Google Analytics Goes Mobile With App Analytics And An Android App

Google is announcing a big addition to Google Analytics today — Mobile App Analytics. As with the social media-fo ... http://bit.ly/MGyel6

Vinyl Cutting on Linux: The Real Deal (Libre Graphics World)

Libre Graphics World is running a comparison of Linux applications used to drive cutting machines for vinyl, cardst ... http://bit.ly/NedY7d

KDE Now Available On Raspberry Pi

Good news for KDE lovers. If you own a Raspberry Pi, you will now be able to run your favorite K Desktop Environmen ... http://bit.ly/NedX3f

Zorin OS 6 Business Edition Released

Zorin OS group has released Zorin OS Business edition aimed at small and medium sized business organizations. ... http://bit.ly/OLuGlQ

Who is Making ARM-Based Windows Tablets?

HP is out (for now). Asus and Toshiba are in. But the list beyond that is unknown. ... ... http://bit.ly/OLuG5e

Open Formats, Open Editors

E-books are currently quite a hot topic in the publishing world. Heck, for the past few months, it's been quite a h ... http://bit.ly/MGmIVo

Gnome 3.6 Will Get Power Off Button

Gnome 3.6 will bring back the power-off or shutdown option as default in the Gnome Shell user menu. ... http://bit.ly/OJpwqz

GRUB Bootloader Finally Reaches Version 2.00

After nearly ten years of work and various 1.9x pre-releases, the GRUB development team has finally released versio ... http://bit.ly/LJunXp

Red Hat Announces Four Hybrid Cloud Products

Red Hat has announced four open source products for operating hybrid clouds, including one for setting up your own ... http://bit.ly/LUOblj

Ubuntu Adoption Grew Up to 160% In India Last Year

Ubuntu grew 160% last year in Indian markets. This is a rough statistics based on distro downloads, security update ... http://bit.ly/LJukuA

Ubuntu 12.10 Alpha 2 Comes With Linux 3.5 Based Kernel

The second alpha 2 of Ubuntu 12.10 comes with a kernel based on the in-development Linux 3.5 kernel... ... http://bit.ly/LUOcpr

Ubuntu 12.04 Samba Standalone Server With tdbsam Backend

This tutorial explains the installation of a Samba fileserver on Ubuntu 12.04 and how to configure it to share file ... http://bit.ly/LJujXM

Gummiboot is an EFI Boot Loader That Just Works

Red Hat employees Kay Sievers and Harald Hoyer have announced a new EFI-only boot loader for Linux systems. The too ... http://bit.ly/LJujqO

AMD Catalyst 12.6 For Linux Disappoints

Following the changing of the Catalyst release schedule and dropping old hardware support, Catalyst 12.6 for Linux ... http://bit.ly/OGFyQu

Android Jelly Bean Won't Get Flash Player

As part of the slow death of Adobe's Flash Player, the company has announced it won't be making a certified version ... http://bit.ly/LJueTW

Google Plans to Ease the Android Update Problem

Google has announced a second attempt at solving the Android update problem. It will provide manufacturers with a P ... http://bit.ly/N2xqG5

Making Sense of Mandriva Linux Foundation

A picture is worth a thousand words, as the saying goes. The picture below is not an org chart about a foundation ... http://bit.ly/QAAHPf

Is Google Prepping a 10-inch Tablet?

With its new 7-inch Google Nexus shipping next month, the company reportedly plans to launch a 10-inch version, cla ... http://bit.ly/LUNUPl

Qualcomm Aims to Build a Patent Fortress

Qualcomm has taken the unusual step of restructuring its organization in order to better protect its patent portfol ... http://bit.ly/LUNWqr

Oracle Linux 6.3 Released

Oracle has released an update to its enterprise Linux distribution that includes the fixes and enhancements from th ... http://bit.ly/L8hJBe

Microsoft Offends OEMs With Surface, HP Refusing To Build Windows ARM Devices

If this rumor is true – and it certainly sounds true – then HP and other OEMs are about to pull the plug on the ... http://bit.ly/LUNWa1

Amazon Could Soon Unveil Two New Kindle Fires

The retail giant is reportedly readying a 10-inch version of its tablet alongside a new 7-inch version. ... ... http://bit.ly/OJoA5k

EMC Continues to Court HPC Market with VNX Storage based on Lustre

This week EMC Corporation rolled out the new VNX HPC storage appliance, a preconfigured hardware and software appli ... http://bit.ly/LUNTeu

Intel Puts New Haswell Code At Parity With Ivy Bridge

Intel OTC has published a set of 21 new patches for "Haswell" hardware enablement of their graphics core with their ... http://bit.ly/LUNTek

Weekend Project: Math, Science, and Ubuntu Come Together in Mathbuntu

Mathbuntu brings a nice batch of math and science software, textbooks, and other goodies to Ubuntu and Kubuntu. Let ... http://bit.ly/LUNTeg

Fedora Beefy Miracle Comes To IBM Mainframes

Fedora 17, the latest release that is cooked with an odd codename, has just been released for IBM System z... ... http://bit.ly/LUNQiC

Open Cloud Roundup: Top Headlines Week of June 25

Red Hat dominates the open source cloud news this week with a string of product launch and acquisition announcement ... http://bit.ly/OEKhn8

New Open Cloud Computing Forum on Linux.com

Linux.com has started a new forum for community members to discuss cloud computing and the open cloud. Just like ... http://bit.ly/QsuCV3

DragonflyBSD 3.0 vs. Debian GNU/kFreeBSD Wheezy

Continuing from the theme of the tests a few days back benchmarking Wheezy: Debian GNU/kFreeBSD vs. Debian GNU/Linu ... http://bit.ly/NRvy5E

Twitter open sources its Iago load generator

Used by the micro-blogging company to test its services before they encounter production-level traffic, the Iago lo ... http://bit.ly/QrYmS5

Upcoming Features of openSuse 12.2

openSuse 12.2 will be released soon,or atleast we can hope so. Here is a list of upcoming features supposed to be s ... http://bit.ly/LiNJOE

With Chrome 20 Google Takes Over Adobe Flash For Linux Development

The Google Chrome version 20.0.1132.43 for Windows, Mac and Linux comes with a loads of bug fixes and also the Pepp ... http://bit.ly/N7a6or

Parted Magic Update Adds Proprietary NVIDIA Driver Option

The new version of the specialist Linux distribution for hard disk partitioning and duplication, labelled "2012_06_ ... http://bit.ly/LiNJhA

Get Andoid 4.1 Jelly Bean For Galaxy Nexus

You can manually install Android 4.1 on Galaxy Nexus. The regular OTA update is coming next month. ... http://bit.ly/OzfJlB

Bringing DRM Drivers Back To Older Linux Kernels

As part of a GSoC project through the Linux Foundation, some of the popular open-source DRM graphics drivers are be ... http://bit.ly/OD6kKN

Nexus 7 Tablet Guidebook Now Available

Google's guidebook reveals all the details behind the new Nexus 7 tablet and spills the beans on the new Jelly Bean ... http://bit.ly/N79X4A

Has the Command Line Outstayed Its Welcome?

There are many topics that tend to come up in a recurring manner around water coolers throughout the Linux blogosph ... http://bit.ly/OD68v7

The Latest Details On Intel's Valley View Atom SoC

Another Intel DRM pull request was submitted this morning for driver changes that will ultimately land in the Linux ... http://bit.ly/OD6a6i

Google Nexus Tablet Poses No Threat to iPad, Says Analyst

Despite its competitive price tag, the new Nexus 7 tablet is unlikely to knock the iPad off its perch, says analyst ... http://bit.ly/LRlFkC

SImply Nobody is Rushing to Beat the Microsoft Licencing Price Hike

The expected hordes of customers gathering to renew Microsoft volume licensing agreements before the planned price ... http://bit.ly/N79VJS

What's New In Android 4.1 - For Developers?

