjC

Linux Mint Team Forks Nautilus

The Linux Mint team has forked GNOME's file manager after design changes led to the removal of some features. The r ... http://bit.ly/TigCPj

Keeping Linux Kernel Training Current

The Linux kernel develops at a truly astonishing pace, with a new major version emerging every two to three months. ... http://bit.ly/TigCyx

Damn Small Linux Resurfaces

After almost four years, the Damn Small Linux project is back with the release of Damn Small Linux 4.11 RC1. Being ... http://bit.ly/P6utc1

Intel’s Imad Sousou: Open Cloud Standards will Emerge With More Collaboration

Standardization is the biggest issue facing the open source cloud today, says Imad Sousou, director of Intel’s Op ... http://bit.ly/TigCyL

Development Release: Snowlinux 3 RC

Lars Torben Kremer has announced the availability of the release candidate for Snowlinux 3, a Debian-based distribu ... http://bit.ly/OQYfk7

Debian Now Defaults To Xfce Desktop

In a commit made for Debian's forthcoming 7.0 Wheezy release, Xfce is now the default desktop choice... ... http://bit.ly/TigEqq

Ubuntu App Showdown Winners Announced

The jury of the Ubuntu App Showdown has announced the three winners of the programming contest. The winning applica ... http://bit.ly/TigCi2

XFCE Makes Mint Even Fresher

The latest incarnation of the XFCE desktop proves once again that when you delve into the wonders of the Linux OS, ... http://bit.ly/OQYdIQ

Fujitsu's Yoshiya Eto Becomes Vice Chair of Linux Foundation Board

We are pleased to announce that Yoshiya Eto of Fujitsu is the new Vice Chair of The Linux Foundation board. He jo ... http://bit.ly/OQYeMQ

10 Android Smartphones That Made History (Slideshow)

Since the HTC G1 introduced Android in October 2008, a multitude of vendors have shipped thousands of different sma ... http://bit.ly/OMFg7i

Open Source for the Space Age

NASA has started a rather ambitious project: to provide open-sourceeverything. The main site is located at http:// ... http://bit.ly/NGbcsi

Ubuntu App Showdown Winners Announced

The jury of the Ubuntu App Showdown has announced the three winners of the programming contest. The winning applica ... http://bit.ly/TgQIeK

Development Release: Snowlinux 3 RC

Lars Torben Kremer has announced the availability of the release candidate for Snowlinux 3, a Debian-based distribu ... http://bit.ly/TgQIeA

GNOME OS Plans Laid Out

At the recent Guadec 2012 GNOME developers conference, birds of a feather sessions saw the project set out goals fo ... http://bit.ly/OZKJtV

Riak Clustered NoSQL Database Adds Official FreeBSD Support

Version 1.2 of the open source clustered NoSQL database adds official support for FreeBSD and features new approach ... http://bit.ly/TgQHaG

Buffer Overflows in KOffice and Calligra Reported

A vulnerability in the ODF renderer used by KOffice and Calligra that uses a buffer overflow to execute arbitrary c ... http://bit.ly/TgQFQ9

New Burp Proxy Cracks Android SSL

Among other things, the new version of Burp Proxy offers a workaround for a problem that previously prevented the a ... http://bit.ly/TgQFPX

XFCE Makes Mint Even Fresher

The latest incarnation of the XFCE desktop proves once again that when you delve into the wonders of the Linux OS, ... http://bit.ly/TgQFj8

Open-Source Movements Butt Heads Over Logo

A gear logo proposed to represent and easily identify open-source hardware has caught the eyes of the The Open Sour ... http://bit.ly/NdqU25

Nikon To Launch Android Based Camera

Quite a co-incidence. We just published an article about managing your Nikon DSLR cameras using your Android device ... http://bit.ly/NdqR6s

X.Org Server 1.13 Nears: Baking Cookies

The non-critical bug window for X.Org Server 1.13 is now closed and Keith Packard has announced the release of xorg ... http://bit.ly/QLHtpb

