php|architect: December 2012 Issue Released
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It is only wafer-thin, and no cheque required Linux in 2012 It's been a rough year for Linux on the desktop. More specifically, it's been a rough year for GNOME-based Linux on the desktop. But a glimmer of hope may have appeared thanks to a Mint-flavoured distribution of the open-source...
Over at Enterprise Storage Forum, Henry Newman from Instrumental is out with his Ten Storage Predictions for 2012, and his last one is more of plea for reason. The industry really needs more than POSIX (open/fopen, read/fread,write/fwrite) and more than simple REST put/get interfaces for data in the future. Neither has the richness...
Now, Gnome Shell is also getting online shopping lens. Alen Bell has created a Gnome Shell extension which allows a user to conduct online shopping search right from Gnome's Dash.
What better way to say Happy New Year than with an Card rom opensource.com! end some cheer and encourage your colleagues, friends, and family to read stories about open source, join an open source project, and resolve to be more open in 2013!
The latest version of the LLVM compiler infrastructure introduces an improved scalar replacements of aggregates (SROA) model, a loop vectoriser, a new NVPTX backend and a number of other improvements...
Clement Lefebvre has announced the release of Linux Mint 14 "Xfce" edition: "The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 14 Xfce. Xfce is a lightweight desktop environment which aims to be fast and low on system resources, while still being visually appealing and user....
Put the "you" back in community, and find a Linux project to support this weekend.
Learn how to write applications for Android from Android expert Julie Kemp.
Officials in the Lone Star state have given Samsung the green light to expand chip production lines at an investment cost of $3.9 billion.
When talking about open source, many people's first thought is the GNU General Public License (GPL). While the software world has been revolutionised by GPL, the hardware world has seen little change. Read more... read more...
Valve has opened up the beta programme for its Steam client on Linux to all users with a Steam account. The client is currently supported only on Ubuntu, but some users have managed to create packages for other distributions...
A slew of maintenance updates has arrived for VirtualBox, with fixes not just for the latest 4.2 branch, but also 4.1, 4.0 and 3.2...
ROSA Desktop.Fresh 2012 has been released, a Linux-based desktop operating system out of Russia...
Linus Torvalds says "Good riddance" to i386, and in the same spirit we look forward to 2013 as another banner year for Linux.
The 3.7 Linux kernel was released just in time for Christmas, gifting us with a host of enterprise-worthy and desktop user additions and improvements.
2012 was a momentous year for Linux, with a large number of significant events both good and bad.
I sat down with Leslie Hawthorn, Community Manager at Red Hat, and chatted with her about the 2012 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing conference that was held in Baltimore, Maryland this year. She confided that the theme, Are we there yet?, is a reference to the idea that while...
The Linuxsphere is a wonderful and odd place. It's a realm where completely unique things can be created and shared for nothing but the author's time. Tens of millions of code lines have been written and freely shared by thousands of people
Raspberry Pi Foundation In this day and age, all major platforms must have an app store. And thus today, the Raspberry Pi Foundation unveiled the Pi Store to act as the one-stop shop for users of the tiny computer. The Pi Store, built in collaboration with IndieCity and Velocix, runs as an X application on the Debian-based Raspbian operating system...
In a well done video, released in mid-December, Neelie Kroes, the European Commission’s Vice President for the Digital Agenda, articulates the benefits of open source software and open standards.
Nobody will use your brilliant software if they can't figure out how. Bruce Byfield outlines the rewards and pitfalls of technical writing as a career.
Android is becoming very popular in China. As per a report from Informa, “Two in every three mobile phones sold in China in 2012 were powered by Android”.
The most important Linux projects of 2012 are probably not what you expect.
Canonical announced a few days ago that they have updated the online ‘Photos’ feature of they’re Ubuntu One cloud storage service.
As we narrow in on the final weeks of our 30 Linux Kernel Developers in 30 Weeks series, we talk to Linux kernel developer and Btrfs maintainer Chris Mason. Chris details his desktop and productivity tools, his favorite all-time flame war and shares his advice for getting involved in kernel development.
Organising Australia's national Linux conference is hard work. At times, given the vagaries of the climate Down Under, the best laid plans of men go awry and there is double work - as there was in Brisbane 2011, when the floods hit and the event had to be be shifted from one venue to another.
Raj Mathur (aka OldMonk), one of the leading figures of the Indian FOSS (free and open source software) community, passed away on 12.12.12.
Zanata is an open source translation platform written in Java that offers translation memory, an online translation editor, and workflow integration with REST APIs and command-line tools. For translators, it is a web browser-based translation environment where previous translations provide context for their work. For software developers, it's an integration tool that provides a...
The Higgs Boson. The "God Particle." We found it. It's "real science." Story's over right? Not exactly. An anomaly in the data kinda-sorta makes it look like there might have been two.
The networking giant is said to be shedding more of its consumer businesses by asking Barclays to help it sell the home wireless-router company. [Read more]...
This weekend why not go crazy, and try the most offbeat, obscure Linux distributions you can find?
Linux on the desktop is making great progress. However, the real beauty of Linux and Unix like operating system lies beneath the surface at the command prompt. nixCraft picks his best open source terminal applications of 2012.
One-stop commercial Linux embedded development solutions harmonize standards, licensing, and development.
Badly taught, over-used... better than ever C++ 11 is “far better than previous versions”, says the inventor of the language Bjarne Stroustrup. He was speaking at an online event marking the launch of Embarcadero's C++ Builder XE3, a rapid application tool targeting Windows and Mac OS X.…...
