Blog_the_blogger: March 2012

Friday, 30 March 2012

Archiving Images with an Open Source Scanning Robot

Project Gado is developing an inexpensive, open source, autonomous archival scanning robot. The goal? To create a t ... http://bit.ly/HtNmiX

Thursday, 29 March 2012

Wrangling Data Vizualization with Gnuplot 4.6

Let's face it: everybody likes having data, but nobody likes staring at a column of numbers. If you cannot sculpt y ... http://bit.ly/Hn3PGR

Wrangling Data Vizualization with Gnuplot 4.6

Let's face it: everybody likes having data, but nobody likes staring at a column of numbers. If you cannot sculpt y ... http://bit.ly/HjarrX

Qualcomm Calls To Kill All Proprietary Drivers For Good

Next week at the 6th annual Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit in San Francisco, two Qualcomm Atheros engineers ... http://bit.ly/H15L9H

Microsoft's Lessons Learned From Linux

Another session taking place next week at the 6th Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit, besides Qualcomm allegedly ... http://bit.ly/H3TE9v

openSUSE Summit: Call for Papers Announced

The openSUSE project has announced that the Call for Papers for the upcoming openSUSE Summit is now open. The proje ... http://bit.ly/H3TBuy

xf86-video-ati 6.14.4 Has New Features

AMD has released the xf86-video-ati 6.14.4 X.Org driver, which brings a few new features to their DDX component... ... http://bit.ly/Hs3Dpb

Open Source Robotics Platforms are Flourishing--As They Should

All around the world, open source robotics efforts are maturing, to the point where an open source robot surgeon mi ... http://bit.ly/HlHHfO

Chrome 18 Improves Graphics Performance, Closes Security Holes

Version 18 of Chrome has been released into the browser's Stable channel. The update improves graphics and drawing ... http://bit.ly/H0G0af

Red Hat Revenues Exceed a Billion Dollars

Red Hat's fourth quarter numbers propel it's annual revenue to $1.13 billion dollars, making it the first "pure pla ... http://bit.ly/HrDWmY

Oracle Turns Down Google's Peace Offer in Android Lawsuit

Google has offered Oracle 0.5% of Android revenues to settle its lawsuit over Android, but Oracle has declined the ... http://bit.ly/H3kPOv

A Google Nexus Tablet is Bad News for Android Partners

Think it's difficult to operate in the tablet business now? Wait until Google gets into the game. ... ... http://bit.ly/GZaMKY

Wednesday, 28 March 2012

SSH Tunneling - Poor Techie's VPN

"If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it is the light of the oncoming train" ~ Robert Lowell. Oh yes, another ... http://bit.ly/GXxncp

What Red Hat Has Done is Worth So Much More Than a Billion

Red Hat is widely expected to crack a billion dollars in revenue in today’s earning call. This achievement will ... http://bit.ly/HiNsw4

How to Build an In-Vehicle Infotainment System with Drupal

The "World's First DrupalCar," a 2011 Camaro, was unveiled at DrupalCon Denver. We don't look under the hood, but w ... http://bit.ly/Hnmf6S

Red Hat Sets a Date for OpenShift Source Release

Red Hat is getting set to take the wraps off the source code for OpenShift. The company announced today that it wil ... http://bit.ly/GXqWpx

Blackboard Buys into Open Source

To be honest, I wasn't completely shocked that Blackboard stepped into the Moodle ring in a major way on Monday. If ... http://bit.ly/GXyr3U

Ubuntu 12.04 KVM/Xen Virtualization: Intel vs. AMD

With the upcoming availability of Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise Pangolin" being a Long-Term Support (LTS) release that will ... http://bit.ly/H0wCx0

New Shotwell Release Brings Photo Straightening Tool

Version 0.12.0 of the open source photo management tool also adds support for GTK+ 3, the ability to recognise more ... http://bit.ly/HgPBrR

KMSCON: A DRM-Based Terminal Emulator

Announced yesterday was the release of kmscon, a terminal emulator for Linux that's similar to what's offered insid ... http://bit.ly/GX51gG

AMD Catalyst 12.3 For Linux Officially Released

AMD has officially released Catalyst 12.3 for Linux as its March 2012 update for those relying upon this binary gra ... http://bit.ly/H0W9cG

Development Release: DoudouLinux 2012-03

The DoudouLinux development team has announced the availability of a new test release of DoudouLinux, a Debian-base ... http://bit.ly/HmT8BX

Critical Java Hole Being Exploited on a Large Scale

According to a report, criminals are increasingly exploiting a critical hole in Java to infect victim's computers. ... http://bit.ly/Hge8Kj

Slashdot TV Launches Online, Including Many Open Source Videos

Slashdot, which started out as a technology-focused content aggregation online site many years ago, has seen its sh ... http://bit.ly/GXanKr

GNOME 3.4 Released

The GNOME Project has published version 3.4 of its Linux and Unix desktop environment, the second major update to G ... http://bit.ly/HmqRve

Tuesday, 27 March 2012

How many domains do you own/control personally and/or for your employer?

