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Is the NoSQL database trend a threat to Oracle (ORCL)? This is a big week for the company, which announced somewhat disappointing Q4 new software licenses yesterday. While cloud computing and hardware sales are Oracle's big challenges, you can't overlook the open source database wars as well. Indeed, Oracle and MySQL faces challenges from smaller NoSQL vendors.

This week, how Linux seriously rules super computers, why the tin foil hat brigade is wrong to diss the cloud and 9 reasons your sys admin hates you.

The (NSA) rules seem to clearly say that if your data is encrypted, the NSA can keep it.

In this article, we will see some different command methods with which we can display the file contents with its line number.

On Debian Wheezy, it is now possible to run a i386-linux-gnu application on an amd64-linux-gnu system. This is called Multiarch and refers to the capability of a system to install and run applications of multiple different binary targets on the same system.

Leszek Godlewski, the developer behind the Linux port of Painkiller: Hell & Damnation, gave a talk a few months ago about bringing games to Linux. The presentation was given at the Digital Dragons 2013 European Games Festival, but the slides and video recording are available and are quite interesting.

Samsung unveiled a quad-core, 20-megapixel Galaxy NX camera with 4G LTE and a 4.8-inch display, billed as being the first Android-based, connected interchangeable-lens camera, following up on last week’s announcement of its Android-powered 16-megapixel, 10x-zoom Galaxy S4 Zoom. Also today, Samsung unveiled the Ativ Q, a dual-boot 13.3-inch convertible tablet that runs Android and Windows 8 on an Intel “Haswell” Core processor.

A Raspberry Pi-powered robot from the Tokyo Raspberry Jam is now seeking funding on Kickstarter, from the maker of the mechanical Necomimi cat ears

The Zend Framework community announced the immediate availability of Zend Framework 2.2.1!

I work at a public library in the Washington DC-area and often think about what needs to be designed into the space of future public libraries. I was recently visiting the MAKE magazine website when I saw a fascinating how-to video about building your own portable Raspberry Pi game system.

Canonical’s latest tiff with the community at large, centers on the recent news that it will introduce its own display server – the underlying software stack that powers GUIs – called Mir. The idea, according to the company, is to create a flexible platform for the Unity Next interface, which is meant to be an adaptable one-size-fits-all offering for desktops, TVs, tablets and phones.

Incredipede, the physics-based puzzle indie game by Northway Games has been made available free for Linux users. As explained on their website: "Because Linux is Free (as in speech) now Incredipede is Free (as in beer)."

Companies allow US intelligence to exploit vulnerabilities before it patches them: Microsoft Corp., the world's largest software company, provides intelligence agencies with information about bugs in its popular software before it publicly releases a fix, according to two people familiar with the process.

Scala's immutable values and mutable variables, classes and constructors, and its use of operators as method names.

The scala language is available in most Linux distributions.

The Xeon Phi is a co-processor that can speed up numerical calculations. It cannot operate without a main processor. The many core server is based on the Intel Many Integrated Cores (MIC) architecture.

Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, the former U.S. District court judge who ruled in 2000 that Microsoft was a monopoly that should be broken up before his decision was overruled, died Saturday at age 76.

Mom always said, "It's not nice to point." I'd argue Mom didn't manually enter long, cumbersome URLs, however. We're all familiar with services like TinyURL, but because we're Linux folks, we tend to prefer doing such things on our own. As with almost everything in Linux, there's more than one way to skin a cat, and in this article, I explore a bunch.

While the popularity and future of the Apple/Intel Thunderbolt interface can be debated, the current state of Thunderbolt on Linux still leaves a fair amount to be desired. While on the state of Linux hardware support, the Google Chromebook Pixel does work with modern Linux distributions, but not all support has been perfected...

Linux.com interviewed Wolfgang Denk, founder of Denx and the creator of the U-Boot bootloader. The embedded Linux pioneer spoke on a range of issues including the future of U-Boot, the importance of Yocto Project code and how it has changed Denx’s own ELDK distribution, and the growth of ARM and real-time Linux in embedded computing.

Long before Edward Snowden told us about a govt privacy-abusing spy operation called PRISM or Prism, Skype had its own collaborative project with the govt that was code-named Project Chess.