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Twitter just rolled out a pretty nice two-factor authentication system using your smart phone as the second factor.

The JFS file system is a 64-bit file system created by IBM and ported to Linux in 1999. A stable version was released in 2001. The first implementation was the Linux Kernel 2.4.18. JFS was originally released in 1990 with AIX version 3.1. It is sometimes referred to as JFS1.

Win one of three Nexus 4s running Ubuntu Touch by porting or creating original apps in the new Ubuntu SDK for mobile

Linux Deepin is the leading community distribution from China featuring the Deepin Desktop Environment based on GNOME Shell. Linux Deepin 12.12.1 was announced today as an enhancement (and also a bug-fix) of the previous 12.12 release. New functions include the deepin-notifications plugin for the desktop, where users can check the notifications sent by utilities or the OS. As an important component of the desktop, Deepin System Settings now supports wallpaper selection via the personalization module and automatic login via the accounts configuration module. The Software Center has been upgraded for more convenient software installation/uninstallation. The dmusic-plugin-baidumusic plugin has been developed for better online music experience. Last but not least, the Deepin team has been maintaining a weekly archive on recommended applications.

The Reiser File System (Reiser3) was created by Namesys in 2001 and added to the Linux Kernel in version 2.4.1. Reiser3 was the first Journaling file system included in the Linux Kernel. Reiser4 was introduced in 2004 which was an improved Reiser3 file system.

The Wine development release 1.7.0 is now available.

Today in Open Source: An Ubuntu-based sport utility laptop. Plus: Open source satellites and voting machines!

The NVIDIA SHIELD portable gaming device/console was released at the end of July and now NVIDIA has come forward with the source-code to the whole operating system in hopes of encouraging enthusiasts to modify and improve the platform.

Signaling criminals' growing interest in attacking non-Windows computers, researchers have discovered banking fraud malware that targets people using the open-source Linux operating system.

Something I have been meaning to do an editorial about for a while is game Demo's, spurred on by PuppyGames blog posts on it (here and here) about them not supplying demo's for any of their games. They make some interesting points mostly because they are talking about themselves and how Demo's just didn't work for them.

You don’t have to look too hard at the slate of new smartphones to see Android’s “bigger is better” ethos. While iPhones have remained resolutely conservatively sized, Android manufacturers continue to push the limits with phones like the 5.5-inch LG Optimus G Pro or the 6.3-inch Samsung Galaxy Mega.....it’s actually impossible to get any of the latest models and also get a phone that’s smaller than 4.7 inches. They just don’t exist anymore.

Search giant Google has put its support behind an independent fork of MySQL, the famed open-source database that was gulped down by software giant Oracle when it acquired Sun Microsystems.

National Instruments (NI) announced a redesigned version of its CompactRIO controller that runs a new NI Linux Real-Time OS on the Xilinx ARM+FPGA hybrid Zynq-7020 system-on-chip. The NI cRIO-9068 controller is fully compatible with the NI LabVIEW development environment, as well as more than 100 I/O modules available for the CompactRIO.

If you store and maintain mission-critical data on your server, you probably want to back them up on a remote site for disaster recovery. Duplicity is a free command line backup tool in Linux. This tutorial describe how to create a secure incremental offsite backup in Linux with Duplicity.

The AMD Catalyst 13.8 beta driver for Linux was released about a week ago and finally came into my Fedora 19 system via RPM Fusion. And it broke X. Login is fine, but most applications — including Firefox — cause X to quit and send me back to the login prompt.

It appears that a Russia based cybercrime team has set its sights on offering a new banking Trojan targeting the Linux operating system. This appears to be a commercial operation, which includes support/sales agents and software developer(s). Hand of Thief is a Trojan designed to steal information from machines running the Linux OS.

Amazon has begun accepting web apps and mobile-optimized websites for sale in its Amazon Appstore for Kindle and Android devices, allowing developers to market their HTML-based wares to mobile users in over 200 countries.

Canonical announced today that Bloomberg LP is the first corporate backer of the crowd-funded Ubuntu Edge project. The financial institution is pledging to buy 100 Ubuntu Edge smart-phones as part of an enterprise bundle at a cost of $80,000 USD.

For those concerned more about code licenses and the free nature of software over the quality, richness, and features of a Linux distribution, gNewSense 3.0 is now available. The gNewSense 3.0 release now supports three architectures and has switched from an Ubuntu base to now using Debain Linux.

Free software licenses can be divided into two broad categories: copyleft licenses (like the GPL), which require derivatives of the software to be licensed under the same terms; and permissive licenses (like the MIT/X11 license), which allow the software to be reused in any project, even closed-source projects.