Google has finally released the most 'advanced', popular and widely used mobile operating system - Android 4.1, Jel ... http://bit.ly/NG3NJH

Distribution Release: Clonezilla Live 1.2.12-67

Steven Shiau has announced the release of Clonezilla Live 1.2.12-67, a new stable version of the project's utility ... http://bit.ly/MqYIJi

Google Nexus 7 Singes Kindle Fire

Google flaunts new products like the Nexus 7 tablet and Android 4.1, and gives developers a chance to try Project G ... http://bit.ly/NDEtEk

Black Duck Delivers New Code Analytics Report

Black Duck Software has announced the availability of expanded audit services with the addition of new code analyti ... http://bit.ly/MCeNs9

In Response to Jon 'maddog' Hall: Diversity is Everything in Linux

Jon "maddog" Hall wrote a beautiful essay in honor of Alan Turing that highlights the terrible, corrosive consequen ... http://bit.ly/KMWzr8

The Rapidly Changing Desktop

Two years ago, I got into a conversation with another professional about the desktop. I opined that very shortly, ... http://bit.ly/LglAYu

Doug Cutting: Hadoop Dodged a Microsoft-Oracle Stomping

We’ve all heard plenty about open source changing the dynamics of the tech industry and upsetting the old order. ... http://bit.ly/OwVCWb

Development Release: SolusOS 2 Alpha 5

Ikey Doherty has announced that the fifth alpha release of SolusOS 2, a Debian-based desktop distribution, is ready ... http://bit.ly/MBgaHp

Strategy Analytics: Apple Has Shipped 250M iPhones, Made $150B In Revenues In The Past 5 Years

We know that Apple has been making a killing from the iPhone, with the device reigning as the single-most popular s ... http://bit.ly/OwVxlz

Second LibreOffice 3.6.0 Beta Arrives

The Document Foundation has quietly published a second beta for the next major release of its open source LibreOffi ... http://bit.ly/LCmza2

Reuters: Asus Exec Confirms Google Will Announce a Tablet Today

Earlier this week a leak prompted rumours to circulate suggesting that Google's hotly anticipated tablet would be a ... http://bit.ly/MUAvtC

HP releases Community Edition of webOS as open source

In preparation for the release of Open webOS 1.0, HP and WebOS Internals have released the last essential component ... http://bit.ly/KMMryk

EU: Microsoft $1B Antitrust Penalty Stands

The European General Court does lower the fine slightly to $1.07 billion following an antitrust ruling nearly five ... http://bit.ly/MpIal6

Chrome 20 Takes Over Adobe Flash On Linux

Google's Chrome web-browser reached version 20 yesterday and for Linux users this marks the point that the web comp ... http://bit.ly/MUAtlG

Intel Gallium3D Gets sRGB Textures

The Intel "i915g" Gallium3D driver now implements sRGB textures support, but this is basically the end of the road ... http://bit.ly/NBQwC4

ZFS On Linux With Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

It has been a while since last benchmarking the ZFS file-system under Linux, but here's some benchmarks of the well ... http://bit.ly/MBg6HO

Intel OTC Still Playing With Atomic Mode-Setting

A second round of patches have emerged for the open-source Intel Linux graphics driver to support atomic mode-setti ... http://bit.ly/MBg6HE

GRUB 2.00 Boot-Loader Release Is Imminent

After being in development for many years, GRUB 2.00 will be released in the coming days... ... http://bit.ly/L1XOE4

Distribution Release: Parted Magic 2012_06_26

Patrick Verner has announced the release of Parted Magic 2012_06_26, an updated version of the project's specialist ... http://bit.ly/LCmuTK

The Google Nexus Tablet: The Top 6 Must-Have Features

Google I/O is nearly upon us, and all signs point to Google revealing a tablet later today. The device leaked and t ... http://bit.ly/LQop3d

This Is the New Android Jelly Bean MascotJust Installed at Google's Headquarters

Check this out, it's Android Jelly Bean mascot! Google just installed it in their Mountain View campus, right next ... http://bit.ly/Nzp7kh

CyanogenMod 9.0-rc1 Available

The first release candidate for the CyanogenMod 9.0 Android distribution is now available; this will be the first C ... http://bit.ly/KLDLs8

Red Hat Announces Pricing Plan for OpenShift

The PaaS will come in free and paid tiers. ... http://bit.ly/MyT5Iq

Survey: SMBs Prefer Debian on File Servers, Seek Cloud Backup Options

Small and medium-sized businesses prefer Debian over Red Hat and CentOS for operating their file servers, according ... http://bit.ly/MnFSmr

Kill A Watt: Now with Less Math!

If you're interested in how much energy your electronics use, it's hard to find a device better than a Kill A Wat ... http://bit.ly/MVAGBp

Cisco Woos Developers, Adds 802.11ac Support as Connect Cloud Goes Live

Cisco announces today the availability of the Cisco Connect Cloud platform for its Linksys EA series routers (the L ... http://bit.ly/LN9t4i

What's Google Announcing at I/O Tomorrow?

With WWDC behind us and Microsoft's Surface tablet out of the bag, it's Google's turn to take the lid off its lates ... http://bit.ly/Mnc3T3

Beyond the Beagle: Seven Open Source Board Projects that Count

The Raspberry Pi single board computer (SBC) that began shipping in April in $25 and $35 versions has taken the h ... http://bit.ly/My7Lrg

Ubuntu App Showdown: Gallery Of Progress

Last week the Ubuntu App Showdown Contest kicked off; a competition in which you lovely people have three weeks to ... http://bit.ly/LNIyHc

Gnome 3.5.3 Will Bring Great Improvements

Gnome 3.5.3 is around the corner and a lot of hype is currently going on featuring this release. Here we bring to y ... http://bit.ly/M0y9eD

Zorin OS 6: Quick Look

Making the switch from Windows to Linux can be a bit challenging for some uses, if they have gotten so accustomed t ... http://bit.ly/LdrGsy

Microsoft's Surface Plan Means the World Belongs to Android Now

Open ... and Shut  Microsoft roared onto the mobile scene last week with the unveiling of its Surface tablet, but ... http://bit.ly/Lzcevh

JBoss BRMS Incorporates Workflow Engine jBPM 5

Version 5.3 of the JBoss Business Rules Management System is built on top of the Drools rules engine and jBPM. The ... http://bit.ly/LzceeV

30 Linux Kernel Developers in 30 Weeks: Sarah Sharp

This is the third profile in our 30-week series that features a different Linux kernel developer each week. Last we ... http://bit.ly/LnSy7w

ProFTPd: Enabling/Disabling TLS Based On User Or Group

ProFTPd: Enabling/Disabling TLS Based On User Or Group FTP is a very insecure protocol because all passwords and al ... http://bit.ly/KY1czP

Ubuntu TV: The Community Wish List Is Taking Shape

In early January of this year, at the Consumer Electronics Show, Canonical took the wraps off of Ubuntu TV, which h ... http://bit.ly/KY1arP

Samsung: Galaxy S III Sales Expected to Total 10 Million by July

Korea's golden goose is on track to drop its 10 millionth Galaxy S III by July, according to Samsung mobile head Sh ... http://bit.ly/LwkWst

