Contents

• GNU/Linux
  • Distributions
  • Devices/Embedded
• Free Software/Open Source
• Leftovers

GNU/Linux

• Server

  • Pogo Linux Launches All-New SSD-Based Server Solutions to Meet the Broad Cloud and Service Provider Market Segments

  
  
  




• Applications

  • Top 5 PDF Readers for Linux

  
  
  

  • Instructionals/Technical

    • Introduction to the IBM Software Development Toolkit for Linux on POWER

    
    
    
  
  
  

  • Games

    • Quest 5.0 now available

      This version is a complete rewrite, and is free and open source

    
    
    
  
  
  




• Distributions

  
  
  

  • New Releases

    • ALT Linux 6.0.0

    • Alpine 2.2.3 released

    
    
    
  
  
  

  • PCLinuxOS/Mageia/Mandrake/Mandriva Family

    • Mandriva Linux 2011 - First Look

    
    
    

    • Mandriva 2011.0 First Look

    
    
    

    • Mandriva 2011: Dusk or Dawn of Linux Legend?

      Mandriva 2011 includes LibreOffice 3.4.2 in full version with Math and Draw applications. You can also find Okular document viewer in Office section of menu.

    
    
    

    • Mandriva 2011 seen from a non-technical user's perspective

      To explain the paradox, I have to go back in time, a retrospective trip of my dealings with Mandriva. In 2009, I chose Mandriva and installed it to my Asus Eee PC 900 after downloading four distributions at random. All I knew about Linux back then was that there were many versions (I didn't even know what the word "distro" meant!) and that some were more difficult to use than others. Somewhere I read that Mandriva was labeled an "intermediate" distribution.

    
    
    
  
  
  

  • Gentoo Family

    • Sabayon 6 Roundup - Fluxbox and XBMC

      Both editions have it as a great light weight alternative. The menu is customized enough to allow access to several applications including Konsole, no dead entries. It's a good start and if you want to use it full time you can add the rest later.

    
    
    
  
  
  

  • Red Hat Family

    • Red Hat invites users to help create the next Red Hat Enterprise Linux

    
    
    

    • What Do You Want from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7?

    
    
    

    • UC4 collaborates with Red Hat to extend automated open source offerings

      To manage virtual resource requirements of enterprises and their private and public cloud infrastructures

    
    
    

    • Red Hat: Wells Fargo Bullish; Sees Multi-Year Growth Story

    
    
    
  
  
  

  • Debian Family

    
    
    

    • Derivatives

      
      
      

      • Canonical/Ubuntu

        
        
        

        • Flavours and Variants

          • Dream Studio 11.04- A based Ubuntu Multimedia OS

            Ubuntu based multimedia software Dream Studio announced the laest release 11.04. As with other Ubuntu distros, Dream Studio release follows the latest Ubuntu release, this summer Ubuntu 11.04, Natty Narwhal, and includes new changes for the new Unity environment.
            
            So, there is a lot of excitement happening with the new release says,Dick MacInnis, while announcing the release of Dream Studio 11.04. The new version includes all of the earlier greater features and more for the new changes happening with Ubuntu 11.04.

          
          
          
        
        
        
      
      
      
    
    
    
  
  
  




• Devices/Embedded

  
  
  

  • Phones

    • Nokia's MeeGo-based N9 coming to all Australian networks

      Nokia has revealed that its N9 smartphone will be available on Optus, Telstra and Vodafone, as well as from a range of retailers including Dick Smith, JB Hi-Fi and Harvey Norman.

    
    
    

    • Android

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  • Sub-notebooks/Tablets

    • HP TouchPad gets Android port and final production run

    
    
    

    • Sony Tablet S goes on sale with Android 3.1, PlayStation certification

      Sony is taking orders for a 9.4-inch, Android 3.1-based "Sony Tablet S" it will release next month, and says a folding, dual 5.5-inch display "Sony Tablet P" model (with Android 3.2) will follow later this year. Both models are equipped with 1GHz Nvidia Tegra 2 processors, and the Sony Tablet S costs $499 with 16GB of storage or $599 with 32GB, according to the company.

