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Although emerging markets such as Indonesia and China have embraced open source in their classrooms, adoption has been much spottier in the US. Observers and practitioners cite three broad reasons: 1. Lack Of Market Share. 2. Unfamiliarity. 3. Technical Gaps.

The White House on Tuesday announced a broad set of legislative recommendations for Congress and executive actions aimed at thwarting abusive patent infringement lawsuits.

The creators of open source software benefit people they will never meet in person. The kindness is baked right into the product. I'm a former computer programmer, and whenever I use an open source program I have an appreciation for the hundreds (and sometimes thousands) of hours of work that went into creating the program.

A significant chapter has closed in the ongoing smartphone patent war between Apple and Samsung. A case that Samsung opened at the International Trade Commission (ITC) in 2011 concluded on Tuesday, with the ITC determining that a variety of older Apple products infringe the claims of a Samsung patent, US Patent No 7,706,348. If the decision stands, a "limited exclusion order" would go into effect that would ban the AT&T models of the iPhone 4, the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 3, iPad 3G, and iPad 2 3G.

Two years after it acquired Novell and took the company private, the Attachmate Group says its decline has been arrested. It anticipates being able to hold that line next year.

The Tiny Parallel Proportion Scheduler (TPPS) is a new I/O scheduler for Linux to appear on the kernel mailing list. Robin Dong explains in his mailing list announcement for this new I/O scheduler to use cgroup on high-speed devices., "We want to use blkio.cgroup on high-speed device (like fusionio) for our mysql clusters. After testing different io-scheduler, we found that cfq is too slow and deadline can't run on cgroup. So we developed a new io-scheduler: tpps (Tiny Parallel Proportion Scheduler).It dispatches requests only by using their individual weight and total weight (proportion) therefore it's simple and efficient."

Version 1.1.1 of GStreamer Core and Plugins have been released, which provide new features and plug-ins for this important open-source multimedia framework. Since GStreamer 1.0 included new plug-ins include Microsoft Smooth Streaming (mssdemux), DASH adaptive streaming (dashmdemux), Bluetooth device interaction via the bluez plug-in, JPEG2000 encoding/decoding via the openjpeg plug-in, and other yadif, srtp, sbc, fluidsynth, midiparse, mfc, ivtv, accuraterip, and audiofxbad plug-ins.

When your data and work grow, and you still want to produce results in a timely manner, you start to think big. Your one beefy server reaches its limits. You need a way to spread your work across many computers. You truly need to scale out.

LinuxCertified Inc, a leading provider of Linux training and services, today announced its next Linux Device Driver Development Course class to be held in South Bay, CA from June24th - June 26th, 2013.

MySQL replication allows you to have multiple copies of data’s on many systems and data’s are automatically copied from one database(Master) to another database(Slave). If one server goes down, the clients still can access the data’s from another(slave) server database. In this how-to let us see how to configure MySQL master-slave replication.

Joy and happiness for everybody! The Humble Indie Bundle 8 is here among us!

The Vinux team is pleased to announce the availability of Vinux 4.0 CD and DVD images. This is the first Vinux release featuring the Unity-2D Desktop which improves on transition to Vinux and introduces newer and increasingly stable accessibility features. We now recommend that when possible users perform updates on a regular basis. This will enable the Vinux team to update packages, and introduce new features. Some of the highlights in Vinux 4.0: brand new build process - Vinux now uses the same method to produce our images as Canonical produces Ubuntu; Console speech just works; Voxin is easy to set-up.

The annual Black Hat USA security conference is coming up at the end of July and the hype around big attacks has already started. One of the early hyped talks is about hacking Apple power chargers to infect IOS (iPad,iPhone) devices.

In this article I would try to explain iscsi storage configuration on linux distro. We will first need iscsi initiator installed , that will use iscsi commands to communicate with the iscsi storage. What I would care more on this article , is to understand usage is iscsi commands to access / manage storage. First requirement is to install iscsi package and you can use open iscsi from open iscsi or you try installing using yum.

Which one should you choose if you are planning to setup a Web Server. Debian or CentOS? Here some points to consider.

PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source object-relational database system. It has more than 15 years of active development and a proven architecture that has earned it a strong reputation for reliability, data integrity, and correctness.

Their latest release, Little Inferno, may not turn quite as many heads, but it does give you an experience you’re not going to find in any other game.

In a recent interview for the Linux User & Developer magazine, Clement Lefebvre, revealed some of the goals for the next major release of the Linux Mint operating system.

Do you need a single point to add users within your organization for authenticating to multiple backends like your Linux servers? You've probably looked at OpenLDAP and found the same problem a lot of other users have: bad documentation and ridiculously hard to configure. Having done some installations of OpenLDAP in the past, the search was on to find a good alternative and more importantly, one that is far easier to do and has a good gui and CLI for adding users and groups.

Yesterday, the Obama administration announced a new effort to curb baseless patent lawsuits, which it believes are stifling innovation and economic activity. Unfortunately, most of the most effective actions will require Congressional - or state - action.