Linux Today - Infrastructure

WSJ: With about three-quarters of Samsung's operating profit coming from the division that makes mobile devices, there is no getting around the fact that a drop-off in smartphone sales would be punishing.

Linux User & Developer: Google Reader is on its way out, so what's the best way to keep your feeds organised client side?

OSTATIC: It's becoming clear that Red Hat sees cloud computing as the key to the next steps in its evolution.

Datamation: Cloud computing offers the promise of improved scalability and agility, two things that can be a huge benefit to the U.S. Armed Forces.

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.

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).

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

ghacks: Daniel Aleksandersen, the Opera employee who published news of the update on the Opera Desktop Team blog mentioned that there won't be a Linux version for the first release.

InfoWorld: A proposal to switch the German city's workstations to open source software was denied by the state's parliament.

ZDNet: Netflix, Openwave Messaging and Ooyala have migrated from Oracle to an enterprise edition of Apache Cassandra. DataStax CEO Billy Bosworth argues more companies and developers will follow.

OSTATIC: This week there will be the release of KDE SC 4.11 Beta 1 and this will come with an interesting new feature: an experimental Wayland backend inside KWin.

Unixmen: Retroshare is basically a platform that establishes encrypted connections between authenticated friends.

OSTATIC: In keeping with Apache's dependable care and feeding of open source projects, project leaders announced the arrival of Apache CloudStack 4.1.0 just a few days ago.

Scribbles and Snaps: An alternative solution is to set up a wireless backup system which enables you to seamlessly back up photos on a remote storage device or service using your Android device. Here is how this can be done.

Daily Nation: Granted, Linux never was a cup of tea for everyone but the curious. Once you got it to work right, it was the closest thing you got to perfection.

Softpedia: Glib 2.36.3 fixes the property example in the GObject tutorial, a GThreadedResolver issue – related to setting an error if no records could be found – has been repaired.

OSTATIC: A strange little bug found its way into the original images that resulted in systems being updated to Cauldron, the developmental branch of Mageia (similar to Rawhide with Fedora).

Linux Insider: Just how committed are Linux users to their operating system? Would they ever switch back?

ServerWatch: With over one million apps already running on it, Red Hat is now finally ready to declare its OpenShift Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) online offering to be officially released and generally available.