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Matthew Garret: What I did work on was improving our support for installation on x86 Apple hardware for Fedora 17

HowToGeek: SSH offers more than just a secure, remote terminal environment

PCWorld: It's no secret that open source software is playing an increasingly prominent role in businesses around the globe

InternetNews: Workforce reductions are never easy

The Register: Web application payback

InternetNews: Cisco's open source android powered tablet is being killed off slowly.

LinuxJournal: Directory services is one of the most interesting and crucial parts of computing today.

Linux.com: The new wave of fun geek toys is inexpensive, hackable, tiny Linux-powered ARM computers, and they're red hot. This is the year to go small.

InternetNews: From the 'Let the Wookie Win' files

Phoronix: While for the most part the Catalyst driver performance for the Radeon HD 7950 graphics card was close between Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, there were some OpenGL performance differences.

FierceGovernmentIT: If a Defense agency is able to sustain the open source software with "its own skills and talents" then that can be enough to satisfy the intent of the memo.

ServerWatch: The developers behind Puppet are going a step further, taking aim at bare metal provisioning in an open source effort with EMC called Razor.

ZDnet: An old myth is that the Linux desktop doesn’t have the applications most users need, but lately some companies that have long supported Linux are pulling back from the Linux desktop and that’s a worry.

Linux Magazine: For its size, fail2ban, a utility that scans logfiles and bans suspicious IP addresses, punches well above its weight.

The H Open: Engine Yard has announced that JRuby core team members Thomas Enebo and Charles Nutter are leaving the company to join Red Hat in an apparently friendly deal between the two firms.

FreeSoftwareMagazine: Can users get to unleash some of the GUI's power? The answer is yes

Linux.com: Whatever you use – S3 Tools, Duplicity, Deja-Dup, or another tool – the important thing is to have backups and check them often

The Register: From Linux to big-data shifter

InternetNews: From the 'Bigger fish to Fry' files:

Geek: The Grive application can be installed from the repository in Ubuntu 11.10 or later. The source code is also available at GitHub if you want to tinker a bit.

LinuxMint: The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 13 Maya

InternetNews: From the 'Greed Doesn't Conquer All' files

The Street: Wall Street has two reasons to hate open-source software. One makes sense, one makes none.

Datamation: Open source competitor to Dropbox expands with new file versioning capabilities.

Webmonkey: Students, start your coding engines. Google’s annual Summer of Code program, which helps college students write open source software during their summer vacations, starts today.

Muktware: Mandriva clarifies that there will be active collaboration between the two teams. For their server product, Mandriva will collaborate with the Mageia community.

Forbes: A bold move, to shift the business model and competition from a pure commodity space to a more diversified services space. I’m following their progress in this endeavor – initially surprising, their analysis and reasoning is I think valid and innovative.

Linux.com: More than 50 percent of all software purchased within five years will be open source, according to a survey released Monday by a collaboration of 26 open source companies.

DevX: Use these four Hive query patterns to improve the process of developing Hive-based applications, enhance code reusability, and reduce HiveQL errors

ComputerWorld: Over the past few months there have been no fewer than three tiny, cheap Linux PCs making headlines, and now there's a fourth to add to the list.

EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet: Co-founder of networking startup Big Switch Networks explains what his company is doing with software defined networking (SDN) and open source makes working their offering more interoperable and easy to integrate.

ServerWatch: Rackspace CTO John Engates explained that server hardware isn't a differentiator for his company, even as they seek to support the Facebook-led Open Compute initiative.

eHacking: Even with numerous meterpreter scripts available, you are free to write and to create your own script that is best suited to your work.

ExtremeTech: Tizen is still in development, but it is designed to support a number of high-end smartphone features.

LinuxNov: Shell prompt fans! here’s a microblogging client for Twitter and identi.ca you can use through the command line interface

Lifehacker: Linux users have more text editors, IDEs, and command-line tools than a programmer can shake a stick at.

Open Source Insider: The US Army and associated federal agencies are said to be testing prototype virtual world technologies in a secure open source environment.

Asia News Network: The Ministry of Commerce (MOC) said in a statement on its website Sunday that to win the approval, Google shall fulfil obligation to keep its open-source Android model on a free and open basis.

Linus Torvalds: I just pushed out the 3.4 release.

InternetNews: Facebook's Billions and Red Hat's virtualization regrets