Blog_the_blogger: July 2012

Tuesday, 31 July 2012

System Administration of the IBM Watson Supercomputer

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

Intel Ivy Bridge Is Okay On Linux Power Usage

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

Samsung Working On Bigger Tablet With Retina Display

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

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

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

MATE 1.4 Desktop Improves Caja File Manager

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

Development Release: Pentoo 2012.0 Beta

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

Fedora 18 to Get MATE Desktop, Samba 4 and ownCloud

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

Make Way for the Software-Defined Data Center

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

KLANG: A New Linux Audio System For The Kernel

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

Android Share Drops 4% While iOS Up 10%, But Popular Galaxy S III Not Counted Yet

Android continues to hold a healthy lead over iOS, but it did fall four percent over the last year compared to a ri ... http://bit.ly/QWXJOP

Cloud Computing: 10 Ways it Will Change by 2020

What are the issues, challenges and technologies that will frustrate and inspire those working on the cloud in 2020 ... http://bit.ly/M1tpFc

LMDE’s “gnome2-frozen” Repository Discontinued

In the latest Update Pack to Linux Mint Debian (UP4) released in March, MATE 1.2 and Cinnamon 1.4 were made availab ... http://bit.ly/M1tpF2

Monday, 30 July 2012

Oracle Snaps up Xsigo, Continues Spending Spree

Oracle continues to buy, buy, buy as it snaps up network virtualization firm Xsigo Systems, the sixth firm in as ma ... http://bit.ly/MXi0Ea

Texas Linux Fest is This Week - Win a Free Pass

Texas Linux Fest begins this Friday, August 3rd, and there's still plenty of time to register. Or, you can enter to ... http://bit.ly/PdKIyR

Ubuntu, RHEL, SUSE, Amazon Linux On The Amazon EC2 Cloud

After providing benchmarks last week of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on different Amazon EC2 instance types, up today are more ... http://bit.ly/NE2mAY

Intel Driver Integrates BRW Assembler

The xf86-video-intel driver has picked up thousands of lines of new code today with the integration of a BRW assemb ... http://bit.ly/QMt5Yo

30 Linux Kernel Developers in 30 Weeks: Alan Cox

In this week's 30 Linux Kernel Developers in 30 Weeks profile, we talk to Alan Cox. We learn how he originally got ... http://bit.ly/OdEJxY

This Is Probably the 10-Inch PlayBook (That Won't Be Out Until 2013)

Vietnamese tech forum Tinhte is showing off what looks like RIM's new 10-inch PlayBook. But while the hardware look ... http://bit.ly/PfTSuv

LibreOffice Skips to 3.6.0 Release Candidate 4

The latest LibreOffice 3.6.0 release candidate skips a version number after problems with the internal build system ... http://bit.ly/OdEF17

Richard M Stallman: Steam Is Good For GNU/Linux

Richard M Stallman (RMS), the father of the free software movement, fighthing for a user's freedom has spoken about ... http://bit.ly/PfTThM

Android Loses Ground to Apple in Second Quarter

Though still in top place, Android shed market share in the second quarter, while Apple's iOS gained ground, accord ... http://bit.ly/OdEEKt

Big Biz 'Struggling' to Dump Windows XP

Windows 7 is running in just 20 percent of large enterprises with the most difficult migrations yet to come.…... ... http://bit.ly/PfTSdN

Crucial California Trial Begins in Apple vs Samsung Case

The global patent war between technology giants Apple and Samsung has reached a pivotal moment, where the trial is ... http://bit.ly/PfTSKU

GNOME Developers Set Ambitious Goals at GUADEC

Two GNOME developers have set ambitious goals for the project at the annual GUADEC conference, including a release ... http://bit.ly/N6WbjK

AMD Open-Source S.I. Botched, Hope For The Future

We're now going into eight months since the AMD Radeon HD 7000 series "Southern Islands" graphics cards first launc ... http://bit.ly/OdbDPg

Apple Reportedly to Unveil iPhone 5, iPad Mini on Sept. 12

Both devices will be announced in the middle of September, followed by the release of the new iPhone on September 2 ... http://bit.ly/Oxt7DA

Valve, Linux and the Windows 8 'Catastrophe'

Love knows no bounds, as the old saying goes, and there may be no better example than the Linux community's feeling ... http://bit.ly/OdbDyH

Friday, 27 July 2012

CIOs Increasingly Bullish on the Cloud, Survey Finds

It's easy enough to find rosy predictions for the cloud from the vendors of related products and services, but when ... http://bit.ly/LWg7VM

Openfiler Enterprise NOS: Capable but Tricky

Openfiler 2.99 aims to be your one-stop storage management shop, a sleek lean network storage operating system with ... http://bit.ly/MQ8xhJ

My Top Five Sessions at the CloudOpen Conference

CloudOpen will make its debut in a little over a month in beautiful San Diego alongside LinuxCon. While it will sti ... http://bit.ly/PGKRyr

My Top Five Sessions at the OpenCloud Conference

CloudOpen will make its debut in a little over a month in beautiful San Diego alongside LinuxCon. While it will sti ... http://bit.ly/O5rIUf

Ask a Kernel Maintainer

I've been writing an occasional "Ask a kernel maintainer" column on the lwn.net weekly kernel page. It's been a whi ... http://bit.ly/Mbr0cv

Bodhi Linux 2.0.0 Stable Release Arrives

Version 2.0 of Bodhi Linux, a minimalistic Enlightenment-based distribution, sees its underlying operating system u ... http://bit.ly/N1Pb7R

Kubuntu 12.10, Quantal Quetzal Alpha 3 Released

The Kubuntu team has announced the availability of Alpha 3 of Kubuntu 12.10. This release is important for KDE user ... http://bit.ly/MKe5Op

AdaCamp DC: A Learning Environment for Women in Open Source

Everyone has been a minority in a larger group. You lived overseas and were the only American. You were the only ta ... http://bit.ly/MKe2SS

Ubuntu 12.10 Alpha 3 Unifies User Menus

The third alpha release of Ubuntu 12.10 brings a combined sessions and "Me" menu, changes to the Nautilus file mana ... http://bit.ly/O2kmUd

From Windows to Linux In No Time

There are countless users of Microsoft's Windows operating system who become Linux users each year--an important pa ... http://bit.ly/N1PaAW

Another Intel Linux Graphics Driver Release

Intel has released a new open-source X.Org driver for their Intel graphics since it was only just discovered that t ... http://bit.ly/N1PaAY

CM10 Preview Builds Out for Nexus 7 and Galaxy Note: Official but Experimental

Ready for the latest bout of XDA Recognized goodness? If you own a Nexus 7 or Galaxy Note (oh yeah) then you'll fin ... http://bit.ly/N1PaRk

VMware Has VMCI Ready For The Linux Kernel

VMware is preparing to push VMCI support into the mainline Linux kernel... ... http://bit.ly/N1PaAM

Apple Buys Samsung’s Android Security Partner AuthenTec For $356M

Amid fierce smartphone competition between Samsung and Apple that has spilled into a multinational patent battle, i ... http://bit.ly/QmSE7K

