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Attorneys for the Electronic Frontier Foundation have sued the Obama administration and are demanding the White House stop the dragnet surveillance programs operated by the National Security Agency.

Cindy Cohn, the legal director of the EFF, told the Washington Post that the NSA leaks credited to Snowden have been a “tremendous boon” to the plaintiffs in recently filed court cases challenging the surveillance state. The courts are currently pondering at least five important cases, Cohn told the Post, which could for once and for all bring some other issues up for discussion.

A review of KeePassX, a secure and relatively simple way to manage your passwords. No solution is easy, but this is better than using temp123 for all of your valuable data.

"License, schmisence" may be the mantra of at least some open source developers, who are more interested in software code than legal minutiae. But that's a mistake, according to open source consulting company BlackDuck, which claims that as much as $59 billion may be "locked up" in open source projects that haven't declared explicit licenses.

Awk's features have advanced considerably in the last decade — such as the addition of a debugger and a profiler — all without removing any of the elegance or terseness of the fabled little language.

As I write these words in mid-February 2013, many Ruby on Rails developers are worried. The framework that so many of us have used and enjoyed for so many years, turned out to have some serious security flaws. It's not just the sort of flaw that can allow someone to modify your Web site either;these holes meant that a properly armed attacker could execute arbitrary code on your server.

Shadow Warrior Classic Redux, classic first person action will be heading to Linux in a future version!

The overarching goal for both CloudStack and OpenStack is logical cloud-layer management with plenty of ways to control various workloads. Here's a comparison of the two, which ideally gives you enough data to make your own informed decision.

The VLC 2.1 media player update is due out in the coming weeks and with it will come several new features for the open-source program.

Hash table is a data structure to store key value pairs. As in, a table where each entry has a key and a corresponding value. In other words, it is like an array with indices having the flexibility to be of any type i.e. integer, float, char, string, etc. Henceforth, these indices are termed as keys. So, it is a way of laying down the structure such that, a key maps to the data and that is how we retrieve and access all data efficiently. The efficiency comes from the fact, the key is directly used as an index to search/access any data without caring about traversing the entire data-structure.

The new 2013.07.11 Bluestar Full edition has been released and is available for download from the Bluestar Linux downloads area. This release introduces a number of new and useful features, including new icons for shutdown/reboot/logout/screenlock, and extended language installation options.

The open-source Eucalyptus cloud project has just released a new version that's improved its Amazon Web Service cloud interoperability.

There's a controversy raging among Linux developers about abusive language allegedly used by Linux Torvalds and other Linux developers on the Linux Kernel Mailing List. Sarah Sharp, an Intel Linux developer, commented about it in a post on the LKML.

No matter what the reason, it’s done. In the process, a gaping hole has been discovered in the computer security of all governments and businesses that compete in any way with the United States. The name of that hole is “proprietary binaries.”

XBMC developer smspillaz, the man responsible for the XBMC Weston hack a few months ago, is now rounding the final turns towards XBMC being fully compatible with Wayland.

Once quotas are set, the file system tracks the amount of data written by each user and group. Every time a user creates, modifies or deletes a file, the used amount is updated. When a user or group attempts to change or add a file which will cause the quota to be exceeded, a message appears to warn the user that the disk is full.

New maintenance releases for three editions of the PCLinuxOS distribution were announced yesterday. Featuring a minimalist KDE, as well as LXDE and MATE desktops, the new version is available for both 32-bit and 64-bit computer systems. Maintenance release - PCLinuxOS MATE 2013.0715. MATE 1.6.x, Linux kernel 3.4.52, PulseAudio enabled by default. All of the MATE desktop applications plus Firefox, Thunderbird, Pidgin.

But Torvalds, who founded the popular Linux kernel project in the mid-1990s, wasn't taking this lying down, claiming today's demands of "professionalism" promote passive-aggressive "fake politeness" used by tie-wearing back-stabbers. “You are in a position of power. Stop verbally abusing your developers,” Sharp hit back at Torvalds on the Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML) - the nerve-centre of the open-source system's development.

Getting started in an unfamiliar open source project seems intimidating because it is intimidating; plunging into the unknown usually is. Navigating new territory is a lot easier with a guide—which is why I recently taught a seminar at Hacker School on "getting started contributing to open source" that mostly amounted to "first, find a mentor."

Find out the details of this years openSUSE Summit in Buena Vista, Florida from November 15th to 17th

As a practicing physician in Phuket, he (Dr. Kongkiat Kespechara) became aware of some of the struggles facing hospitals. At one point the Thai government wanted to modernize all the hospitals and demanded that Information Technology be adopted right away. Then he saw the budget. No significant increase was given to help hospitals meet this expensive demand. After some ruminating he realized most of the costs would be tied up in creating the information infrastructure to capture patient records. He thought it would be a huge help to all of the hospitals if an open source solution was developed so they could all share, and called it Hospital OS.