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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.

Introduced last month was the ability to overclock Intel graphics under Linux while presented hours ago is a new Intel Linux kernel driver patch to provide better GPU overclocking support...

Open source is used just about everywhere, but when it comes to "safety-critical" systems, like software that flies planes or controls medical equipment, most of us assume that open source just doesn't fit the bill. The regulations and requirements are rigorous, and ill-suited to the usual "fail faster" approach of open source.

Welcome to the April 1 issue of the Apache CloudStack Weekly News. Don't worry, no foolishness in this issue – just a quick recap of the week's most important events. As you recall, we officially announced that the CloudStack project was graduating from the incubator last week. Though there were no events quite of that magnitude this week, there was plenty of discussion of new features, a new Website design proposal, and Chiradeep Vittal has unveiled a new tool for testing and development called QuickCloud that will come in handy for many CloudStack contributors and users.

Per-window private browsing, a new download experience, improved developer tool layouts and three critical bug fixes are the essential components of the latest update to Firefox

A linguistic look at some tenets of Linux.

If someone told you to come up with an RFP processing system in less than a week for less than $10,000, you might rightly asked if they were high. Here's how a consultant created just such a system in the Cloud for the State of Washington to be its 'pot czar.' Hint: He used WordPress as the base for all the ingredients.

Bloodhound in many respects is a fork of the open source Trac project. Like all other modern projects, it started out as an incubated project in December of 2011 and now is graduating to become a Top-Level-Project.

Today, the Humble team, which is famous for publishing of the game series Humble Indie Bundle, has released a game bundle with only AAA titles as part of the Humble Weekly Sale. This time the Humble team has even surprised us with 2 Games Collections.

Mobiveil has released an AMC form-factor board based on Freescale’s quad-core QorIQ P3041 communications processor. The AMCP3041 can support mixed control plane and data plane requirements in wireless and wireline networking equipment, and is supported with embedded Linux, U-Boot, Snort, and FreeNAS software.

More and more games are published for Linux and so it’s becoming more important to have a good performance with our beloved system, but some of the Desktop Environemnts can really slow down your gaming experience.

Many users who try Linux for the first time opt for Ubuntu. openSUSE is one of the bigger distributions. How well does it stack up against Ubuntu with regards to useability, functionality and performance?