Asus Transformer Prime

The Transformer Prime is a killer piece of hardware, no doubt...but can itreplace a full-fledged Linux Netbook? m ... http://bit.ly/Kz7YpJ

First Beta Of Krita 2.5 Now Available For Testing

The next version of Krita, KDE's artwork program for sketching and painting, is going to be released soon. The team ... http://bit.ly/La1u1R

Microsoft Filter Blocks Free Software Foundation Donation Site

The donation site has been classified as "Gambling" in Microsoft's reputation database and the Free Software Founda ... http://bit.ly/LvDWZY

Debian Wheezy GNU/kFreeBSD: Slower Than Linux

With Debian 7.0 "Wheezy" set to be frozen soon, I took the opportunity to run some new benchmarks of Debian GNU/kFr ... http://bit.ly/KXkjKj

Dell Super Helps US Navy Steer Clear of Dangerous Weather

Dell’s Christine Fronczak writes that the team at Fleet Numerical are using their Dell supercomputer to keep the ... http://bit.ly/La1mQ9

How To Import CorelDraw Text in LibreOffice

Fridrich Strba, of TDF reports that the team is working on LibreOffice CorelDraw Import Filter that will make it ea ... http://bit.ly/MjOhY3

New EFF Campaign Proposes Seven Changes to U.S. Patent System

Last week, the Electronic Frontier Foundation launched Defend Innovation, a campaign to end software patent abuse, ... http://bit.ly/MSCw5q

As Microsoft Retools, Ballmer Has Chance to Rewrite His CEO Legacy

With Windows Phone 8 and the Surface tablet, Microsoft hopes to beat Apple and Google at their own game. Steve Ball ... http://bit.ly/La1krn

Update for Windows Update has Teething Troubles

Microsoft is using Windows Update to distribute an update for Windows Update. However, the Windows Update Agent upd ... http://bit.ly/LuLDhf

This May Be Google’s New Nexus 7 Tablet

According to an allegedly leaked training document, this is Google's new tablet, a 7-inch Tegra 3 device running An ... http://bit.ly/MvLrLP

Google TV Gets New Audition With $199 Sony Box, Due July 22

Sony is taking preorders now for the NSZ-GS7 Internet Player with Google TV. Will the set-top box software fare bet ... http://bit.ly/La1jUd

Using GPU Video Acceleration Under Linux

For those intrigued by the article written by XBMC developers after being frustrated by AMD's Catalyst Linux driver ... http://bit.ly/O79Xsi

A Low-Latency Kernel For Linux Gaming

Within the Phoronix Forums and elsewhere it has been brought up that using a low-latency kernel can improve the Lin ... http://bit.ly/Kr9uKv

Wine 1.5.7 Has Dynamic Device Support

Two weeks after the Wine 1.5.6 development release where they began work on a Direct3D shader compiler, Wine 1.5.7 ... http://bit.ly/LoCQgC

What We Might Get for Android at Google I/O 2012

As usual, there's no shortage of Android rumors leading up to the annual Google conference. ... ... http://bit.ly/MCY5Jj

Linux-based Supercomputers Land 462 Spots in TOP500 List

Linux-based supercomputers took 462 spots in the TOP500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers released this ... http://bit.ly/PKB61j

Ubuntu's Plans To Implement UEFI SecureBoot: No GRUB2

Canonical has shared publicly their plans this morning on how they plan to implement support for UEFI SecureBoot on ... http://bit.ly/MclXqo

Google Updates Android Developer Site Ahead of Google I/O

Google has updated its Android Developers site and will be giving developers the ability to respond to reviews in t ... http://bit.ly/MBX1FR

Leak: Galaxy Nexus Will Be the First Android Jelly Bean Phone [Rumors]

Google has managed to inadvertently let slip that the unlocked Galaxy Nexus will be the first handset to feature An ... http://bit.ly/O0R88W

Why You Didn't Get the Job

Over the course of his career, Dave Fecak has scheduled thousands of interviews at a wide array of companies and or ... http://bit.ly/Lo5Hln

DNF: The New Package Manager Of Fedora 18

As mentioned earlier this week, Fedora 18 will feature a new package manager. Here's a redux with some additional i ... http://bit.ly/Lm3SXS

Nokia Sales Estimates Slashed After News of Windows Phone 8

An analyst at Nomura says the inability on the part of Nokia to upgrade its Lumia line to Windows Phone 8 is a majo ... http://bit.ly/NhOM0F

Droid Razr Maxx and Droid Razr Getting Android 4.0 June 22

Hallelujah, starting today Verizon will bless Motorola's top Android phones with Ice Cream Sandwich. ... ... http://bit.ly/Lo5EWt

Using mod_spdy With Apache2 On Fedora 17

Using mod_spdy With Apache2 On Fedora 17 SPDY (pronounced "SPeeDY") is a new networking protocol whose goal is to s ... http://bit.ly/O4KL5A

St. Pierre: The Linux Graphics Stack

Jasper St. Pierre has posted a lengthy overview of the Linux graphics stack. It's a good starting point for anybody ... http://bit.ly/KDb7JM

Intel Ivy Bridge Borked On FreeBSD, Debian BSD

While Linux hardware drivers still have room for improvement, at least the Linux driver support for recent consumer ... http://bit.ly/O4KqQD

Development Release: Linux Deepin 12.06 RC

The release candidate of Linux Deepin 12.06, a popular Chinese distribution based on Ubuntu, has paved the way for ... http://bit.ly/LnX6z8

Backlash to the Anti-Hardware Backlash

Selling hardware means a lot of work for little profit. But is hardware the perfect candidate for tech companies to ... http://bit.ly/LlR5oj

New Products - June 2012

New products for June. ... http://bit.ly/MzGTGH

Open Cloud Roundup: Top Headlines Week of June 18

GigaOM's Structure conference on cloud computing this week has provided companies with an opportunity to publicy di ... http://bit.ly/KQeWMU

How to Get a Discount on Embedded Linux Training in Silicon Valley this July

The Linux Foundation's embedded development training has helped companies like Compunetix with their transition to ... http://bit.ly/LEuuQf

Ubuntu Accomplishments 0.2: One Week Later

Last week we released the 0.2 release of Ubuntu Accomplishments. As is typical with a new release, as soon as it co ... http://bit.ly/Lj76vk

KDE To Get Smarter Copy Dialog

Cyril Oblikov, a KDE developer, is working on a new copy dialog for KDE as his Google Summer of Code (GSoD 2011) pr ... http://bit.ly/NZ4vYj

Gamepad API Support Coming To Gnome

Good news for Gnome users, Gamepad API support is headed for Gnome soon, according to a recent blog post by Zan Dob ... http://bit.ly/My09m4

Apple Loses Another Lawsuit Against Samsung

Apple has lost its legal battle against Samsung in the Netherlands. A judge ruled that Apple infringed upon Samsung ... http://bit.ly/KWzEGs

Why We're Fighting for an Open Cloud

A few months ago I announced a new Linux Foundation conference called CloudOpen built to spotlight and advance the ... http://bit.ly/Lm89Zo

Canonical Proposes Alternate UEFI Secure Boot Solution

Canonical founder and Ubuntu leader Mark Shuttleworth has weighed in with a solution to boot Ubuntu with UEFI Secur ... http://bit.ly/MlN3uD

Second Beta for openSUSE 12.2 Released

Following the project's recent "wake up call", the openSUSE developers have published a second beta for version 12. ... http://bit.ly/KnpsoU

