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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An Indiegogo campaign for the Ottawa Linux Symposium
Andrew Hutton, the organizer of the Ottawa Linux Symposium, has put together an Indiegogo campaign to try to raise funds for this event, which has fallen on hard times in recent years. "When I admitted that this year would likely be the last OLS m... Read more

Chris Beard Named CEO of Mozilla
Mitchell Baker announced that Chris Beard has been appointed CEO of Mozilla Corp. "Over the years, Chris has led many of Mozilla?s most innovative projects. We have relied on his judgment and advice for nearly a decade. Chris has a clear vision of... Read more

Stable kernel updates
Greg KH has released stable kernels 3.15.7, 3.14.14, 3.10.50, and 3.4.100. All contain important fixes throughout the tree.

Security advisories for Monday
Debian has updated cups (privilege escalation) and modsecurity-apache (rules bypass). Fedora has updated audacious-plugins (F20: denial of service), cinnamon (F20: denial of service), cinnamon-control-center (F20: denial of service),... Read more

Kernel prepatch 3.16-rc7
Linus has released 3.16-rc7. "We obviously *do* have various real fixes in here, but none of them look all that special or worrisome. And rc7 is finally noticeably smaller than previous rc's, so we clearly are calming down. So unlike my early worr... Read more
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Easy Steps to Make GNOME 3 More Efficient

Chromebooks Emerge as Major New Linux Force on Notebooks

How to Fix a Mangled Partition Table on Linux

SysAdmin Day 2014: Best Linux Foundation SysAdmin Quotes

Gallery : Meet the Linux Foundation's System Administrators

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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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diff -u: What's New in Kernel Development
Once in a while someone points out a POSIX violation in Linux. Often the answer is to fix the violation, but sometimes Linus Torvalds decides that the POSIX behavior is broken, in which case they ... Read more

Great Scott! It's Version 13!
No matter how much I love Plex, there's still nothing that comes close to XBMC for usability when it comes to watching your network media on a television. I've probably written a dozen articles on... Read more

Adminer?Better Than Awesome!
I've always loved PHPMyAdmin for managing MySQL databases. It's Web-based, fairly robust and as powerful as I've ever needed. Basically, it's awesome. Today, however, I discovered something better... Read more

It Actually Is Rocket Science
I've never once made a model rocket. I've always wanted to, but apart from "tube with explodey rocket part", I really didn't know where to start with designing. I recently found an open-source app... Read more

Android Candy: Repix, Not Just Another Photo App
Apps like Instagram have made photo filters commonplace. I actually don't mind the vintage look for quick cell-phone snapshots, but a filter can do only so much. At first glance, Repix is another ... Read more
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AhaApps Releases New Videos Describing Salesforce Implementation and...
AhaApps releases new videos describing salesforce implementation and enterprise mobile applications.(PRWeb July 29, 2014)Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/07/prweb12048416.htm

Open Source Ecology Announces Global Expansion Initiative
Open Source Ecology Has Announced Initiative to Expand Globally With Their ?Global Village Construction Set? (GVCS)(PRWeb July 29, 2014)Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/07/prweb12051040.htm

Virtuabotix Releasing Arduino Compatible 4th Generation Versalino
This year Virtuabotix will be releasing its fourth generation of Versalino controllers, and hopes to change the way electronics are designed in the future. Virtuabotix designed the Versalino...(PRWeb July 29, 2014)Read the full story at http://www.prwe... Read more

PSSC Labs Joins the Hortonworks Technology Partner Program
PSSC Lab, today announced that it has joined the Hortonworks® Technology Partner Program. Hortonworks is the leading contributor to and provider of Apache? Hadoop®. PSSC Labs will integrate...(PRWeb July 29, 2014)Read the full story at http:/... Read more

SSG Now on the Informatica Marketplace
SSG today announced it is now listed on the Informatica Marketplace, an open ecosystem for data integration applications.(PRWeb July 29, 2014)Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/Informatica/Data_Management/prweb12053961.htm
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