Rackspace Q2: Here's the Bounce Back

Following a disappointing first-quarter, Rackspace bounced back with better than expected Q2 results. ... http://bit.ly/NdqQzu

Debian Now Defaults To Xfce Desktop

In a commit made for Debian's forthcoming 7.0 Wheezy release, Xfce is now the default desktop choice... ... http://bit.ly/QLHrxK

Fujitsu's Yoshiya Eto Becomes Vice Chair of Linux Foundation Board

We are pleased to announce that Yoshiya Eto of Fujitsu is the new Vice Chair of The Linux Foundation board. He jo ... http://bit.ly/QLHqK1

Keeping Linux Kernel Training Current

The Linux kernel develops at a truly astonishing pace, with a new major version emerging every two to three months. ... http://bit.ly/RmYZ0u

That's a Beautiful $DOCUMENT_TYPE You've Got There

One of the biggest frustrations most new LibreOffice (or OpenOffice.org) usershave is the lack of templates and cl ... http://bit.ly/Mrmf8G

OpenStack Foundation Picks Up Steam, Will Put Board in Place

The OpenStack cloud platform hasn't been short of powerful companies backing it, and now the OpenStack Foundation i ... http://bit.ly/MhHy17

ARM Unveils Next-Generation Mali Mobile GPUs

ARM's new GPUs offer hardware makers up to eight cores of graphics performance, while developers get their hands on ... http://bit.ly/MhHxKE

Intel’s Imad Sousou: Open Cloud Standards will Emerge With More Collaboration

Standardization is the biggest issue facing the open source cloud today, says Imad Sousou, director of Intel’s Op ... http://bit.ly/OJx2wN

OpenGL ES 3.0 – The Future of Tablet and Smartphone Graphics

The Khronos Group has published the final specifications for the OpenGL ES 3.0 mobile graphics interface, providing ... http://bit.ly/NaO7SF

dotCloud Open Sources its Hipache WebSocket Proxy

Platform-as-a-service provider dotCloud has made its Hipache distributed HTTP and WebSocket proxy software availabl ... http://bit.ly/NaO5u7

KDE Delivers August Stabilisation Update

The latest update to the 4.8.x branch of the KDE Software Collection fixes several bugs and brings performance impr ... http://bit.ly/NaO7lD

Who Loves Hadoop?

Mention big data and the first thing that might come to mind is Hadoop. The open source software framework has rece ... http://bit.ly/NaO5dC

CDE Unix Desktop Open Sourced

The Open Group, the steward of the UNIX standards, has open sourced the classic Common Desktop Environment (CDE) fo ... http://bit.ly/O2JRU9

Google Forced to Temporarily Deactivate Copy Protection for Android Apps

In Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean), purchased apps are encrypted when stored on users' devices, the aim being to make life ... http://bit.ly/O2JRU7

XBMC Media Manager Coming to Ouya

When the Android-based Ouya was announced last month, founder Julie Uhrman said she wanted the system to be more th ... http://bit.ly/NaO4WS

LLVMpipe On Mesa 8.1 Performance

Having now delivered Mesa 8.1 benchmarks looking at the hardware drivers for AMD R600g, Nouveau, R300g, Intel Ivy B ... http://bit.ly/NaO6yc

Intel Lists 36 Variants Of Haswell Graphics

Thanks to patches surfacing on public mailing lists on Monday that continue work on the open-source enablement of I ... http://bit.ly/O2JRU1

The Top Features Of Fedora 18 Spherical Cow

With Fedora 18 entering its feature freeze and branching today, here's a rundown of some of the most interesting fe ... http://bit.ly/O2JTeH

Samsung Working on Android 4.1 Update for Galaxy S III

Samsung reportedly has Jelly Bean ready for select Galaxy phones. ... ... http://bit.ly/O2JSYh