SUSE Linux Powers 147,456-Core German Supercomputer (ars technica)

Ars technica has a brief look at the world's fastest x86-based supercomputer and Europe's fastest supercomputer—n ... http://bit.ly/QmSE7D

IDC: Smartphones Drive the Q2 Mobile Market Train

Samsung remains the world's biggest smartphone leader, as it takes advantage of the quiet Apple spell by selling mo ... http://bit.ly/QmSBZz

Thursday, 26 July 2012

Top Open Source Cloud Headlines Week of July 23

This week's top open source cloud news features VMware's acquisition of Nicira; a QA with Citrix's Mark Hinkle; the ... http://bit.ly/LQLWDY

CloudOpen QA: SUSE's Michael Miller on Why Linux is the Natural OS for the Cloud

In the latest of our LinuxCon and CloudOpen keynote QA series we talk to SUSE's Vice President of Global Alliances ... http://bit.ly/NZAF4d

Facebook, HTC Developing Smartphone for 2013 Launch: Report

As Facebook users switch from the desktop to mobile platforms, the company is struggling to sustain ad revenue. ... http://bit.ly/Oq71CR

Google Borrows Microsoft Tactics as it Ramps Up Amazon Cloud Battle

Google and Microsoft's cloud revamps look set to dramatically change the competitive marketplace for infrastructure ... http://bit.ly/MMAkl7

How Can SMBs Protect Privacy When Moving to Cloud? Some Ideas

Almost 60 percent of small businesses responding to a Microsoft-sponsored survey about cloud computing said privacy ... http://bit.ly/SW0BhQ

The Linux Talent Draft is On

Make no mistake: the Linux draft is on.While the NFL season prepares to get underway there is an ongoing, intensiv ... http://bit.ly/Ma6716

Facebook's 'Bug Bounty' Program Reaches New Heights

In an attempt to combat internal breaches, the social networking giant will reward researchers who spot weaknesses ... http://bit.ly/Ma6714

Jonathan Schwartz: Oracle Bungled its Chance at Mobile Java

Oracle could have innovated with Java instead of litigated, says CareZone co-founder and Sun's former CEO. Also: Wh ... http://bit.ly/Ma66KK

Google Told Samsung Not to Copy Apple

Apple's continued disputes with Samsung reach new levels next week when yet another trial kicks off. But this time, ... http://bit.ly/SW0D9t

Oracle's File Converter Holes Endanger Many Server Services

A large number of server applications appear to have been made vulnerable by using Oracle's Outside In file convers ... http://bit.ly/SW0D9j

Master the SysRq Key to Fix Any Linux Freeze-Up

No system is immune to hangs and freeze-ups, and that includes even the most austere Linux desktop. What sets Linux ... http://bit.ly/SW0AKN

Android and Nokia Smartphones Hijacked Via NFC

At the Black Hat information security conference in Las Vegas, security specialist Charlie Miller has demonstrated ... http://bit.ly/OmmBBa

Open Source for MBAs: A Primer

If you’re neither a scientist, nor active in the open source community, it can be difficult to properly understan ... http://bit.ly/PMNRdj

Judge Sanctions Samsung For Destroying Evidence in Apple Case

A California federal judge has sanctioned Samsung for destroying evidence which makes up part of a case it's fighti ... http://bit.ly/SVOa5w

Fedora Shows Contributors Some Love

Fedora (and probably Red Hat) really really appreciate the contribution community developers bring to the popular L ... http://bit.ly/SVOa5s

Wednesday, 25 July 2012

OpenStack Quantum Project Aims to Define Future of Networking

The Quantum Project is working to design next-generation virtual networks with no model for comparison. In his ... http://bit.ly/MItHjH

Calculating Day of the Week, Finally

As with many of the challenges we tackle, the latest project has sprawled across more articles than I ever expected ... http://bit.ly/MInpP9

DrWright for Linux Forces You to Stop Typing and Take a Break

Linux: We've discussed several apps for Windows and a few others for Mac that remind you to take breaks periodicall ... http://bit.ly/On2Mb5

Arduino Used as Master Key for Hotel Rooms

Using an inexpensive Arduino board, a security researcher has managed to read the private cryptographic key from th ... http://bit.ly/On2IZ7

KDE's Rekonq Browser Turns 1.0

Version 1.0 of the lightwieght Rekonq web browser for the KDE desktop is now available to download. Its developers ... http://bit.ly/NU9d7R

WinFF Makes Multi-File Conversion Painless

Converting media files is often one of the messiest chores that audio and video fans must tolerate, but WinFF is on ... http://bit.ly/NU9bwG

Is This The Most Boring Branch Of Enterprise Mobility?

Within the enterprise mobile sphere, there was one thing I almost used to dread writing about because it seemed so ... http://bit.ly/On2H7t

Mac Malware Crisis as Apple Lets Slip its Mountain Lion

Includes bonus Windows Trojan, stealth ninja style Miscreants have developed a sophisticated multi-platform attack ... http://bit.ly/On2IIr

5 Best New Features of the Linux 3.5 Kernel Release

Following some initial concern earlier in the month about a large volume of small, last-minute pull requests that ... http://bit.ly/NU9acm

Radeon Driver Commit Activity Is On The Decline

After delivering development statistics on the Nouveau driver and the Intel driver, here's some numbers looking at ... http://bit.ly/OmToV5

Run IT as a Responsive Business, Beat the Cloud Vendors at Their Own Game

IT departments are increasingly competing with cloud providers, but are hamstrung by maintenance and upkeep costs. ... http://bit.ly/MHq7Gu

Microchip Giant ARM Reports Q2 Earnings, ‘Record Order Backlog’

ARM Holdings — supplier of microchips for Apple’s iPhone and iPad products, Samsung’s Galaxy line and soon te ... http://bit.ly/MWAK4T

Mesa 8.1 Will Offer Some Speed Improvements For Nouveau

After last week sharing results for AMD Radeon R600g Gallium3D on Mesa 8.0 and 8.1-devel, here are benchmarks for s ... http://bit.ly/LO7vR1

Tuesday, 24 July 2012

Microsoft Inks Patent Deal with Service Provider Using Linux Servers

Microsoft's latest patent licensing deal isn't like its recent Android/Chrome OS arrangements. It is with a service ... http://bit.ly/PFOAwG

GNOME Committed to Accessibility

A commitment to accessibility and the efforts of many dedicated developers helped GNOME 2 become an award-winning, ... http://bit.ly/N0uBnv

Google Partners Up to Sell Cloud Computing and Storage

Google is launching a new Cloud Partner Program that will formalize the ecosystem around its cloud compute and stor ... http://bit.ly/MV74VL

Huawei Profit Down 22 Percent in 1H, Blames Economy

Chinese telecoms giant says challenging market and economic landscape caused lower operating profit of US$1.4 billi ... http://bit.ly/OuRPTe

Intel Releases 12.07 Linux Graphics Package

Intel has released their 12.07 Linux graphics driver package... ... http://bit.ly/O4IztU

TI Releases Linux Kernel Support For Keystone

Texas Instruments has published their initial Linux kernel patches for providing support for their forthcoming Keys ... http://bit.ly/PERj9D

