Oracle Staking Claim in Open-Source 'R' Language
(Feb 9, 2012, 11:01 UTC) (64 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
CFO World: "Oracle is hoping to carve out a prominent place in the world of "R," the open-source statistical modeling language with roots in academia but an increasingly high profile in enterprise IT shops."

50 Open Source Tools That Could Help You Find (or Keep) a Valentine
(Feb 9, 2012, 10:02 UTC) (696 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Datamation: "You may not have noticed, but Valentine's Day is just around the corner. Don't panic if you haven't planned the perfect date yet -- the open source community has you covered."

Ubuntu sound theme design
(Feb 9, 2012, 06:00 UTC) (1025 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Canonical: If you’re as keen as we are that the Ubuntu sound theme is on brand, now is your chance! We are calling for pitches for the Ubuntu sound theme!

Time Drive - A User friendly Utility for Back Up your Files Under Ubuntu
(Feb 8, 2012, 23:00 UTC) (1781 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
UbuntuPortal: Time Drive is a Userfriendly Utility for backup that allows easy and clean to backup any Files

mutter 3.3.5 Released
(Feb 8, 2012, 22:00 UTC) (1667 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Mutter: Mutter is a window and compositing manager that displays and manages your desktop via OpenGL.

Nine Rules for Designing a Linux Desktop
(Feb 8, 2012, 21:00 UTC) (2342 reads) (2 talkbacks) (feedback)
Datamation: The Linux user revolts of recent times could be avoided by following these guidelines.

Fedora 17 Is Still Trying For Btrfs By Default
(Feb 8, 2012, 20:00 UTC) (1893 reads) (2 talkbacks) (feedback)
Phoronix: The Fedora / Red Hat developers working on the Beefy Miracle are tentatively moving ahead with their plan to use Btrfs as the default Linux file-system for Fedora 17 and beyond.

RIP Compiz
(Feb 8, 2012, 19:00 UTC) (3316 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
TechRepublic: The Compiz desktop compositor, which looks all but dead now that Fedora is dropping it from its upcoming release

Thoughts about Kubuntu's Status, Canonical, and your distribution's sponsors
(Feb 8, 2012, 17:00 UTC) (1989 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
KDE I work in the same role as Jonathan at SUSE, a competing Linux company that sponsors the openSUSE project.

SECURITY: How To Set Up A TOR Middlebox Routing All VirtualBox Virtual Machine Traffic Over TOR
(Feb 8, 2012, 16:00 UTC) (1625 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
HowToForge: This tutorial will show you how to reroute all traffic for a virtual machine through the Tor network to ensure anonymity.

Sabayon Linux 8 Released
(Feb 8, 2012, 15:09 UTC) (1853 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux User & Developer: "Popular Gentoo derivative Sabayon Linux has just announced the immediate availability of Sabayon 8."

Running Simple Groupware On Nginx (LEMP) On Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 11.10
(Feb 8, 2012, 13:04 UTC) (1314 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
HowtoForge: "This tutorial shows how you can install and run Simple Groupware on a Debian Squeeze or Ubuntu 11.10 system that has nginx installed instead of Apache."

Introducing Comice OS 4: Mac-Looking Linux
(Feb 8, 2012, 12:01 UTC) (3566 reads) (2 talkbacks) (feedback)
Softpedia: "It looks like David Tavares, the developer of Pear OS, prepares these days a revamped version of his Linux operating system, under the name of Comice OS."

7 Best Free Alternative Git Clients
(Feb 8, 2012, 11:04 UTC) (2227 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
LinuxLinks: "Git is one of a number of open source revision control systems available for Linux. Other popular tools in this field include Subversion, Bazaar, Mercurial, Monotone, CVS, and SVN."

Python4Kids New Tutorial: Welcome back, Class Recap
(Feb 8, 2012, 10:01 UTC) (1499 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Python4Kids: "Towards the end of last year we started working on classes and a GUI toolkit called Tkinter. In this tutorial we will recap classes."

Controlling Liquor Loss with Linux
(Feb 8, 2012, 09:03 UTC) (1839 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Open Source Matters: "Few people know that inside this dark little bar, Linux servers and some open source-based scripts are keeping an eye on liquor and its link to the bottom line."

Chrome Web Browser Finally Comes to Android Phones, Tablets
(Feb 8, 2012, 05:02 UTC) (3159 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
WIRED Gadget Lab: "Android is finally getting Chromed out. Google had a reason to take its time: It wanted to do Chrome for Android right."

The Best Cloud Music Options for the Linux Desktop
(Feb 8, 2012, 01:00 UTC) (2604 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux.com: Not that long ago, desktop Linux users were left out of most of the online music services.

The Secret to Red Hat's Billion-Dollar Success: Everyone's The Boss
(Feb 7, 2012, 23:00 UTC) (3759 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
BusinessInsider: When Red Hat's new top strategy woman, Jackie Yeaney, joined the company six months ago, she hit culture shock.

