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In May 2014, Life360 CEO Chris Hulls received an aggressive patent demand letter. The letter, from lawyers representing a company called Advanced Ground Information Systems (AGIS), told him he needed to pay for a "royalty-bearing license" to its four patents, or Life360 and its customers would have to "cease and desist" from infringement.

In other words: pay up, or shut down your company. The letter demanded a response within three days.

MPI stands for Message passing interface. An implementation of MPI such as MPICH" or OpenMPI is used to create a platform to write parallel programs in a distributed system such as a Linux cluster with distributed memory. Generally the platform built allows programming in C using the MPI standard. So in order to run Parallel programs in this environment in python, we need to make use of a module called MPI4py which means "MPI for Python". This module provides standard functions to do tasks such as get the rank of processors, send and receive messages/ data from various nodes in the clusters.

It was recently brought to our attention that the main PPA (Personal Package Archive) software repositories of the current stable release of the Ubuntu MATE Linux operating system have been re-organized and in order for users to receive the latest software updates, they must manually add a new PPA into their distributions.

Group-Office is an easy to use, open source groupware and CRM application. It allows users to share projects, tasks, notes, files, calendars, e-mail and more with co-workers and clients through a web browser.

Maria Leandro discusses how she uses Fedora with Open Source graphics software for photography and graphic design.

A few more Linux games benefit from consistent discounts on Steam, some of them stretching throughout the weekend as well. Fable Anniversary was released in 2014 and it is a remake of the original Fable game from 2004.

Visual Studio build system heads for Linux and Mac. Microsoft’s build engine, MSBuild, has been published as open source on GitHub and will be ported to Linux and the Mac.

According to the data, running drupal 7.27 on PHP 7 is 4.23 percent faster than running it on HHVM, that number rises to 25 percent faster for those running earlier builds of the in-development Drupal 8 release.

This isn’t the case so much with Linux, because users can choose from a long list of desktop environments to install atop any distro, changing the entire look and feel of their system. You can have Mageia and PCLinuxOS both running KDE natively — but you also can run KDE as your desktop in Fedora, even though Fedora defaults to GNOME.

In this tutorial, we will explain how to install Redmine 2.6 on an Ubuntu 14.04 VPS with MariaDB, Puma and Nginx. Redmine is a flexible open source issue tracking and web-based project management application.

There are many different distributions that use Ubuntu as a base, but one you might not have heard of is Black Lab Linux. Black Lab Linux uses…you guessed it…a cute black labrador retriever as its mascot, and the distro itself is focused on providing a compelling and easy to use desktop version of Linux. Toward that end they’ve tried very hard to create a desktop distro that someone coming from a Mac or Windows could jump in and use, even if they are completely new to Linux.

The addition of Mirantis to the supported distribution roster for Contrail is the second major OpenStack distribution addition for Juniper in as many months. Juniper announced a partnership with Canonical for support of its Ubuntu Linux based OpenStack distribution at the end of February.

We’ve announced a yesterday that immediate availability for testing of the Release Candidate version of the forthcoming GNOME 3.16 desktop environment. The GNOME Control Center application has also been updated as part of this RC (Release Candidate) release of GNOME 3.16 and includes a great number of changes that we have listed for you in the next paragraphs.

Chevereto is an image hosting script that allows you to create your own image hosting website like the popular Tinypic and Photobucket. In this tutorial we will instal Chevareto on a CentOS 7 VPS with Apache, PHP and MariaDB.

Battle your friends in augmented reality using PiPanther, the 3D-printed tank with customisable plugins

Open Source in Education A collection of articles from educators, students, advocates, parents, and more who are implementing open source in education and working toward a more open knowledge base for everyone. I recently read God in the Machine, an interesting and provocative book by Dr. Anne Foerst. In it, she talks about golems and how these mythical creatures are brought to life by humans to do good. At about the same time as I was reading this book, I began helping at an after-school coding program at a local library where we use Scratch and MakeyMakey to teach students how to built Lego robots. read more

At first glance, you might not think that the latest set of OpenSSL security patches are that important. Sure, there's a dozen of them and two are serious, but are they really that bad? Yes, actually they're not just bad, they're awful.

The GNOME desktop may have declined in popularity, but GNOME technology remains more popular than ever. In fact, if you tally the number of users today on leading desktops, well over a third run applications designed for GNOME. Not even KDE, GNOME's long-time rival, exceeds this popularity.

New additions and updates to Red Hat Developer Toolset 3.1 include: GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) 4.9.2, Eclipse 4.4.1 with support for Java 8 and updated versions of Eclipse CDT (8.5), Eclipse Linux Tools (3.1), Eclipse Mylyn (3.14), and Eclipse Egit/Jgit (3.6.1) Numerous additional updated packages, including GDB 7.8.2, elfutils 0.161, memstomp 0.1.5, SystemTap 2.6, Valgrind 3.10.1, Dyninst 8.2.1, and ltrace 0.7.91.

Thanks to a very strict password policy and one too many passwords to remember, I managed to forget both the root and user account passwords of a test Fedora 21 installation.