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In December, the Italian government issued final rules implementing a change to procurement law that now requires all public administrations in the country to first consider re-used or free software before committing to proprietary licenses. Importantly, the new rules include an enforcement mechanism, which can, at least in theory, annul decisions that do not follow these procedures.

Ubuntu developers are still sifting through the packages that need to stay and through the ones that could be removed from the upcoming Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr) distribution.

If you're looking around for 3D printers that are both inexpensive and open source friendly, the Printrbot Simple Kit will probably catch your attention. This Kit sells for close to $300, and for our team required a full-day of DIY assembly, though skilled makers might be able to put it together in four hours or so. Our team was made up of three PhDs and two R&D engineers, and it took us close to eight hours to complete the assembly, which of course included some philosophical and licensing discussions and a couple of trips to the hardware store. It was indeed a lot of fun!

The idea of PaaS came from the Ruby land and nowadays the market there is quite saturated. OpenShift came from a polyglot by design and Ruby is very well supported. Let's take a look why OpenShift is a great option for a Ruby developer.

The IT Skills Watch, provided to you by LinuxCareer.com, ranks the demand for IT skills among the employers of Linux talent. This can be achieved by analyzing job advertisements focusing on requirements for Linux and Unix experts. The main objective of IT Skills Watch is to provide you with a better understanding of the Linux job market.

Are you looking for a best alternative for Microsoft Exchange server? Then Zarafa is the one you should try. Zarafa, previously known as Connectux, is a groupware application that provides an integration with your existing email server and Microsoft Outlook Access via a propriety client-side plugin. Zarafa offers its own Ajax based email clients called Webaccess and a HTML5 based Webapp, both mail clients has the same look and feel of Microsoft Outlook and we can keep using the features in Outlook. Seems cool, isn’t it?

LinuxCertified Inc, a leading provider of Linux training and services, announced its next Hands On Embedded Linux Development class to be held in San Francisco Bay Area from February 26th - 28th, 2014.

Xiwtool release 0.08 adds support for automatic wireless connections and allows installers to configure to program to allow normal users to manage networks, which is especially important for client-flavor distributions that don't use root accounts.

What else can this app do other than letting you see everything from every angle? Well, used with Google Glass, “Glass puts all the footage together, and shows you a video of the whole thing.”

Since Google acquired Nest for $3.2 billion last week, current and prospective smart thermostat or smoke detector owners have been apprehensive about what Google might do with the company. In the last few days, a couple of companies have stepped forward with potential open source alternatives to the service and hardware that Nest offers, sans the new implications of Google ownership.

As the debate on the default init system for the next Debian release winds down, one fact emerges: the copyright licensing model adopted by Canonical has been a decisive factor in the choice made by the technical committee.

In addition to the annual Embedded Linux Conference, Linux Kernel Summit, and LinuxCon events in North America and Europe, the LF’s 2014 events include a Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit, an Android Builders Summit, and an expanding series of events focused on networking, cloud services, virtualization, and other specialized technologies. This year’s LinuxCon and CloudOpen North America will be co-located with the Linux Kernel Summit, while LinuxCon and CloudOpen Europe will co-located with the Embedded Linux Conference, KVM Forum, and Linux Plumbers Conference.

In this release we bring you the first Linux Lite packages, Lite Software Center and Lite User Manager. There is a host of new features, including the 3.8 kernel from the Hardware Enablement Stack for better hardware support, new install scripts for webcams, a PAE kernel installer (32-bit) and a basic Games Pack installer. There is also now an option to add the Whisker Menu to the taskbar. This release also sneaks in at under CD size.

The GNOME Project has released the fourth development release towards the Eye of GNOME 3.12 application, which will be the default image viewer for the highly anticipated GNOME 3.12 desktop environment.

I have recently written an article about configuring multiple keyboard layouts in different Linux desktop environments: LXDE, Openbox, Enlightenment. Here is a video about keyboard layouts configuration in LXDE.

I reached out to a number of developers to see how their sales are doing across different operating systems, here are the results for you.

For those in the market for a solid-state drive, the Kingston SSDNow V300 series offers a 120GB Serial ATA 3.0 SSD for less than $90 USD. How well does this SSD work on Linux? We have benchmarks at Phoronix done under Ubuntu and compared to a range of HDD and SSDs.

You can't buy a PiPad, but you can turn your Raspberry Pi into a tablet with some odds and ends and elbow grease.

ADL Embedded Solutions announced one of the first 3.5-inch form factor SBCs to use Intel’s quad- and dual-core 4th Generation Core (“Haswell”) processors.

The fourth development release of the upcoming GVFS 1.20 (GNOME Virtual File System) software, which will be used in the GNOME 3.12 desktop environment has been recently released for testing.