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The problem: As mobile devices continue to proliferate, the Internet of Things keeps growing immensely, and more users and new data are pushed across telecom networks every day, network operators must invest in expanded facilities. The revenue from mobile applications is tied to number of devices/consumers not amount of data consumed. As time goes on, average revenue per user will remain flat or even decrease as  data demand will increase significantly over time. read more

Dell just release a pair of low-end consumer notebooks with Ubuntu preinstalled. Here's a review of the 14 inch model.

As far as we know, the $143,000 in donations which can’t be found by the Ubuntu Community Council is still missing. As far as we know, the Ubuntu Community Council still considers Jonathan Riddell, a leading developer in Kubuntu circles, persona non grata for bringing up the issue of missing funds and Canonical’s intellectual property policies. As far as we know, the Kubuntu Council responded with a collective “bite me” to the Ubuntu Community Council in rejecting Riddell’s ouster and standing behind him.

At my public library job, I run into people from all walks of life. read more

It takes something truly egregious to make me write an out and out rant. This article succeeded in spades.

The Elive development team announced the immediate availability for download and testing of version 2.6.6 Beta of the Debian-based Elive Linux distribution built around the Enlightenment desktop environment.

Intel announced the first embedded quad-core 5th Gen Core CPUs and shipped its first “Braswell” processors, and AMD tipped its 6th Gen A-Series SoCs. The Computex show held this week in Taiwan was mostly about new tablets and notebooks, but chip news rose to the fore as well. The biggest news arrived before the show […]

The famous, open-source CentOS Linux distribution that is derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux is now available for 32-bit (i686) hardware architectures.

GitHub has revoked an unknown number of cryptographic keys used to access accounts after a developer found they contained a catastrophic weakness that came to light some seven years ago.

The most important thing that the British War Office learned about cryptography was how to keep a secret: Enigma was broken at Bletchley Park early enough in World War II to change the course of the war—and of history.

Is this any way to inspect source code? If you already have doubts about the company supplying an application (which you must, if you find the Transparency Center necessary), would you trust it to be honest with you in an environment it completely controls?

It's in 'the fabric of everything we do,' exec says HP. What's the latest enterprise IT company to proclaim its love of open source? HP, that's who – or, more specifically, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, one of two companies that will emerge once HP splits this November.

The Linux kernel 2.6.32.67 LTS maintenance release has been made available today to fix two regressions that have been introduced in Linux kernel 2.6.32.66 LTS.

In today's open source roundup: Redditors want SourceForge mirror providers to stop service. Plus: GOG offers lots of Linux games in summer sale. And DistroWatch reviews Manjaro OpenRC 0.8.13.

The ATM Industry Association or ATMIA has released a white paper today in which they recommend the use of Windows 10 on ATMs, skipping any intermediary steps, and for the first time they are considering Linux as a viable option.

In a previous post, I gave 5 reasons wikis rock for documentation. It was a great deceit. In truth, I'm not a big fan of wikis in most cases. So today I present 5 reasons to use a rendered language to publish your documentation. read more

Have you ever had an awesome song on your phone, and want to listen to it on your desktop without moving the file over? Or want to easily listen to your preferred streaming music service easily on your computer? Fedora... Continue Reading →

I have been watching the evolution of the Ubuntu Software Center for quite a while now. I had doubts about its interface and its speed, but I liked the fact that it offered an easy, down-to-earth interface that allowed users to install software easily. However, I have to say that the way the Ubuntu Software Center has evolved is worrying me -- a lot.

You know the scene. The one In Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. The book's plucky hero learns that his Aunt Polly wants him to spend his day off whitewashing the fence. Tom, of course, would rather be doing something—anything—else, and when "he began to think of the fun he had planned for this day [...] his sorrows multiplied." read more

Nginx (engine-x) is a open source and high performance HTTP server, reverse proxy and IMAP/POP3 proxy server. The outstanding features of Nginx are: stability, rich feature set, simple configuration and low resource consumption. Nginx is being used by some of the largest websites on the internet and is gaining more and more popularity in the webmaster community. This tutorials shows how to build a nginx .deb package for Ubuntu 15.04 from source that has Google pagespeed module compiled in.