Oracle Accepts a Nice Round Number in Damages from Google

Oracle has agreed to accept damages of $0 from Google in the Java case for the small bit of copyright infringement ... http://bit.ly/Lm253g

One Windows to Rule Them All

Microsoft's upcoming mobile OS has a lot more in common with Windows Sr., a technology decision that hints at close ... http://bit.ly/LF8O50

Announcing the Finalists in Our 2012 T-shirt Design Contest

Congratulations to the five finalists in The Linux Foundation's 2012 "Inpsired by Linux" T-shirt Design Contest! Th ... http://bit.ly/NQbzoY

Nuvola: the Linux Choice for Cloud-y Music

Nuvola Player (formerly known as google-music-frame) is a Linuxapplication that integrates cloud-based music servi ... http://bit.ly/NTMgDP

Fedora 18 To Offer Awesome Setup, Configuration Experience

Fedora 18, codenamed Spherical Cow, will make it easier for new users to set things up and configure networks, devi ... http://bit.ly/M4Kqf8

How to Land the Best Linux Job

What are the best Linux jobs and how do you get one? I think a lot of people would agree that Linus Torvalds has a ... http://bit.ly/Lkn5r7

Distribution Release: ROSA 2012 LXDE

Konstantin Kochereshkin has announced the release of ROSA 2012 "LXDE" edition, a Mandriva Linux fork featuring the ... http://bit.ly/Lkn5qV

Merging The GNU D Compiler Into GCC, Again

It's been talked about before, but it's being attempted again to merge GDC into GCC. GDC is the compiler front-end ... http://bit.ly/LfDtem

AMD To Open-Source Its Linux Execution Compilation Stack

In the discussion last night about AMD not having any plans to suspend their proprietary Linux driver, John Bridgma ... http://bit.ly/Nj8a0O

Fedora 17 Available for ARM and PPC

The Fedora Project has released variants of its Fedora 17 Linux distribution for systems with ARM and PPC processor ... http://bit.ly/Mgf3Nf

Five Principles of an Open Source Company

Open source technology is gaining popularity and is becoming more prominent each year during various computer and t ... http://bit.ly/M6OmOB

Wayland On Android Is Continuing To Come Along

The Wayland port for Google's Android platform is continuing to be hacked on by Collabora. Here's some new details. ... http://bit.ly/Kza7WT

Samsung Wins Ruling Over Apple on 3G Patent, Seeks Compensation

The Korean consumer electronics giant won the ruling in a court in The Hague, according to reports. ... ... http://bit.ly/LBxHAd

Conky: Cool System Monitor, Clunky Setup

No matter how much you change your desktop background image and switch distro themes, staring at the same computer' ... http://bit.ly/MrhA9x

openSUSE Beta 2 Available for Testing

Stephan ‘Coolo’ Kulow has released Beta 2 so it is time to start organizing these Beta Pizza Parties! As you mi ... http://bit.ly/LDCmjz

Will Google's Tablet Arrive Next Week?

Things are really heating up in the tablet arena, and it looks like the next big story is going to be Google's own ... http://bit.ly/PsVh3w

Red Hat Announces JBoss Data Grid 6

Red Hat has announced the general availability of Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 6, an in-memory data grid solution. ... http://bit.ly/MhTij1

Samsung's S Beam Teaches Android a New Trick

The Samsung Galaxy S III introduces Samsung's take on a relatively new Android feature. ... ... http://bit.ly/MtU8GO

Fedora 18 Will Install Certain Updates When Rebooting

In certain cases, Fedora 18 will only install software updates when a system is restarted, similar to how some upda ... http://bit.ly/LBxJYK

RIFS-ES Linux Kernel Scheduler Released

RIFS-ES V1 has been published as a new interactivity favor scheduler for the Linux kernel... ... http://bit.ly/KRh0jd

Open Source, Android Push Evolution of Mobile Cloud Apps

For years, cloud gurus have claimed mobile devices will drive cloud computing, but they've had few cloud-specific m ... http://bit.ly/Lx8sC1

Mandriva Paris Meeting Results: The Community is Moving Forward

Most of us are still sitting in the meeting room, but I think it’s important to let everybody know about the resu ... http://bit.ly/L1xq6Q

New Samsung Chief: I Want Software

Making actual stuff is bloody hard work Samsung is going to have to do better in software if it wants to stay up ne ... http://bit.ly/M4ec60

Distribution Release: Superb Mini Server 1.6.6

Superb Mini Server (SMS) 1.6.6, a new version of the project's Slackware-based distribution for servers, has been r ... http://bit.ly/KR7mNm

Google Tablet Timing Set, Says Report

Google's tablet will be available in July. And priced to move. ... ... http://bit.ly/MKAFjC

Samsung Makes Android SAFE for IT

Samsung's forthcoming Galaxy S III smartphone will be the company's first device to be officially branded and sold ... http://bit.ly/KK0yWs

VLC Finally Coming to Android

Android users have been waiting for the all-rounder media player VLC. There is good news for VLC fans. VLC team has ... http://bit.ly/MmPQmr

Building A 96-Core Ubuntu ARM Solar-Powered Cluster

Last week I shared results from the Phoronix 12-core ARM Linux mini cluster that was constructed out of six PandaBo ... http://bit.ly/LwMvmy

Eucalyptus Systems Aims For Private Cloud Dominance

Marten Mickos is working on a joke. He has the opening line — “An ops guy, a VMware guy, and a cloud guy walk i ... http://bit.ly/NMMi0b

Meet the Intel Man Who's Out to Beat ARM in Smartphones

Mike Bell runs Intel's mobile group and he's convinced that Intel's Atom chips are better for Android than ARM's ub ... http://bit.ly/M4e9qU

Barnes Noble's Nook Business up 34 Percent Last Fiscal Year

The company says that it generated revenue of $933 million during the 2012 fiscal year, up from $695 million in the ... http://bit.ly/N4MCRY

OSU Open Source Lab Receives $300,000 donation from Google

Google has donated $300,000 to the Open Source Lab at Oregon State University (OSU), which promotes open source dev ... http://bit.ly/Kia6C2

RandR 1.5 Works: GPU Offloading, USB Hotplugging

RandR 1.5 paired with the latest X.Org Server advancements allows for GPU offloading and USB GPU hot-plugging under ... http://bit.ly/Lcmcmj

Microsoft's Surface Devices: A Different Approach to Tablets

After much hype in advance, Microsoft debuted its new Surface line of tablets this week. The advance word was that ... http://bit.ly/LC09QN

Bug in Linux Kernel Can Damage RAID Arrays

Some versions of the Linux kernel contain a bug which, under certain conditions, can destroy the metadata required ... http://bit.ly/MsAysu

Unity 4 Game Engine Has Native Linux Support

Version 4 of the Unity 3D game engine will have native Linux support... ... http://bit.ly/N1JUwq

Android Gets a Siri-Fighter

Meet Robin, a natural language voice-activated navigator for Android that puts Siri on notice. ... ... http://bit.ly/Lai7Pm

Lightworks Is Almost Ready For Linux Release

Lightworks, the high-end non-linear video editor that was open-sourced, is almost ready to finally debut on Linux.. ... http://bit.ly/KgBKzc

Free Electrons Releases Android Training Materials

The folks at Free Electrons have announced the release of their Android training materials under the Creative Commo ... http://bit.ly/LtQsIL

Role of a Linux Kernel Maintainer

At LinuxCon Japan a few weeks ago I gave a talk entitled, "Linux Kernel Maintainers, What they do and how you can h ... http://bit.ly/M7fmg0