NGINX Adds Support for Open Source Web Server
(Feb 7, 2012, 22:00 UTC) (1951 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
ServerWatch: You too can get full support for NGINX for the low cost of only $70,000

SUSE hits the big 2-0
(Feb 7, 2012, 21:00 UTC) (1800 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
ITWorld: While Linux itself celebrated its twentieth anniversary in high style last year, 2012 will be the year of the lizard, as SUSE Linux steps up to celebrate two decades as the world's oldest commercial Linux entity.

A Look at 3D Printing and Open Source
(Feb 7, 2012, 20:00 UTC) (2094 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux.com: Arthur C. Clarke said "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

Creating a vDSO: the Colonel's Other Chicken
(Feb 7, 2012, 19:00 UTC) (1313 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
LinuxJournal: A vDSO (virtual dynamic shared object) is an alternative to the somewhat cycle-expensive system call interface that the GNU/Linux kernel provides.

LibreOffice developer shows prototype Android and HTML5 ports
(Feb 7, 2012, 18:00 UTC) (2972 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Ars: In a presentation this week at the FOSDEM conference, SUSE developer Michael Meeks shed some light on the current status of the porting project.

Facebook is a surveillance engine, not friend: Richard Stallman, Free Software Foundation
(Feb 7, 2012, 17:00 UTC) (3423 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
EconomicTimes: "You know about the two rules right for interviewing Richard?" a volunteer asks before leading us to meet Richard Stallman, the man who fights for free software day in and out.

Red Hat Selects New Fedora Project Leader
(Feb 7, 2012, 16:00 UTC) (1512 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
InternetNews: It looks like current Fedora Project Leader Jared Smith will not be overseeing the Beefy Miracle Fedora 17 release.

Is Linux Spark Tablet An iPad Killer?
(Feb 7, 2012, 15:00 UTC) (4486 reads) (6 talkbacks) (feedback)
Datamation: Powered by Linux, the Spark tablet might prove to be little more than a toy. Yet it has greater potential.

Canonical aligns Kubuntu as community flavor
(Feb 7, 2012, 14:03 UTC) (1907 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
IT World: "Canonical appears to be streamlining its focus on the desktop by cutting funding for Kubuntu work after the release of the upcoming 12.04 releases this April."

Apple gets kicked in the teeth by German patent lawsuit decisions
(Feb 7, 2012, 13:01 UTC) (3765 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux and Open Source: "After its world-wide anti-Android patent lawsuit witch-hunt, could Apple having much of its iPhone line and iPads being banned for sale in Germany due to a patent violation happen to a nicer company?"

Are 68 Open Source Licenses Enough? Or Too Many?
(Feb 7, 2012, 12:04 UTC) (1287 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Wazi: "The Open Source Initiative (OSI) currently lists 68 approved open source licenses. Sounds like more than enough to suit any needs?"

Five Reasons why Windows 8 will be dead on arrival
(Feb 7, 2012, 11:06 UTC) (7040 reads) (11 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux and Open Source: "Metro: An ugly, useless interface. Where have I seen this before? Wait, I know! Windows 1.0!"

Webopedia Term of the Day: What is Macbuntu
(Feb 7, 2012, 10:01 UTC) (2238 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Webopedia: "Macbuntu is an open source operating system fork of the Linux-based Ubuntu OS that features a Mac OS X-inspired desktop shell."

Virtualization With Xen On CentOS 6.2 (x86_64)
(Feb 7, 2012, 09:04 UTC) (1773 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
HowtoForge: "This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install Xen (version 4.1.2) on a CentOS 6.2 (x86_64) system."

4 Best Free Linux Script Writing Tools
(Feb 7, 2012, 05:01 UTC) (11870 reads) (5 talkbacks) (feedback)
LinuxLinks: "Unfortunately, there is currently a miserly selection of mature, open source script writing software available for Linux."

Linux File System Fsck Testing -- The Results Are In
(Feb 7, 2012, 01:03 UTC) (3935 reads) (2 talkbacks) (feedback)
EnterpriseStorageForum: "It has been a while since we started the fsck project to test fsck (file system check) times on Linux file systems. After an extended delay, the Linux File System fsck testing results can now be presented."

Firefox 11 Gets SPDY
(Feb 6, 2012, 23:00 UTC) (3840 reads) (2 talkbacks) (feedback)
Datamation: Google's speed-enhancing SPDY protocol lands in upcoming version of Mozilla's open source browser.

Piracy and the value of freedom
(Feb 6, 2012, 22:04 UTC) (2012 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux User & Developer: "If I were a victim of actual piracy while sailing the seas, I would probably consider the word’s rampant misuse in technology circles as massively insulting."

TLWIR 32: Open Sparks Fly, FOSS Players Give Open Advice, and FOSS Petition Gets Key Endorsement
(Feb 6, 2012, 21:03 UTC) (1611 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
BeginLinux: "For too long, GNU/Linux has been locked out of the tablet market. That is about to change with the May 2012 arrival of the Open Spark."

Beware the power of Google?
(Feb 6, 2012, 20:02 UTC) (3465 reads) (2 talkbacks) (feedback)
IT world: "Has Google taken over the Internet?"

Google Summer of Code 2012 Kicks Off
(Feb 6, 2012, 19:00 UTC) (1769 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
InternetNews: Google set to pump $6 million+ into open source development this summer.

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