The H Community Calendar - June 2013
The H Community Calendar presents the coming month's events in various open source, development, Linux, Unix and other communities, from multi-day conferences to user group get-togethers    

Chrome 28 Beta gets faster, brings fullscreen mode to Android
Google has release Chrome 28 to the beta release channel. The new version brings faster page rendering and a number of new developer features like fullscreen mode and WebGL in the Android version    

Twitter puts patent agreement into practice
Twitter has now applied its Innovators Patent Agreement to a recently granted patent in a move designed to ensure that patents under the agreement are only used for defensive purposes    

Tizen with GNOME 3 shell shown by Intel
The Tizen Developers Conference saw a glimpse of a desktop/laptop version of Tizen from Intel, the latest update to Tizen's SDK, and an application competition launched    

Samsung Galaxy S4 already hacked
Less than a month after the smartphone's commercial launch, Dan Rosenberg found a design flaw in Samsung's secured bootloader that allows arbitrary kernels to be booted even on a locked phone    
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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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New stable kernels 3.9.4, 3.4.47, and 3.0.80
There are three new stable kernels available: 3.9.4, 3.4.47, and 3.0.80. All contain important fixes.

Security issue in livecd-tools causes password issue in Fedora cloud images
A security issue has been identified in the tool used by the Fedora Project to create cloud images. "Images generated by this tool, including Fedora Project ?official? AMIs (Amazon Machine Images), AMIs whose heritage can be traced to official Fed... Read more

Debian Project mourns the loss of Ray Dassen
Long time Debian developer Ray Dassen died on May 18. "The Debian Project honours Ray's great work and his strong dedication to Debian and Free Software. His technical knowledge and his ability to share that knowledge with others will be missed. H... Read more

Security advisories for Friday
Debian has updated libdmx (multiple vulnerabilities), libxv (multiple vulnerabilities), libxvmc (multiple vulnerabilities), libfixes (multiple vulnerabilities), libxrender (multiple vulnerabilities), mesa (multiple vulnerabilities), xserver-... Read more

Numerous security issues in X Window System clients
X.Org has disclosed a long list of vulnerabilities that have been fixed in the X Window System client libraries; most of them expose clients to attacks by a hostile server. "Most of the time X clients & servers are run by the same user, with t... Read more
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Red Hat Discusses Gluster Roadmap Ahead of LinuxCon Japan Workshop

Friday Funnies : The Iron Penguin, Part 3

Introduction to OpenStack Part One, From Zero to Domination

First Linux-Driven Arduino Board Reaches Out with WiFi

LinkSmart?s Low-Cost, Big Data Plan with Linux and MapR

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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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Designing Electronics with Linux
In many scientific disciplines, the research you may be doing is completely new. It may be so new that there isn't even any instrumentation available to make your experimental measurements. In tho... Read more

Dynamic DNS?an Object Lesson in Problem Solving
The other day in the Linux Journal IRC room (#linuxjournal on Freenode), I was whining to the channel about no-ip.com deleting my account without warning. My home IP address hadn't changed in a co... Read more

Using Salt Stack and Vagrant for Drupal Development
What if, just like Bill Murray in Groundhog Day, you could wake up to a fresh and identical development environment completely free of yesterday's experiments and mistakes? Vagrant lets you do exa... Read more

Making Linux and Android Get Along (It's Not as Hard as It Sounds)
Many free software fans, if they were like me, breathed a collective sigh of relief when the Android operating system hit the market. more>>

Drupal Is a Framework: Why Everyone Needs to Understand This
Everyone planning and building Web solutions with Drupal benefits from understanding what a "hook" is—and why Drupal is not a CMS. more>>
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Harris Communications? New Line of Cell Phone Repeaters Comply with...
Harris ?Communications? New Line of Cell Phone Repeaters Comply with New FCC Regulations Set to Go Into Effect Next March(PRWeb May 24, 2013)Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/5/prweb10763215.htm

ClickHOST.com is Sponsoring the WordPress 10th Anniversary Celebration...
WordPress 10th Anniversary Happening in 511 communities on May 27, 2013: Celebrate the 10th anniversary of the very first WordPress release in 2003! Groups will be hosting meetings worldwide to...(PRWeb May 24, 2013)Read the full story at http://www.pr... Read more

Exoon Survey: Nearly 50 Percent of Americans Sitting on Hidden Money
Families may not have to look very far to find extra cash for the holiday shopping season. A recent survey conducted by Exoon, the nation?s leading Android TV Box Manufacturer and high-end consumer...(PRWeb May 24, 2013)Read the full story at http://ww... Read more

Japplis Releases the First Open Source Office Suite Written in Java
Japplis introduces a new office in the office suite landscape. This office is free, open source and written in Java.(PRWeb May 24, 2013)Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/5/prweb10759315.htm

GreenGeeks Makes Available Drush Command Line Tool for Drupal...
GreenGeeks, a leader in providing green energy web hosting, has announced today from DrupalCon Portland that it has made available Drush, a popular command line shell and scripting tool for Drupal,...(PRWeb May 24, 2013)Read the full story at http://ww... Read more
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