Fedora 18 Will Preview A New Package Manager

During today's FESCo meeting, the engineering and steering committee approved a number of new features for Fedora 1 ... http://bit.ly/M84NGJ

Ahead of the Pack: the Pacemaker High-Availability Stack

A high-availability stack serves one purpose: through aredundant setup of two or more nodes, ensure service availa ... http://bit.ly/LAl6LT

Distribution Release: Zorin OS 6

Artyom Zorin has announced the release of Zorin OS 6, an Ubuntu-based distribution created with beginning Linux use ... http://bit.ly/KO8K3t

Distribution Release: Liberté Linux 2012.2

Maxim Kammerer has announced the release of Liberté Linux 2012.2, a secure, lightweight and easy-to-use Gentoo-ba ... http://bit.ly/NGOoyv

Idea Market: A Stock Exchange Metaphor for Empowering Collaborative Innovation

At Experian Latin America, aiming to systemize innovation as a capability in an increasingly competitive market, we ... http://bit.ly/MnDWoy

Newegg, Norma and the Case of the Squealing Linux PC

With all the recurring debates and "year of" discussions here in the Linux blogosphere, it's hard not to suffer fre ... http://bit.ly/MnDYwt

Linux Continues to Dominate List of Top 500 Supercomputers

According to the latest list of the world's top 500 supercomputers, Linux is dominating the space with 462 of the p ... http://bit.ly/LWlztV

Wine 1.4 Matures with First Point Update

The first stable point update to the 1.4.x branch of Wine fixes nearly 70 bugs affecting applications such as .NET ... http://bit.ly/KfM7DA

Mandriva Technology Preview Released

While the process to transfer the leadership of the Mandriva distribution into a non-profit foundation continues, t ... http://bit.ly/NGOl5Q

Open Source Creates a More Compassionate Global Education

Rock legend Roger Waters, of Pink Floyd fame has asked many interesting questions (in song). This one (posted on hi ... http://bit.ly/Ls0SZv

Would Samsung Ever Leave Android?

The newly installed chief executive reiterated its strategy of bulking up its proprietary software, particularly in ... http://bit.ly/Mm18pa

Richard Stallman Talking in the UK

Richard Stallman is giving three talks in the UK in June and for those who want to catch the founder of the Free So ... http://bit.ly/N0gVcy

Sharp Teams Up With Design Company for new Feel UX Android Skin (Video)

While the western hemisphere hasn't (perhaps fortunately) gotten to experience Sharp's existing Android UI, it's an ... http://bit.ly/NGOiab

Barnes and Noble Will Not Be Part of Today's Microsoft Announcement

Yesterday rumors emerged that Microsoft's anticipated tablet would be one developed in conjunction with Barnes and ... http://bit.ly/NGOgiB

Open Source Initiative Gets More Members

The Open Source Initiative (OSI) Board has announced that five significant organizations have been granted Affiliat ... http://bit.ly/KO8Ec2

Dell To Sell Ubuntu PCs At Retail In India

Dell will sell Ubuntu pre-loaded PCs in 850 retail outlets in India. Ubuntu will also get brand recognition as the ... http://bit.ly/LwRcK1

FREE Issue of Linux Journal Available Today

One FREE current or back issue of Linux Journal available for download today only. Pick any issue you like. As a r ... http://bit.ly/LnSeLD

2012 Kernel Summit: Call for Participation

The planning process for the 2012 Kernel Summit (August 27-29, San Diego) has begun. "This year, in order to make t ... http://bit.ly/NtfwB3

Verizon confirms Android 4.0 for Droid Razr on the Way

Big Red has confirmed in a text message that Motorola's thin phones will soon be getting an upgrade to Ice Cream Sa ... http://bit.ly/OTiqfk

Fedora Discussion: ARM Is A Dead End

From time-to-time unique/crazy/odd discussions get born on the Fedora development mailing list -- such as talking n ... http://bit.ly/Lr7cNP

Software Discrimination Is Never The Answer

Last night, as I was perusing social media, a post from a friend caught my attention. It seems that the web-types a ... http://bit.ly/McciNn

ARM board for Arduino shields

The Rascal board is compatible with many Arduino shields but offers considerably more processing power and a built- ... http://bit.ly/L19uXg

New Mandriva Foundation Nears Milestone

Mandriva is in the process of building a foundation and creating a community to help develop future versions of the ... http://bit.ly/L19tml

DreamWorks Using Red Hat Servers

Now Red Hat has added another feather in its hat as DreamWorks Animation SKG is using Red Hat Enterprise MRG as the ... http://bit.ly/K80BW0

Microsoft Is Maybe, Possibly Launching Its Own Tablet Device Next Week

Here's what we know: This Monday, at an as yet unconfirmed location somewhere in Hollywood, Microsoft with be makin ... http://bit.ly/K80BFo

Canonical Posts More Wayland Patches

While Canonical isn't known for making many low-level upstream Linux contributions, new patches authored by one of ... http://bit.ly/K80CJs

Radeon UMS Support To Be Dropped

AMD developers are planning to remove user-space mode-setting (UMS) support from the open-source Radeon graphics dr ... http://bit.ly/L19q9Z

openSUSE 12.2 Release Slips to September

Due to problems with the way the project handles releases, openSUSE has postponed version 12.2 of the distribution ... http://bit.ly/K80B8p

Nokia's Debt Downgraded to Junk Status

Debt rating firm Moody's weighs in with its downgrade after Nokia warned its second-quarter financial performance w ... http://bit.ly/K80ARQ

Amazon Web Services Recovers from Partial Outage

Parts of Amazon Web Services were hit by an outage in a North Virginia data center with many popular websites clock ... http://bit.ly/LRTOEZ

'Free Form' Lens Over Mobile Display Could Improve Audio and Haptics, says Motorola Patent filing

It's hard to tell exactly what Motorola is thinking of here, but it probably isn't a billowing sheet of fabric stre ... http://bit.ly/LRTO86

Dropbox to Kill off Public Folders?

The popular storage service is reportedly ditching its public folders after July 31, telling developers that they s ... http://bit.ly/K80zgN

Weekend Project: Open Source Crowd Mapping with Ushahidi

Visualizations and crowd mapping keeps getting cooler, and with Ushahidi and Crowdmap, individuals have the open so ... http://bit.ly/LRTLsI

Orange San Diego Reviewed: Smooth Surfing, Clunky Interface

CNET UK puts the Intel-powered phone to the test, calling it fast but saddled with an annoying UI. ... ... http://bit.ly/L19lTT

Apple, Samsung Again Swallow All the Smartphone Profits

The latest study from ABI Research has Apple and Samsung capturing 55 percent of the market and 90 percent of the p ... http://bit.ly/KrFToT

Canonical Organises Contest For Ubuntu Apps

The sponsor of Ubuntu, one of the popular operating systems, is organising a contest titled 'the Ubuntu App Showdow ... http://bit.ly/M9lhPo

Open Cloud Roundup: Open Source Dominates Private, Hybrid Enterprise Clouds

The open source cloud made waves in the news this week with the results of a RightScale study that claims widesprea ... http://bit.ly/KYSHEh

Google TV Gets New Legs with LG ARM TV

Google's struggling Google TV platform took a big step last October with the Android 3.0-powered version 2.0. It go ... http://bit.ly/LXgY9r

Skype 4.0 For Linux Officially Released

Skype 4.0 has been officially released for Linux today after being under "development" for far too long. This first ... http://bit.ly/M1AxQ1

Intel Not Joining Graphics Chip Alliance

A group that includes AMD, ARM, and Texas Instruments is trying to tap into the graphics chip's horsepower. Intel i ... http://bit.ly/LbXIsL

