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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Ars Technica: Tor network?s ranks of relay servers cut because of Heartbleed bug
Ars Technica reports on the impact that the "Heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL has had for the Tor anonymizing network. "The Tor Project team has been moving to provide patches for all of the components, and most of the core network was quickly secured. ... Read more

Friday's security updates
Debian has updated openssl (multiple vulnerabilities), qemu (code execution), and qemu-kvm (code execution). Mageia has updated apache-mod_security (rules bypass), cups-filters (M4: code execution), openjpeg (code execution), php (de... Read more

Debian 6.0 to get long-term support
The Debian project has announced that the security support period for the 6.0 ("squeeze") release has been extended by nearly two years; it now runs out in February 2016. At the end, squeeze will have received a full five years of security support... Read more

ISC releases BIND 10 1.2, renames it, and turns it over to community
Internet Systems Consortium, the non-profit behind the BIND DNS server, has released version 1.2 of BIND 10, which is the last release it will make of the "applications framework for Internet infrastructure, such as DNS". That completes ISC's deve... Read more

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) released
Ubuntu has announced the release of its latest long-term support distribution: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (aka "Trusty Tahr"). The release notes have all the details. It comes in a multitude of configurations, for desktops, servers, the cloud, phones, and ... Read more
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Linux Video of the Week: Red Hat CEO Explains Why Enterprises Need Open Infrastructure

Troubleshooting Ubuntu One Cloud Storage on Linux

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Debuts With OpenStack Icehouse and Docker Support

Linux-Based Autonomous Sub Leads Malaysia Airlines Flight Search

The MarS DIY Platform for Around $100 (Without Screen)

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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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Image Manipulation with ImageMagick
I've spent a lot of time in my column talking about text processing and analysis, with the basic assumption that if you're using the command line, you're focused on text. more>>

Non-Linux FOSS: Angry IP
The de facto standard for port scanning always has been the venerable Nmap program. The command-line tool is indeed very powerful, but I've only ever seen it work with Linux, and every time I use ... Read more

Encrypting Your Cat Photos
The truth is, I really don't have anything on my hard drive that I would be upset over someone seeing. I have some cat photos. I have a few text files with ideas for future books and/or short stor... Read more

Numerical Python
For the past few months, I've been covering different software packages for scientific computations. For my next several articles, I'm going to be focusing on using Python to come up with your own... Read more

Speed Test for Nerds
Most people with Internet access in their houses have visited a speed-test Web site to make sure they're getting somewhere close to the speed they're overpaying for. I'm paying more than $100 a mo... Read more
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GAWMiners to Double All Customers' Mining Hashing Power for a Week...
Bitcoin fell below $400 last week for the first time in over 5 months which meant that cryptocurrency miners received far lower rewards for their mining efforts. GAWMiners is helping miners who've...(PRWeb April 18, 2014)Read the full story at http... Read more

Best Email Web Hosting Providers are Introduced at...
HostingReview360.com has introduced the 3 best email web hosting providers that offer safe and rich-featured service, affordable price, easy-to-use tools, good performance and responsive technical...(PRWeb April 18, 2014)Read the full story at http://w... Read more

Sponsor 3CS & Help Expand the Cybersecurity Workforce
One critical way to expand the stream of cybersecurity graduates and grow the workforce is for companies to sponsor the first annual Community College Cyber Summit (3CS) on July 21st and 22nd at...(PRWeb April 17, 2014)Read the full story at http://www... Read more

Oil and Gas Data Provider Oilfield Intel Accepts Bitcoin
Oilfield Intel LLC, a provider of oil and gas data in Austin, TX, is the first provider in the industry to accept Bitcoin, the global digital...(PRWeb April 17, 2014)Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/oilfield-intel/bitcoin/prweb11761... Read more

2014 Easter Day Web Hosting Promotions & Sales With Up to 68%...
As 2014 Easter is coming, BestHostingSearch.NET has introduced some of the best web hosting promotions and sales with up to 68% discounts to enable webmasters to purchase their desired web hosting...(PRWeb April 17, 2014)Read the full story at http://w... Read more
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