1-5 6-14 15-49 50-99 100+ ... http://bit.ly/GXuYeN

Intel Looks To Be Working On Open-Source GPGPU

A mailing list message this morning raises the possibility that Intel's open-source graphics developers could soon ... http://bit.ly/HaRC3P

openSUSE Tumbleweed status for the week of March 26, 2012

It's been about a year since I did a status report of what's going on in the openSUSE:Tumbleweed repo, let me know ... http://bit.ly/HeM8rG

GTK+ 3.4.0 Released

As a sign of the approaching GNOME 3.4 release, version 3.4.0 of the GTK+ library is now available. Improvements in ... http://bit.ly/HbpYaT

An OpenACC Example

Mark Harris from Nvidia has posted a quick code example highlighting the power of OpenACC compiler directives for h ... http://bit.ly/HgmD7b

Roaming Media

Portable music doesn't need to be restricted to headphones.Here's a step-by-step how-to on setting up a music syst ... http://bit.ly/HeFnWO

The GNU C Library Steering Committee Disbands

The glibc project has announced a change in leadership that sees its steering committee dissolving itself and being ... http://bit.ly/GXndGr

XWayland Updated Against X.Org Server 1.12

Kristian Høgsberg has pushed updated patches this morning for XWayland in the X.Org Server that re-base this work ... http://bit.ly/GVoyQP

Nvidia Helps Power Bid For 2015 X-Prize Moon Mission

Today Nvidia announced that the company’s Tesla GPUs are being used by a team of German scientists participating ... http://bit.ly/Hb7ck7

Overgrowth For Linux Is Almost Ready

The Linux port of Overgrowth, a forthcoming title from Wolfire Games, is nearly ready... ... http://bit.ly/HbZ17S

Google Summer of Code: Contribute to Open Source, Make Money

If you're a post-secondary student, 18 years or older, you have a golden opportunity this Summer. Contribute to an ... http://bit.ly/GUoFzD

Cascade Cement, March 2012

Snowboarding in Cacsade Cement, March 2012 from Greg KH on Vimeo. ... http://bit.ly/GXXhhf

Monday, 26 March 2012

Disorganized? Get Tracks on Linux

Feeling a bit disorganized? Looking to take control of your projects? Take a look at Tracks, an open source Web-bas ... http://bit.ly/H6afG5

Learning to Program the Arduino

This article should acquaint you with basic Arduino programmingand show you how to write programs that interact wi ... http://bit.ly/GTRXrY

Learning to Program the Arduino

This article should acquaint you with basic Arduino programming and show you how to write programs that interact wi ... http://bit.ly/HbPrie

Amazon Web Services and Eucalyptus Form Cloud Partnership

Eucalyptus, which has been an innovator on the cloud computing scene ever since its early days as a university proj ... http://bit.ly/GRCWJR

Etc: McAfee has Released an Open-Source Security Audit Plugin for MySQL Databases.

McAfee has released an open-source security audit plugin for mySQL databases. ... http://bit.ly/GRSivG

Integrating Your App Into Unity

A little while back I created the following video that outlines many of the technologies available in Unity that yo ... http://bit.ly/H5wTOW

ZeroMQ Forked to Create Crossroads I/O

The original developers objected to trademark and review policies and have forked the messaging protocol and librar ... http://bit.ly/GSGFL9

Running LinOTP On CentOS 6.2

This howto will show how you can set up LinOTP on CentOS 6.2. LinOTP is a modular and flexible solution for two fac ... http://bit.ly/H5wTOO

Friday, 23 March 2012

Setting Up A Xen Graphics Card Pass-Through

For those wanting to setup a Xen VGA pass-through configuration whereby your host graphics card can be controlled b ... http://bit.ly/GLxWu2

The Cloud, KVM and NYSE Star at Our Upcoming Enterprise End User Summit

Today I am happy to announce the program and speakers for The Linux Foundation's Enterprise End User Summit (https: ... http://bit.ly/GSU0Ml

PCI-E ASPM Change For The Linux 3.4 Kernel

The PCI pull request went in yesterday for the Linux 3.4 kernel. Overall it's a fairly uninteresting pull for the 3 ... http://bit.ly/GSopj7

LibreOffice Cloud not Coming Next Month

Reports of a cloud service coming next month are wrong says the Document Foundation director, and don't expect any ... http://bit.ly/GSonI0

How To Configure PureFTPd To Accept TLS Sessions On CentOS 6.2

FTP is a very insecure protocol because all passwords and all data are transferred in clear text. By using TLS, the ... http://bit.ly/GSRNWE

Prometheus Bound: An Important Precedent for the Next Software Patent Case

The Supreme Court’s new opinion on patent eligibility is an important step in the right direction in addressing t ... http://bit.ly/GJbxw0

Others Should Join Mozilla in Declaring the Video Wars Done

As Susan reported a few days ago, Mozilla has reversed its stance on the H.264 codec, and the company's most visibl ... http://bit.ly/GSEss3

Scientific Linux, the Great Distro With the Wrong Name

Scientific Linux is an unknown gem, one of the best Red Hat Enterprise Linux clones. The name works against it beca ... http://bit.ly/GLqEq8

Skeltrack: Open Source Skeleton Tracking Library for Kinect

Igalia has released a library for tracking different joints in the human body from depth images using Microsoft's K ... http://bit.ly/GJU080

CodePlex, Yes CodePlex, Adds Git Support

When Linus Torvalds used to talk about world domination, I thought it was relating to Linux. Apparently, it applies ... http://bit.ly/GSmtCa

Intel Core i7 AVX GCC Compiler Tuning Results

For those owners of Intel's latest-generation Core i3/i5/i7 "Sandy Bridge" processors, here's a quick look at the i ... http://bit.ly/GJXJSz

Glibc 2.15 Released with Optimisations and New Locales

The new version of the popular C library also adds two new Linux interfaces and fixes a number of bugs... ... http://bit.ly/GR4qm6

Thursday, 22 March 2012

The Compiler That Changed the World Turns 25

Last year, Linux celebrated its 20th anniversary. The kernel that Linus Torvalds started as a hobby project helped ... http://bit.ly/GIqXlF

Black Duck Software Steps Up Its Focus on Open Source in Cars

There is rapidly growing interest in developing open source platforms and applications for use in cars. Last Novemb ... http://bit.ly/GNjgsU

GCC Turns 25 Years Old, GCC 4.7 Released

Richard Guenther of SUSE on behalf of the GNU Compiler Collection development community has announced the official ... http://bit.ly/GGzY8U

GCC celebrates 25 Years with the 4.7.0 Release

When Richard Stallman announced the first public release of GCC in 1987, few could have imagined the broad impact t ... http://bit.ly/GG5J6Q

Sony Colorfully Reveals Android 4.0 Schedule for Tablets

If you own a Sony tablet, you should read this. Also, we preview a new Wi-Fi only Tablet P variant coming soon in J ... http://bit.ly/GMSYlg

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Kepler On Linux?

