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"We see far more infections on Windows than we do Macs, Unix and Linux," says Wade Baker, author of the Verizon 2012 Data Breach Investigations Report, a study based on cybercrime investigations conducted by Verizon's team, which is comprised of data-breach reports from Verizon and various law-enforcement groups around the globe, including the U.S. Secret Service and the Australian Federal Police.

DebConf 2012, this year's Debian event, will begin on Sunday and run through next week...

This is the short linux and open-source news overview for week 27 of 2012. It features small articles bundeling (important) open source related news in one page. This week includes A Dilbert cartoon, the gpl, the fsf, secure boot, grub, linux mint, yafida, debian, transmission, mozilla thunderbird, android, CERN and the Higgs Boson, pidgin, crunchbang, bluefish and more...

Archbang 2012.07.02 is quietly released. ArchBang is lightweight distribution and live CD that combines Arch Linux with the Openbox window manager. The latest version also includes a graphical system installer.

Eichenwald uses details learned from dozens of interviews with current and former Microsoft executives as well as confidential corporate records to piece together the long string of decisions that has lost Microsoft its leadership position in several key markets. As Vanity Fair points out, “a single Apple product—the iPhone—generates more revenue than all of Microsoft’s wares combined.”

As Valve Software's Linux efforts continue to advance, they uncover Linux bugs. Fortunately, at least one Valve-spotted Linux kernel bug has now been corrected by NVIDIA...

You all know this issue in Gnome 3 that you can’t even change the icons by default. Thousands of people are grumbling for that and of course they have any right. But let’s see what the Official Gnome says about it.

Sometimes is useful to sync automatically files over the net between 2 or more computers, maybe you want to keep some configuration files aligned on different servers or maybe you have a cluster of web servers and you want to keep their document root aligned so your customer will always see the same result.

You could do this with a network filesystem like NFS, GlusterFS or Coda File system. But why do complicated things when you could easily do this just keeping in sync the local filesystem ?

In a former article I’ve talked about Unison to do a work like that, and it works, the limit of Unison is that you can have just 2 nodes, but if you have more nodes you have to use a different solution like the one i present you today: csync2

In the last seven days: a Linux leap-second bug caused systems to freeze, the John the Ripper password cracker added GPU support, and DNSChanger victims will lose internet on Monday. Also, a roadmap for RHEL 7, a look at Clojure, and the Kernel Log on filesystem and storage changes coming in Linux 3.5

Puppy Linux is a great lightweight LINUX distribution that comes in multiple forms. Which is the best? Wary, Slacko or Lucid. In the 3rd and final part of the series I review the power of Lucid Puppy and make a somewhat shocking confession.

Mozilla are pulling resources for new development work from the Thunderbird email client, putting it into a "stability/security fixes" only mode while inviting any future innovations in messaging to come from the community

How to add watermark to documents using GIMP and LibreOffice Writer

Internet security researchers said Thursday they may have been mistaken about claims that mobile devices powered by Google Inc.’s Android operating system were hacked and used to send spam emails. Redmond's in there too, busily ramping up the spam label on Android.

Robert Shingledecker announced a few hours ago, July 7th, the immediate availability for download of the Tiny Core 4.5.6 Linux operating system.

Verizon pressed its argument against the Federal Communications Commission's new network neutrality rules on Monday; filing a legal brief with the United States Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit. The company argued the FCC's rules not only exceeded the agency's regulatory authority, but also violated network owners' constitutional rights. Specifically, Verizon believes that the FCC is threatening its First Amendment right to freedom of speech and its property rights under the Fifth Amendment.

Verizon believes that Congress has not given the FCC the power to impose network neutrality regulations on the nation's ISPs. Last year, the firm sued to stop the implementation of the rules the FCC adopted in December 2010.

Will licensing licentiousness rile Free Softies? One of the principal authors of version 3 of the Gnu General Public License (GPL) has spun off his own version of the license without the participation of the Free Software Foundation (FSF), in a move that could ruffle feathers in the often-cantankerous free software community.…

Screencasts have a wide variety of uses. This type of software is often deployed to describe software projects, report bugs, and for evaluating technical skills. Plain text screencasting lets you explain and perform commands at the same time, simultaneously offering a tutorial and showcase. Further, plain text screencasting uses less bandwidth than flash video, and provides a powerful educational tool.

Mozilla will be announcing Monday that they will be basically stripping away their resources towards the advancement of the Thunderbird e-mail client. In a private email sent to Mozilla employees today, Mozilla shared that on Monday they will be announcing their plans to restructure Thunderbird. Mozilla Thunderbird isn't being killed, but they will basically be making it more community-based with Mozilla employees being re-tasked to other projects.

Well folks - Duke Nuke'em Forever might have beat them to a release, but E team is prepping for a major (stable!) release themselves.

The Chakra development team is proud to announce the final 'Archimedes' release, this codename has followed the KDE SC 4.8 series. With this release a big move to /usr/lib has occurred to prepare Chakra for a complete move to systemd, Linux kernel is updated to version 3.4.3, udev to 182, new initscripts used, kmod is at 8, mkinitcpio at 0.8.8, to name a few of the newer base packages included.