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VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2.

The ownCloud developers have released the third update to ownCloud 5.0 in 24 hours after two security updates caused installations of the software to become unusable. ownCloud 5.0.3 seems to fix these problems

GlusterFS's problems sprang from an ext4 filesystem patch by Fan Yong that addressed a long-standing issue in ext4's support for the readdir() API by widening the "directory offset" values used by the API from 32 to 64 bits. That change was needed to reliably support readdir() traversals in large directories; we'll discuss those changes and the reasons for making them in a companion article. One point from that discussion is worth making here: these "offset" values are in truth a kind of cookie, rather than a true offset within a directory. Thus, for the remainder of this article, we'll generally refer to them as "cookies". Fan's patch made its way into the mainline 3.4 kernel (released in May 2012), but appears also to have been ported into the 3.3.x kernel that was released with Fedora 17 (also released in May 2012).

Black Annex is an action strategy game where the player operates the hands-on business of corporate sabotage and infiltration. Manage company resources, customise and outfit your agents before deploying them to steal, destroy, kidnap and kill as the mission and your own choices dictate.

The CyanogenMod developers have reversed a change in how the alternative open source firmware for Android devices transmits anonymised development information about its users to the project maintainer after users protested about the change. CyanogenMod has, in the past, transmitted information to the developers, including the device manufacturer and model, CyanogenMod version, mobile network provider, country, IMEI number and MAC address. It would do this by default but users could disable the functionality if they wished. But with a recent change, this option would have been removed from the upcoming CyanogenMod 10.1 by CyanogenMod project leader Steve "cyanogen" Kondik.

The Raspberry Pi’s $25 “Model A” made a brief appearance this week on the website of Allied Electronics, its U.S. distributor. Compared to its $35 sibling, the lower end Linux-fired SBC (single board computer) sports half the RAM, one USB port instead of two, and lacks an Ethernet spigot. It’s unclear when (or whether) additional [...]

On behalf of +Katherine Noyes and myself, I am happy to announce that Linux Advocates has entered into an agreement with Newstex to join their syndication network.

Serial ATA (SATA) is a computer bus interface that connects host bus adapters to mass storage devices such as hard disk drives and optical drives. Serial ATA replaces the older AT Attachment standard (ATA; later referred to as Parallel ATA or PATA), offering several advantages over the older interface: reduced cable size and cost (seven conductors instead of 40), native hot swapping, faster data transfer through higher signalling rates, and more efficient transfer through an (optional) I/O queuing protocol.

Just earlier today was word that Mozilla is developing Servo, a new web-browser engine, and now comes a similar action out of Google. The search giant announced this afternoon they are forking the WebKit code-base for their Chrome/Chromium web-browser to form the "Blink" engine...

Linux is the operating system of choice for most servers on the Internet and is growing in popularity as a desktop operating system. However, simply migrating to Linux on your desktop doesn't guarantee that you can still interact with all of the enterprise resources that your job or interests may require. This article discusses additional configuration tasks that you may need to undertake to interact with legacy Microsoft Windows files and file servers and use new network hardware from your desktop Linux system.

Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is still widely-used nowadays as a communication method on the internet. On IRC, you will connect to IRC servers in which there will be individual chatrooms called channels. By joining a IRC server, you will be able to chat with other users who have connected to the same server, you can either chat on a channel with many other peeps or make a person-to-person conversation.

Big Data is an all-inclusive term that refers to data sets so large and complex that they need to be processed by specially designed hardware and software tools. The data sets are typically of the order of tera or exabytes in size. These data sets are created from a diverse range of sources: sensors that gather climate information, publicly available information such as magazines, newspapers, articles. Other examples where big data is generated include purchase transaction records, web logs, medical records, military surveillance, video and image archives, and large-scale e-commerce.

David Tavares announced last week that the second Beta release of the upcoming Pear OS 7 Linux operating system was made available for download and testing.

Katherine Noyes considers the state of affairs in the Linux Community at large and examines the purpose of Linux Advocates and its goals.

edX, the open source online learning platform backed by Harvard and MIT, just got a new big partner. Today, Stanford University will officially join the developer team of the open-source edX platform.

Mozilla’s mission is about advancing the Web as a platform for all. At Mozilla Research, we’re supporting this mission by experimenting with what’s next when it comes to the core technology powering the Web browser. We need to be prepared to take advantage of tomorrow’s faster, multi-core, heterogeneous computing architectures. That’s why we’ve recently begun collaborating with Samsung on an advanced technology Web browser engine called Servo.

Canonical announced last evening, April 2, in a security notice that a new upgrade for the Linux kernel packages in its Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) operating system is available, fixing three vulnerabilities found by various developers in the Linux 3.0 kernel packages.

As expected, a few hours ago (April 2), Mozilla uploaded the final packages of the Mozilla Firefox 20.0 web browser for all supported platforms, including Linux, Microsoft Windows and Apple's Mac OS X.

In any field, a major challenge can be finding the right talent. For open source projects looking for contractors, it's hard to organize possible candidates from all over the web. Flossmarket hopes to fill that void. A platform for connecting contractors and businesses/individuals, Flossmarket allows each party to search for and find like-minded partners faster for their projects. Contractors build a profile and are able to advertise their services on their page. And, anyone who needs contract open source work done can review candidates based on criteria they set in their search. We spoke with ?ukasz Jachymczyk, co-founder and head developer of Flossmarket about how people can get started and how they hope to evolve the platform as more contractors sign up.

On April 2, the KDE Project has announced the immediate availability for download and update of the second maintenance release of the KDE Software Compilation 4.10 environment for Linux systems.