Analyst: iPhone 5, iPad Mini Coming In September

Apple’s next-gen iPhone — and the much-talked about (but yet unseen) iPad mini — are some of the most hotly a ... http://bit.ly/MUG6Of

OpenStack Developers Move From Rackspace to Nebula

According to a report, seven OpenStack developers have left Rackspace to move to Nebula, a much smaller company whi ... http://bit.ly/MUG60J

Apple Wants $2.5 Billion in Damages from Samsung

Battling with Samsung in the U.S. over patent issues, Apple has calculated the amount of damages at a cool $2.5 bil ... http://bit.ly/MUG60B

Arduino Leonardo Released

Microcontroller board Leonardo is cheaper than the Uno board and offers greater USB flexibility... ... http://bit.ly/MUG3SC

Dell Offers New Laptops with Red Hat Enterprise Linux Loaded

Dell Computer is continuing to exapnd its support for Linux and open source platforms. We've reported on the compan ... http://bit.ly/PERgdX

VMware, Nicira and a Holistic View of Virtualization

Virtualization is far more than merely creating virtual servers or virtual clients. It is a range of technology tha ... http://bit.ly/PERfXy

Fedora 18 to Support UEFI Secure Boot

The Fedora Project has decided to implement support for UEFI Secure Boot in Fedora 18 using an approach proposed by ... http://bit.ly/MUG3St

Monday, 23 July 2012

Call for Articles - Drupal

Are you a Drupal developer anxious to share your knowledge with Linux Journal's audience? We're currently accept ... http://bit.ly/NNlRFC

SlickEdit

For the minimalist programmer, there's vim. For everybody else,there's SlickEdit. more ... http://bit.ly/MjrEjl

How Google Compute Engine Hopes to Sidestep AWS Failures

Google is calling on some of its most sensitive technologies in an attempt to give its cloud greater redundancy and ... http://bit.ly/M5ZuNo

Linux Mint 13 “KDE” Released

The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 13 KDE. For a complete overview and to see screenshots of t ... http://bit.ly/NMtkF4

Facebook, Last.fm and Pals to Reach Deep Into Ubuntu

Websites will be able to hook into the Ubuntu desktop in the Linux distro's next release - allowing, for example, u ... http://bit.ly/NMtkES

Intel and Valve Collaborate to Develop Open Source Graphics Drivers

Intel and Valve are collaborating to optimise the open source grapnhics drivers and the game engine used by the upc ... http://bit.ly/LJcoQ4

Arch Linux 2012.07.15 Drops AIF

The new install media for the lightweight Linux distribution sees the removal of the Arch Linux Installation Framew ... http://bit.ly/SQogQG

Research: Samsung Has Sold 10M Galaxy S3′s, But ‘iPhone 5′ Still The Most-Wanted Phone

You know a brand is doing something right when people go a little crazy for its products even before they’ve been ... http://bit.ly/LJcozu

Samsung Sacrificed Qualcomm Truce for Apple War

Samsung ended a truce with Qualcomm and its third-party vendors over 3G patent use when Apple filed court proceedin ... http://bit.ly/LJcozn

Intel 2.20.1 X.Org Driver Closes Critical Bugs

With a week having passed since the release of xf86-video-intel 2.20, Chris Wilson has today issued the driver's fi ... http://bit.ly/SQogjJ

Development Release: Frugalware Linux 1.7 RC1

James Buren has announced the availability of the first release candidate for Frugalware Linux 1.7, code name "Gaia ... http://bit.ly/SQoirJ

Why a 32GB Nexus 7 is Almost Inevitable

Demand for the 16GB Nexus 7 has far outstripped that of the 8GB model, so much so that a 32GB model is now almost i ... http://bit.ly/SQogjv

30 Linux Kernel Developers in 30 Weeks: Paul Mundt

In this week's 30 Kernel Developers in 30 Weeks profile, we talk to Paul Mundt, who works on the SuperH architectur ... http://bit.ly/NMtiNv

China Takeover as Tech Innovation Center Inevitable

Asian giant will eventually dominate in many areas of innovation partly due to market opportunities, and government ... http://bit.ly/NMtigo

Friday, 20 July 2012

Rackspace: OpenStack Could Be the Linux of the Cloud

OpenStack has the potential to become to the cloud what the LAMP stack is to servers, Rackspace's chief has said, w ... http://bit.ly/MN4qRX

Build A Serious Multimedia Production Workstation With Arch Linux

Arch Linux is a superior platform for high-end audio, graphics, and video production. Follow along as we put an Arc ... http://bit.ly/NDbcfl

Nexus 7 Sees Incredible Demand, Sells Out at Major Retailers

The Nexus 7 has already sold out at retailers such as GameStop, Staples, and Costco. Here's how you can get one. ... http://bit.ly/M0xef2

Google Told to Change Mobile Services in Antitrust Talks

The search giant is told -- according to reports -- that to settle an ongoing antitrust probe, it may have to make ... http://bit.ly/MOMbe0

Google Releases SDK for Jelly Bean

Following the release of the source code for Android 4.1, the download manager now offers the SDK for developing ap ... http://bit.ly/LCNh16

7 Features of Android Jelly Bean the Enterprise will Savor

Since Google announced Android 4.1 ("Jelly Bean") on June 27, the update has appeared on Galaxy Nexus phones, and t ... http://bit.ly/MOM8ik

Dell Expands OpenStack Cloud Efforts, and Other Open Source Programs

This week PC giant Dell Computer has served up a series of announcements that the company claims show how committed ... http://bit.ly/MOM81Y

Free Resources to Help You Launch Your Open Source Project

Have you been considering launching an open source project? Doing so involves a series of decisions that can give y ... http://bit.ly/LxPWV9

Ubuntu's Unity Desktop Bolted Onto Fedora

Mainly developed by Canonical for its Ubuntu Linux distribution, the Unity desktop can now also be installed in Fed ... http://bit.ly/OMyoVA

Manage Google Docs With LibreOffice

LibreOffice has an excellent extension which allows a user do exactly the same. You can access the files on Google ... http://bit.ly/MqlgJR

Oracle Courts CentOS Users

Oracle is offering a script for migrating CentOS installations to Oracle Linux. Controversy has been sparked around ... http://bit.ly/MdIVKL

5 Reasons Why Commercial Software Companies Care About Open Source and Linux

When you think of Open Source software and Linux, you probably think of legions of independent developers and scruf ... http://bit.ly/Mqle4x

First Android 4.1 Update Halted due to Emergency Call Snafu

Vodafone Australia delayed the upgrade to Jelly Bean because the operating system wasn't up to Australian regulator ... http://bit.ly/MqlgcN

Open Source Drives Small Business

Open source software is a key driver for small business in the U.S. and contributes an enormous amount to the econo ... http://bit.ly/SLyHF8

LinuxCon Keynote QA: Qualcomm's Rob Chandhok on Why Linux is Essential to the Company's Success

This week's LinuxCon/CloudOpen keynote QA is with Qualcomm Innovation Center President Rob Chandhok. He will be tal ... http://bit.ly/LCtDCA

Thursday, 19 July 2012

LinuxCon Keynote QA: Qualcomm's Rob Chandhok on Why Linux is Essentail to the Company's Success

This week's LinuxCon/CloudOpen keynote QA is with Qualcomm Innovation Center President Rob Chandhok. He will be tal ... http://bit.ly/MMMcPv

Open Source Cloud Roundup: Top Headlines Week of July 16

This week's open source cloud headlines include several OpenStack-related announcements, denials from VMware that i ... http://bit.ly/LADxEO

Datacenter Revenues Drive Intel Growth

Intel's greatest Q2 revenue increase is from their Data Center Group, but the future will need to be more mobile... ... http://bit.ly/OcMl11

ARMv8 AArch64 Support For GCC Keeps Coming

Support for AArch64, the ARMv8 64-bit architecture, continues to move along within the GCC compiler world... ... http://bit.ly/MKoLYj

The Return of MeeGo: Phones and Apps and Games, Oh My!