Linux And Foss Are Extremely Selfish: It's OK To Be Selfish

Renowned free software journalist Carla Schroder did not like the use of term selfishness and wrote an interesting ... http://bit.ly/Lo97kt

For Nokia, Tick-Tock Goes the Comeback Clock

The handset maker is getting squeezed on the high and low ends of the smartphone market. Cash and time are both run ... http://bit.ly/Lo934l

Cisco+OpenFlow+OpenStack = ONE software-defined network

Everybody is talking about OpenFlow, the "Quantum" networking abstraction project that is part of the OpenStack clo ... http://bit.ly/LbXGkz

NVIDIA Releases New Linux Binary Driver Update

It's time to update your NVIDIA binary blob... ... http://bit.ly/LbXDFp

Calling for a New OpenSUSE Development Model

openSUSE release manager Stephan "Coolo" Kulow has put out a call for discussion of a new development model for the ... http://bit.ly/LbXDoY

HTC Looks to Expand Patent Portfolio in Wake of Apple Setback

The company's chairwoman Cher Wang says that HTC will apply for patents "in different fields," and set out to buy u ... http://bit.ly/LnbpC2

Orange San Diego Review: Intel Does Phones, Finally

The first generation of Intel-powered Android phones has arrived, and while the chip maker doesn't appear to be cla ... http://bit.ly/LbXG40

Brazilian Government Consultant Increases Knowledge with Linux Training Opportunities

Peter Senna Tschudin is both an authoritative teacher and an eager student. Working as a consultant implementing an ... http://bit.ly/OCDI0D

UEFI Secure Boot: Big Hassle, Questionable Benefit

Microsoft requires UEFI "secure" boot for Windows 8 certified hardware. More security is good, right? Even if it lo ... http://bit.ly/Ms0gRr

Spice Up Your Desktop with Cinnamon!

If you are disgruntled by the new interfaces provided by recentdistribution releases, namely GNOME 3 and Unity, yo ... http://bit.ly/M3sga8

Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS, 12.04 LTS, 12.10 On An Old Laptop

Last week I shared how the open-source R500 driver can compete with the legacy Catalyst Linux driver on an old Inte ... http://bit.ly/KUYsTn

Intel CPUs Affected by VM Privilege Escalation Exploit

A security vulnerability in virtualisation software built into Intel's hardware allows an attacker to execute code ... http://bit.ly/M3Jsyu

VMware Works to Make Hadoop 'Virtualization-aware'

The virtualization giant is moving up the big data stack with its new Serengeti open-source project. ... ... http://bit.ly/M3JuGN

Apple's Galaxy S III Ban Bid Put On Hold

District Court judge Lucy Koh says Apple can file an injunction request against Samsung's handset, but it won't be ... http://bit.ly/M3Js1x

Announcing the opening of registration for the openSUSE Conference, LinuxDays, the Gentoo ...

Today, the most ambitious Free Software event of the Czech Republic officially opens registration! We’ve got an a ... http://bit.ly/LzGLHp

Acer Launches $450 Iconia Tab A700 Tablet, With HD 1080p Display, Android 4.0

Acer has unveiled the Acer Iconia Tab A700 tablet with an amazing 10.1-inch full HD 1080p display. ... http://bit.ly/M3x69x

NetApp Eases Lustre Management with Chroma from Whamcloud

This week NetApp announced that Whamcloud’s Chroma Enterprise management software is now available with the NetAp ... http://bit.ly/L7Ie96

Hadoop, the Elephant in the Enterprise

The open-source software, which has emerged as the de facto standard for big data processing, may be what tips ente ... http://bit.ly/L5aeZL

HTC decides to buy S3 after all, keeps it on ice for future patent wars

HTC was exhibiting more than a bit of buyer's remorse after its acquisition of S3 Graphics went off the rails: it h ... http://bit.ly/OuOd63

Apple could still strike Android, Windows Phone with iOS 6 zinger

Few iOS 6 features will leave Google and Microsoft chasing behind. But Apple could be saving its One More Thing for ... http://bit.ly/OuOcPz

Embedded Linux Development in 6 Easy Steps

Last month I introduced the Yocto Project here on Linux.com with the catchy title Getting Started with Embedded L ... http://bit.ly/K0dgdo

Plasma Active - a New Approach to Tablet Computing

Why would you spend a few hundred dollars on a device that is littlemore than a smartphone (with a bigger screen, ... http://bit.ly/OumTop

Microsoft Loves Linux - as Long as It's Not Red Hat

Just when you thought it couldn't top itself -- having contributed Linux kernel code under the GPL, broadly support ... http://bit.ly/L301Nx

The Art of Community Second Edition Released

Back in 2009 I had my book on community management and best practice published. It was called The Art of Community, ... http://bit.ly/L304Jc

LibreOffice 3.6.0 Beta1 Available For Testing

The Document Foundation, the body behind LibreOffice, has announced the availability of LibreOffice 3.6.0 Beta1. ... http://bit.ly/LkpdMa

Ubuntu App Developer Goings On

With the release of Ubuntu 12.04, there have been many different viewpoints on which parts are the most important f ... http://bit.ly/Nw2zFr

Linux Scholarship Submissions Open, Expanded Enterprise Linux Training Available

Today we are launching the 2012 Linux Training Scholarship Program. This is the second year we’ll award scholarsh ... http://bit.ly/LZMJih

Intel DRM Begins Queuing For Linux 3.6 Kernel

While the Linux 3.5 kernel is still weeks away from being released (we're not even at 3.5-rc3 yet!), the Intel DRM ... http://bit.ly/Nw2zoU

For FORK'S Sake: GitHub Checks Out Windows Client

Just two years ago, Git barely eked out a mention in Forrester's analysis of the software configuration management ... http://bit.ly/LZMCU2

IBM, SK Hynix Team Up for PCRAM Work

The companies will develop phase-change random access memory, an advance for memory chips that will allow storage o ... http://bit.ly/LZMG6c

openSUSE Now Available on Windows Azure

Last Thursday at the Meet Windows Azure party in San Francisco, attendees learned how developers can use Linux on W ... http://bit.ly/LZMFz6

Hortonworks Announces Version 1 of its Hadoop-centric Data Platform

As we've noted before, the open source Hadoop software framework has becom a phenomenon as a way of breaking compli ... http://bit.ly/L2OxJV

Android 4.0.3 Update Out for T-Mobile's Samsung Galaxy S II

T-Mobile subscribers who own the Galaxy S II phone can grab the latest Android Ice Cream Sandwich update, but it's ... http://bit.ly/JZy2d7

International FOSS Law Review 4.1 Available

Volume 4, Issue 1 of the International Free and Open Source Software Law Review is out. Featured topics this time i ... http://bit.ly/Klvmvj

Best Of LinuxCon Japan 2012

Here are some of the highlights from this year's edition of LinuxCon Japan, the largest yet with some 650 attendees ... http://bit.ly/Omxthl

Ubuntu Fans: Humble Bundle Games Are Now Available In The Software Center

If you’ve been living under a rock for the last couple of years, you might be excused for not knowing about this ... http://bit.ly/Om3OF2

Rock Out with Your Console Out

Playing and managing your music in text mode. more ... http://bit.ly/L0nyyk

900,000 Android Activations Per Day, Andy Rubin Not Leaving Google

Andy Rubin, the creator of Android has squashed rumors that he will be leaving Google. ... http://bit.ly/LRp3u8