Distribution Release: antiX 12

antiX 12, a Debian-based distribution designed to run efficiently on older and low-specification computers, has bee ... http://bit.ly/NZZH4S

Red Hat: Open Cloud Requires Open APIs and Stacks

Red Hat announced the release of its Deltacloud 1.0 API last week and insisted that a truly open cloud requires ope ... http://bit.ly/Nxl47z

5 Things to Make the Hybrid Cloud Enterprise-Ready

Skim any cloud computing survey done in the past year or so, and there's a good chance you'll find glowing predicti ... http://bit.ly/RR3f62

Puppet and Nagios: a Roadmap to Advanced Configuration

Puppet has provided baked-in Nagios support for a long time now. Whencombined with Exported Resources, Puppet is w ... http://bit.ly/OFS2ED

Intel Works On Haswell HDMI/DP Audio Linux Support

Intel's open-source hardware enablement under Linux of next year's Haswell architecture continues. New HDMI audio p ... http://bit.ly/Q4GTfD

Ubuntu for Beginners: System Settings

In the previous article you were able to find out what Ubuntu software center is capable off. Today you are going t ... http://bit.ly/MJ3xed

Adafruit Launches Educational Distro for Raspberry PI

The developers at Adafruit have created a new custom Linux distribution for the Raspberry Pi called "Occidentalis" ... http://bit.ly/QxDtGB

Linux Mint Team Forks Nautilus

The Linux Mint team has forked GNOME's file manager after design changes led to the removal of some features. The r ... http://bit.ly/QxDtqe

Damn Small Linux Resurfaces

After almost four years, the Damn Small Linux project is back with the release of Damn Small Linux 4.11 RC1. Being ... http://bit.ly/QxDtqi

Is GNOME in Free Fall?

Between the arrival of both MATE 1.4 and KDE 4.9 and the emergence of SolusOS' brand-new GNOME Classic on the scene ... http://bit.ly/QxDri1

VirtualBox 4.2 Enters Beta Testing

The first beta for version 4.2 of VirtualBox improves support for Windows 8, adds a new "expert mode" for wizards, ... http://bit.ly/PA0bcc

The Huge Nouveau Kernel Driver Rewrite Surfaces

Over the weekend there was the push by Red Hat's Ben Skeggs that effectively reworks/rewrites the Nouveau DRM kerne ... http://bit.ly/QxDqKW

New OpenGL Standards Promise To Bring Better, Faster Graphics To Mobile And Desktop

At SIGGRAPH 2012 today, the Khronos Group, the non-profit organization behind the OpenGL standard, announced the re ... http://bit.ly/PA0945

Dell Talks Linux Virtualization Tips

Dell has written a guest post on Phoronix with some Linux virtualization tips... ... http://bit.ly/PA08NL

LDTP 3.0 Automates GUI Testing on Linux

Following the release of its Cobra GUI testing tool for Windows systems, the GNU/Linux Desktop (GUI Application) Te ... http://bit.ly/PA0a8q

Honeywell Signs Android Patent Agreement with Microsoft

Alongside announcing a new Android-based enterprise digital assistant, Honeywell has confirmed that it has signed a ... http://bit.ly/NeBsMN

30 Linux Kernel Developers in 30 Weeks: Arnd Bergmann

Linux kernel developer Arnd Bergmann is interviewed for this week's 30 Linux Kernel Developers in 30 Weeks profile. ... http://bit.ly/PA09RT

More Android Malware Sprouting Up Amidst 2012 Olympics

Android is a common target for malware fiends, but the Olympics are providing cyber criminals with another opportun ... http://bit.ly/QxDmLb

HP TouchPad Gets Android 4.1 Jelly Bean

If you own an HP TouchPad, you may be pleased to find out that the device has been hacked to run Android 4.1 (Jelly ... http://bit.ly/QOtLPz

Why Intel Should Buy Nokia

A marriage between Intel and Nokia could be just the move that the chipmaker needs to help it make an impact on the ... http://bit.ly/N41fZJ

