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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Beardless Bdale
At the 2009 linux.conf.au Penguin Dinner, Bdale Garbee "agreed" to shave his beard if enough funds were pledged toward the cause of protecting the Tasmanian Devil from extinction. On January 22, Linus Torvalds did the honors in front of hundreds... Read more

Ext4 to be standard for Fedora 11, Btrfs also included (heise online)
heise online notes plans to include Ext4 and Btrfs in Fedora 11. "According to current plans, version 11 of Fedora, which is expected to arrive in late May, will use Ext4 as its standard file system. That's what the Fedora Engineering Steering Comm... Read more

Ubuntu 8.04.2 LTS released
Ubuntu 8.04.2 LTS has been announced. "The Ubuntu team is proud to announce the release of Ubuntu 8.04.2 LTS, the second maintenance update to Ubuntu's 8.04 LTS release. This release includes updated server, desktop, and alternate installation CDs... Read more

Sun Begins Carrying Out Planned Layoffs (eWeek)
eWeek reports on the layoffs at Sun Microsystems. "Sun Microsystems, which revealed on Nov. 14, 2008, that it planned to reduce its global work force by 5,000 to 6,000 employees—15 to 18 percent—began carrying out that dreadful duty Jan. 22. Sun co... Read more

An odd choice to help government with open source strategy (ars technica)
ars technica looks into the Obama administration's choice of former Sun CEO Scott McNealy as an advisor for its government open-source strategy. "Although Obama's interest in open source looks like a promising sign that the incoming government is ... Read more
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Linux.com Login Temporarily Frozen for New Site Launch

9 Android Wear Watches to Take on Apple Watch

Watch Collaboration Summit Live Via Free Streaming Video

Introduction to Docker Compose Tool for Multi-Container Applications

How to Use Your Android Device as a Trackpad on Linux

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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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Managing Docker Instances with Puppet
In a previous article, "Provisioning Docker with Puppet", in the December 2016 issue, I covered one of the ways you can install the Docker service onto a new system with Puppet. By contrast, this ... Read more

Getting Sticky with It
Although they might not be so good for credit cards or floppy disks, magnets are one of those things that always have fascinated me. For the past few years, I've wanted to get a set of the round Z... Read more

Scissors, Paper or Rock?
In this article, I'm going to tackle a children's game that's extraordinarily complicated, with many variations, and the programming task is going to be quite tricky. Just kidding! Rock Paper Scis... Read more

Celtra's AdCreator Platform
Mobile advertising campaigns today are often hampered by broken, non-viewable ads with a poor UX experience. An important open-source initiative aimed at solving this problem and making the web be... Read more

All Your Accounts Are Belong to Us
Last weekend my work phone suddenly stopped working. Not the phone itself, but rather all service stopped. I first noticed (of course) due to an inability to load any web pages. Then I tried calli... Read more
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Wallarm Becomes AWS Technology Partner to Deliver AI-enabled...
Wallarm Next Gen WAF with threat verification delivers continuous application security for cloud workloads and enables security integration into CI/CD(PRWeb July 20, 2017)Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2017/07/prweb14500887.htm

Zefflin Systems Kicks Off Red Hat Ansible® Consulting Practice as...
Zefflin expands focus to automate migration of key business applications for faster service delivery and enhanced productivity(PRWeb July 20, 2017)Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2017/07/prweb14522524.htm

Kitware Powers Project Builds with CMake 3.9
After six release candidates, CMake 3.9 goes live.(PRWeb July 19, 2017)Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2017/07/prweb14519960.htm

Anitian is Changing the Rules of Cybersecurity with Anitian Beyond,...
Anitian?s new subscription-based offering solves one of the greatest cybersecurity challenges companies face.(PRWeb July 18, 2017)Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/anitian/beyond/prweb14511854.htm

Loci Announces New Protocol for Affordable Patent Searching
Loci?s Innvenn seeks to simplify the process of searching patents and making the process more efficient and cost effective.(PRWeb July 18, 2017)Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2017/07/prweb14518760.htm
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