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Champions of open access to publicly funded academic research had something to celebrate last week. Creative Commons is reporting (with just a touch of cautious optimism) the progress of California's Taxpayer Access to Publicly Funded Research Act (AB 609, for short), which has successfully moved through the State's Assembly Appropriations Committee and is ready for a vote. If passed, the bill—which requires the final copy of any peer-reviewed research funded by California tax dollars to be made publicly accessible within 12 months of publication—will become a matter for the California State Senate (see the Public Library of Science blog and the Electronic Frontier Foundation for more detail). This could very well become the first state-level bill to mandate open access to publicly funded academic research.

Simplicity 13.4 is available. Simplicity Linux is a Puppy Linux derivative with Xfce as the default desktop environment. It comes in three editions: Netbook, Desktop and Media. The Netbook edition features cloud-based software, the Desktop flavour offers a collection of general-purpose software, and the Media variant is designed to provide "lounge" PC users with easy access to their media.

Many user-facing features coming to the GNOME 3.10 desktop are starting to see the light of day. This article lists some of them...

With the testing of the very latest Intel X.Org graphics driver, the SNA 2D acceleration back-end for the Ivy Bridge graphics is now the clear-cut winner for the Linux desktop over using the default UXA back-end...

The Cisco Systems (CSCO) Jabber vs. Microsoft (MSFT) Skype video conferencing war has pushed beyond product features and functions, and now includes a new word: Monopoly. Indeed, Cisco is pushing a European court to overturn Microsoft's 2011 buyout of Skype. Why does the networking giant care so deeply about free video conferencing, phone and instant messaging software? Just look at some of CIsco's least successful business moves in the past decade and you'll get the answer.

A tech-savvy China-based Redditor has spotted a hassle-free way of ensuring he or she is always able to bypass the Great Firewall, even when out and about, using the Raspberry Pi to connect to a virtual private network (VPN).

Linux Mint 15 is the most ambitious release since the start of the project. MATE 1.6 is greatly improved and Cinnamon 1.8 offers a ton of new features, including a screensaver and a unified control center. The login screen can now be themed in HTML5 and two new tools, “Software Sources” and “Driver Manager”, make their first appearance in Linux Mint.

with help of “ps” and “pidof” commads we can determine how much cpu and memory is consumed or used by particular process and command.

Last year, Cisco took its case against the Microsoft-Cisco merger to court in Europe. While it didn't oppose the merger, the networking giant wanted EU regulators to impose rules about "standards-based interoperability." In a blog post, Cisco VP Marthin De Beer said the very future of video communications was at risk.

Apple OEM contractor Foxconn is prepping several products based on Mozilla's Firefox OS, says an industry report. The new products, one of which is rumored to be a tablet, are expected to be announced on June 3 in collaboration with Mozilla. On May 27, Focus Taiwan reported that Mozilla and Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., better known as Foxconn, will on June 3 unveil a device running Mozilla’s Linux- and HTML5-based Firefox OS. The story also noted that an industry insider told the publication the product was likely to be a tablet.

Red Hat (RHT) is making bold statements about its IaaS Open Hybrid Cloud strategy -- only a few days after VMware (VMW) launched its vCloud Hybrid Service. So what's the reality check? It goes something like this...

Scrolls the new game from Minecraft's studio. Mojang originally said back in November that Scrolls will be on Linux, now it seems it won't be just yet.

A new version of xine-lib was released today, which is the library that powers the Xine multimedia playback engine. The xine-lib 1.2.3 release brings numerous features including VA-API hardware video decoding and support for OpenGL 2.0 output.

For more years than I care to count, I read statements and saw Microsoft server events where Bob Muglia declared why Microsoft's server was so good. Muglia no longer works for Microsoft (he moved to Juniper two years ago) and he no longer oversees a software portfolio that is based on Windows either. Juniper, like nearly every other networking vendor on the planet -- uses Linux.

Another game for Linux. In a world abundant with evil scientists with monkeys growing out of their heads, where goldfish plot planetary domination schemes, where sidekicks cope with stress by turning into a monster and attacking the hero... In such a world, gamers are justified in wondering why they should care if Doug TenNapel returns to game design. This is not that world. This is a world that needs Armikrog.

I'm still amazed how most companies, even when they've been breached and their reputation has been ruined, fail to fight malicious hacking correctly. Instead, they erect security defenses that have little to do with the threats they're hoping to prevent. Let me give you a common scenario: I frequently consult with large companies that have been the victim of APT (advanced persistent threat) attacks. Usually those attacks occur because one or more users were silently infected by a vulnerability that had a vendor patch. Unpatched Java is to blame in more than 50 percent of these cases, but common culprits include unpatched Adobe Acrobat, Windows, and so on.

Since this month was our Raspberry Pi issue, I did some research on "what folks do with their Raspberry Pi". I sent queries out via Twitter, Facebook, the Linux Journal Web site and even the #linuxjournal IRC room. When it comes to doing extra-geeky projects with the RPi, every person I spoke with mentioned buying parts from Adafruit.

ToOpPy 1.0 "Precise" is available. ToOpPy Linux is a lightweight distribution based on Puppy Linux and localised into a number of European languages. The project's website is in French.

The following tutorial will teach Arch Linux users how to install third-party packages on their newly installed Arch Linux operating system. This is for Arch Linux beginners only, of course.

Can the BeagleBoard’s project latest open-source creation offer competition to the ubiquitous Raspberry Pi?