NVIDIA has finally introduced their first Kepler-based graphics card: the GeForce GTX 680. The new Kepler graphics ... http://bit.ly/GHQeMP

First PGI Compilers with Support for OpenACC Now Available

The Portland Group has beta-released its first Fortran and C compilers with support for OpenACC. PGI continues to i ... http://bit.ly/GNj90o

Growing Android Developer Disinterest Is All About Economics

This week, market researchers at IDC and mobile app development and tools company Appcelerator came out with survey ... http://bit.ly/GMAwgA

Banshee 2.4 Adds DVD Playback and UPnP Streaming

The new version of the open source and cross-platform media player arrives, after six months of development, with s ... http://bit.ly/GNEHrd

Social Media JSR 357 Rejected by Java Community Process

A proposal to standardise access to social media sites like Facebook and Twitter in Java has been rejected by the J ... http://bit.ly/GG5EAg

Nouveau Project Has Huge Surprises Today

The reverse-engineered Nouveau driver project has two huge surprises to share with the NVIDIA-using Linux desktop c ... http://bit.ly/GOoAHL

With Linux Merge, Expect Android Flowers to Bloom

Mere mortals needn't care, but programmers outside Google who want to build on Android's foundation should be able ... http://bit.ly/GG5FnB

LibreOffice 3.4.6 Fixes Potential Security Problem

Version 3.4.6 of the open source LibreOffice productivity suite has been released; it addresses a "potential securi ... http://bit.ly/GMxfPg

Wednesday, 21 March 2012

Bodhi Linux, the Beautiful Configurable Lightweight Linux

Bohdi Linux is gorgeous, functional, and very customizable. It just so happens, that's what grumpy old Linux nerds ... http://bit.ly/GDEA11

Work the Shell - What Day Is That Date in the Past?

In a previous article, we started a script that worked backward from a day and monthdate and figured out the most ... http://bit.ly/GDYvxl

Akamai Open Sources Mobitest Benchmarking Tool

Following its acquisition of Blaze, the Massachusetts-based cloud services provider has made its Mobitest client fo ... http://bit.ly/GEZIIx

Will H.264 Codec Support Come To Fedora? Nope.

Following Mozilla's decision this week to support H.264 via system codecs in Firefox, it's been brought up within t ... http://bit.ly/GHMbJq

Wubi Is Likely To Wobble Back In Ubuntu

Brought up on the Ubuntu development list yesterday was a proposal to disable Wubi installations from Ubuntu 12.04. ... http://bit.ly/GHKbHm

A Linux Game That's Still Not Selling Well

While the new Humble Bundle is already pulling in hundreds of thousands of dollars, there's a new Source Engine gam ... http://bit.ly/GFhGYt

OpenJDK Bug Database Plans Changed

The impending closure of Sun's legacy bug tracking system and overruns on the project to pilot a public-facing bug ... http://bit.ly/GEbz3C

Winning the Hearts and Minds: Dries Buytaert's DrupalCon Keynote

Drupal is built on the passion of users and developers. But what makes this premier open content management platfor ... http://bit.ly/GEPZLV

Chromium OS Desktop Shell Eschews Google's Cloud-Only Mantra

Ever since Google started working on its Chrome OS operating system, it has had a pronounced focus on allowing user ... http://bit.ly/GGEHrN

Fedora 16 And GNOME Shell: Tested And Reviewed (Tom's Hardware)

For those with some spare time: Tom's Hardware has posted a 28-page review of Fedora 16. "We chose to cover Fedora ... http://bit.ly/GEiNs5

MapR Hadoop Expands Data Analysis Tools

MapR today announced a comprehensive set of data connection options for Hadoop enabling a wide range of data import ... http://bit.ly/GEl8OI

Tuesday, 20 March 2012

What's New in Linux 3.3?

Sunday, Linus Torvalds released the 3.3 Linux kernel. In the latest installment of the continuing saga of kernel de ... http://bit.ly/GE3zTn

GCC 5.0 Set for a Modular Future?

Modularisation of a future version of the GNU Compiler Collection is currently a hot topic. Actually realising this ... http://bit.ly/GBb4sN

How to Become a VLC Media Player Power User

In all likelihood, you already use VLC Media Player, available for Windows, the Mac and Linux, and one of the best ... http://bit.ly/GDmOPg

Naming Fedora 18, The Beefy Miracle Successor

There's two months until Fedora 17, which is codenamed the Beefy Miracle, is officially released. However, already ... http://bit.ly/GAZ1LI

Mesa 8.1-devel Performance With Intel's DRI Driver

Recently I published benchmarks showing performance boosts for Intel Sandy Bridge with the Linux 3.3 and future 3.4 ... http://bit.ly/GCAMBn

CeBIT Open Source Forum 2012 Videos Now Available

All presentations from the Open Source Forum at CeBIT 2012 are now available for free from the Linux Magazine video ... http://bit.ly/GBaYBe

Fedora 18 Picks Up New Features, Rejects Systemd-Journal

There's still two months prior to the official Fedora 17 release -- Fedora 17 Beta isn't even out yet -- but beside ... http://bit.ly/GE0Upt

