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The IAB wants you to know that if you don’t let online advertisers follow you around when you’re surfing, then you’re scum, a criminal and probably a traitor to your country. At least, that would seem to be the thick of it from reading their latest in a series of diatribes against Mozilla published last Tuesday on their website under the heading “Has Mozilla Lost Its Values?”.

Who says you need millions for a supercomputer? Not Adapteva, which has started shipping its $99 Parallella single-board parallel processing board.

Samsung is hiring Linux and open source professionals as never before. That may come as little surprise given the company's investment in Google (GOOG) Android tablets and other mobile devices, but it also suggests that the Linux Foundation was right when earlier this year it proclaimed soaring demand—and remarkably high pay rates—for people with open source talent.

You are new to Linux, you are searching for a simple method to convert your videos or your music to fit your Mobile’s resolution or your player’s supported formats. You are tired from using the terminal and commands to convert your music, videos and films and searching for a simpler alternative to do repetitive boring tasks for you ? You are trying to find an application that covers the power of ffmpeg with a simple graphic user interface ?. You have arrived to the right place !

Linux wireless networking, Gluster and Ceph distributed storage, the OpenStack cloud and much more are on the agenda for this year's LinuxCon/CloudOpen North America conference, whose program the Linux Foundation has announced. Here's a look at some of the highlights that the channel can look forward to at the event, which will take place in New Orleans Sept. 16-18.

The Walking Dead is a television show based on a long-running comic book about the survivors of a zombie apocalypse. When our protagonists aren’t being killed by zombies (Dale, T-Dog), killed by humans (Andrea), dying of natural causes (Lori), losing limbs to zombies (Herschel), or losing their tenuous grasp on sanity (Rick), they’re teaching us valuable lessons on how to better run your office. No, seriously.</p>

It may be trailing LibreOffice, but OpenOffice is still alive and kicking -- now with better Microsoft Office Open XML support.

Take control of shovel-master Fagus the grave robber extraordinaire in this third person stealth action-adventure. It's a curious blend of whimsical English comedy and grim Dickensian horror made by a two-man team dedicated to fun, addictive gameplay.

It is also the first Apache OpenOffice version that includes code and features merged from IBM’s Symphony. So this is not just a cleanup of the old OpenOffice code that you used to use before LibreOffice was forked from it. It’s much more than that.

RPM is an open source Package Manager on Linux Like Operating system(RHEL , CentOS & Fedora).RPM command is used to build, install, query, verify, update and erase individual software packages.

Birds Linux 1.0 is available. Birds Linux is a Sabayon-based distribution designed for students of technical and vocational schools.

(Sacramento, CA, USA - Athens, Greece: July 23, 2013) The Linux Professional Institute (LPI: http://www.lpi.org), the world's premier Linux certification organization, announced that its affiliate, LPI-Greece (http://www.lpi.org.gr/) recently signed HP Hellas (http://www8.hp.com/gr/el/home.html) as an LPI Approved Training Partner in Greece. HP Hellas is a subsidiary of HP in Europe, Middle East and Africa.

A recent business survey by RightScale shows that the cloud has become mainstream and that open-source cloud technology is leading the way.

The Linux Foundation announced the schedule for its LinuxCon North America conference, to be held in New Orleans on Sept. 16-18. LinuxCon features luminaries including Linus Torvalds, Google’s Chris DiBona, and Valve’s Gabe Newell, as well as dozens of presentations on all things Linux. LinuxCon is the Linux Foundation’s major public conference, and the flipside to its invitation-only Linux Collaboration Summit, which was held in April.

We plan our features, write our elegant and efficient code, and test it to make sure it does everything the customer would want. Then, after the application ships and everyone involved pats each other on the back for a job well done, we start getting reports — sometimes within days, sometimes much later on — that there is something wrong with the application. It lets people harvest personal data, or exposes the customer to compromise, or worse yet, it is wormable and can be used to attack other devices with the app on them. It appears we have forgotten to include some simple, easily integrated security development practices.

Mark Shuttleworth, Ubuntu creator and CEO of parent company Canonical, has invited developers to put their money where their mouth is. The company Monday announced the launch of a crowdfunding project to develop Ubuntu Edge, a super high-tech phone that's powerful enough to double as a desktop PC and incorporates bleeding-edge screen and battery tech most people probably haven't even heard of yet.

"Every year, the art and science of community management is becoming more predictable," said Jono Bacon, the Community Leadership Summit lead organizer. It’s becoming a renaissance, and over the last few years the practice is starting to be written down and documented. It’s evolving.

LightZone – Professional-level digital darkroom software

The wait is finally over. The new arrival has been announced. For days now the press have been waiting eagerly and now it is here. No I'm not talking about the future King of England but the King of smartphones.

The DMAPI is an interface used by the XDSM specification which allows for special interfaces to the files. The interface is file system independent, meaning that someone who creates an interface can use it on any DMAPI file system.