One of the best things about being part of the Linux community is that life is absolutely never boring around here. ... http://bit.ly/NJdRGL

Samsung to Launch 64GB Galaxy S3 in Second Half of Year

Consumers eyeing the 64GB flavor of Samsung's new Galaxy S phone will be able to grab it sometime in the second hal ... http://bit.ly/NJdPyy

Univention Corporate Server 3.0 Update Can Manage Ubuntu Clients

The second update to version 3.0 of Univention's Corporate Server distribution is based on Debian 6.0.5 and adds of ... http://bit.ly/Muazns

Nokia Posts $1 Billion Operating Loss

Analysts were expecting a loss of $420 million in the second quarter. Shipments of 4 million Lumia smartphones did ... http://bit.ly/NZKKNX

Android-Based Ouya Already Pulls In $5 Million USD

The Android-based Ouya game console has already raised more than five million US dollars in its first ten days... ... http://bit.ly/Muaz72

Calling All DevOps People: Chef 101 Workshop at CloudOpen

With both private and public clouds, increasingly complex virtualized environments and data getting bigger every da ... http://bit.ly/OJqbBK

Wednesday, 18 July 2012

Counting the Cost of Cloud

IT costs were always a worry, but only an occasional one. Cloud computing has changed that. ... http://bit.ly/Mt7iVB

Congratulations to Our T-shirt Design Contest Winners

Congratulations to Brian Beck and Sabrina Aqil, our two winners in The Linux Foundation's 2012 "Inspired by Linux" ... http://bit.ly/OHfjUW

Tikl Me, Elmo

Somewhere between the world of SMS messages and voice calling is the land of two-way push-to-talk technology. Some ... http://bit.ly/LssYig

Inside Nokia Bridge: How Nokia Funds Ex-Employees' New Start-Ups

Nokia Bridge scheme offers seed capital to employees that the company has made redundant, to help them get their ow ... http://bit.ly/MJbrCn

Dell Gives Linux Laptops Another Chance

Today Dell announced its official re-entry into the Linux laptop market. Project Sputnik, first announced in May, i ... http://bit.ly/NzliMO

Development Release: PC-BSD 9.0-RC3

Kris Moore today announced the first beta build of PC-BSD 9.1, a user friendly desktop operating system based on Fr ... http://bit.ly/Q622MK

MIPS Works with Android 4.1, Focused on Low-Cost Tablets

Among chip makers that have worked steadily with the Android mobile OS, you don't hear MIPS Technologies mentioned ... http://bit.ly/Q75xkU

RedPhone Voice Encryption System for Android Open Sourced

The Twitter-owned security firm has published the source code for its voice encryption system for Android to GitHub ... http://bit.ly/Q75xkO

Raspberry Pi Foundation Launches Raspbian Distribution

The Raspberry Pi Foundation has released a new Debian-based distribution optimised for the mini-computer's architec ... http://bit.ly/NzlkEp

AppDirect Nails $8.5M To Build A Cloud App Store, Rackspace Newest Partner

AppDirect, a company that offers white-label cloud-based app stores, has today announced $8.5 million in funding to ... http://bit.ly/NWwdTe

Oracle's July Patch Day Brings 87 Security Updates

Among the updated components are Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g, Oracle Database 10g and 11g, Solaris and MySQL. The ... http://bit.ly/SGYePF

Price Conscious Mobile Customers Drive Biz Model Innovation

Low average revenue per user in emerging markets of Asia pushes mobile operators to become innovative in pricing mo ... http://bit.ly/Q6Ezdl

Amazon's Huge Advantage in Mobile...

It has a business model that can easily cross over to smartphone platforms while most others don't. ... http://bit.ly/Q6Ewyb

The ARM-Powered Cloud Comes To OpenStack

Apple uses the ARM architecture for its chip sets on its iPhones and tablets. Now we are seeing the first uses for ... http://bit.ly/Q6Ew11

Twitter’s Open Source Big Data Tool Comes to the Cloud Courtesy of Nodeable

Usually when we think of a pivot, we think of a company that has decided to drop its core offering and market a dif ... http://bit.ly/OajLNK

Import Ban on Select Motorola Android Products Starts Today

It's been a few months since the International Trade Commission affirmed its decision to ban a selection of Motorol ... http://bit.ly/OGshCn

Tuesday, 17 July 2012

OpenNebula 3.6 Brings a Raft of New Tools and Marketplace Integration

OpenNebula 3.6, which is the twelfth stable release of the platform, offers a raft of new features including virtua ... http://bit.ly/PevMV4

What is your primary job function?

Help us get to know you better!If you don't feel like any of these options describes you, please let us know in th ... http://bit.ly/OQSdMG

OSI Announces It Will Open the Organization to Individual Members

Wednesday, July 17, at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference in Portland, Oregon, the Open Source Initiative (OSI) an ... http://bit.ly/NuxpgT

Chef Offers a Recipe for the Open Source Cloud

Opscode's open source framework Chef is part of the orchestration layer of platform-agnostic software aimed at allo ... http://bit.ly/MF7ZZD

FreeBSD 9.1 Enters Beta

Following a more than one week delay, the developers at the FreeBSD project have published the first test build of ... http://bit.ly/LoXjOM

SOA Market Grew Faster Than Expected, Survey Says

Service oriented architecture framework and software revenues grew 24% over original projections in the year 2011. ... http://bit.ly/NBXE6e

Samsung Swallows Up CSR Mobile and Location Patents for $310 million

The S-Wallet has opened and absorbed $310 million-worth of connectivity and location patents from British chip comp ... http://bit.ly/M6L1w5

Apache Tika 1.2 Introduces New Network Server

The latest release of the open source metadata and structured text content extractor adds support for several new f ... http://bit.ly/M6L1fo

Valve Officially Announces Steam and Left 4 Dead 2 for Linux

There have been many hints, but Valve has now officially confirmed that it is porting its games platform Steam to L ... http://bit.ly/NBXGel

5 Interesting Things You Can Do With PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL is one of the most versatile, powerful and reliable object-relational database systems available. The en ... http://bit.ly/MEPJ2g

