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AMD and Mentor Graphics have become Gold-level members and joined the Advisory Board of the Yocto Project, which promotes open source Linux-based systems for embedded devices.

In today's open source roundup: Is GNOME 3's history a case of garbage in, garbage out? Plus: A GNOME Books app is planned, and a review of Xubuntu 14.04.

Tails, The Amnesic Incognito Live System, version 1.0, is out. Version 1.0 is often an important milestone that denotes the maturity of a free software project. The first public version of what would become Tails was released on June 23 2009, when it was called Amnesia. That was almost five years ago. Tails 1.0 marks the 36th stable release since then. Since then we have been working on the many features we think are essential both in terms of security and usability: USB installer; automatic upgrades; persistence; support for Tor bridges and other special Tor configuration; MAC address spoofing; extensive and translated documentation.

Open source software (OSS) has had a huge impact on the development of technology today. From apps and web browsers to content management platforms and operating systems, there's no doubt that open source projects have influenced the way that we create and access information.

Inktank is the lead commercial vendor behind the open-source Ceph distributed storage filesystem created by Sage Weil, who is also the company's CEO. The open-source Ceph project officially got under way in 2006 and became part of the mainline Linux 2.6.34 kernel in May of 2010.

Weil founded Inktank in May of 2012 as a way to help support companies that want to run Ceph in production environments. Weil is also a co-founder of hosting provider Dreamhost, where the Ceph project got its start. Inktank as a privately held company enjoyed the financial backing of Dreamhost as well as Mark Shuttleworth, who leads Red Hat's Linux rival, Ubuntu Linux.

Nokia's new strategy emphasizes patent generation, licensing, and exploitation of its intellectual property. A new CEO, Rajeev Suri, will hold the reins.

The daily management and operation of a hospital requires enormous effort. These days, most hospitals utilize Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software to centralize facility operations including inventory, budgets, invoicing, and employee management. Any hospital administrator will tell you that ERP software is essential to efficiently managing their hospital as the software lowers inventory costs and improves efficiencies and quality.

Let’s face it, anyone still running XP who’s also still using Internet Explorer as a default browser isn’t the most computer knowledgeable person in the universe or even on the block. Forget the fact that Internet Explorer has never been a secure browser, XP users haven’t even been able to upgrade the browser since version 8, released five years ago.

The percentage of women involved in free and open source software is very low. This is a well-known fact, yet the groups that should be open and welcoming are often those who, subtly and not-so-subtly, often send out messages that are far from welcoming

Patent trolling—the aggressive assertion of weak or meritless patent claims by non-practicing entities—is a frequent target of disdain from open source enthusiasts. Thus it may be of some comfort to readers that the highest court in the US has recently decided the issue is worth looking into. Three cases have already been heard, but decisions are, as usual, still a ways off.

This is a quick review of the Choqok Twitter client that is pre-installed with the openSUSE KDE desktop. The review highlights the main features of Choqok as well as looking at some of the customisation options.

This is the first Zenwalk Live version that is NOT using an Aufs-enabled kernel but instead running Unionfs in userspace via FUSE on an unmodified Slackware generic kernel. It will also be probably the last Zenwalk Live version supporting 32-bit systems and it's going to be very likely the last Zenwalk Live edition that I contribute to the Zenwalk project. Same as in Zenwalk Live 7.2 I decided to feature PAE for supporting more than 4 GB RAM on 32-bit systems,

"Open-source is not a free beer, it’s a free puppy," says Kenneth C. Green, who conducted the survey. "If I give you a free puppy, well, you have got some significant costs for that puppy in terms of attention, care, maintenance, and support."

Via Technologies has been so consumed with its ARM-based Wondermedia and Via Elite system-on-chips recently that one forgets that the Taiwan-based company was known for years for designing low-power x86 processors like the Eden and Nano. Here, Via keeps it all in the family by spinning an AMOS-3003 industrial computer based on its circa-2012 EPIA-P910 pico-ITX SBC, which in turn is built around Via’s dual-core Nano X2 E-Series CPU and VX11H media system processor (MSP).

An IoT survey targeting attendees of this week’s Embedded Linux Conference offers a MinnowBoard Max SBC giveaway, but anyone interested can participate.

Written by several members of the OpenStack community, the O'Reilly OpenStack Operations Guide is a paper version of the excellent guide available in the OpenStack docs.

Firefox 29 has been revealed and is billed as the biggest update to the open source browser since Firefox 4 in 2011, with a new design and more customisation tools.

In today's open source roundup: Facebook will open source Pop animation engine. Plus: Firefox 29 released, and DistroWatch reviews Ubuntu 14.04.

Alex Chapman discovered that a buffer overflow in processing "MMS over HTTP" messages could result in the execution of arbitrary code.

For those not entirely up to date on their Awesomenauts, this month it received a whopper of an update and it might be time you gave it another go, especially with another major update looming.