Stresslinux Torture-Tests Your Hardware

Find out what your shiny new multi-core system can really do with Stresslinux. ... http://bit.ly/RryhRC

US Congress: New Initiative to Combat Patent Trolls

A new bipartisan bill submitted to the US House of Representatives proposes that the losing party in an IT patent l ... http://bit.ly/N3wPXC

Final Stretch for openSUSE 12.2 with Second Release Candidate

The second release candidate includes numerous bug fixes and updates as the distribution heads towards its delayed ... http://bit.ly/MhW7x4

Even Bigger Galaxy Note Set to Launch August 29

Samsung's updated Galaxy Note is on the way, with Samsung confirming that its Galaxy Note 2 is scheduled to be the ... http://bit.ly/MhW4RX

Harvard Goes PaaS with SELinux Sandbox

Running students' submitted programs is a security challenge for any university Computer Science department. When H ... http://bit.ly/MhW7wU

First Release Candidate of Linux Kernel Version 3.6

With the arrival of RC1, all major changes have been integrated into Linux 3.6. Among the most important new featur ... http://bit.ly/N3wNih

Disk Improvements Within GNOME 3.6

While disk management improvements might not be the first thing you think of when it comes to a desktop environment ... http://bit.ly/N3wOTv

KDE Plasma and Applications 4.9

Packages for the release of KDE's Plasma and Applications 4.9 are available for Kubuntu 12.04. You can get it from ... http://bit.ly/OvX1I1

The 3.6 Merge Window is Closed

Linus has released 3.6-rc1 and closed the merge window for this development cycle. "I do have two more pull request ... http://bit.ly/N3wMLi

Cisco's CSO Details Security Approach

The chief security officer at Cisco, John Stewart, talks about the networking giant's new security initiatives and ... http://bit.ly/OvX4na

Intel Lands Some Haswell Commits For X.Org Driver

For the past several months there's been open-source driver development activities within the Linux kernel and Mesa ... http://bit.ly/OvX46A

Intel Sandy Bridge Is Performing Well On Mesa 8.1

A few days back I published benchmarks showing Intel's Ivy Bridge hardware regressing with Mesa 8.1. While those pr ... http://bit.ly/OvX46u

Oracle Releases VirtualBox 4.2 Beta 1

Oracle has put out their first (beta) development release of Oracle VM VirtualBox 4.2. The 4.2 release series bring ... http://bit.ly/OvX0E3

Find 'Skater Tux' and Win Cool Linux Skateboard

In case you didn't already know, the location for this year's LinuxCon - San Diego - is known for its skaters. That ... http://bit.ly/N3wLa8

Cisco Adds Two CEOs to Board of Directors in Cloud, Green Push

Cisco expands its board by two places and includes Salesforce chief executive Marc Benioff in one of the vacancies, ... http://bit.ly/OMmM9h

Open Source Cloud Roundup: Top Headlines Week of July 30

This week in the open source cloud headlines, SUSE makes a splash with its pro-open blog post on Forbes and a shout ... http://bit.ly/OEhlqS

Android 4.1 'Jelly Bean' Hits 0.8 Percent Market Share

While Android 2.3 'Gingerbread,' first released December 2010, continues to be the most popular version, Android 4. ... http://bit.ly/NWuLPY

IDC: Apple’s iPad Grew Q2 Tablet Share To 68% As It Braces for Windows 8, Amazon And Nexus ...