Make Your Own Pocketable Arduino Kit [DIY]

Arduino's are already pretty small, but they're still not conducive to travelling. Instructables user sath02 wanted ... http://bit.ly/OONmvk

Peter Thiel To Eric Schmidt: Admit It, Google Is No Longer A Technology Company

Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt and PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel offered wildly differing views on the stat ... http://bit.ly/OONivz

The Evolution Of NVIDIA's Kepler Driver Performance

After publishing last week a look at AMD's Catalyst Evolution For The Radeon HD 7000 Series, here's a similar set o ... http://bit.ly/Nf8wXV

Kindle Fire Forecast Cut By Analyst Amid Nexus 7 Concern

Analyst firm Cowen says its previous forecast for sales of Kindle e-readers 'is proving unrealistic.' ... ... http://bit.ly/LoVNfn

Google Revises Settlement Offer in EU Antitrust Case

The search giant has revised its concessions package as part of its efforts to address a string of EU antitrust con ... http://bit.ly/Nf8uPV

Monday, 16 July 2012

KeePassX: Keeping Your Passwords Safe

For a long time, my password tracking system was quite simplistic:hope I remembered the right passwords for each s ... http://bit.ly/MdcsXx

At Break-Even Pricing, Nexus 7 and Kindle Fire 2 are Tough Competition

Google began shipping pre-orders to the Asus-manufactured Nexus 7 on July 13, featuring Android 4.1 and a $199 (8GB ... http://bit.ly/MB0XG1

Mint and openSUSE: My Take on Four Linux Release Candidates

It says a lot about the health of Linux distributions that four of the latest release candidates from openSUSE and ... http://bit.ly/NtB0cb

Big Switch Networks Launches OpenFlow Development Tool Plugin

As organizations deploy virtualized applications and systems, networking and storage must keep up. One of the trend ... http://bit.ly/OJzjas

Raspberry Pi Sales Restrictions Are Lifted

As we've noted recently, when it comes to the top open source stories of 2012, it's clear that one of the biggest i ... http://bit.ly/Ny7aqL

Linux 3.5 Approaches with RC7

A seventh release candidate for Linux 3.5 was published over the weekend, following a large number of small pull re ... http://bit.ly/O3M40v

XBMC for Android Set-Top Boxes is Coming Soon

The XBMC team has announced that it has been working on porting a fully fledged version of the open source media ce ... http://bit.ly/LlFUq6

Ubuntu 12.10: Linux KVM vs. Xen Virtualization Preview

With Ubuntu 12.10 coming up in just a few months, here are our first virtualization benchmarks from the forthcoming ... http://bit.ly/O3M54v

Coming Soon : Open Source Graphic Drivers For Raspberry Pi

Raspberry Pi is a single board, ARM based mini-computer which costs as low as $35. The device lacks open-source dri ... http://bit.ly/PZb4Ka

Galaxy S3 Bumps Samsung's Lead Over Apple, Say Analysts

The gap between Samsung and Apple in the smartphone arena widened in the second quarter, according to a Reuters pol ... http://bit.ly/O3M1Sk

MeeGo’s ‘Saviour’ Heads To China: Jolla Signs Deal With Chinese Retailer D.Phone

Jolla Mobile — Meego’s saviour in the making — is certainly ambitious, perhaps insanely so. The Finnish start ... http://bit.ly/LlFTCB

What's the Best Way for Developers to Communicate With Customers?

What happens when vendors have some information that's vital to deliver to the customer base? Facebook? E-mail? Rog ... http://bit.ly/Q2niTB

Geronimo 3.0 Supports Java 7

With Geronimo 3.0, the developers of the Java application server have fixed more than 450 bugs and added over 100 i ... http://bit.ly/Q2nl1R

GParted Live 0.13.0-1 Released

The GParted Team have released a new version of Gnome Partition Editor. This is a stable release and fixes a major ... http://bit.ly/O3M2FF

30 Linux Kernel Developers in 30 Weeks: Dave Jones

Dave Jones is maintainer of the Fedora kernel and this week shares what he's working on and what makes him tick in ... http://bit.ly/SB6O2i

Nearing Autonomous Linux Benchmark Selections

When it comes to advancing Linux and open-source benchmarking, a number of breakthroughs are on the horizon with th ... http://bit.ly/LlFQXw

Nokia's Flagship Phone Price Cut in Half

Barely three months after its launch, the price of Nokia's flagship phone has been slashed in half. ... http://bit.ly/LlFQXu

Stackato 2.0 adds .NET support

The latest release of the cloud platform based on the open source Cloud Foundry PaaS adds support of .NET to the al ... http://bit.ly/LlFQXm

Friday, 13 July 2012

Profiles in Linux: H. Peter Anvin

Every time you boot a CD or DVD, thank Peter Anvin for making it possible. And, as a key Linux contributor that's n ... http://bit.ly/NIpRGA

Oracle to Release 88 Critical Fixes Next Week

The company will patch multiple holes in products such as Fusion middleware in its quarterly critical patch update ... http://bit.ly/MroAQu

Raspberry Pi in Space: Putting the Linux PC Into Orbit

A thriving home-brew community is already putting the credit card-sized PC to use in drones and robots. The device' ... http://bit.ly/PVJi2B

Intel Driver Modes-Set Rework Hits 81 Patches

Daniel Vetter's re-work of the Intel DRM driver mode-setting code has now expanded to 81 patches in size... ... http://bit.ly/NmylRy

Distribution Release: Finnix 105

Ryan Finnie today announced the availability of Finnix 105, a live CD distribution for system administrators based ... http://bit.ly/Mpwpss

How a Looming Talent Gap Will Crush Enterprise Hopes for Big Data

Large enterprises are putting a lot of money and effort into making sure they have the latest and greatest in Hadoo ... http://bit.ly/N5L1AL

Another Microsoft Windows Phone Exec Legs It to Amazon

Is a Kindle-like phone in the works? Another Microsoft Windows Phone executive has jumped ship for Amazon.…... ... http://bit.ly/OjB6ll

Over 1 Million User Credentials Compromised in Android Forums Hack

Phandroid, a popular Android news blog, has confirmed that its Android Forums site has been compromised and that a ... http://bit.ly/N5L1ka

Linux Mint 13 “Maya” KDE RC Released

The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 13 KDE RC. ... http://bit.ly/N5KZZw

Solaris 11 Struggles Against Linux Distributions

For some interesting benchmarks to share before the start of the weekend, here's some recent test results conducted ... http://bit.ly/PVwN74

Entangle: Controlling Your DSLR Camera From Linux

Entangle is an open-source program that allows for "tethered shooting" from Linux with digital SLR camera. A major ... http://bit.ly/PVwMQy

Nokia Restructures China Operations, Shuts Down Offices

The company will close offices in Chengdu and Shanghai, while expanding its remaining offices in Beijing and Guangz ... http://bit.ly/OjB3pJ

Will Google Take to the Streets With Its Own Retail Stores?

Google is establishing some "zones" in Best Buy and a few other outlets, buy it may end up following Apple and Micr ... http://bit.ly/PVwMA0

Windows 8: The End of the Full Retail Version?