Pascal Junod has disclosed a pair of denial-of-service attacks against the Btrfs filesystem based on hash collisions. "I have created several files with random names in a directory (around 500). The time required to remove them is negligible. Then, I have created the same number of files, but giving them...
At my public library job, all day long I help people use the library's public access computers. At the end of a long day's work, I enjoy kicking back and listening to some YouTube music videos. One way I do this is to search YouTube for new Bob Dylan cover...
What would you do with 8 Terabytes of main memory? ScaleMP wants to know, and you could win lots of coffee and a t-shirt for your trouble. Let us know below with your description and include what application you would run, what problems you are trying to solve and how...
Flawed, but cheap: Acer's C7 Chromebook. Andrew Cunningham When we reviewed Acer's $199 C7 Chromebook, we didn't think it was perfect, but we were willing to overlook many minor flaws in the face of its $199 asking price. Today, Slashgear unearthed an upgraded model—there's an Acer product page that lists a $299 version of the C7 with a larger battery, 4GB of RAM instead of 2GB, and a 500GB hard drive instead of a 320GB model. Of these three upgraded specs, there's only one that really impacts the core...
To a lot of people all over the world, Creative Commons is more than a license. The organization and their mission is a shining copyleft-light for work rendered by artists, designers, writers, and the list goes on. Here at Opensource.com all of our original content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License
We tacked some great Linux subjects this year, from building home servers to finding the perfect Linux distribution and even fixing some Ubuntu annoyances. Here's a look back at our top Linux downloads and posts from 2012 (with a little FreeBSD thrown in for fun).
A little while back I posted about an idea I was discussing with the rest of the community team about a downloadable advocacy kit that, similar to an SDK for software, provides everything you need to get started spreading the word about Ubuntu. Dubbed the Advocacy Developer Kit (ADK), the idea is that a single .zip file (or package) would contain everything you need to get started, including:
Variety and choice have long been hallmarks of the Linux world, not least because new distributions emerge practically every day.
The dozens of Nickelodeon, PBS, and Lionsgate children's programs featured in Hulu Kids can now be watched on any Hulu Plus supported Android device.
With tmux, you can create a monitoring system allowing you to check on your server remotely and get the perfect overview of what’s happening. Joey Bernard explains how…
With the latest Android 4.2 (JellyBean) release on November 13, 2012, Google announced an exciting security feature called the "application verification service" to protect against harmful Android applications. As stated in a recent Google+ post by a member of the Google Android team, "Now, with Jelly Bean Android 4.2 devices that have Google Play installed have the option of using Google as an application verifier. We will check for potentially harmful applications no matter where you are installing them from." It is indeed an exciting security feature!
Overall, I’ve developed (no pun intended) a preference for using open source tools and components whenever it’s feasible. Here are some of the reasons why I prefer to develop with open source code:
Currently fighting deportation efforts in Guatemala, the antivirus-software pioneer sells life-story rights to a Montreal-based TV production company.
Canonical's already announced its intentions of putting Ubuntu on mobile devices, but founder Mark Shuttleworth's given us a bit more insight into the firm's strategy in a Slashdot Q&A. In addition to reiterating their focus to put Ubuntu on smartphones, tablets and everything from the "embedded world to the cloud," Shuttleworth...
The woman found liable for sharing 24 copyrighted songs on the Web asks the U.S. Supreme Court to hear her case due to "crippling statutory damages" of $222,000 awarded by an appeals court.
In a brief submitted to a US Court of Appeals, various major internet and IT companies have stated that the combination of an abstract idea and a computer should not be eligible for patent protection. Such patents, said the companies, are "a plague in the high tech sector"...
On Friday I wrote an article responding to a post by Richard Stallman. Over the weekend both posts caused quite a flurry of discussion; thank-you to everyone who contributed constructive feedback. In my post I referred to Richard’s position as seeming a bit ‘childish‘ to me..
Over the weekend, the popular Usenet indexing service, NZBMatrix shut down because they couldn't keep up with DMCA takedown requests. So, we're curious: how do you find Usenet files? More »...
Longtime users of Ubuntu Linux may already be familiar with open source Ekiga, which used to be the default Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) client in that popular Linux distribution, but late last month the telephony software got a major update.
Sony again snubs Linux users with a PS3 by refusing access to the new SEN Web Store, with a generic error message giving no rhyme or reason
Konqui the friendly dragon has been KDE's mascot for over ten years. It's time for a new look! So KDE forum admin Neverendingo is organizing a splendid contest together with the Krita community! There are two prizes: a DVD+Comics pack and the last original First Krita Sprint t-shirt! And of course undying fame!
If you've been following my blog (or my updates on Google+) then odds are you know I currently have my hands on two ARM devices (plus a third in the mail) I am working on creating Bodhi Linux images for.
James Bottomley is #26 in our 30 Linux Developers in 30 Weeks series today. He shares with us what his "day job" involvs, why he challenges people on the SCSI mailing list, and why the IT department at Bell Labs finally let him give up his Windows machine for Linux.
Richard M. Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation, has proclaimed that Ubuntu Linux includes spyware. Ubuntu supporters disagree with this take.
With our handy guide, you too can make the C7 Chromebook do stuff it wasn't meant to do! Andrew Cunningham Maybe you think the price of Acer's new $199 C7 Chromebook is appealing and that the hardware doesn't look bad, but you're a little worried about using Chrome OS to get your work done. Or maybe you're looking for a small, cheap laptop to run Ubuntu, and you're not really interested in buying a computer running a Windows license you'll never use. If either of those sentences describe you and you aren't...