After Amazon launched its $199 Kindle Fire tablet last autumn, a lot of observers thought it could prove to be the ... http://bit.ly/MfaceE

Valve Says Left 4 Dead 2 Runs Faster on Linux

Valve has tested its Linux port of Left 4 Dead 2 and was surprised to see that it actually runs faster than the Win ... http://bit.ly/NoxIG2

Dreaming a Little Dream of the Ideal Linux Distro

Here in the world of Linux, with hundreds of distributions to choose from, it seems safe to say that there's someth ... http://bit.ly/OIRRw7

Ubuntu 12.10 Continues Strong On The PandaBoard ES

Back in June I showed how Ubuntu 12.10 was continuing to improve the ARM Linux performance and since then showed th ... http://bit.ly/OIRSAg

Showing Off The Linux-Friendly Unigine Renderer

Besides Valve Software, another Linux-friendly game company to be presenting next week at SIGGRAPH LA 2012 is anoth ... http://bit.ly/OIRSA2

Xi Graphics' Proprietary X Server, Drivers Have Faded Away

Xi Graphics, the company that once developed proprietary X Servers and graphics drivers for Linux and UNIX platform ... http://bit.ly/NoxI8M

New Linux Kernels Bring Performance Improvements

The new long-term kernels 3.0.39 and 3.2.25 include not only smaller changes and enhancements, but also a long list ... http://bit.ly/NoxHBX

CloudOpen Keynote QA: OpenStack's Maffulli Says Open Cloud is New Frontier of Innovation

OpenStack's Stefano Maffulli is on the opening keynote panel at CloudOpen Wednesday morning August 29. He will be j ... http://bit.ly/OIRQrX

Gibson: Lustre Development for Exascale Could Leave Enterprise Out in the Cold

Panasas Co-Founder and Chief Scientist Garth Gibson writes that Intel’s acquisition of Whamcloud casts doubt on L ... http://bit.ly/NoxHlu

KDE SC 4.9 Now Available

Version 4.9 of the KDE Software Collection has been released. The major update features a number of important chang ... http://bit.ly/NcQiBM

LibreOffice Vulnerable to Multiple Buffer Overflows

Previous versions of the open source LibreOffice productivity suite are vulnerable to multiple buffer overflows tha ... http://bit.ly/NcQi4I

Open WebOS: No (Official) Support for Existing Devices

HP's Open WebOS project has released further important mobile operating system components. The project has also cla ... http://bit.ly/Ot9GOL

Ice Cream Sandwich Now on 15 Percent of Android Phones

Google continues to see solid growth in uptake of Ice Cream Sandwich, but Android 4.0 is still a long way off troun ... http://bit.ly/Ot9HCa

Big Data: Facebook's Next Big Idea

The Facebook fallacy is that at its core the Social Network is really an advertising company. The problem is that " ... http://bit.ly/N2VFVC

KDE 4.9 Released

KDE has announced a new stable release of KDE Plasma Desktop, KDE Applications and the KDE Platform.The release com ... http://bit.ly/QtOMPq

MATE 1.4 Released, PPA Available

MATE is a traditional looking desktop environment derived from Gnome 2. It was specially designed for Gnome 2 lover ... http://bit.ly/QtOJ68

Apple Seeks 'Emergency' Sanctions Against Samsung

Apple today said it will file for penalties against Samsung in the federal court case between the two companies. .. ... http://bit.ly/QtOIiN

Ubuntu Developer Summit Schedule Announced

Canonical is going to host an Ubuntu 13.04 Developer Summit from 29th October to 1st November 2012. This event is g ... http://bit.ly/QtOIiP

Raspberry Pi to get Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich

If you own a Raspberry Pi computer, you should be excited to learn that an Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) port is ... http://bit.ly/QtOFU6

ZaReason's Valta X79

I was recently contacted by Earl Malmrose of ZaReason, who wantedto know if I'd like to review ZaReason's new Lin ... http://bit.ly/PulrAs

Top 15 Android-Ready Application Development Frameworks

There are scores of Android-compatible mobile app frameworks to choose from these days.  Here's our list of the t ... http://bit.ly/T3rCzY

Samsung Preparing Massive 11.8-Inch Tablet with Retina Display-Like Resolution

Plans for the new slate are buried among the documents being used in the Apple vs. Samsung trial. ... http://bit.ly/PmeYHz

July 2012 Issue of Linux Journal: Linux Means Business

Water Coolers, Cubicles, Committee Meetings and a PenguinOne of these things doesn't belong in the workplace. If ... http://bit.ly/Nm5Ou8

Cloud 2020: What are the Barriers to the Cloud?