If Microsoft no longer sells full retail versions of Windows starting with Windows 8, as rumored, don't expect many ... http://bit.ly/NqS4kC

Voice Controlled Robot Arm Using a Raspberry Pi

A Raspberry Pi and some free software are all you need to set up voice control on an inexpensive robot arm... ... http://bit.ly/OjAZq3

Thursday, 12 July 2012

Open Cloud Roundup: Top Headlines Week of July 9

This week the open cloud news headlines feature a new OpenNebula release, a new cloud controller plug-in for OpenSt ... http://bit.ly/MooNDR

LinuxCon Keynote QA: The OSS Behind a Tweet

The roster of keynote speakers for this year's LinuxCon North America and CloudOpen events is mind blowing. I've go ... http://bit.ly/NBGDXZ

Slidecast: Productizing Hadoop – Creating Enterprise Value, Not Dependency

In this slidecast, Brian Christian from Zettaset describes how the company has productized Hadoop for ease of use, ... http://bit.ly/NBaTSx

Now You Can Install Jelly Bean on Your Kindle Fire [Video]

If you're a Kindle Fire owner painfully jealous of the new Nexus 7, here's something to make you feel a little bett ... http://bit.ly/MmHCr1

Reverse-Engineering USB Keyboards For Linux Support

For those interested in reverse-engineering USB keyboards (or other input devices), there's a short yet effective g ... http://bit.ly/LLKl3N

Gummiboot: A Simple UEFI Boot Manager

For those looking to experiment with UEFI support on Linux, one of the alternatives to GRUB2 and efilinux is Gummib ... http://bit.ly/LLKiVw

Atlassian JIRA 5.1 Lifts 200,000 Issue Limit

A soft limit of 200,000 issues has been lifted thanks to performance improvements in Atlassian's JIRA 5.1. The upda ... http://bit.ly/MmHwzQ

GLAMOR Radeon Shows 2D Acceleration Promise

It looks like, thanks in part to an existing shoddy EXA 2D acceleration implementation, that the GLAMOR-based Radeo ... http://bit.ly/MmHyYn

Cloudability Raises $8.7 Million From Foundry Group For Service To Track Cloud Spending

Portland-based Cloudability has raised $8.7 million from the Foundry Group in a Series A round for its service that ... http://bit.ly/LLKiF5

Open Recall: Fresh Apps for the Linux Desktop

Open Recall is a space on The H for those things that are too small to package as news but are worth the linkage. O ... http://bit.ly/LLKi7Z

Following Microsoft's Recipes for Android Self-Programming

Microsoft is involved in a project geared toward self-programming and extending the functionality of the Android sm ... http://bit.ly/LLKh3P

Developer Break: Node.js, Apaches and Celery

Catch up on the smaller but important changes and updates to tools and specifications, utilities and libraries: thi ... http://bit.ly/LLKgNg

More Teeny-Tiny Linux PCs are Arriving

When it comes to top open source stories of 2012, it's clear that one of the biggest is the proliferation of tiny, ... http://bit.ly/LLKgwI

The Big Data and Cloud Computing Trends Depend on Open Source

Reuven Cohen has an interesting post up on Forbes' site, which asks, "Free Versus Open: Does Open Source Software M ... http://bit.ly/NPcjrn

openSUSE 12.2 RC1 Available for Testing

openSUSE 12.2 Release Candidate 1 is now available to download. Download it from software.opensuse.org/developer. A ... http://bit.ly/MmHuYG

Wednesday, 11 July 2012

HTC Reportedly Taking Another Shot at a Tablet

The company, primarily known for smartphones, has had little success with tablets. ... ... http://bit.ly/N0TRj9

PC Shipments Continue Downward Trend

Overall PC shipments are down again this quarter. HP still has the biggest market share, but Apple is the only vend ... http://bit.ly/O99eQX

4 Intriguing Desktop Linux Options Coming Soon to Retail Stores

Windows may still be the default operating system on the vast majority of mainstream PCs thanks to Microsoft's many ... http://bit.ly/NokmcC

Book Review - The Linux Command Line

Do you ever have that moment when someone asks you for a recommendation on a book, and when put on the spot you s ... http://bit.ly/N3MG96

KDE Assures Users They Can Depend On Qt

The KDE community has confirmed its trust in the Qt development toolkit in the wake of Nokia discontinuing most of ... http://bit.ly/NtrO9H

Debian: Squeeze vs. Wheezy On Linux And kFreeBSD

With Debian Wheezy now frozen for its release sometime next year, here are some early benchmarks comparing the perf ... http://bit.ly/NlYnGe

IBM Database Strategy Chief on DB2: Devs Are People Too

Big Blue looks beyond DBAs for input on features Developers are exerting greater influence on new versions of IBM ... http://bit.ly/MkR00X

Silicon Motion Extends Linux Graphics Driver

This week Silicon Motion fired off an email to the X.Org developers with a patch that introduces 38,463 lines of ne ... http://bit.ly/MiPOIO

OpenNebula 3.6 Integrates Virtual Appliance Marketplace

The OpenNebula project has released the latest version of their open source cloud computing toolkit. The new versio ... http://bit.ly/MkQZKy

Slidecast: ScaleOut Software — In-Memory Data Grids for the Enterprise

In this slidecast, Bill Bain and David Brinker from ScaleOut Software present an overview of the company’s in-mem ... http://bit.ly/NlgPiT

Malware Sniffs for Windows, Mac OS X or Linux

Social engineering is used to install a backdoor onto systems with new malware that adds Linux to the list of syste ... http://bit.ly/MkQZKu

Intel Merges Mesa Hardware Context Support

Kenneth Graunke committed the i965 Mesa driver hardware context support patch on Tuesday. Meanwhile, the Radeon Gal ... http://bit.ly/MiPOsq

Bits Stored on a Single Molecule Could Lead to Petabyte SSDs

If there's one fact of computing life, it's that there's never enough damn storage, and if you think it's bad now, ... http://bit.ly/PMraXr

GCC 4.8 To Improve Diagnostics Abilities

In a battle against LLVM/Clang, GCC 4.8 will improve the code diagnostics support to better assist developers in de ... http://bit.ly/MkQYWW

DMA-BUF Synchronization With PRIME

Now that X.Org Server 1.13 RC1 is out there with the initial support for PRIME and other exciting features, depende ... http://bit.ly/PMra9V

Debian Works Towards ARMv8 AArch64 Support

Debian developers are working towards an official armhf image for the Wheezy release and they're also gearing up fo ... http://bit.ly/MkQVKN

LibreOffice 3.5.5 Update Improves Stability

The new update to the 3.5.x branch of the open source office suite features improvements to Calc and Impress, and a ... http://bit.ly/MiPPfQ

Tuesday, 10 July 2012

Lew Moorman: Open Cloud Key to Modern Networking

Rackspace President Lew Moorman made a splash late last month with his talk at GigaOM’s Structure conference on v ... http://bit.ly/MiPpZn

Raspberry Pi Summer Code Contest for Children Announced

The Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced a contest for children up to the age of 18 to write programs for the Rasp ... http://bit.ly/NercTp

