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Wednesday, July 17, at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference in Portland, Oregon, the Open Source Initiative (OSI) announced a new initiative to open up the organization to individual members. Historically, the organization was open only to affiliate members, so this announcement marks a significant new direction for the open-source advocate. The shift represents a move from a governance model of volunteer and self-appointed directors to one driven by members.

The most common mistake that new SSD users tend to make is installing a new Linux distro or replacing the current one without secure erase it first.

Linux Deepin, one of the most active community distributions in China, today released its version 12.06 that was originally scheduled for the end of last month. This project employs a half-year release cycle and is highly attractive to Chinese university students. The desktop environment in this release is Deepin GNOME Shell, which is the GNOME Shell adapted to the way users prefer to manage the desktop. Three extensions for Hide Message Tray, Kimpanel, and Panel Settings are introduced for better GUI experience.

A quick tip on how to change Thunderbird's date format in Date column to match your system's locale

Teresa W, Docs & Drive Community Manager, of Google assures, Google Drive for Linux remains a priority for the team. Thanks for following up with us!

One could write thousands of pages about all the features PostgreSQL offers. Instead, let's take a look at five features that are particularly interesting and find out where PostgreSQL sits in relation to other open source and proprietary database systems. PostgreSQL has a lot more to offer than might be immediately obvious.

Pidgin is a nice chatting client that is pre-installed in a lot of Linux distributions. Pidgin supports many chat platforms like yahoo, facebook, irc, AIM ... but unfortunately, the popular social network Twitter is not on this list.

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has announced that the Call For Papers for this year's upcoming ApacheCon Europe event is now open. The ASF's official European user conference will take place from 5 to 9 November at the Rhein-Neckar Arena in Sinsheim, Germany.

The two types of user accounts are Administrator and Standard. The user account created during the installation process is, by default, of the Administrator type. That is the superuser. A user with that account can perform any task on the system.

Steam on Linux may be a lot closer than you think, with the announcement of Steam for Ubuntu just the tip of the iceberg

Nginx (pronounced "engine x") is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server. Nginx is known for its stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and low resource consumption. This tutorial shows how you can install Nginx on a CentOS 6.3 server with PHP5 support (through PHP-FPM) and MySQL support.

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.