Using ATA Over Ethernet (AoE) On Debian Squeeze (Initiator And Target)

This guide explains how you can set up an AoE target and an AoE initiator (client), both running Debian Squeeze. Ao ... http://bit.ly/GBHYrJ

KDevelop 4.3 Arrives with KDE Projects Integration

Released after nine months of development, the new version of the IDE also features experimental C++11 support, tig ... http://bit.ly/GCAJWj

Greg KH Readies for Collaboration Summit, Talks Raspberry Pi

Linux kernel maintainer and Linux Foundation Fellow Greg Kroah-Hartman will be moderating the highly-anticipated Li ... http://bit.ly/GDNPkE

Second openSUSE 12.2 Milestone Arrives for Testing

The openSUSE development team has detailed a number of changes planned for the upcoming 12.2 release of its Linux d ... http://bit.ly/GBK5PB

Monday, 19 March 2012

Advanced Firewall Configurations with ipset

iptables is the user-space tool for configuring firewall rules in theLinux kernel. It is actually a part of the la ... http://bit.ly/FPTS2U

A Peek Behind the Curtain at Puppet Labs

In this interview, Luke Kanies, CEO and founder of Puppet Labs, explains why the Puppet configuration management to ... http://bit.ly/FWf6J1

Rhythmbox and Empathy Get Quicklist Support

Rhythmbox and Empathy get quicklist support as of recent updates. This is in addition to the quicklist support gain ... http://bit.ly/xjOHWZ

NVIDIA Tegra 3 Makes For Fast Ubuntu On ARM

Here are the first set of Phoronix.com benchmarks of the quad-core NVIDIA Tegra 3. Needless to say, four Cortex-A9s ... http://bit.ly/FRgzoo

How To Begin Using OpenCL With Radeon Gallium3D

Earlier this month I wrote about how you can sort of begin using OpenCL acceleration out of the Radeon Gallium3D dr ... http://bit.ly/yOLNQ5

Gregg: Linux Kernel Performance: Flame Graphs

Brendan Gregg demonstrates "flame graphs" as a tool for tracking down kernel performance problems. "The perf report ... http://bit.ly/xK1mm4

Video: How insideHPC Uses Video to Build Community

Our Video Sunday feature continues with this interview by Michele De Lorenzi from CSCS. Brueckner describes how he ... http://bit.ly/FPFo2Z

Long Term Kernels 2.6.27.62 and 2.6.32.59

The 2.6.27.62 and 2.6.32.59 long term kernel releases are available. Each contains roughly a dozen important fixes. ... http://bit.ly/xUxKh5

Eurotech Rolls Out Sandy Bridge Supercomputer

Eurotech has launched the Aurora HPC 10-10 supercomputer based on the Intel Sandy Bridge processing platform. Optim ... http://bit.ly/xuINuC

Intel Sandy Bridge Shapes Up On GCC 4.7 Compiler

Back in January I wrote about how open-source compilers are quickly maturing for Intel Sandy Bridge CPUs and offeri ... http://bit.ly/FRvPPW

Distribution Release: Tiny Core Linux 4.4

Robert Shingledecker has announced the release of Tiny Core Linux 4.4, a minimalist but extensible and fast distrib ... http://bit.ly/yymZdL

Server Monitoring With munin And monit On Debian Squeeze

In this article I will describe how you can monitor your Debian Squeeze server with munin and monit. munin produces ... http://bit.ly/yCbasi

Friday, 16 March 2012

The Future Web at DrupalCon Denver

It's DrupalCon season once again, which means Drupalers from all over the world will converge next week on Denver, ... http://bit.ly/yYQGzk

Weekend Project: Take a Look at Wine 1.4

The Wine project has released stable version 1.4 of its Windows-compatibility service for Linux (and other non-Micr ... http://bit.ly/FOgMFD

Anonymous Linux Sparks Concerns

Unknown persons have released Anonymous-OS, a hacker Linux distribution, on SourceForge. Anonymous, however, warns ... http://bit.ly/zhcnGw

CentOS 6.2 Samba Standalone Server With tdbsam Backend

This tutorial explains the installation of a Samba fileserver on CentOS 6.2 and how to configure it to share files ... http://bit.ly/FOfZ85

JavaOne 2012 Call for Papers

The JavaOne organisers have announced the Call for Papers deadline for this year's upcoming JavaOne 2012 conference ... http://bit.ly/yR1MYC

Video: Scalable Cluster Computing with Nvidia GPUs

In this video, Axel Koehler presents: Scalable Cluster Computing with NVIDIA GPUs. Recorded at the HPC Advisory Cou ... http://bit.ly/wpHa2e

JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 Beta Headed for the Cloud

Red Hat has released beta versions of JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 and the corresponding JBoss Developer ... http://bit.ly/FOdrWm

X.Org Foundation Elects New Board Members

Members of the X.Org Foundation have elected new members to their board of directors to oversee this project that's ... http://bit.ly/FOhToy

$25,000 prize: Why Open Education Matters Video Competition

Creative Commons, the U.S. Department of Education, and the Open Society Foundations are offering up to $25,000 in ... http://bit.ly/xLs87W

Canonical Publishes Apple Hybrid Graphics Driver

On Thursday there was a new upstream contribution by Canonical for an Apple GMUX device driver, which can provide h ... http://bit.ly/wv88wY

Kubuntu Active Starts Producing Daily Builds Aimed at Vivaldi Tablet

So far, only i386 builds are available but the team plans to create ARMv7 images as well, which could run on KDE's ... http://bit.ly/xBfphk

Join FLISOL 2012!