    
    
    

    • iPad vs Android tablets: onto the next round

      A survey by market researchers ABIresearch concluded that Android tablets have grabbed a market share of about 20 per cent from market leader Apple in a year. However, ABIresearch said that no individual manufacturer has managed to become a significant competitor – since its introduction in April 2010, 29 million iPad devices have been sold – "None are separating themselves from the pack", said ABIresearch expert Jeff Orr. Some vendors have even launched their tablets at a higher price than that of the iPad.

    
    
    
  
  
  

Free Software/Open Source

• Who Needs LimeWire? Open Source Groovejaar’s In Town

  Just as quickly as one file-sharing solution bites the dust, another steps in to take its place. In the wake of LimeWire’s demise we take a look at Groovejaar, a downloading software client which takes the only real weakness of streaming music service Grooveshark and turns it into its strength – fully downloadable high-quality MP3s in an instant.





• Slovenia VOD provider chooses open source encoder

  Telekom Slovenije-owned video-on-demand provider Najdi has chosen the Open Broadcast Encoder (OBE), an open-source encoder platform developed in collaboration with various broadcasters and telcos, to create VOD content.





• Slovenia VOD provider chooses open source encoder

  Open source essentially refers to a movement which allows software and web developers access to the software “code” upon which software and web applications are built. In other words, it’s literally an international (programming) language that is developed and maintained by a community of programming professionals.
  
  As such, it’s “owned” by nobody and everybody at the same time.
  
  The alternative to open source software is “proprietary” software, ie. software that has been developed by a business whose ultimate mission is profitability for all concerned.





• Events

  • TransferSummit: Accessibility adoption expands in open innovation

    In this, the third in a short series of articles introducing some of the topics which will be discussed at the upcoming TransferSummit in Oxford, Steve Lee and Sally Khudairi discuss the importance of accessibility solutions and the benefits of an open-source-based approach to such technologies.

  
  
  




• Web Browsers

  
  
  

  • Mozilla

    • Lock Firefox 6 Prefs (Also versions 3, 4, & 5)

    
    
    
  
  
  




• Healthcare

  • VA open source custodial agent opens doors

  
  
  

  • VA starts online open source community for VistA

  
  
  




• Business

  • Zemlin: the business logic of contributing back to open source

    Zemlin cited Red Hat as a positive example of contributing back to open source and the benefits that result: "Red Hat gives a ton back – a ton – and they are really the most successful Linux distro out there." He made the point that others who perhaps do not contribute as much would come round to doing so because it is always in their business interests, and that this would eventually bring them to make a greater contribution.

  
  
  

  • Open Source: Enterprises Prefer Open Source

  
  
  




• Openness/Sharing

  • Furnlab Open Source CNC Can Make Production Local Again

  
  
  




• Programming

  • Introduction to Cryptography with Open-Source Software

  
  
  

Leftovers

• Mac, Linux or Windows: It Really Doesn’t Matter Anymore

  Stop the flame war. It matters less and less every year what operating system you use, because every year we all spend more time on our computer using nothing but the browser. And browsers are cross-platform.





• Security

  
  
  

  • Hackers Break Into Linux Source Code Site

  • Security breach on kernel.org

  • The cracking of kernel.org

  • Linux Kernel Host Kernel.org Breached

  • Kernel.org Linux repository rooted in hack attack

  
  
  




• Cablegate

  • Cablegate encryption: Truth from Berlin…

  
  
  

  • WikiLeaks releases mystery file

    WikiLeaks released a mysterious encrypted file on Wednesday after telling its followers on Twitter to stand by for "an important announcement."
    
    WikiLeaks did not identify the contents of the 571 megabyte file and it could not be opened without a decryption key, which the anti-secrecy website said would be released "at the appropriate moment."
    
    In July of last year, WikiLeaks posted what it called an "insurance file," which was also encrypted.

  
  
  




• Copyrights

  • Industry Minister Paradis Holds Closed Door Meetings With Telcos on Spectrum, Foreign Ownership