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On May 11th, New Hampshire HB418, mandating that all State offices use Free and Open Source software and file formats takes effect, having been signed by the Governor on March 12th.

NoMachine gives scientists at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center dependable access to HPC, data analysis resources

Fresh from UDS (Ubuntu Developer Summit), attendee Electronic Arts have decided to finally dip it’s toes into uncharted waters. Now available in the Ubuntu Software Center are 2 title from the monolithic publisher. Ubuntu users can now get their hands on Lord Of Ultima and Command & Conquer: Tiberium Alliances.

Ubuntu systems team has forked Gnome Control Center as Ubuntu Control Center which will be used in Ubuntu from 12.10 onwards.

The developers of PHP have released updates to thwart fresh attacks against systems that use the scripting language to dynamically generate web pages. All users are encouraged to upgrade to PHP 5.4.3 or PHP 5.3.13, as appropriate, after a serious security bug in PHP-CGI-based setups was disclosed. Developers attempted to fix this long-standing, but only recently discovered, flaw in a new version on 3 May, before deciding the fix was incomplete and releasing a new set of patches on Tuesday, 8 May 8.

EncFS provides an encrypted filesystem in user-space. It runs without any special permissions and uses the FUSE library and Linux kernel module to provide the filesystem interface. It is a pass-through filesystem, not an encrypted block device, which means it is created on top of an existing filesystem. This tutorial shows how you can use EncFS on Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 11.10 to encrypt your data.

Hippo had a good year in 2011 and the beat continues in 2012 according to figures released by the company. It joins Nuxeo and WordPress as open source content management platforms reporting good earnings news and it shows that open source products can make money.

Here's an interesting look at the state of the Ubuntu bug count as it concerns Linux graphics driver issues...

Back in 2008 and 2009 I kept a really close eye on the top 50 open source companies and their partnering strategies. Fast forward to 2012 and whatever became of those top 50 open source companies? Some are thriving, some are dead, and some are repositioning for the cloud and barely even mention open source anymore. Here's the update.

The FBI has been lobbying top internet companies like Yahoo and Google to support a proposal that would force them to provide backdoors for government surveillance, according to CNET.

The Bureau has been quietly meeting with representatives of these companies, as well as Microsoft (which owns Hotmail and Skype), Facebook and others to argue for a legislative proposal, drafted by the FBI, that would require social-networking sites and VoIP, instant messaging and e-mail providers to alter their code to make their products wiretap-friendly.

A whopping 85 percent of Citrix Systems VARs see an opportunity to build private clouds using CloudStack, the open source cloud computing alternative to OpenStack. Here are the details and implications.

Being present at the Ubuntu Developer Summit for Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal), Electronic Arts announced the immediate availability for download of two games in Ubuntu Software Center.

DHS Warns of Cyber Attack Targeting Natural Gas Industry: Companies Requested Not To Take Action to Remove Attackers, Says Source

According to reports, which were confirmed Friday by ICS-CERT, an active Phishing campaign is responsible for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issuing three warnings since the end of March that the natural gas industry has been under ongoing cyber attack. However, it’s the advice that the DHS is giving that should raise some red flags.

In future releases, more design changes will be introduced to Gnome 3 and there will be a better login and notifications experience.

This is a short post on how I replaced MySQL with MariaDB and then installed mod_ruid2 as an alternative to php-fcgi (for Apache), for enhanced performance on Debian Squeeze.

CNET learns the FBI is quietly pushing its plan to force surveillance backdoors on social networks, VoIP, and Web e-mail providers, and that the bureau is asking Internet companies not to oppose a law making those backdoors mandatory.

For reasons mentioned in yesterday’s blog item, I’m not at the Ubuntu Developers Summit in Oakland. Oh, I could go up there and attend — it’s only 80 miles from the cozy confines of the Felton redwoods — but I value my life and I’d like to keep it, thank you very much.

This is not to say that I don’t hear about what’s going on there from friends, as well as from members of the Ubuntu Apocalypse, who are in attendance and are blogging, tweeting and communicating in some form or another (no smoke signals yet, sadly). I do hear a lot of what’s going on, and I thank everyone for posting the updates.

Apache OpenOffice 3.4, the first (stable) release of the free software office suite since its development was handed over to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), has been released. The announcement was made earlier today.

Get a sneak-peek at the new Vivaldi Content Store for the Vivaldi tablet!

All eyes on Judge Alsup as big questions remain unanswered Analysis No judge has tried harder than Judge Alsup, presiding over the Oracle-versus-Google case, to persuade two warring parties not to go to court. But he hadn't counted for the egos of the two billionaire Larrys.…