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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Debian Project mourns the loss of Kristoffer H. Rose
Ana Guerrero Lopez sadly reports that Kristoffer H. Rose died on September 17. "Kristoffer was a Debian contributor from the very early days of the project, and the upstream author of several packages that are still in the Debian archive nowadays,... Read more

Security advisories for Wednesday
Arch Linux has updated bind (denial of service), lib32-openssl (denial of service), and openssl (denial of service). Debian has updated bind9 (two denial of service flaws). Fedora has updated jansson (F24; F23: denial ... Read more

Firefox OS, B2G OS, and Gecko
Ari Jaaksi and David Bryant posted a note to the B2G (Boot to Gecko) OS community looking at the end of Firefox OS development and at what happens to the code base going forward. "In the spring and summer of 2016 the Connected Devices team dug dee... Read more

Tuesday's security updates
Arch Linux has updated gnutls (certificate verification bypass), lib32-gnutls (certificate verification bypass), lib32-openssl (multiple vulnerabilities), openssl (multiple vulnerabilities), and wireshark-cli (multiple vulnerabilities). ... Read more

[$] Systemd programming, 30 months later
Some time ago, we published a pair of articles about systemd programming that extolled the value of providing high-quality unit files in upstream packages. The hope was that all distributions would use them and that problems could be fixed central... Read more
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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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Bitcoin on Amazon! Sort of...
I was a Bitcoin fan before it was popular. That means I had thousands of Bitcoins. It also means I sold my thousands of Bitcoins for less than $1 each. Still, the technology fascinates me, and alt... Read more

Free Today: September Issue of Linux Journal (Retail value: $5.99)
For a limited time, the September issue of Linux Journal is free of charge, no strings attached, just click thru to start your download. (Retail price: $5.99 USD) more>>

nginx
Engineers love to think that they make decisions based on pure logic and merit. But of course, everyone has biases in terms of programming languages, editors and other technologies—biases th... Read more

Epiq Solutions' Sidekiq M.2
Following on its resounding success with its Sidekiq MiniPCIe card, wireless communications systems specialist Epiq Solutions recently added the Sidekiq M.2 state-of-the-art, small form-factor, so... Read more

Nativ Disc
Although most music lovers stream or download music today, the stubborn pre-millennials among us have legacy CD collections at home. This demographic is the perfect target group for Nativ Disc, a ... Read more
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5nine Software Announces Enhanced Protection of Microsoft Hyper-V...
5nine Software?s leading security and compliance solution now supports Hyper-V Server 2016, Windows Server 2016 and Server Core 2016(PRWeb September 28, 2016)Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2016/09/prweb13698395.htm

Galileo Announces New Infrastructure Performance Management Agent for...
Galileo?s integrated intelligent reporting and predictive analytics align IT technology to business objectives to see everything and miss nothing.(PRWeb September 28, 2016)Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2016/09/prweb13717516.htm

5nine Software Announces Release of Simplified Management Solution for...
5nine Software to demonstrate powerful and easy, GUI-based management solution for Windows Server 2016, including the new Nano Server installation option, and Hyper-V Server 2016 at Microsoft Ignite...(PRWeb September 27, 2016)Read the full story at ht... Read more

QCT Launches QxStack Microsoft Windows 2016 Cloud-Ready Appliances
These appliances, along with Microsoft Windows Server 2016 software-defined datacenter (SDDC) technologies inspired by Microsoft Azure, help customers create a more flexible, faster-to-value and...(PRWeb September 27, 2016)Read the full story at http:/... Read more

Inocybe Technologies Launches Community Version of their Open...
Software-as-a-Service Platform includes default recipes for the most prominent OpenDaylight Use Cases(PRWeb September 26, 2016)Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2016/09/prweb13714454.htm
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