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In 2014, no company filed more patent lawsuits than eDekka LLC, a Texas-based company with just one asset—US Patent No. 6,266,674. Fully 168 patent lawsuits came to a sudden halt in October, when US District Judge Rodney Gilstrap stopped the litigation campaign in its tracks.

In this tutorial, I will guide you trough the installation of an NFS server on CentOS 7, then we will add the NFS share as a storage option in the Proxmox server so that it can be used as backup space the virtual machines.

One answer to the problem of high textbook prices could be open source textbooks, which are available online at little or no cost. Students with the North Carolina Public Interest Research Group’s textbook affordability campaign promoted open source textbooks...

Learn to run multiple guest operating systems on top of your main Linux distro

We are happy to announce the release of Chakra's first 2016 ISO, codenamed "Ian", in memory of the late Ian Murdock, founder of Debian.

This ISO doesn't introduce any major changes, but offers an updated snapshot of our stable repositories to new users. It can be considered a maintenance release, providing all the bug fixes and package updates that occurred in the last 3 months, ever since the previous ISO was released.

"With its new Universal Windows Platform (UWP) initiative, Microsoft has built a closed platform-within-a-platform into Windows 10, as the first apparent step towards locking down the consumer PC ecosystem," said Sweeney. "Microsoft has launched new PC Windows features exclusively in UWP and is effectively telling developers you can use these Windows features only if you submit to the control of our locked-down UWP ecosystem."

This past summer, I was an intern at the GVIS Lab at NASA Glenn, where I brought my passion for open source into the lab. My task was to improve our lab's contributions to an open source fluid flow dynamics simulation developed by Dan Schroeder. read more

SCO lost its legal battle against IBM and Linux long ago, but now the final shovel of dirt has been thrown on its lawsuits' grave.

The Command df “disk file system” is one of the very powerful tools every system admin should know. when mastering this command you should understand lot of information about your local and remote file system details like mount point,

I have seen many Windows users on the Internet who want to install Linux keeping their Windows OS. It's good to install Windows and Linux both and you can use any OS when you need to. It's sometime hard for Windows users to do so although most Linux distros have got GUI installer. In this article I'll tell you how you can dual boot Windows 10/8.1/8 and Linux Lite 2.8/2.6. Linux Lite is an easy to install and easy to use Linux distro. So let's get started!

Gerhard Eschelbeck, Google's vice president of security engineering, details at the RSA Conference how his company does security at scale.

Just a reminder in Juno and Kilo DVR was available for deployments using VXLAN tunneling and required l2population activation on all nodes. One of new features of Liberty is DVR compatibility with ML2&OVS&VLAN deployed landscapes. On RDO Liberty packstack doesn't play so nicely doing VLAN deployment as in case of VXLAN tunneling

Before the KDE 4.1 release in 2008, Aaron Seigo announced the end of desktop icons. He was being provocative, because what he was really announcing was the end of being restricted to a single icon set. Instead, KDE Plasma began supporting multiple desktops, and with them several ways to swap sets of icons in and out. These changes have received little publicity, but they are ideal for quickly customizing a desktop for a specialized task.

The higher-education community was the first to grasp the potential of open source textbooks, which students can legally access online, download and self-print for free, or have printed on demand at low cost. The K–12 sector has been a bit behind higher education in using open source textbooks and other open educational resources (OER)... “Openness in learning can help students to be more collaborative, more proactive and more independent, skills that will benefit all of us beyond just the walls of school.”

For over two decades, the battle between privacy-minded technologists and the U.S. government has primarily been over encryption. In the 1990s, in what became known as the Crypto Wars, the U.S. tried to limit powerful encryption — calling it as dangerous to export as sophisticated munitions — and eventually lost.

The famous festival SXSW is coming up in March in Austin, Texas and will hold a special event called SX Create, focused on cool gadgets and hardware projects. If you have a badge, this event will be open to you—plus, it's free and open to the public. How very open source of them.

Well, that's one way to differentiate from Apple Amazon is notifying customers that the latest update for its Fire OS will disable device encryption.…

Yesterday, Big Blue filed a lawsuit (PDF) against Groupon, saying the company has infringed four IBM patents, including patents 5,796,967 and 7,072,849. Each of those relates to the Prodigy service. IBM inventors working on Prodigy "developed novel methods for presenting applications and advertisements," and "the technological innovations embodied in these patents are fundamental to the efficient communication of Internet content," according to the company...

The '567 patent describes a system that presents "interactive applications (such as home, local, goods, etc.) on a computer network," using a monitor, a "first partition" (a webpage), and a "second partition" with command functions (like a menu bar).

Mumble is a voice chat application which is designed for the gamer's so that they can to talk to each other by connecting their mumble clients to the same server. This Voice over IP application is similar to Ventrilo and TeamSpeak. The simple administration interface, high-quality codecs and low latency makes it quite popular. In this article, I will tell you how you can install and configure Murmur on to your systems. Murmur is a server component of Mumble.

Mozilla announced four Firefox OS based “Connected Devices” projects, including a home automation system, an AI agent, a voice interface, and a “SensorWeb.”