Mozilla Taps New CEO
The company looks to John Lilly to grow its business while ex-CEO Mitchell Baker focuses on Mozilla's vision.

Old-School SUSE Executives Take Over Open-Xchange
Two of pre-Novell SUSE's top executives are taking the open-source groupware company Open-Xchange.

Torvalds Still Will Not License Linux Under GPL v3
The Linux creator said copyright owners would have to agree to licensing changes, and those who didn't would have to rewrite code.

OpenVZ to Release Pre-made Ubuntu VMs
OpenVZ, the open-source community arm of SWsoft, will soon be releasing ready-to-run Ubuntu server and desktop virtual machines.

After SCO Dies
Opinion: Could Novell open-source Unix? What will OpenServer customers do? Can Sun claim some customers for OpenSolaris?
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Beardless Bdale
At the 2009 linux.conf.au Penguin Dinner, Bdale Garbee "agreed" to shave his beard if enough funds were pledged toward the cause of protecting the Tasmanian Devil from extinction. On January 22, Linus Torvalds did the honors in front of hundreds... Read more

Ext4 to be standard for Fedora 11, Btrfs also included (heise online)
heise online notes plans to include Ext4 and Btrfs in Fedora 11. "According to current plans, version 11 of Fedora, which is expected to arrive in late May, will use Ext4 as its standard file system. That's what the Fedora Engineering Steering Comm... Read more

Ubuntu 8.04.2 LTS released
Ubuntu 8.04.2 LTS has been announced. "The Ubuntu team is proud to announce the release of Ubuntu 8.04.2 LTS, the second maintenance update to Ubuntu's 8.04 LTS release. This release includes updated server, desktop, and alternate installation CDs... Read more

Sun Begins Carrying Out Planned Layoffs (eWeek)
eWeek reports on the layoffs at Sun Microsystems. "Sun Microsystems, which revealed on Nov. 14, 2008, that it planned to reduce its global work force by 5,000 to 6,000 employees—15 to 18 percent—began carrying out that dreadful duty Jan. 22. Sun co... Read more

An odd choice to help government with open source strategy (ars technica)
ars technica looks into the Obama administration's choice of former Sun CEO Scott McNealy as an advisor for its government open-source strategy. "Although Obama's interest in open source looks like a promising sign that the incoming government is ... Read more
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Linux.com Login Temporarily Frozen for New Site Launch

9 Android Wear Watches to Take on Apple Watch

Watch Collaboration Summit Live Via Free Streaming Video

Introduction to Docker Compose Tool for Multi-Container Applications

How to Use Your Android Device as a Trackpad on Linux

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Oracle releases VirtualBox 4.1.16
Today Oracle released VirtualBox 4.1.16, a maintenance release of VirtualBox 4.1: The following items were fixed and/or added: VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation VERR_ACCESS_DENIED with certain guests (bugs #7589, #8247) VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation VERR_PAGE_T... Read more

First tarball release of the new GNU Portable Threads Library: nPth version 0.90
The first tarball release of the New GNU Portable Threads Library: nPth version 0.90 has been made. nPth is a non-preemptive threads implementation using an API very similar to the one known from GNU Pth. It has been designed as a replacement of GNU Pth f... Read more

OpenOffice 3.4 Released
The first version of OpenOffice under the governance of the Apache Software Foundation has been released. Apache OpenOffice 3.4 is available for download free of charge. OpenOffice 3.4 features: word processing, spreadsheets, presentation graphics, databa... Read more

Jury in deadlocked on copyright issues in Oracle vs Google???
The copyright part of Oracle’s lawsuit against Google over possible infringement of the Java intellectual property in Android is moving into its final phase and there are indications that, for the copyright part of the lawsuit, the jury might be dea... Read more

Does Android?s open source status make it better in terms of privacy?
Does Android?s open source status make it better in terms of privacy? Find out here.
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YouTube on the Big Screen
For years I've been jealous of folks with iOS devices who could just send their phone screens to their Apple TV devices. It seems like the Android screen-mirroring protocols never work right for m... Read more

Key Considerations for Software Updates for Embedded Linux and IoT
The Mirai botnet attack that enslaved poorly secured connected embedded devices is yet another tangible example of the importance of security before bringing your embedded devices online. A new st... Read more

Paragon Software Group's Paragon ExtFS for Mac
Ever more Mac aficionados are discovering the virtues of Linux, especially when their older hardware can experience a renaissance. One annoying barrier to dual-boot nirvana is filesystem incompati... Read more

Caldwell Partners' Cyber Advisory Board Service
For many enterprises, cyber risk is the top business risk. Meanwhile, there is simply not a sufficiently large talent pool of cyber-risk professionals to satisfy the ever-growing demand. more>> ... Read more

Solving Physics Problems on Linux
Several years ago, I wrote an article on using Elmer to solve complicated physics problems. Elmer has progressed quite a bit since then, so I thought it would be worth taking a fresh look at this ... Read more
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AutonomouStuff Announces Added Resources to Support Global Expansion
AutonomouStuff, the world's leader in providing components, engineering services, software and platforms to enable the future of mobility has expanded their reach globally to better serve...(PRWeb September 21, 2017)Read the full story at http://ww... Read more

Appnovation Acquires Conquer Mobile?s Services Division
Company bolsters its mobile and customer experience capabilities to drive digital innovation for customers(PRWeb September 20, 2017)Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2017/09/prweb14706077.htm

Penguin Computing Announces Altus Servers With AMD EPYC? 7000 Series...
A Major Step Forward in Expanding EPYC processor-based Products(PRWeb September 20, 2017)Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2017/09/prweb14710886.htm

CloudLinux Releases the Imunify360 Provider Directory
The new directory helps website owners find hosting providers that offer plans with Imunify360 protection.(PRWeb September 20, 2017)Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2017/09/prweb14716427.htm

OnRamp Launches HITRUST-Certified Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
Security of a Private Cloud with the ease of Public Cloud. Managed to HITRUST Standards.(PRWeb September 19, 2017)Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/onramp/hitrustvpc/prweb14712603.htm
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