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Red Hat logo Following its preview of an OpenStack distribution, Red Hat is now offering an updated version of the software as part of an "early adopter program". The company has also initiated the RDO community project, which offers up-to-date OpenStack versions for Linux distributions within the Red Hat ecosystem. The Linux distributor announced the news at the ongoing OpenStack Summit Portland 2013.

You may remember the name Death Inc. Sadly they failed on the Kickstarter but have continued on and have announced a paid alpha which is available right now!

While compiling OSS Watch's list of Open Source Options for Education, I discovered Koha, an open source Integrated Library System (ILS). I discovered, with some confusion, that there seemed to be several ILS systems called Koha. Investigation into the reason for this uncovered a story which provides valuable lessons for open source project ownership, including branding, trademarks, and conflict resolution.

Copying and pasting something does not necessarily mean the user will get what they think they are getting. With a little bit of HTML magic, one can even trick unwitting web site visitors into executing shell commands without their knowledge. The trick is by no means new, but it is currently being demonstrated again on several web sites which means Linux users especially have to be careful what they copy and paste.

I have found many software that helps download youtube videos (browser plugins, and offline software like jdownloader, custom command to find bigger files in ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/Cache/* ), but for past few months, I have found applications and settings I use in this review to be most useful.

Today's instalment of Mastering the Linux Shell is not for the squeamish. I call only to the most steadfast of command line challengers. Reader discretion is strongly advised.

Adobe's director of engineering for the Web Platform, Vincent Hardy, has confirmed that the company is not taking sides in the WebKit/Blink web rendering engine fork and will be contributing to both WebKit and Blink as they are open source. In a blog posting, Hardy pointed out that "Adobe actively contribute to Web standards and browser implementations" – mostly WebKit and Chromium, but the company also has some Gecko contributions to its name.

It worked significantly better than last time and is way more polished. This could be among the first contenders for being an easy to use distribution based on Arch!

Dietrich Schmitz takes Fabian Scherschel to task regarding his bad behavior. Read the story and decide for yourself.

Peiter "Mudge" Zatko, who was hired three years ago to be a project manager at the U.S. Department of Defense's research and development division known as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, has announced via Twitter that he's returning to the private sector with Google. In his new role at Google, The Security Ledger reports, Zatko will be working in an unspecified role with Motorola Mobility's Advanced Technology and Projects division, reporting to Regina Dugan. Dugan is also new to Google, hired last month away from her position as director of DARPA.

My first Linux distro was openSUSE, and things sort of worked well for some five years. Then, come version 12, everything went downhill, the sort of push an old lady downhill kind of thing. The last two editions of this distro failed to satisfy the geek in me. Which means, grab your forks and knives, because it's openSUSE 12.3 review time! I will show you if and how openSUSE 12.3 can redeem itself. Naturally, we will go with the KDE desktop, because Gnome is not an option anymore. My test box will be the same T61 laptop, featuring two SSD for local storage, 2GB RAM, and a simple, generic Intel graphics card. And so we commence.

If your Redhat server is not connected to the official RHN repositories, you will need to configure your own private repository which you can later use to install packages. The procedure of creating a Redhat repository is quite simple task. In this article we will show you how to create a local file Redhat repository as well as remote HTTP repository.

On Sunday, April 14, the Fuduntu team held a public meeting on IRC. Many things were discussed, including some issues that have major implications for both the team and community. Among the things discussed were introduction of team members, status of various teams, and the future of Fuduntu. The biggest topic discussed was the future of Fuduntu. The team has been striving to bring a stable system to the community and we believe we’ve been able to do that. One of the key aspects of that was using GNOME 2. However, as time has gone by, support for GTK2 has decreased dramatically. With this, apps using GTK2 have been moved to GTK3 and old versions are no longer being maintained for either bugs or security flaws.

Anomaly 2, the sequel to the award-winning strategy game Anomaly Warzone Earth that we told you about back in Feb now has keys available for you to test the Multiplayer on Steam.

Malware on mobile devices grew by 163 percent in 2012, with Android being the platform most targeted, according to a recent report from mobile security provider NQ Mobile. And the problem may get worse in the future, as the bad guys will become more creative and clever to find new ways to break into mobile devices.

(Sacramento, CA, USA: April 16, 2013) The Linux Professional Institute (LPI: http:/www.lpi.org), the world's premier Linux certification organization, announced that its affiliate LPI-Spain (http://www.lpi.org.es/) will be participating in the first “Tech Learning Day“ hosted by PUE (Proyecto Universidad Empresa/University Enterprise Project: http://www.pue.es/lpi), May 7th in Madrid, Spain at the NH Eurobuilding Hotel.

For the first time in three years, Debian has a new leader this week. Lucas Nussbaum was voted by Debian developers to be the new DPL this week. Nussbaum succeeds Stefano Zacchiroli, who decided not to run for re-election this time. In his DPL platform Nussbaum notes that he has been involved with the project since 2005. Among his contributions is an effort to help improve collaboration with Ubuntu

Everyone in the industry and particularly home users like to blame the obvious large targets for Linux never (at least at the time of this writing) quite making it to the average users Desktop in the masses. Many blame Microsoft, Apple, Patents or just anything proprietary in nature. However I feel that there is one particular reason, made up of millions of small contributors, of why Linux has truly never landed on the Desktop. Who or what is it you ask? Your local PC shop is just as guilty and equally damaging as any of the large proprietary companies conspiring to hold Linux down.

The news was quickly picked up by Groklaw's esteemed Pamela Jones as well as PCWorld. The story also ran in Computerworld and Linux Advocates and beyond. What began as a groan quickly erupted into a mixture of hilarity and disbelief. Then the dispensing of libations moved into high gear, further fueling the conversational flames.

Few women have been historically applying for Google Summer of Code, a program in which Google provides stipends for students to work for three months on FOSS projects. Last year, after many efforts by both the Google team and the community to increase the diversity in the program, about 100 of 1200 participants or 8.3% were women, which was a highest level of participation by women yet.