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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"Is parallel programming hard?", first edition
Paul McKenney has announced that the first edition of his 500-page book Is Parallel Programming Hard, And, If So, What Can You Do About It? is available in electronic form; a printed version will follow soon. The entire book is available under the... Read more

A discussion between database and kernel developers
On March 27, there will be a meeting between database and kernel developers at the Linux Foundation's Collaboration summit; interested developers are invited to attend. "If there are developers attending Collaboration Summit that work in the datab... Read more

Google's coding internship summer program reaches 10th year (opensource.com)
The 2014 edition of Google's Summer of Code (GSoC) marks the tenth year of the program. Opensource.com covers a few of this year's 190 mentoring organizations. "What is likely to remain the same this year is the overwhelming response from student... Read more

Security advisories for Monday
Debian has updated libyaml-libyaml-perl (code execution), udisks (privilege escalation), and wireshark (multiple vulnerabilities). Fedora has updated freeradius (F20; F19: buffer overflow), imapsync (F19: information leak), ke... Read more

Kernel prepatch 3.14-rc6
The 3.14-rc6 kernel prepatch is out. Linus says: "There haven't been any huge problems, but there's been quite a few small bumps that shouldn't happen this late in the release cycle. And rc6 is noticeably bigger than rc5 was, as well. So I'm reall... Read more
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Free "Intro to Linux" Course - Coming Summer 2014

edX Welcomes the Linux Foundation

Linux Video of the Week: Yocto Project Saves Embedded Linux Devs from Frankenstein OS

Attack of the 64-bit Octa-core: A Roundup of Newly Announced Mobile Processors

Five Funny Little Linux Network Testers and Monitors

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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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Alice, the Turtle of the Modern Age
Many of us grew up with LOGO, the kid-friendly programming language that guided a little turtle around a screen. Yes, it was simplistic. Yes, it taught only the very basics of programming concepts... Read more

Using Django and MongoDB to Build a Blog
This article shows how to create a simple blog site using the MongoDB Document Database and the Django Web framework. more>>

Our Assignment
We need to protect the freedoms in which Linux was born and grew up. more>>

March 2014 Issue of Linux Journal: 20 Years of Linux Journal
Personally, I thought it was strange for everyone to make a big deal about such an arbitrary number of days. more>>

Have Resume - Will Travel
If you have Linux Skills...and if you're reading this we presume you do, you should be making MORE money!! more>>
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BricsCAD V14.2 with New Sheet Metal and Generative Drafting Features...
The V14.2 upgrade adds 68 new and improved features to its previous version, released just two months ago. It also includes over 40 additions for third party application developers and more than 70...(PRWeb March 11, 2014)Read the full story at http://... Read more

2014 BlueHost WordPress Hosting Review & Rating Are Released at...
BestWordPressHosting.us has published 2014 BlueHost WordPress hosting review and given ratings on the feature, speed, uptime, control panel and technical support, aiming at offering detailed...(PRWeb March 11, 2014)Read the full story at http://www.prw... Read more

Nexcess Announces Update to Turpentine Varnish Caching Extension For...
Nexcess, the industry leader in optimized Magento hosting and a Magento Platinum Hosting Partner, has announced the release of a major update to the Turpentine Magento extension, which further...(PRWeb March 10, 2014)Read the full story at http://www.p... Read more

zData Inc. is Changing the IT Landscape with Big Data-as-a-Service...
zData is leading the industry in helping enterprise companies provide Big Data-as-a-Service, supporting an array of complementing technologies.(PRWeb March 10, 2014)Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/2/prweb10052294.htm

Host Virtual Expands With First Canadian Data Center; Expands Western...
Opening its first data center in Canada, Host Virtual better serves its virtual host customers with its Toronto and newly-expanded Seattle locations.(PRWeb March 10, 2014)Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/03/prweb11644486.htm
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