Google Nexus 7 Tablet Available Through Staples

The retail vendor is the latest outlet to offer Google's new 7-inch tablet, now available for pre-order before hitt ... http://bit.ly/MWiRYC

Beyond MapReduce: Hadoop Hangs On

Hadoop is all the rage in enterprise computing, and has become the poster child for the big-data movement. But just ... http://bit.ly/Mfcfie

Nokia Shares Hit 16-Year Low as Losses Continue

The troubled smartphone company saw its shares sink to $1.84 yesterday, and in premarket trading today, they're dow ... http://bit.ly/Mfch9P

DisplayLink USB GPU Hot-Plugging On Linux

With the very latest X.Org code, DisplayLink USB GPU hot-plugging now works properly under Linux... ... http://bit.ly/Mg4ZsA

Google's Chrome OS Has a Future on Dual-Boot Systems, Starting Now

Lately, there have been some signs of rejuvenation for Google's Chrome OS and Chrombooks based on the platform. As ... http://bit.ly/Mfcgmf

LinkedIn Used by 93 Percent of Recruiters to Find Job Candidates

The professional network leads the list as the top social media site scoured by professional recruiters to track do ... http://bit.ly/M0LEJY

Two More Android Vendors License Microsoft Patents

Coby Electronics and Aluratek have signed patent portfolio licensing agreements with Microsoft and will be joining ... http://bit.ly/MfU02p

Mandriva joins OW2 to Spur Enterprise Innovation in the Open Source Community

With its commercial operations now focused on innovative open source software for the corporate market, Mandriva jo ... http://bit.ly/MfU02n

TeX Live 2012 Released

The TeX Live 2012 distribution includes all the ingredients of the latest TeX version. ISO images for all supported ... http://bit.ly/NGYFq7

Android 4.1 Jelly Bean Source Code Released

Google is releasing the source code to Android 4.1, code-named "Jelly Bean", to the Android Open Source Project. Th ... http://bit.ly/MXUGZk

Interview: Whamcloud Wins FastForward Contract for Exascale RD

Today Whamcloud announced that the company has been awarded the Storage and I/O Research Development subcontract f ... http://bit.ly/MXUER7

Monday, 9 July 2012

Verizon Blames Samsung for Locked Bootloader in Galaxy S III

Verizon cleared up its stance on locking the bootloaders in phones using its network earlier this year. In short: i ... http://bit.ly/NE1Wq4

Ballmer: We Hope to Sell 'A Few Million' Surface PCs in Year

With Surface and now the acquisition of Perceptive Pixel, is Microsoft gearing up for total hardware domination? .. ... http://bit.ly/LDim6d

Striping Across Four Storage Nodes With GlusterFS 3.2.x On Ubuntu 12.04

This tutorial shows how to do data striping (segmentation of logically sequential data, such as a single file, so t ... http://bit.ly/PIncAn

GitHub Pours Energies into Enterprise – Raises $100 Million From Power VC Andreessen Horowitz

Andreessen Horowitz is investing an eye-popping $100 million into GitHub, the ever popular repository for developer ... http://bit.ly/MdZElF

CentOS-6.3 Released

CentOS 6.3 is available. "CentOS-6.3 is based on the upstream release EL 6.3 and includes packages from all variant ... http://bit.ly/NWQbZQ

30 Linux Kernel Developers in 30 Weeks: Greg Kroah-Hartman

This week we talk to Linux stable kernel maintainer and Linux Foundation Fellow Greg Kroah-Hartman. This is the fif ... http://bit.ly/ORas7Y

Hack and / - Password Cracking with GPUs, Part III: Tune Your Attack

You've built the hardware, installed the software and cracked somepasswords. Now find out how to fine-tune your at ... http://bit.ly/OR19ov

Gartner: Enterprise IT Spend Will Pass $3.6 Trillion In 2012, Cloud Investments Rise To $109B

Gartner has updated its forecasts on IT spend worldwide: spend in areas like hardware, software, and IT services ar ... http://bit.ly/MdzoT7

Jolla Aims to Revitalise MeeGo

Former Nokia employees have founded Jolla Ltd to continue the development of MeeGo and to design and market MeeGo s ... http://bit.ly/LJkEMu

E17 Developers Set Sights on an Official Release

Signs are that a stable official release of the E17 desktop environment could finally be on its way to provide a li ... http://bit.ly/McTZw5

64-bit ARM Support for Linux AArch64

ARM developers are working on patches that will extend the Linux kernel to provide support for ARM's AArch64 64-bit ... http://bit.ly/McTWAv

Samsung Galaxy Tab Doesn't Copy Apple Designs, UK Court Rules

It's a win for Samsung Electronics, which hasn't fared so well in the legal arena lately. The decision affects thre ... http://bit.ly/McTYIw

The Higgs Boson: Another Feather in Linux's Cap

It's not exactly any secret that Linux dominates the world of high-performance computing, so perhaps it should go w ... http://bit.ly/PGgSJU

Facebook’s App Center Goes International: Open To English-Speaking Countries; Translation ...

Last week we got a little clue that Facebook was gearing up to take its App Center to markets outside the U.S., whe ... http://bit.ly/LbmuJg

Google Scraps But Shares Web-Based Collaborative Coding Tool

Collide, which lets multiple programmers tap into a software development project, is open-source software now that ... http://bit.ly/PGgOd3

Microsoft's Surface Tablet Suffers from Low Yields, Report Says

According to Digitimes, Microsoft is working with a "second-tier" chassis supplier that's having some trouble produ ... http://bit.ly/Mdzn1o

KDE Issues Statement Regarding Future Use Of Qt

The KDE development community has issued a statement concerning future use of the Qt tool-kit within the KDE deskto ... http://bit.ly/MgAzCV

Microsoft Should Be Broken Up, Vanity Fair Writer Says

Microsoft has lost its way, says Kirk Eichenwald, who talked about his Vanity Fair piece on CBS This Morning. ... ... http://bit.ly/Nf8r3S

Chinese Android Trojan Buys Applications

Mobile security company TrustGo has discovered a trojan that can buy applications from China Mobile's application s ... http://bit.ly/OQGy3V

AMD's Catalyst Evolution For The Radeon HD 7000 Series

It used to be -- at least when using the Windows Catalyst drivers -- that within the first few months of AMD releas ... http://bit.ly/OQGwJh

Friday, 6 July 2012

Seven Tips for Selecting a Cloud Services Provider

Here are seven ideas to help you choose a professional services company for your cloud implementation. ... http://bit.ly/NJbOg3

Cloudera and Mount Sinai: The Structure of a Big Data Revolution?