Linaro Boosts Android 4.0.4 Performance

Developers at Linaro have optimised version 4.0.4 of Google's open source Android mobile operating system so that i ... http://bit.ly/LuPYzi

Are Multi-Core Processors a Waste of Time for Android? [Android]

Many Android handsets feature incredible processing power these days, with multiple cores and high clock speeds see ... http://bit.ly/LuPPvF

Lightspark Now Handles Desktop AIR Applications

For kicking off the new week there is a major new release of the Lightspark open-source Flash Player. Lightspark 0. ... http://bit.ly/LuPPfm

Kahn to MIT Graduates: Open Content is the Future

Open education innovator Sal Khan, MIT alumnus and founder of Khan Academy, gave the commencement address at MIT gr ... http://bit.ly/LuPM38

Debian Wheezy for Raspberry Pi Goes Into Testing

Developers working with the low cost ARM based mini-computer now have a new version of Debian GNU/Linux to test: "w ... http://bit.ly/KgURhl

AMD R600g LLVM Back-End Is Working A Bit Better

The R600g LLVM shader compiler back-end that's primarily intended for the Radeon Gallium3D compute support is now w ... http://bit.ly/LuPLfF

MPlayer 1.1 Released

It turns out that the long wait for MPlayer 1.0 was in vain - the project went straight to a 1.1 release. "We gave ... http://bit.ly/KgUOlx

Clang Compiling Against GCC On Ubuntu ARM Linux

Here's an update on the LLVM/Clang vs. GCC compiler benchmarking on ARM hardware under Linux... ... http://bit.ly/KgUOlz

Dangerous Concessions: Red Hat, Fedora and the Secure Boot Shocker

"Microsoft will be offering signing services through their sysdev portal," wrote Red Hat developer Matthew Garrett ... http://bit.ly/KgUNOB

HPC Research Projects Find Muscle in Linux Lab Partner

Linux and FOSS are key players in science and research, and together they power the biggest research projects in th ... http://bit.ly/Kh73zQ

Radeon 6.14.5 Linux Graphics Driver Released

The xf86-video-ati 6.14.5 driver was released today with several changes... ... http://bit.ly/LJgjbS

Turn Your TV Into An Android Smart TV

Android has taken the world by storm and is now found in places where one won't even expect it. The Pocket TV, a Ki ... http://bit.ly/L42Ptr

Introducing the mintBox

In association with CompuLab, Linux Mint is proud to present the mintBox. We’re passionate about what we do and f ... http://bit.ly/LAq4eg

First Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal Alpha Arrives

The first milestone release of Ubuntu 12.10 has been made available for testing and sees several applications, such ... http://bit.ly/LA947P

CentOS Details Efforts to Maintain Speedy Release Schedule

The CentOS developers have been hard at work insuring that future releases of the clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ... http://bit.ly/JS2shx

Open Source Meets Capitalism: Collaborate by Competing

The internet has had a profound effect on many areas of commerce. One area the internet has not yet had a profound ... http://bit.ly/MRzpkM

Collabora and Fluendo Launch GStreamer SDK

Collabora and Fluendo, the two primary development companies behind the open source GStreamer media framework, have ... http://bit.ly/JS2upF

Microsoft Works on Hyper-V Support for OpenStack--Again

Back in February, we reported on the removal of Microsoft's Hyper-V hypervisor from the OpenStack cloud platform. T ... http://bit.ly/LjcdIo

GNOME 3.5.2 Introduces Default Power Off Button

The latest development release of GNOME adds a power off option to the user menu by default, something many users h ... http://bit.ly/LIZJJ2

openSUSE 12.2. Beta 1 Available

It's Christmas time for a GNU/Linux user. After the impressive release of Fedora 17, openSUSE is gearing up for ver ... http://bit.ly/MkuQx3

Canonical Touts Its New Microsoft Partnership

Canonical is promoting today its new partnership with Microsoft that allows Ubuntu Linux to run on Windows Azure... ... http://bit.ly/MkuPJA

Open Cloud Roundup: Top Stories this Week

Microsoft, Red Hat, HP and Oracle all had big cloud announcements this week that highlight the growing trend toward ... http://bit.ly/JQHpfh

OpenRelief Launches Open Source Disaster Relief Drone

We’ll never forget last year’s LinuxCon Japan conference, which took place shortly after the devastating Tohoku ... http://bit.ly/Kf27eX

Gentoo Does An x32 Stage 3 Release Candidate

Gentoo is one of the first Linux distributions to release a packaged installation for the Linux x32 architecture... ... http://bit.ly/KeRkS2

Intel Phone Boss: 'Multi-Core Detrimental to Android Mobes'

Intel’s head of mobile has dissed handset-makers that have already adopted multi-core processor architectures, sa ... http://bit.ly/MqwB7P

VMware's Database Play: Disk Is the New Tape

Virtualization technology made it feasible for databases of gigabyte or even terabyte size to be managed entirely i ... http://bit.ly/KeRhWc

No Ice Cream Sandwich for You? Clone It!

If you've been waiting with the patience of biblical figure Job for your handset maker to release a hardware-specif ... http://bit.ly/MqwA3K

Samsung Appoints Kwon Oh-hyun New CEO, Reports Say

According to two reports, Samsung has moved its former chief executive officer Choi Gee-sung to a new role as head ... http://bit.ly/KeRhFP

Apple iOS Will Kick in 40 Percent of Google's Mobile Profits, Says Analyst

Thanks to its app licensing deals with Apple, Google will earn about 40 percent of its mobile profits from iOS, say ... http://bit.ly/KeRhFB

Linux 3.5 Can Massively Boost AMD Radeon Graphics

The Linux 3.5 kernel is capable of delivering some massive performance gains for some of the more recent generation ... http://bit.ly/KeRjxh

Sierra Wireless outs Thinnest-Ever 4G LTE Module, Teases Skinny ATT-Ready Laptops and Tablets

One of the bigger challenges of spreading LTE has been size; going 4G has tended to put on a little weight. A new S ... http://bit.ly/KeRjgJ

Preview: A Cheap 12-Core, 30-Watt Ubuntu Cluster

It's quite easy these days to build a many-core compute cluster that is low-powered, running Linux, and performant- ... http://bit.ly/LfkT2r

X11R7.7 Released

The X.org project has released X11R7.7, which includes "both new features and stability and correctness fixes, incl ... http://bit.ly/LfkSvt

Reader Appreciation Month

June is Reader Appreciation Month here at Linux Journal. more ... http://bit.ly/KRuj5C

Development Release: openSUSE 12.2 Beta 1

Jos Poortvliet has announced the availability of the first beta release of openSUSE 12.2: "After a few delayed mile ... http://bit.ly/NKWiTR

New Google Maps Kicks iPhone vs Android Battle Up a Notch

Google's three new big features are not enough to rocket Google ahead in mapping. They just keep Google in the game ... http://bit.ly/LcpfYg

Microsoft Welcomes Linux to the Azure Cloud

Microsoft has announced a bumper set of updates to its Azure cloud platform. The most significant of these is a new ... http://bit.ly/KyhYVB

Seamlessly Extending IRC to Mobile Devices

Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is one of the older real-time communicationsmethods still in active use on the Internet. ... http://bit.ly/KPsJkD

7 More Heroes of Linux

The Linux world is vast, and extends far beyond Linus. Here is a second batch of talented, creative people doing wo ... http://bit.ly/KcGPi0

Microsoft crowd-sources next Win Phone apps using Android

The world just got stranger: not only is Microsoft trying to write cool software again, it’s decided that Android ... http://bit.ly/JM3KKQ

