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This week, we explore why your code could work and still suck, define the open source cloud, and offer 10 BYOD best practices.

Linux Advocate Dietrich Schmitz highlights the success of the Google Chromebook to underscore in his view a serious Linux brand image problem.

The cloud and hosting company says that IP Navigation has wrongfully accused it of infringing three patents and broken agreements over disclosure of what those patents actually were    

Fantasy author Thomas A. Knight brings back his Gift One, Get One promotion for his birthday this year, and adds a number of other great fantasy novels to the pool. Give any one of these great fantasy novels as a gift, and get one free, and we all love getting something for free, right?

On Tuesday, OASIS - the standards group that developed the OpenDocument Format - made an extremely rare announcement for an information technology consortium: that it has successfully completed the process of becoming accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI).  

Pidgin is the default chat client of many Linux distros like Mint, Fuduntu, Solus ... It supports many protocols, like Yahoo, Google, MSN and of course, Facebook. Here is how you set up and use facebook chat with Pidgin.

Acquia, the support and services company run by Drupal lead developer Dries Buytaert, has open sourced Drupal Create, an iOS application that allows Drupal users to post content to their site from their mobile devices. Buytaert says open sourcing the application is "kick-starting development of mobile content publishing apps for Drupal." The open source Drupal content management system (CMS) runs a number of high profile web sites from the official web site of the White House to the web sites of Stanford University and General Electric.

Raven Software has released the source code to Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast and Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy under the GNU General Public License.

In this HowTo I will describe how to prepare a CentOS 6.4 server for OpenVZ. With OpenVZ you can create multiple Virtual Private Servers (VPS) on the same hardware, similar to Xen and the Linux Vserver project. OpenVZ is the open-source branch of Virtuozzo, a commercial virtualization solution used by many providers that offer virtual servers. The OpenVZ kernel patch is licensed under the GPL license, and the user-level tools are under the QPL license.

The Open Book is an essential reference point for those interested in the culmination of a global movement for change in a time of rapid social progress.

Canonical announced a few hours ago, April 4, that they've updated the default web browser, Mozilla Firefox, to version 20, on all their supported Ubuntu operating systems.

Fehlstart, I believe, is a relatively unknown little gem. A real beauty if your looking for nice but truly lightweight launcher. Fehlstart is a German word meaning “false start” also defined as an “early start”. The author wrote Fehlstart because gnome-do and others do way more than what he needed; gnome-do runs on mono which requires too many resources to perform a simple task like application launching.

After four years of development, Micromag Systems has finally completed the Mantis Hexapod Walking Machine, claimed to be the world’s largest all-terrain operational hexapod robot. The device stands nearly three meters tall, weighs just under two tons, and is controlled by a PC/104 module stack running embedded Linux. The Mantis Hexapod Walking Machine is the [...]

Roughly six months after the launch of its “Folsom” release last fall, OpenStack on Thursday unveiled version 2013.1 “Grizzly,” the seventh and latest release of the open source software for building public, private and hybrid clouds.

Our latest benchmarks from the ASUS S56CA-WH31 Intel Ultrabook is comparing the performance of this Ivy Bridge laptop between Fedora 18 and a recent Ubuntu 13.04 development snapshot under various workloads...

Standardization in Linux is "not going to happen," said Mobile Raptor blogger Robin Lim. "What should be done instead is to stop lumping all the Linux distributions under the name 'Linux,' and just call them Red Hat, Fedora, Ubuntu, Mint and so on," Lim offered. "They are that diverse." In fact, "if we woke up tomorrow and only one desktop Linux distribution was left in development, we would all be better for it."

This is quite interesting, here we have the slides from Valve's GDC talk on porting over to Linux. It makes for an interesting read and lays it out very simply for the non techies.

I can't remember the last time I picked up a comScore mobile market share report and came away surprised, but that's what happened today.

Linux Advocate stalwart Ken Starks takes another hard look and shares his view of the 'Real World' as it relates to Linux from the trenches. A good read.

The Kate text editor received a large number of bug fixes for the 4.10 release, and some exciting new features. A mini-map scroll bar is now available for Kate users, and an improved notification system. If you use the Kate text editor for KDE, be sure to take advantage of the latest changes.