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'UbuntuBSD' promises the best of several possible bootloading worlds Another shot has been fired in the war between *nix true believers and systemd advocates, with a group of diehards welding the Ubuntu body onto the FreeBSD chassis.…

The U.S. government wants more "open source" within federal agencies, but it seems to have a vague sense of what open source actually entails.

Well Nvidia dropped a bit of a big one today didn't they! Nvidia driver version 364.12 is now out and brings in official Vulkan support, Mir support and Wayland support.

There's a lot more to text manipulation than cut and paste, particularly when you aren't using a GUI. In this tutorial, Ian Shields introduces you to text manipulation on Linux using filters from the GNU textutils package. By the end of this tutorial, you will be manipulating text like an expert. Use the material in this tutorial to study for the Linux Professional Institute LPIC-1: Linux Server Professional Certification exam 101, or just to learn for fun.

The war of words aside, for now the issue is left in the hands of Magistrate Sheri Pym in Riverside, California. She already ordered Apple to help unlock the phone last month but did so without giving Apple a chance to challenge it. Tuesday's hearing is about providing Apple that opportunity. Between these two court events, there's been plenty of he-said, she-said arguments from both sides.

In this installment, I'll cover concatenating multiple image files into a multi-page pdf--a very handy trick the imagemagick utility convert makes possible. But first, a bit of grousing on the subject of academia, budget-constrained researching, and academic publishing.

Good news! One of my clients is launching a new marketing campaign, which we expect will make the business even more successful than before. Bad news! This means our Web application, which has existed for some time on a fairly simple infrastructure, and which has handled a steadily growing number of users, now (we hope) will need to deal with a massive spike in users.

NSA stopped giggling at the back, handed over an exploit? The FBI has come to a sudden and surprising all-stop in its legal war with Apple.…

You've probably heard that everything in Linux is a file, so start on the right path with a solid grounding in file and directory management: finding, listing, moving, copying, and archiving. Use the material in this tutorial to study for the Linux Professional Institute LPIC-1: Linux Server Professional Certification exam 101, or just to learn for fun.

After a 13-day trial in 2012, a jury held that Samsung's phones infringed Apple utility and design patents. Apple was originally granted $1.05 billion, but that number was slashed down on appeal. Samsung paid $548 million late last year, but the company didn't give up its right to one last appeal. A Supreme Court win could result in Samsung getting much of that money back.

The move toward a public OpenStack cloud service has been several years in the making at GoDaddy.

Also in today's open source roundup: DistroWatch reviews Antergos 2016.02.21, and Linux and OS X are challenging the developer dominance of Windows.

In this tutorial, we will build a Proxmox 4 cluster with 3 Proxmox servers and 1 NFS Storage server. Proxmox VE 4 supports the installation of clusters and the central management of multiple Proxmox servers. You can manage multiple Proxmox servers from one web management console. This feature is really handy when you have a larger server farm.

Most people working in open source communities understand the value the community brings to projects and organizations. But how do you show that ROI on a spreadsheet or pie chart? I provide an overview in How community building can help an organization's bottom line. And I've collected this additional list of resources, which will help you make a strong business case for building engaged, enthusiastic open source communities. read more

Nvidia has announced an updated display driver for GNU/Linux, BSD, and Solaris operating systems, Nvidia 364.12.

It works fine overall, but it has several minor niggles that seem to go against the goals of user-friendliness and consistency in the user experience (especially for newbies).

Toonz, the software that animators at Studio Ghibli used for classics like Princess Mononoke, is going open source. Italian studio Digital Video made a deal with Japanese media company Dwango, enabling Dwango to produce and release a free version of the tool, called OpenToonz, for the international animation community.

Whilst extracting money by extorting the competition, which Microsoft claims to “love”, the company is also hijacking the competition and trying to tilt it Microsoft’s way, using software patents not only as a cash cow but also means of leverage (by pressure)

Come check out the results of the Linux Gamer survey done by GOL, shows some really interesting results for Linux as a whole.

Be patient: first code won't land until 2017 The slow reveal that is Microsoft's SQL-Server-on-Linux strategy has taken a small step forward, with Redmond pressing “publish” on a blog post discussing SQL strategy.…