By 2020, cloud computing is set to become a standard part of enterprise IT - yet it faces a number of key challenge ... http://bit.ly/QvKfyZ

What Is Ubuntu's Target Audience?

So, in my opinion, Ubuntu's target audience is simply the one which wants to use computing power to get a job done. ... http://bit.ly/Mj5q5I

Linux is Not a Second String Operating System

While Linux might not enjoy a huge desktop market at present, there are some of you who think that's about to chang ... http://bit.ly/Mj5ouN

Rackspace Launches OpenStack Portfolio

The company's OpenStack era launches with a portfolio of cloud services. Current customers can migrate over time. ... http://bit.ly/PlWWFl

First Day Of Apple-Samsung Trial Yields Troves Of New iPhone, iPad Prototypes

Yesterday, in one of the biggest tech trials to hit U.S. soil, Apple called longtime Apple employee and designer Ch ... http://bit.ly/PlWWFf

VFIO Driver Merged Into Linux 3.6 Kernel

After being in development for years, the VFIO user-space driver interface has been merged into the mainline Linux ... http://bit.ly/QvyqIR

NTT DoCoMo, Fujitsu and NEC Rekindle LTE Partnership, Samsung and Panasonic Left in the Rain

The fractious on-again, off-again love affair between NTT DoCoMo, Fujitsu and NEC has taken another turn. After dis ... http://bit.ly/PlWWoR

Azul's Zing JVM Free for Open Source Developer Testing

Open source developers can now develop and test with Azul's GC-pause-free Zing JVM for free under a new programme f ... http://bit.ly/Mj5nXM

CentOS Gets a Desktop Remix with Stella 6.3

Version 6.3 of the desktop-focused remix of CentOS features the older 2.x branch of GNOME and an updated multimedia ... http://bit.ly/QvypVv

System Administration of the IBM Watson Supercomputer

System administrators at the USENIX LISA 2011conference (LISA is a great system administration conference, by the ... http://bit.ly/MXDiDr

Intel Ivy Bridge Is Okay On Linux Power Usage

With talk of a massive power regression in the recently released Linux 3.5 kernel, yesterday I began benchmarking s ... http://bit.ly/PlqoLZ

Samsung Working On Bigger Tablet With Retina Display

According to the court documents filed in the historic Apple vs Samsung court case, Samsung is planning an 11.8-inc ... http://bit.ly/Plqkfi

Mid-2012: Arch Linux vs. Slackware vs. Ubuntu vs. Fedora

At the request of many Phoronix readers following the release of updated Arch Linux media, here are some new Arch L ... http://bit.ly/R4mkFT

MATE 1.4 Desktop Improves Caja File Manager

Version 1.4 of the fork of the older 2.x branch of GNOME adds support for sharing files via bluetooth and features ... http://bit.ly/QWXV0j

Development Release: Pentoo 2012.0 Beta

Michael Zanetta has announced the availability of the initial beta build of Pentoo 2012.0, a Gentoo-based live DVD ... http://bit.ly/QWXOSC

Fedora 18 to Get MATE Desktop, Samba 4 and ownCloud

The GNOME 2 fork MATE is to be available in Fedora's repositories. The Python 3 stack used by Fedora will be upgrad ... http://bit.ly/R4mhtr

Make Way for the Software-Defined Data Center

The messaging in VMware's announcement of its planned acquisition of Nicira offers insight into both the company's ... http://bit.ly/M1to4a

KLANG: A New Linux Audio System For The Kernel

A developer has begun working on a new audio sub-system for the Linux kernel, which he is referring to as KLANG, th ... http://bit.ly/R4mjlk