It’s that time of the year again – FLISOL, the “Festival Latinoamericano de Instalación de Software Libre ... http://bit.ly/yXOTpv

Sure It's Popular with Consumers, But Ubuntu Increasingly Means Business

Most of us who follow Linux know that it has been a huge success at the server level, and powers much of the server ... http://bit.ly/FOdrFG

Thursday, 15 March 2012

As Data Grows, So Grows Linux

IDC recently announced its numbers for 2011 Q4 servers sales: overall server revenues are up for the year 5.8 perce ... http://bit.ly/yMxDLK

NYSE Opens Up About Giving Up Control

Things are really heating up in anticipation for the Sixth Annual Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit taking plac ... http://bit.ly/wveSYY

Big Data, Algorithms and Moneyball Medicine - Part I

I finally got around to watching Moneyball this week. Great film. Roger Ebert points out that the film "isn't so mu ... http://bit.ly/zUbXdw

Study Analyses Ten Years of Security Holes

A review by security firm S21sec has found that the number of security holes decreased slightly in 2011. The distri ... http://bit.ly/xZSGp6

Distribution Release: Vinux 3.0.2

Mobeen Iqbal has announced the release of Vinux 3.0.2, the latest update of the project's 3.0 series of the Ubuntu- ... http://bit.ly/z61QC6

Anonymous Launches its Own Ubuntu-Based Operating System

The organization says that the operating system is designed for "educational purposes," and can check the security ... http://bit.ly/wubXnX

LM_Sensors 3.3.2 Brings Linux Sensor Improvements

It's been a while since having anything to talk about concerning LM_Sensors, the user-space side to Linux hardware ... http://bit.ly/yEh0cH

Cinnamon 1.4 Improves Workspace Management

The Linux Mint team has released the latest version of its desktop environment forked from GNOME Shell. The release ... http://bit.ly/AFeazE

LibreOffice 3.5.1 Bug Fix Release Available

The first maintenance update to the 3.5.x branch of the open source productivity suite addresses a "majority of the ... http://bit.ly/ygoKJU

Wayland Is Not For End-Users In Ubuntu 12.04

Two days ago I wrote about Wayland's Weston compositor landing in the Ubuntu 12.04 repository, which excited many L ... http://bit.ly/yLMc1a

Cinnamon 1.4 Brings Back More GNOME2 Memories

Cinnamon, the project by the Linux Mint developers to make the GNOME Shell more like the old GNOME2 experience, is ... http://bit.ly/w92pkg

Wednesday, 14 March 2012

Network Programming with ENet

Cross-platform network programming made easy. more>> ... http://bit.ly/zJ7tWd

Thunderbird 11 Released: Lots of Fixes, Frustratingly Few New Features

Though it gets much less attention than its browser sibling, Thunderbird is still plugging away. Since it's on the ... http://bit.ly/xZpljn

Hadoop Training Is Easy to Get, Online or Offline

With the Big Data trend in full swing--where organizations of all sizes are using sophisticated tools to mine data ... http://bit.ly/xIm362

Btrfs Ready for Production in New Oracle Linux Kernel

Among the new features in "release 2" of the "Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel" for Oracle Linux is official support f ... http://bit.ly/ybghaR

Firefox, Thunderbird and SeaMonkey Updates Fix Critical Vulnerabilities

Mozilla has detailed the security fixes included in its recent updates to Firefox, Thunderbird and SeaMonkey. The n ... http://bit.ly/wDCewk

New Tools for Android Developers Arrive

This week, developers gained access to some notable Android-focused tools. The tools are arriving as Android contin ... http://bit.ly/zQSqbq

HP's Former CEO Leo Apotheker Killed WebOS

The mystery has been solved. Hewlett-Packard's short-lived CEO Leo Apotheker was responsible for ending the young t ... http://bit.ly/zag85V

Firefox in 2011 – Firefox Plans for 2012

The Firefox team looks back at its 2011 accomplishments and discusses its plans for this year. "With fullscreen sup ... http://bit.ly/w3DT0R

Sandy Bridge Become Quicker With Linux 3.3, 3.4

With the release of the Linux 3.3 kernel being imminent and the Linux 3.4 kernel drm-next already offering lots of ... http://bit.ly/yrvF3H

Tuesday, 13 March 2012

Patents, Legal Collaboration and our Legal Summit

Unfortunately legal issues, specially patents lawsuits, are much in the news. From Yahoo suing Facebook to the ong ... http://bit.ly/zradsm

Mustache.js

In previous articles, I've looked at a number of uses forJavaScript, on both the server and the client. I hope to ... http://bit.ly/zGYKq6

Can Linux Win in Cloud Computing?

Gerrit Huizenga is Cloud Architect at IBM (and fellow Portland-er) and will be speaking at the upcoming Linux Found ... http://bit.ly/xRuj61

OpenStreetMap Completing Move to Open Database Licence

1 April is the cut off date for the OpenStreetMap change to the Open Database Licence. Contributors who have not ag ... http://bit.ly/yzJ7bH

HPC Advisory Council Announces GPU Development App Benchmarking Center

Today the HPC Advisory Council announced a new NVIDIA GPU-based HPC development center. As part of the Council’s ... http://bit.ly/wSEdsX

Magnolia CMS 4.5 Improves Usability

Version 4.5 of the open source enterprise content management system brings improved usability and adds a number of ... http://bit.ly/zNGTZp

Mozilla Looks at Supporting H.264 Video Again

Google's failure to remove H.264 from Chrome appears to have made the Mozilla developers reconsider their position ... http://bit.ly/xTlO8y

Samsung Has G2D Driver, Virtual Display For Linux 3.4

Besides the DRM work already piling up for Linux 3.4, there's more. The Samsung developers responsible for the Exyn ... http://bit.ly/wFGsum

