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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Could You Be the Face of Linux?
We've all seen them: on comes a commercial with a young, casually dressed,if somewhat unkempt, young man, and an older, portly man in a very middle-management-esque suit. The younger man announces "I'm a Mac" while the older responds "And I'm a PC," and t... Read more

iPhone Linux!
The iPhone is certainly known for its elegance and beauty, but around these parts it's also known for being closed and proprietary. The Open Source community does a little cheer when we hear about jailbreaking the iPhone -- but soon we'll have even more ... Read more

Defaulting to the Dreaded MS Office Format in OpenOffice.org
Linux Journal's Shawn Powers shows you how to change the default file type in OpenOffice.org. Thanks to our sponsor: Silicon Mechanics read more

Fixed width vs. Flex width?
* I greatly prefer visiting fixed width web sites. * I greatly prefer visiting flex width web sites. * I don't care all that much either way.

How-to Save a Flash Video
Linux Journal's Mitch Frazier demonstrates how to save a local copy of a flash video when you don't have a save option. read more
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Resonate and lifeID Join Forces to Revolutionize Music Streaming
Using the lifeID identity platform, Resonate ensures that an artist-owned and managed identity is attached to all musical assets, letting them to retain full control and credit, while fans can...(PRWeb April 26, 2018)Read the full story at http://www.p... Read more

Wallarm Empowers Developers with Automated Security Testing
Wallarm launches Wallarm FAST, a framework for automatically generating and running security tests in a CI/CD environment(PRWeb April 26, 2018)Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2018/04/prweb15441779.htm

Tixeo video conferencing on Linux: full confidentiality for your...
Tixeo, a European software company specialized in secure video conferencing, announces the availability of its solution for the Linux operating system. Users of this free platform can now install the...(PRWeb April 25, 2018)Read the full story at http:... Read more

ScyllaDB Secures $10 Million in Series C Funding
High-Performance Distributed Database Company Continues Rapid Growth, Powers Real-Time Big Data for Organizations Across Industries and Geographies(PRWeb April 25, 2018)Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2018/04/prweb15440124.htm

OTRS Accelerates Its Fully-Managed Offering
OTRS Group focuses its business on the OTRS Solution-as-a-Service(PRWeb April 24, 2018)Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2018/04/prweb15435389.htm
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