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As Linux High Performance Computing (HPC) continues to grow in academic, government, and commercial sectors, one might wonder just who are the current movers and shakers of the Linux HPC industry and community? These days those pushing the HPC market and the technology are not necessarily pushing top performance, but rather expanding and improving HPC application spaces. There is new steering group being developed by Intersect360 that is inviting HPC users to help shape the future of the market and community Maybe you know someone who should apply. In fact, it could be you! Let's make sure Linux gets represented!

With yesterday's updates, Canonical made some changes to the upcoming Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) operating system, regarding the Date and Time Indicator.

I first [cref 4704 interviewed Richard Stallman about 5 years ago]. Yesterday I spoke to him about the subject of much debate in the Free software world right now. Here is a transcript of our conversation.

Todd Robinson, an Open Source entrepreneur and co-owner of Webpath Technologies and On-Disk.com, is trying to set a world record for being able to create and release 31 different usable and complete Linux distros everyday in August 2012. And even more impressive, he will do it alone.

After many rumours, Valve has now officially confirmed that it is porting its Steam game distribution platform to Linux. A port of the first-person shooter game Left 4 Dead 2 (L4D2) is also being worked on. The announcement coincides with the launch of a new Valve Linux Team blog, which will provide a first hand account of future Linux developments at the company.

Greg Kroah-Hartman announced yesterday, July 16th, the immediate availability for download of the fifth maintenance release for the stable Linux 3.4 kernel series.

The Valve team has set up a blog specifically about their GNU/Linux and Open Source initiative so as to crush the rumors and misinformation out there. In the first blog post the team admitted that they have been working on 'moving Steam and the Source game engine to Linux.'

What do Bill Reynolds, Fabio Erculiani, and Clement Lefebvre have in common? They spearheaded new distributions that have become staples in Linux desktop computing. Beginning new projects is particularly difficult and not all who try succeed. So, that's why Todd Robinson might sound a little nuts with his newest experiment. He's going to attempt to create and release a complete Linux operating system each and every day for a whole month.

These articles are first and foremost meant for beginners in Ubuntu world and open source in general. That doesn't mean that others, who are already very well involved in both the worlds, are forbidden to read. All of you are very welcome with your suggestions/ideas what could be better.

Google's Android Open Source Project (AOSP) has released an overview of Android's security features. The document explains concepts such as the application sandbox, the permission management framework and inter-process communication.

Valve confirm zombie-killing action is on its way to Ubuntu

Like Ubuntu's Unity interface? Great. If not, you can easily change it to look and act like Ubuntu used to. This tutorial shows how. I won't debate whether Unity is an improvement. This article is simply a "How To" for those who want to alter it. We'll start by customizing Unity. We'll add and delete icons from the applications Launcher on the left-hand side of the screen, then we'll add icons and folders to the desktop. I'll introduce some Unity tweaking tools.

Finally some non-Phoronix exclusive information about Steam/Source Engine on Linux ;) Valve Software has begun to write about their Steam Linux client initiatives on their public blog. Over at blogs.valvesoftware.com/Linux is the start of the Linux blog! This should be linked to from the main Valve Software blog in the near future, I'm told (I was just pinged by them this evening about the soon-to-go-live blog post). The first post is entitled "Steam’d Penguins"; the post's author isn't displayed but I would assume it was written by Mike Sartain.

Some Linux kernels require more release candidates than others, no matter what Linus Torvalds wants.

As Microsoft prepares Windows 8 and Office 2013, the software giant keeps comparing today’s upgrade opportunities to those from 1995, when Windows 95 and Office 95 reshaped the software market. Then Windows NT Server 4.0?s arrival in 1996 created an even bigger Microsoft revenue wave. But here’s the problem: It’s not 1995, and Microsoft should stop comparing the Windows 8-Office 2013 combination to the Windows 95-Office 95 tidal wave. They aren’t the same. Here’s why.

LinuxCertified Inc, a leading provider of Linux training and services, today announced its next Linux Device Driver Development Course class to be held in South Bay, CA from January 31st - February 2nd, 2011.

Steam for Ubuntu has been finally announced by Valve, giving rest to all the rumors that have been circulating in past few months. Valve is looking to strengthen the gaming scene on Linux, both for players and developers. This includes Linux ports of Steam and Valve games, as well as partner games. They are also investigating open source initiatives that could benefit the community and game developers.

Ryan Finnie today announced the availability of Finnix 105, a live CD distribution for system administrators based on Debian's testing branch: "I am pleased to announce the release of Finnix 105, a major architectural update to the Finnix series. Finnix 105 brings major organizational changes to the build and boot systems, along with the usual assortment of software updates. Finnix 105 is the first Finnix release to be produced under Project NEALE (Normalized Extraction and Assembly of LiveCD Environments), a new set of procedures to build Finnix CDs from a minimal base Debian bootstrap. This allows for a consistent build process each time, and between architectures. It also allows for more future options, such as a native userland AMD64 release."

The Valve Linux team announced last evening, July 16th, that they've selected the Ubuntu operating system to deploy their upcoming Steam client for Linux.

GParted 0.13.0-1 has been released. The most significant enhancement is with GParted 0.13.0, which now shows when there is a difference between the file system size and the partition size. With this new feature, users can learn if there is unallocated space within a partition that can then be put to good use.