Video: MPI – Overview, Performance Optimizations, and Tuning

In this video, D.K. Panda from Ohio State University presents: MPI - Overview, Performance Optimizations, and Tunin ... http://bit.ly/AzPSwr

Making Compiler, Disk Testing More Reproducible

There's some enhancements to share that make compiler and disk testing more reproducible under Linux, plus many oth ... http://bit.ly/wt8PZp

ARM's Super-Efficient New Chip Can Get Years of Battery Life [Guts]

With processors, it's easy to get caught up in gigahertz and petaflops and the top-end specs. But blazing fast spee ... http://bit.ly/wZfZzU

Making Compiler, Disk Testing More Reproducible

There's some enhancements to share that make compiler and disk testing more reproducible under Linux, plus many oth ... http://bit.ly/wGXxfZ

DragonflyBSD 3.0 Performance Benchmarks

Near the end of February marked the release of DragonflyBSD 3.0 with multi-core speed boosts and other improvements ... http://bit.ly/xOv260

Default Ubuntu Apps Receive Unity Quicklist Support

Several applications installed by default in Ubuntu receives better quicklist support. As much as this is a nice ha ... http://bit.ly/AbVqSI

Dream Studio 11.10: Upgrade or Hands Off?

Many Linux distributions specialized for multimedia distributions have come and gone. Some were pretty good, but Dr ... http://bit.ly/zr3MID

Monday, 12 March 2012

Python in the Cloud

A basic introduction to using the Python boto library to interact with AWS services and resources. more>> ... http://bit.ly/A5aGA8

Brewtarget: Hop into Beer Brewing with Open Source

If you've always wanted to brew your own beer, you'll be glad to know there's an app for that. Created by Philip Le ... http://bit.ly/wpsQ5w

DRM Work Piling Up For The Linux 3.4 Kernel

While it looks like there's still another week before the Linux 3.3 kernel will be released and thus marking the me ... http://bit.ly/xkkhEx

Running Feng Office (Community Edition) On Nginx (LEMP) On Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 11.10

This tutorial shows how you can install and run Feng Office (Community Edition) on a Debian Squeeze or Ubuntu 11.10 ... http://bit.ly/yBzcc4

X.Org's XDS2012 Will Celebrate 25 Years Of X11

Some new details have emerged concerning the 2012 X.Org Developers' Summit, which will take place this September an ... http://bit.ly/A7ZLsI

The Blurry Line of Developer and Journalists in the New Journalism of the Open Web

"We're at an inflection point of the way journalism treats the web," Dan Singer said in the "Open Web, Open News: R ... http://bit.ly/xMDXOv

HTML5 Roundup: Mozilla and Google Aim to Level Up Gaming on the Web

Standards-based open Web technologies are increasingly capable of delivering interactive multimedia experiences; th ... http://bit.ly/AyjA5H

Install KDE 4.8.1 On Kubuntu

KDE 4.8.1 was released recently and you can now upgrade your Kubuntu machine to KDE 4.8.1. ... http://bit.ly/wjJCbx

What's Left For LLVMpipe Before OpenGL 3.0

One of the Gallium3D drivers yet not fully supporting the OpenGL 3.0 specification is the LLVMpipe software rasteri ... http://bit.ly/wM7a44

Sunday, 11 March 2012

Distribution Release: Skolelinux 6.0.4

Petter Reinholdtsen has announced the release of Skolelinux 6.0.4, a Debian-based specialist distribution for schoo ... http://bit.ly/xLWEHY

Kernel Prepatch 3.3-rc7

Linus has pushed 3.3-rc7 despite his earlier wish to not have to do any more 3.3 prepatches. "Now, none of the fixe ... http://bit.ly/wmeuto

Friday, 9 March 2012

VMware's Linux 3D Guest Driver Is Ready

The xf86-video-vmware 12.0 driver was officially released yesterday, which now means all of the components needed f ... http://bit.ly/wsElxI

Greg KH: The 2.6.32 Linux Kernel

Greg Kroah-Hartman discusses the history of the 2.6.32 stable kernel series and why he has stopped supporting it. " ... http://bit.ly/AyYhub

Weekend Project: Take a Look at Cron Replacement Whenjobs

The cron scheduler has been a useful tool for Linux and Unix admins for decades, but it just might be time to retir ... http://bit.ly/xINH8X

Linux 3.4 Kernel Will Support Intel Medfield Graphics

The merge window for the Linux 3.4 kernel will open up this month assuming the latest Linux 3.3 release plans work ... http://bit.ly/zjCI0r

Fedora Remix Is the Official Linux Distro of Raspberry Pi

Recently, we've been covering the diminutive $25/$35 Raspberry Pi computer, and how the initial batch of 10,000 ARM ... http://bit.ly/zTNP2f

Weekend Project: Take a Look at Cron Replacement Whenjobs

The cron scheduler has been a useful tool for Linux and Unix admins for decades, but it just might be time to retir ... http://bit.ly/xK3SOW

Linux Gets a Bigger Shield Against Patent Attacks

Simon Phipps comments on the expansion of the Open Innovation Network's patent protection umbrella. "Too bad there' ... http://bit.ly/yptfzs

Thursday, 8 March 2012

Linux Training Opportunities at Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit

The Linux Foundation's Collaboration Summit is a great time to, well, collaborate. But it's also a really good op ... http://bit.ly/y9nEqN

Random Linux Tips: Making KDE4 Behave, Thwacking Those Weirdo U3 Partitions on USB Sticks

Sometimes, we have little tips and tricks that make life easier – but don't quite take up a full article. So toda ... http://bit.ly/w3Bx2y

