Linux Today

LinuxPlanet: The world's biggest Linux vendor (by revenue) hosted its' annual customer and partner event, known as the Red Hat Summit.

LinuxBSDos: At some point, HP abandoned webOS, deciding that it was better to sell Android devices.

Washington Post: Although many organizations use technology to carry out international development programs, a foundation-turned-software developer isn’t exactly a common occurrence.

Ars Technica: Don't like Microsoft Office? Just build your own office suite—this guy did.

Softpedia: Skolelinux 7.0.0 Alpha 2 is still based on the stable Debian GNU/Linux 7.0 (Wheezy) distribution.

NextStep4it: It is an alternate or replacement of Microsoft office Viso on Ubuntu Linux.

LinuxBSDos: PRISM and Boundless Informant. Don't you just love names like that. They have a nice ring to them. But do not be fooled.

NBC News Blog: With iOS, you have only one way to navigate through the home screens and just one look for the default icons.

Debian: The Debian project is pleased to announce the first update of its stable distribution Debian 7 (codename wheezy).

 The VAR Guy: It's been a big week for solid-state device (SSD) storage and the channel.

 FOSSforce: I don't really care what they find about me, but I just don't think they have the right to do that

 The Power Base: We talk with SpaceX developer Ryan Lester about the past, present, and future, of his GPLv3 licensed music service Peer.fm.

FOSS Force: We thought last week was the week for leaked government secrets on government spying. Nope.

Ubuntu Portal: Hotshots is an alternative to screenshot applications like Shutter, is lighter and brings such attractive features can capture specific windows or only capture a specific area included a tool to easily edit the captured images.

Cruxppc.org: CRUX PPC 3.0 is now available.

Life Hacker: Android bafflingly doesn't include browsers in web pages' share menus, so Flashify essentially corrects this issue.

Dark Reading: Rather than watching for communications between infected systems and command-and-control servers, companies can detect stealthy malware when it attempts to spread.

UpStart: Here's some of what's coming in the next six months.

InternetNews: From the 'Net New or Just Better than Before?' files:

InfoStor: One year ago, Red Hat released its first commercial storage product.

Wazi: Administering CentOS 6 from the command line is not always intuitive and easy, especially when it comes to complex commands with hard-to-remember arguments and strict syntax.

Linux notes from DarkDuck: Let's be clear about this: Linux isn't dividing into paid and unpaid. It's not going the freemium route (although the cynical will suggest that Canonical might be thinking about it).

Linux User & Developer: The lightweight, cloud connected distro gets its first update in a year, and ditches Openbox in favour of Xfwm4.

The Verge: Google can't seem to stay out of the crosshairs of regulators in the European Union.

ZDNet: Want a gaming or workday ready-to-run Ubuntu Linux laptop? System76 has the gear you crave.

FOSS Force: According to our "Newbie" Distro Poll, someone considering moving from Windows or Mac to Linux should consider taking Linux Mint for a spin.

OSTATIC: Continued code refinement and clean-up will make LibreOffice 4.1.0 more efficient, smaller, and easier to contribute to and compile.

TecMint: In this post, we will see how we can use history command effectively to extract the command which was executed by users in Bash shell.

InfoWorld: Punningly named PRISM Break, the site includes a long list of open source software solutions that protect Internet privacy.

InternetNews: From the 'Purveyors of the TRUTH' files:

eSecurity Planet: How does Red Hat go about building and developing a secure Linux operating system?

ServerWatch:  In a standing room-only set of sessions at the Red Hat Summit here this week, the future of Red Hat Enterprise Linux was revealed.

VB: In an interesting twist on the open source hardware movement, Sony has just announced it’s opening up its SmartWatch for your hacking pleasure.

HowtoForge: This tutorial describes how you can install Apache2 with mod_fcgid and PHP5 on OpenSUSE 12.3.

Linux User & Developer: New features in Red Hat Virtualization include Storage Live Migration, new third-party plug-in framework and support for new AMD and Intel chips.

OSTATIC: Fish is the Friendly, Interactive SHell, a shell that takes a modern look at the command line.

The VAR Guy: The National Security Agency (NSA) apparently uses Hadoop, NoSQL and other open source software to wage its Big Data war against terrorism.

OSTATIC: Systemd has been taking it on the chin lately because a lot of users just don't like it.

FOSS Force: When the revolt of the GNOME users first began, most of us probably figured this story would play-out along predictable lines, again following a plot similar to what we'd seen during the KDE revolution.