Can a disruptive molecular biologist and the leading company in the Hadoop ecosystem make medical research change i ... http://bit.ly/OBSnKX

The Linux Foundation Delivers Schedules for LinuxCon, CloudOpen

If you're looking for a good way to close out the summer on a high note, keep in mind that the LinuxCon and CloudOp ... http://bit.ly/OBqtPe

Shuttleworth: Why Windows 8 Made Us Ditch GPL Linux Loader

Ubuntu supremo fears security keys could fall into wrong hands Ubuntu daddy Mark Shuttleworth has defended Canonica ... http://bit.ly/M0SBGv

Essential Open Source Tools for Web Developers

If you are a web developer or are aiming to become one, you're probably very aware of many of the tools from the op ... http://bit.ly/Plgter

Hooray! Google Now Gets Ported From Jelly Bean To Ice Cream Sandwich

Good news, Android fans. A developer over on the forever awesome XDA Developers forums has figured out how to extra ... http://bit.ly/Oezj1L

Friday Poll: Will You Buy Android Now or Wait for iPhone 5?

Hot Android smartphones are reaching the market, but the frenzy over the iPhone 5 is growing. Are you waiting for A ... http://bit.ly/OeziLh

Thursday, 5 July 2012

Public Art with Augmented Reality and Blender

Augmented reality artist/developer, Nathan Shafer, has plans to illustrate the history of Exit Glacier in Seward, A ... http://bit.ly/N9tPEw

4 Fine Linux ARM Distros

The ARM platform is exploding like a mad wet cat out of the bath. Here are four good distros cram-full of ARM fun. ... http://bit.ly/M8x1mb

Double Security for Flash Under Linux

Chrome 20 introduces a new protection concept for Linux users. The "seccomp" mechanism allows system calls from a p ... http://bit.ly/MYWq0x

Samsung Galaxy Tabs Start Getting Android 4.0 Update

Samsung has started updating their tablets to Android 4.0. ... http://bit.ly/PeQwgz

Desktop Matchmaking in Linux Land

Well it's been a few years since Linux Girl has had the pleasure of writing about dating in the Linux world -- alwa ... http://bit.ly/NDDC5z

Tryst: The Forthcoming Unigine RTS Will Be On Linux

Last August I wrote about another Unigine-based game being developed, which at the time didn't have an announced ti ... http://bit.ly/KW2bdK

GNOME 3.5.3 Bulks On Changes For GNOME 3.6

The latest GNOME 3.5 development release is now available with a lot of changes as the developers prepare to issue ... http://bit.ly/LAcbLp

KDE's Dolphin File Manager Needs Additional Hands

The new maintainer of KDE's Dolphin file manager has put out a call for new contributors to join the project as he ... http://bit.ly/M7C6cG

Google Makes Opera Bloggers an Offer They Can't Refuse: Use Chrome

Nice browser you got there, shame if something happened to it Google is warning Opera web browser users they must s ... http://bit.ly/MLZ6T6

Group-Office 4.0 Groupware Released

Version 4.0 of the online groupware solution adds support for the CardDAV protocol, allows users to search the cont ... http://bit.ly/N8Vo0I

First-Hand Experience with the Julia Language for HPC

Over at HPC Admin, Douglas Eadline relays his first-hand experience with the open source Julia language for HPC. Ac ... http://bit.ly/NaX3Xd

Wednesday, 4 July 2012

Would You Buy a $100, Open Source, Android Gaming Console Designed by Yves Behar?

The Ouya is a concept for a completely open sourced and hackable Android game console designed by Yves Behar (the g ... http://bit.ly/Mx58Yc

Samsung Denied: Judge Koh Declines to Lift Injunction Against Galaxy Nexus, but Google's Got a ...

Happy Independence Day, Apple. Reuters reports that Samsung's request to have the preliminary injunction against th ... http://bit.ly/NlUWhE

Bloomberg: Apple Plans to Launch Smaller iPad This Year [Rumors]

Bloomberg is reporting that Apple is planning to launch a smaller, cheaper iPad to compete with Amazon and Google ... http://bit.ly/M5YWS0

Tuesday, 3 July 2012

July 2012 Issue of Linux Journal: Networking

Cast the Nets!I thought we'd gone native this month and were going to show how to worknets and fish like the pe ... http://bit.ly/R5SvSA

5 Things You Need to Know About Where Google Is Going Next

On the last day of the Google I/O developers conference, we sat down with engineering director Peter Magnusson to d ... http://bit.ly/LWp5Ig

Fuduntu 2012.3 Released

The Fuduntu team has released the latest version of their distro – Fuduntu 2012.3. This release comes third time ... http://bit.ly/LWp5rE

Wine 1.5.8 Improves Bits Of C++ Runtime

While it's been less than two weeks since Wine 1.5.7 was released with dynamic device support, Wine 1.5.8 has alrea ... http://bit.ly/R5ri2C

Huawei's Emotion UI for Ice Cream Sandwich devices Starts Rolling Out in China

We knew its arrival was imminent, and it looks like the time to shine for Huawei's Emotion UI is right about now -- ... http://bit.ly/MUgtPe

HP Public Cloud Aims to Boost OpenStack Customer Base

Hewlett-Packard is one of several high profile companies working to deploy public and private clouds on the OpenSta ... http://bit.ly/LVOIJd

Linux Gamers Banned From Diablo III Servers

If you used to play Diablo III through Wine on your Linux computer, you will no longer be able to do the same. ... http://bit.ly/MsTcqs

Tablet Shipments to Outshine Notebook Shipments in 2016

The number of tablets shipped will surpass those of notebooks in another four years, according to NPD DisplaySearch ... http://bit.ly/OiO7zQ

Nautilus To Get Major Makeover In Gnome 3.6

If you use Gnome, you must have used Nautilus which is the default file manager that ships with Gnome by default. W ... http://bit.ly/LuTbOv

Computer Vision Library ccv Reaches 0.1 Milestone

Designed to be a "modern computer vision library" and a "drop-in statically linked" alternative to other libraries ... http://bit.ly/P2oKUl

Ice Cream Sandwich Now on One in 10 Android Devices

Google has seen a sharp rise in uptake of its Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich OS --- it's now on around 10 percent o ... http://bit.ly/P2oIM7

Will Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Get Android 4.1 Jelly Bean?

Android 4.0 was released last year and most Samsung devices including the famous tablets that gave Apple run for th ... http://bit.ly/N5FofY

Official Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Getting Started Guide Published

A new version of the Ubuntu Manual Project's Getting Started guide has been published that includes comprehensive g ... http://bit.ly/LuLnw2

Image Editing Is a Snap With Pinta

Pinta, a raster image editor, is the app equivalent of a diamond in the rough. Years of testing and reviewing open ... http://bit.ly/LN1bwJ

Platform Moves Beyond Acquisition to Shape IBM Technical Computing

In this video, Jay Muelhoefer, Worldwide Marketing Executive at IBM discusses how Platform Computing has transition ... http://bit.ly/MsDED2

Development Release: Commodore OS Vision 1.0 Beta 9

Commodore USA has announced the availability of a new beta release of Commodore OS Vision 1.0, a Linux Mint-based d ... http://bit.ly/MsDE5T

How Open Source Hardware Is Driving the 3D-Printing Industry

The potential of 3D printing to transform the way we get things - the market is predicted to hit $3.1 billion in th ... http://bit.ly/LuL5W7

Rebranded Ubuntu Update Manager

As we posted earlier, Ubuntu 12.10 software updater is going to get re-branded and polished UI. ... http://bit.ly/MsDFa7