Privacy Settings in Ubuntu 12.04 Gets New Application Usage Dialog

The Privacy Manager in Ubuntu 12.04 finally receives new dialog to show the Application usage in a clean and effici ... http://bit.ly/zc3gim

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Running On Linux

Here's the first bits of information following Phoronix tests of the "Southern Islands" AMD Radeon HD 7950 graphics ... http://bit.ly/xQAE4X

Holy Holey Optochip! IBM Hits a Terabit of Info Per Second

Big Blue's new prototype chip surpasses major milestone, thanks to unlikely innovation: tiny holes in a quarter-inc ... http://bit.ly/wdLtYY

The Evolution Of Enterprise Linux Performance

Curious to know how the performance of enterprise Linux (RHEL, CentOS, Scientific, etc) evolves over time? Here's a ... http://bit.ly/AdkJwg

Distribution Release: CentOS 5.8

Johnny Hughes has announced the release of CentOS 5.8: "We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of Ce ... http://bit.ly/ydo8m9

NSA, German Government Using Android for Secure Phones

Ease of modification and available hardware options throughout the ecosystem lead to increased adoption of Google's ... http://bit.ly/wRMWjh

CeBIT 2012: At the Open Source Project Lounge

Open source projects are offered free booth space at the CeBIT trade show. The H visited the Open Source Project Lo ... http://bit.ly/xPxwxz

Wednesday, 7 March 2012

Do you care that a new iPad was announced today?

Yes, already in line No, don't give a hoot Meh ... http://bit.ly/x0SoxC

Swap Your Laptop for an iPad + Linode

Ditch your laptop and code in the cloud—it's easier than you'd think.On September 19, 2011, I said goodbye to ... http://bit.ly/yFXJdo

Swap Your Laptop for an iPad + Linode

Ditch your laptop and code in the cloud—it's easier than you'd think.On September 19, 2011, I said goodbye to ... http://bit.ly/xmnwbC

Two Asteroids Named after Unix Co-Creators

300909 Kenthompson and 294727 Dennisritchie, two asteroids discovered in 2008, aren't as prominent from Earth as th ... http://bit.ly/yaXD1T

Development Release: FreeBSD 8.3-RC1

Ken Smith has announced the availability of the first release candidate for FreeBSD 8.3, the project's legacy stabl ... http://bit.ly/AmFDJ2

Examining Comments: A Podcast with Peter DePasquale

The SIGCSE community (ACM Special Interest Group in Computer Science Education) is fairly large and quite diverse. ... http://bit.ly/zF68Gs

CeBIT 2012: LPI Announces Linux Essentials Certificate

The new exam covers the evolution of Linux, open source applications and licences as well as command-line and secur ... http://bit.ly/zRxjSV

NVIDIA Joins the Linux Foundation

Fluendo, Lineo Solutions, Mocana and NVIDIA have joined the Linux Foundation. However, there is no indication that ... http://bit.ly/zlqkeR

Development Release: TinyMe 2012 Alpha

The TinyMe project has released the initial alpha build of TinyMe 2012, a minimalist Mandriva-based desktop Linux d ... http://bit.ly/AEjkeT

Distribution Release: IPFire 2.11 Core 57

Arne Fitzenreiter has announced the release of IPFire 2.11 Core 57, the latest update of the project's specialist d ... http://bit.ly/Aquibu

Develop Android Apps from Within Android Using AIDE

Replication is a necessary survival technique in nature, and now Android apps have joined the self-preservation fra ... http://bit.ly/zCvD16

Vagrant Celebrates its 1.0 Stable Release

The software is already being used by many companies such as Mozilla, Nokia and Rackspace to automate the creation ... http://bit.ly/yaS3yV

Making Short Work of Image Conversions with Converseen

Thanks to my photography background, I tend to equate "image manipulation" with "photo adjustment and retouching" ... http://bit.ly/ziQ6qy

Tuesday, 6 March 2012

Remote Viewing-Not Just a Psychic Power

Most people today are used to having a nice, intuitive graphicalenvironment when they sit down to use a computer. ... http://bit.ly/wvgBtY

5 Tips and Tricks for Using Yum

If you're using one of the Fedora/Red Hat derived Linux distributions, odds are you spend some time working with Yu ... http://bit.ly/z1tnx9

PGI Adds Support for OpenACC Native CUDA C/C++ for Multi-core x86

Today The Portland Group announced their 2012 release of their high-performance parallelizing compilers and develop ... http://bit.ly/yJgG9P

LLVM's Clang Is Almost Good Enough For Debian

Clang, the C/C++ front-end compiler for LLVM, is progressing quite quickly and is capable of building the Debian ar ... http://bit.ly/wXkebk

KDE's Rekonq Browser Updated to Version 0.9

The new stable update to the lightweight alternative to the Konqueror web browser adds support for web applications ... http://bit.ly/yVB9Sn

Debian: kFreeBSD 9.0 Kernel Competing Against Linux 3.2

The Debian GNU/kFreeBSD project has been quite interesting as one of the official Debian operating system ports. De ... http://bit.ly/xsILmA

Ubuntu 12.04 Global Menu News Update!

