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To some people’s surprise, even open-source software has a license attached to it. And with that license comes a description and agreement for what can and can’t be done with the source code of any particular product or service. What exact license the specific open-source software lies under is generally up to the developer(s) and/or current maintainers of the original code.

None of my previous meetings with different OpenSuSE products finished well. Although I liked OpenSuSE 11.4 KDE more than OpenSuSE 11.4 GNOME, I still was not too happy with it. OpenSuSE 12.1 Li-f-e, which I reviewed few days ago, did not change my opinion in that area. In the meantime, I decided to give OpenSuSE 12.2 a go.

The developers behind the Superb Mini Server (SMS) Linux server operating system proudly announced earlier today, September 18th, the immediate availability for download of the Superb Mini Server 2.0.0 release.

For those curious about the open-source Nouveau graphics driver performance on Ubuntu 12.10, here's a few benchmarks from a recent test release of the Quantal Quetzal with the reverse-engineered NVIDIA driver code...

Xen 4.2 now available

One of the areas where the Linux kernel is still catching up with compared to Windows is power management for some classes of hardware and with that the ACPI support. While there is some level of ACPI 5.0 support, other features are still being tackled for the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface...

Interview with Manuel Di Cerbo, creator of OsciPrime: the open source hardware and software oscilloscope for Android. Manuel talks about designing the hardware, distributing free software, and why he chose Android over Apple.

On 7 August, a law was passed by the Italian Parliament that requires the use of open source software by public administrations where possible.

Last week, the first games for Linux have been published on Steam Greenlight. The number of games is daily growing with an incredible speed. Greenlight allows the Community to vote on games for the inclusion in the Steam game list.

The Randa sprint starts on September 21st. The fundraising drive has just a few days remaining. Randa is important to the KDE Community, which includes everyone who contributes, participates, supports and, most importantly, uses KDE software. Two key KDE developers—Aaron Seigo and Martin Gräßlin—have shared insights about Randa. The value that KDE software delivers to millions of desktops all over the world is mind-boggling; made more so because the cost to users is zero. This is possible because the KDE Community thrives by giving, not taking. It is the epitome of Free and Open Source software. Many people donating small amounts will make a big difference. As part of the KDE Community, would you please consider donating? A few days ago, there was a Dot story about twin brothers from Greece who will be part of Randa for the first time. In that story, Giorgos wrote about what Randa means for him personally and mentioned being inspired by his brother to be part of KDE. Below is what Antonis wrote about Randa.

A Review of Recon Instruments MOD Live Heads-Up Display and the ease of creating and programming useful, on-person computing devices.

The developers of the now-notorious Flame malware used command and control servers running the 64-bit version of Debian and the OpenVz virtualization technology in their work. They wrote most of the server code in PHP, researchers at Kaspersky Lab and Symantec have found during continuing investigations into the malware.

Well the ear-splitting din emanating from the neighboring Apple territories last week may have made conversation difficult for a few hours here in the Linux blogosphere, but it seems safe to say that the temporary discomfort was a small price to pay for the lively and entertaining discussions that have followed ever since.

The Cr OS developers announced on September 14th, that the Chrome OS Linux has changed its name and it will be known as Cr OS Linux from now on.

Today when people hear the word Pine, they automatically think about the Christmas tree, about its meaning and the joy of Christmas. For others, the word PINE brings back memories from "the good old days", the days when Linux and especially the folks at the University of Washington needed a good, easy to use and most important: free mail managing program. Thus, in 1989, Pine was conceived, and its name had nothing to do with the tree, simply because PINE is an abbreviation of the most generic software name: Program for Internet News and E-mail.

Linux distributor Red Hat, which is currently being sued for patent infringement by Twin Peaks Software, is fighting back at the company by alleging Twin Peaks is violating the GNU General Public License (GPL) for a tool that Red Hat holds copyrights on. The lawsuit brought by Twin Peaks alleges that Red Hat infringed US patent 7,418,439 in GlusterFS which the company had acquired last year.

Matt Jadud details his first encounter with Raspberry Pi. He chose to boot Occidentalis by Adafruit Industries on the Raspberry Pi for several reasons. First, he was able to purchase a $10 WiFi adapter which was supported out-of-the-box by Occidentalis. They also just released v0.2. Jadud explains that it's much more hacker friendly. He provides a long list of features supporting this.

You can start Empathy hidden so Unity or Gnome Shell can receive chat messages and notify you of them.

This little bit of Linux nonsense could land you a dream job. Or not.

Ubuntu 12.10 features an interesting change in GRUB2 Boot Menu. Menu entries now have 'Ubuntu' as the first option instead of 'Ubuntu with Linux (Kernel version)'.