Ubuntu 12.10 Sets To Make ARM Even Stronger

While Ubuntu 12.04 already did a very good job at enhancing the ARM performance, Ubuntu 12.10 already has a number ... http://bit.ly/JM3KKI

Red Hat Clarifies Doubts Over UEFI Secure Boot Solution

Red Hat has worked for many months, in conjunction with industry consortium The Linux Foundation, hardware partners ... http://bit.ly/MG53BI

KDE 4.9 Enters Beta Testing

The first beta of version 4.9.0 of the KDE Software Compilation is now available with enhancements for the Plasma W ... http://bit.ly/MG52hf

Holo Launcher Brings the Ice Cream Sandwich Launcher to Any Android Phone

Android: If you're stuck on a device running 2.3 Gingerbread (or even worse, 2.2 Froyo) and your manufacturer has n ... http://bit.ly/MG4YOD

Mint 13 Is Sweet, Refreshing and Cool

Linux Mint 13, the Maya release, is an impressive upgrade that builds on the progress found in version 12. It conta ... http://bit.ly/LrR3Ve

Google Patents Location-Based Mobile Alerts That Know Where You're Going

To date, the term smartphone's mostly been a misnomer for larger screen, albeit still dumb, handsets imbued with ri ... http://bit.ly/LrQDhA

That Exciting Game Is Coming To Linux

Last month I wrote about Linux Gamers Are Going Crazy For This New Game that was possibly coming to Linux, but toda ... http://bit.ly/L9UUrg

Apple hits HTC with third ITC dispute, One series goes under the gun

Apple chief Tim Cook might have said that he doesn't like lawsuits, but he must have left a loophole open for Inter ... http://bit.ly/MjUxKa

After 21 Alphas, Samba 4.0 Finally Enters Beta

After being in development for nearly a decade, Samba 4.0 is finally in beta... ... http://bit.ly/MdBZPC

How To Register And Create Personalized Email Account With Thunderbird

Mozilla has announced the latest version of Thunderbird which comes with a great feature for its users. Now you can ... http://bit.ly/MdBSnf

A Gentoo x32 Release Candidate

The x32 ABI enables the running of processes in 64-bit mode while using 32-bit pointers, hopefully getting the best ... http://bit.ly/JLLZeM

Samsung Joins Linux Foundation as Platinum Member

We are pleased to announce that Samsung is joining The Linux Foundation at the Platinum level. This is the highest ... http://bit.ly/KMWoL5

Most Popular Android ROM: CyanogenMod [Hive Five Followup]

If your Android device is feeling a little stale, or maybe the manufacturer has abandoned it and you'd love to brea ... http://bit.ly/MAQQWQ

Linux Drives Cadillac Into the Infotainment Era

Linux-based, open source infotainment platforms like Cadillac's CUE may soon challenge Microsoft and other homegrow ... http://bit.ly/LvMDOO

Snapshotting Backup Tool Obnam 1.0 Released

After many years of development, Obnam, "a snapshotting, de-duplicating, encrypting backup program", has been relea ... http://bit.ly/L19LGa

Oracle Verdict Double Plus Good for Linux Movement

The recent verdict against Oracle in its patent case against Google over Java use in Android is good news for the L ... http://bit.ly/LmSrwh

Fedora 17 Debuts as Linux 3.5 Release Cycle Begins

Beefy Miracle released as Spherical Cow set to Acquire a Window Seat. ... http://bit.ly/L19Eu8

HP Rolls Out Hadoop AppSystem Stack

Everybody wants to get a piece of the Hadoop elephant in the room, and luckily for Hewlett-Packard the mad scramble ... http://bit.ly/LmSsAq

Out There: Big Data’s Parallel Universe Brings Fears, and a Thrill

The world’s bank of digital information is growing at a rate of five trillion bits a second, and there’s a lot ... http://bit.ly/LmSsjG

Researchers Bypass Google's Android Malware Detector

Mobile security experts demonstrate how they were able to "fingerprint" Bouncer to sneak malicious apps onto the An ... http://bit.ly/L19DGC

Linux Game Publishing Still Silent On New Titles

It's now been four months since Linux Game Publishing saw its new CEO, but there's been no announcements since the ... http://bit.ly/L19Cm6

Indie Linux Developer Tries New Open Source Fundraising Model

Software developer and Linux Action Show podcaster Bryan Lunduke will open source his software if he can attract $4 ... http://bit.ly/Ln2cqd

Apple Request for Ban on Samsung Tablet Put on Hold

The company has asked a District Court judge to ban Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1, but it won't be able to get its wish ... http://bit.ly/MyFvXf

Distribution Release: 2X OS 7.1

2X Software has announced the release of 2X OS 7.1, a specialist Linux-based operating system for thin clients: "2X ... http://bit.ly/MyFq5K

Significant Improvements Coming in Linux 3.5

The next version of the Linux kernel, expected to be released in late July, includes uprobes and improvements to HD ... http://bit.ly/LgnVFT

Debian Diversity Statement Accepted

The Debian project has accepted a diversity statement which reads: The Debian Project welcomes and encourages parti ... http://bit.ly/Ky0iZN

Signifigant Improvements Coming in Linux 3.5

The next version of the Linux kernel, expected to be released in late July, includes uprobes and improvements to HD ... http://bit.ly/M737fe

Kotlin M2 Now Runs on Android Too

The second milestone release of JetBrains Kotlin language can now compile code that runs on Android. The IDE suppor ... http://bit.ly/LhZhD6

How To Upgrade From Fedora 16 To Fedora 17 (Desktop Server)

How To Upgrade From Fedora 16 To Fedora 17 (Desktop Server) This article describes how you can upgrade your Fedora ... http://bit.ly/LhZgzh

Baidu Custom ROM for Nexus S Swaps Google's Apps for Baidu's Own, Gets Few Fans in Mountain View

The Nexus S was supposed to be the definition of Google's perfect phone circa late 2010, so we can't imagine that t ... http://bit.ly/KxJbag

Calibre in the Cloud

I've mentioned before that I keep my entire e-book collection in myDropbox folder, and I can access it anywhere I ... http://bit.ly/MbHy0z

IBM Courts the Missing Middle with Platform Computing and One-Stop Shopping

Bolstered by their recent acquisition of Platform Computing, IBM has announced a new agenda to bring technical comp ... http://bit.ly/LhjQzK

Samsung Drops a Patent from ITC Complaint as Apple Battle Looms

The company reportedly decided to withdraw a patent related to a "method for storing and reproducing digital audio ... http://bit.ly/LhjRnc

AMD Drops Proprietary Linux Drivers for Older Graphics Hardware

Users of Linux distributions with the latest versions of the Linux kernel and X.org's X Server will only be able to ... http://bit.ly/KadmP4

IPv6 Creates Opportunity for Linux in Embedded Computing: A Case Study

We recently profiled Compunetix, who delivers audio conferencing solutions to military agencies and their move fr ... http://bit.ly/JA7Ghy

June 2012 Issue of Linux Journal: Cool Projects

Keeping It Cool...Three days ago here in northern Michigan, we had a heavy frost overnight.Those gardeners who ... http://bit.ly/LSgmA9

Fedora 17 Enterprise Preview

Fedora is always loaded with new technologies, and the new Fedora 17 release has the most ever. Get a head start on ... http://bit.ly/LREpPK

Critical Vulnerability Derails Ruby on Rails

The H reports on a newly-discovered SQL injection vulnerability in Ruby on Rails, affecting the 3.0.x, 3.1.x, and 3 ... http://bit.ly/LREnaE