Global Menu is one of the topics which went through a lot of debate between the communti y and the Ubuntu developer ... http://bit.ly/y5jUGd

Maintenance of Linux Kernel 2.6.32 is Slowing Down

Willy Tarreau is taking over maintenance of Linux 2.6.32 and plans to release new versions less often than his pred ... http://bit.ly/zCbZPT

Android Market Raises Maximum App Size to 4GB, APK Files Still Limited to 50MB

A small but fundamental shift happened this evening in the Android Market, as Google has raised its rather arbitrar ... http://bit.ly/yvbc1T

Phalanger: Stuffing PHP With Mono, .NET

The last time that Mono was talked about on Phoronix, which is a re-implementation of Microsoft's .NET platform for ... http://bit.ly/xwGHGM

Development Release: antiX M12 Test 2

A public test release of antiX M12, a new vesion of the project's Debian-based distribution for older computers, ha ... http://bit.ly/zqC09G

Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Fedora 16

Lighttpd is a secure, fast, standards-compliant web server designed for speed-critical environments. This tutorial ... http://bit.ly/xBVy93

Monday, 5 March 2012

Running Roundcube 0.7.1 On Nginx (LEMP) On Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 11.10

This tutorial shows how you can install and run Roundcube webmail (version 0.7.1) web site on a Debian Squeeze or U ... http://bit.ly/wVjvjj

How Pinweel Uses Linux to Power Group Photo Sharing

Pinweel, a group photo sharing service, launched in February 2012. Lead back-end developer Michael De Lorenzo expla ... http://bit.ly/zYTj1b

Alpha release of Python 3.3.0 Brings First Syntax Changes in Two Years

New features include more powerful generator functionality, improved handling of Unicode strings, a new "packaging" ... http://bit.ly/xOXZkl

Stable Kernel 2.6.32.58

The 2.6.32.58 stable kernel update is out. It contains a long set of important fixes, as usual. Greg says: "This is ... http://bit.ly/y39TK0

The U.S. Government Promotes Open Innovation -- Is It Now Mainstream?

"We live in an open source world." For many readers of opensource.com, those words are probably a part of your dail ... http://bit.ly/y0lDla

Statcounter: Android Web Browser Claims Biggest User Share

Android's native web browser can now lay claim to being the most popular mobile browser, according to StatCounter's ... http://bit.ly/woorwc

GitHub Security Incident Highlights Ruby on Rails Problem

A user demonstrated a problem with Ruby on Rails by showing how he could "push" a change to Rails on the Rails-base ... http://bit.ly/yWWkHT

Arch Linux Released for the Raspberry Pi

A lightweight image of the rolling release distribution is available for advanced users of the low-cost computing d ... http://bit.ly/AbfhKm

Podcast: Interview with Penguin Computing and DDN on their New Alliance for HPC

In this podcast, Rich Brueckner from insideHPC speaks with Dean Koester from Penguin Computing and DDN’s Jeff Den ... http://bit.ly/AsyZqA

Linux From Scratch 7.1 Published

A new version of the step-by-step guide for building a custom Linux installation from sources has been released wit ... http://bit.ly/xmZDAL

X Server 1.12 Gets Multi-Touch Support

The new version of X Server includes support for recognising and managing input from several fingers on touch scree ... http://bit.ly/wRX8aU

X.Org Server 1.12 Released With Multi-Touch

X.Org Server 1.12 is now officially available with X Input 2.2, which is the X Input extension update that formally ... http://bit.ly/yF4Cmt

Friday, 2 March 2012

Here come the Ultrabooks

A while back, the headlines from Computerworld arrived in my mailbox and one topic jumped out at me: Ultrabooks, ex ... http://bit.ly/xRrVZr

Here come the Ultrabooks

A while back, the headlines from Computerworld arrived in my mailbox and one topic jumped out at me: Ultrabooks, ex ... http://bit.ly/xYxhPU

Slideshow: Five Years of Linux Collaboration

{lfnews}One of our most special events of the year is just a month away, the Annual Linux Foundation Collaboration ... http://bit.ly/yd0AEX

Ubuntu Global Jam: Walnut Creek

Speaking of the Ubuntu Global Jam, if you are in Northern California, you should come and hangout with us fun Ubunt ... http://bit.ly/wmDQ2P

Ubuntu 12.04 Hits Beta, Brings Smooth Unity for Marching Masses

The beta for Ubuntu 12.04, or Precise Pangolin as Canonical’s Mark Shuttleworth would have it, is upon us.…... ... http://bit.ly/zvvirj

Distribution Release: Plop Linux 4.2.0

Elmar Hanlhofer has announced the release of Plop Linux 4.2.0, a utility live CD or DVD (with Fluxbox and GNOME 3) ... http://bit.ly/yfIHO1

PHP 5.4.0 Brings New Features

The new version, its developers say, is "a major leap forward in the 5.x series", as it "significantly improves per ... http://bit.ly/ynn5JX

Lumberjack Project Wants to Improve Logging

Within the Lumberjack project, the developers of various logging programs plan to improve the technologies that are ... http://bit.ly/wN5umN

Obliteration = Collaboration

A recent exhibition at the Children's Art Centre in Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art fuses two seemin ... http://bit.ly/wE0bsi

BackTrack 5 Update Expands Security Toolkit

The R2 release of BackTrack 5 upgrades its custom-built Linux kernel, and includes new and upgraded tools, such as ... http://bit.ly/w8IENc

Phishing via NFC

At the RSA conference, security experts have given live demonstrations of a whole range of new attacks on various m ... http://bit.ly/zdLUSW

Spring Hadoop Makes Java/Hadoop Interaction Easier

Spring developers can now make use of the framework's technologies when working with Apache Hadoop clusters, from r ... http://bit.ly/xOhirQ

PHP 5.4 Release Brings Many Changes

PHP 5.4.0 was officially released today as a major advancement over the PHP 5.3 code-base... ... http://bit.ly/xRnytd

Weekend Project: Take a Tour of Open Source Eye-Tracking Software

Right this very second, you are looking at a Web browser. At least, those are the odds. But while that's mildly int ... http://bit.ly/ABuRNW

Development Release: TurnKey Linux 12.0 RC

Alon Swartz has announced the availability of the release candidate for TurnKey Linux 12.0. The project, which deve ... http://bit.ly/yJ0va4