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Mandriva gets new life from Mageia, Meego gets new life as Jolla and GPL forks toward Copyleft.next

A lack of clarity on the part of Red Hat open source licensing and patent counsel Richard Fontana as to whether he has, or has not, created a fork of the GPLv3 free software licence has led to the exit of well-known free software advocate Bradley Kuhn dissociating himself from the project

Fantasy Author Thomas A. Knight compares free software to free books and draws some important distinctions between the two.

Debian developers today at DebConf 12, aside from talking about the future Debian codename, discussed what to do about UEFI booting for Debian Linux...

Mike Elgan has published a passionate article "Why the ‘Boycott Apple’ Movement is Dumb" on Cult of Mac. I agree with Mike most of the time, but this time I do not.

Game designs and artifacts involve users more deeply in communities. Soon, prizes, trophies, and badges will be a standard part of the user experience of Web apps.

With their worst delays hopefully an issue of the past, CentOS 6.3 has been released today as the community alternative to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3...

Debian developers are still deciding on the name for the successor to "Wheezy + 1", but should be announcing a name within the next month...

Learn if your Mac can tame Cupertino's next big cat Apple has released the System Requirements for its upcoming new version of OS X, Mountain Lion, and as is usually the case with any operating system release, not all Macs need apply – even some that qualified for the Mac's current operating system, Lion.…

At today's FESCo meeting it was approved that Fedora 18 will aim for 256-color terminal support by default...

Translating the apps will be the hard part Just over a month since it debuted its App Center store in the US, Facebook is rolling out the service to global markets. Predominantly English-speaking countries will come first, with localized stores for other languages to launch in the next few weeks.…

It used to be -- at least when using the Windows Catalyst drivers -- that within the first few months of AMD releasing new Radeon graphics hardware that Catalyst driver optimizations would deliver measurable improvements in this short span. For the Radeon HD 7000 series, which is built upon an entirely new GCN architecture, is this still the case? Here are benchmarks of all the AMD Catalyst Linux drivers that have been released this year and then benchmarked on an AMD Radeon HD 7950 graphics card.

While Imagination Technologies has yet to change their stance on allowing open-source Linux graphics drivers or improving the quality of their closed-source Linux driver IP, they released two new GPUs today in the PowerVR line-up...

You've built the hardware, installed the software and cracked some passwords. Now find out how to fine-tune your attacks.

Former Nokia employees have founded Jolla Ltd to continue the development of MeeGo and to design and market MeeGo smartphones with their own custom UI

OpenDNS is a popular DNS provider used widely both in the server as in home desktop, one of the feature they provide to their customer is DNSCrypt, a security enhancement that should add protection against all DNS based attacks, such as cache poisoning.

In the same way the SSL turns HTTP web traffic into HTTPS encrypted Web traffic, DNSCrypt turns regular DNS traffic into encrypted DNS traffic that is secure from eavesdropping and man-in-the-middle attacks. It doesn’t require any changes to domain names or how they work, it simply provides a method for securely encrypting communication between OpenDNS customers and their DNS servers. The software is released as open source on GitHub.

With the recent development of cloud computing, many big companies have already launched their cloud sync services. The most conspicuous examples are Dropbox, Sugarsync and Google Drive. And Ubuntu, the most popular Linux distribution currently, also offers its own cloud sync tool. this is Ubuntu One. With 5GB of free storage, Ubuntu is better than Dropbox and equal to Sugarsync and Google Drive. If you want more storage, then you will have to pay for the additional storage space. The good thing about Ubuntu is that their paid storage is split into small 20GB pieces and the cost is more affordable than other service. Also the storage space of Ubuntu One is unlimited so you can just keep adding more and more 20GB bundles to your account in order to have as much storage as you need.

This is for all the people who complain about me doing reviews of only the live session. Anyway, as for Chakra itself, installing and using it exposed me to many more issues, so my assessment is a bit more tempered than it has been before.

Never mind what we said three weeks ago Less than a month after it was acquired by Facebook, face-recognition startup Face.com is shutting down its developer APIs and killing off its iOS app, in a dramatic about-face from earlier statements by its founder.…

Suricata can load the standard Snort VRT, Emerging Threats or the Emerging Threats Pro rulesets, and can be managed using BASE and Squil.