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The latest version of the GNOME Shell is here, has it addressed the concerns of users, or gone further down the path of simplification?

Last week, HP delivered on a promise that few thought would ever be met; make WebOS fully open source by September 2012. Well, not only did they do it, they are preparing to put a lot of steam behind the project.

This week, we look at the computer science degree gap, changes in the iOS 6 App Store developers need to know about, and why business and IT still can't get along.

Google has released a general purpose framework for reranking problems, ReFr (Reranker Framework), as open source. Reranking is a technique that is used when there is a model that can offer several scored hypothesised outputs; rerankers can reorder the ranked outputs based on information not available to the original model.

If there was an overarching message from the speakers at last week's Open Hardware Summit, particularly those in the first morning block, it's that openness isn't that critical. It sounds strange coming from a conference whose name starts with "open," but speaker after speaker talked about hybrids and doing whatever worked, not just doing what was open.

Unity 6.8.0 has been released in the Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal repositories today, along with updated default lenses, bringing many bug fixes as usual, along with an option to disable online results from showing up in Dash.

As an ex-iphone user, having widgets on the homescreen (without having to jailbreak and use kludgy html based widgets) is great – and the grandaddy of all widgets is the weather widget. There are a lot of great weather widgets, but not that many that show hourly forecasts as their primary function. AIX Weather does this in a compact, informative and attractive way – bottom widget in the screenshot, just in case you were wondering. AIX Weather displays a grid/graph showing weather conditions, temperature and rainfall for the next 24 hours in your chosen location.

Great news guys, it was just announced that the upcoming Linux 3.7 kernel will incorporate support for multiple ARM System on Chips (SoCs) platforms.

This article explains the concept of Intrusion detection system (IDS) in general. It explains how an IDS works, its various types, the pros and cons of an IDS and how it differs from a firewall.

When the call came yesterday morning, I assumed at first I was being trolled—it was just too perfect to be true. My phone showed only "Private Caller" and, when I answered out of curiosity, I was connected to "John," a young man with a clear Indian accent who said he was calling from "Windows Technical Support." My computer, he told me, had alerted him that it was infested with viruses. He wanted to show me the problem—then charge me to fix it.

Verizon can change that password. In other to do that, they must have a master password, or as it is known in some circles, a backdoor. To Verizon, it is an administrative password. The only problem is their “administrative password” can unlock your administrative password.

If you are using an older PC then you have three choices: 1. Run an older version of Windows, 2. Throw it away and get a new one, 3. Install a lightweight Linux distribution such as Zorin OS 6 Lite.

Debian's Drupal package supports putting all your Drupal sites under one install of the package. This requires some attention to detail to make a policy robust enough to support any customization that a site may need. This write-up explains how that much flexibility can be achieved with the stock Debian Drupal package on multi-tenant systems.

Dot Categories: Community and EventsKDE had a visible presence at LinuxCon 2012 in San Diego, California, August 29-31. Thanks to the Linux Foundation for donating an exhibit space to KDE. LinuxCon 2012 was the fourth year this annual event has taken place. Sponsored and produced by the Linux Foundation, it is a premier Linux event and attracts big names in open source, both companies and individuals. The event has a corporate feel with many leading tech companies exhibiting and their representatives making presentations.

(Warsaw, Poland and Kassel, Germany: October 3, 2012) The Linux Professional Institute (LPI: http://www.lpi.org), the world's premier Linux certification organization and its affiliate, LPI-Central Europe (http://www.lpice.eu/), hosted the first LPI Forum, a conference for government officials, Linux professionals and Open Source Software organizations on the future of IT careers at the Warsaw University of Technology in Warsaw, Poland on September 28, 2012.

Sandia National Laboratories announced on Tuesday that it has set up a network of 300,000 Android virtual hand-held computing devices to study large networks of smartphones. The project, called MegaDroid, is expected to result in a software tool that will let other cyber researchers model similar environments and study the behavior of smartphone networks.

Oracle's NetBeans developers have released a beta of version 7.3 of the NetBeans IDE which features the first appearance of Project Easel, the IDE's new HTML5 Application Development environment. Easel offers an HTML5 project type with a much improved JavaScript editor, which has enhanced code completion, and JavaScript testing support, along with a page inspector and visual CSS style editor. A JavaScript debugger, embedded WebKit browser and Chrome integration via a Chrome extension complete the extensive package of enhanced tools. A video(46 MB and 7 mins 24 secs) presents the new HTML5 features in NetBeans 7.3, including the new project wizard which lets users select initial templates and specific versions of JavaScript libraries to be downloaded from content delivery networks.

While Salesforce and Oracle are two very different companies, the fierce competitors face surprisingly similar issues when it comes to dealing with changes affecting their markets -- and both have a hard time adjusting to market forces. For one, it's the cloud. For the other, social.

Using Linux in cars is a hot topic, even if the market is less visible to most developers than tablets or mobile phones. The Linux Foundation (LF) announced an initiative at the second Automotive Linux Summit in Gaydon, UK, however, that may result in a higher profile for automotive Linux development. The initiative is called Automotive Grade Linux (AGL), and its goal is to produce a distribution tuned for deployment throughout a vehicle, including in-dash systems, instrument clusters, and even safety-critical engine control units. A number of automakers and industry players are on board — which sparked some confusion at the announcement, because many of the same companies are also involved with existing Linux-based automotive efforts like GENIVI.

Pushed to OpenBenchmarking.org over the night were several new and updated test profiles for Linux performance benchmarking...