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LinuxBSDos.com has a disheartening article about a developer that stopped using Linux, and moved over to OS X. He has, in effect, also given up control of his computing experience to Apple. In and of itself, that's not necessarily a bad thing if it works for you. But let's face it, Apple is not perfect, anymore than Microsoft is perfect.It raises an interesting question: How many people stop using Linux and go back to Windows or move to OS X?

Traditional relational databases like Microsoft (MSFT) SQL Server, Oracle (ORCL) and MySQL continue to gain popularity. But channel partners would be wise to check out NoSQL (Not only SQL) alternatives, which are catching on for big data, analytics and real-time cloud computing applications. Here's why.

IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker surprised even staunch Android supporters with the platform's growth. Android increased its domination of the market for smartphones in the second quarter of 2013, making up 80% of the total devices shipped globally. Apple, on the other hand, declined in market share, shipping only 13%.

Several vulnerabilities where discovered in PuTTY, a Telnet/SSH client for X. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following listed problems.

There are some 7-inch Android tablets that can be had for less than US$100, some for just US$70. And virtually all the ones I’ve seen in stores are crappy, from no-name manufacturers. As the saying goes, you get what you pay for.

While Canonical engineers keep raising discussions about swapping Mozilla Firefox for Google's Chromium as the default web-browser for Ubuntu Linux, the 13.10 release will continue using Firefox by default.

Because this issue's theme is programming, I thought I should cover some of the more-advanced features available in OpenMP. In scientific programming, the basics tend to be the limit of how people use OpenMP, but there is so much more available—and, these other features are useful for so much more than just scientific computing.

Internet research and security services firm Netcraft is now reporting that across the nearly 717 million Websites it has surveyed this month, Apache serves 46.96 percent of them. That is the first time that Apache's share has fallen below 50 percent since December of 2009. At its height—in November of 2005—Apache held a 71 percent market share.

In this roundup: ZTE says it will soon begin sales of an unlocked version of its Firefox OS-based ZTE Open handset on eBay US and UK for $80, following its launch in Spain, Venezuela, and Colombia. In related news, Samsung is once again rumored to be slowing Tizen OS development, and Mozilla released a new version of the Firefox for Android Beta with WebRTC real-time communications support.

Inverto (formerly "Gravitron") is a first person shooter-puzzler with physical puzzles and gravity manipulations. The game is the ideological successor of such games as "Prey" and "Portal" with platformer elements.

Linux containers (LXC) is a lightweight virtualization technology built into Linux kernel. Unlike other similar technologies, the virtual machines (VM) are driven without any overhead by the kernel already running on the computer. In VM you run only the processes you need, most of the time without even going through the regular SysV or Linux init. This means that memory is used very conservatively.

Is it really possible to build an entire OS from an icon set? The answer, it seems, is elementary

HandBrake is one of the most popular open-source video transcoder software. It is available on multiple platforms including MacOS, Windows and Linux. This tutorial talks about how to install HandBrake on different Linux distros.

Blackberry, the once great company, simply couldn't adapt to a changing market and competition from Android and iPhone. Today it formed a "special committee" that very likely marks the beginning of the end.

PCLinuxOS 2013.08 (Full Monty) was quietly released. PCLinuxOS is an English only live CD initially based on Mandrake Linux that runs entirely from a bootable CD. Data on the CD is decompressed on the fly, allowing up to 2GB of programs on one CD including a complete X server, KDE desktop, OpenOffice.org and many more applications all ready to use. In addition to the live CD, you can also install PCLinuxOS to your hard drive with an easy-to-use livecd-installer. Additional applications can be added or removed from your hard drive using a friendly apt-get front end via Synaptic.

Little escapes the notice of the all-knowing, all-seeing system administrator with Zabbix at his disposal. Zabbix' enterprise-class monitoring software provides distributed monitoring with a centralized web administration interface.

Samba began life as ‘a bit of a hack’ and became the route for taking free software into the enterprise. Richard Hillesley tells the story…

Once in a while, a prominent or not so prominent member of the Linux community makes a switch – for one reason or the other – to another operating system, usually to Mac OS X. The latest is Denis Koryavov, the former GUI Development lead for ROSA Laboratory, a Linux software solutions provider based in Russia and the publisher of ROSA Linux.

My nearly 11 minute keynote at OSCON 2013 this year, felt long enough when I gave it, but in terms of what I have to say about the future of open source, it wasn't even close. Here I expand on the lessons I've learned from other people working in open source, new technologies emerging in open source that haven't come of age yet, my passion for open source not being a Zero Sum game, and bringing open source to other parts of society and industry.

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