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The recent verdict against Oracle in its patent case against Google over Java use in Android is good news for the Linux community – and in more ways than one, according to Keith Bergelt, CEO of the Open Invention Network (OIN). The OIN was set up in 2005 to build a defensive patent-portfolio pot that could be shared royalty-free by participants, and which could be used to ward off patent trolls and aggressive litigation against Linux. Companies such as Red Hat, Google, and IBM have put money into the venture as a way of safeguarding themselves and promoting open source code.

The KDE Project announced last evening, June 5th, the first Beta release for the upcoming KDE Software Compilation 4.9 environment.

Installing updates while the session is running can cause many unpleasant situations for the users and their system. The risks are many, including the updating of libraries while they are running, updating while some file resources have not been locked, and sometimes in core OS updates we may even see a complete system corruption.

One week ago today, I said that I wanted to Open Source (under the GPL) all of my software. And, that if I hit $4,000 in contributions by midnight on Monday, the 4th (today), it would happen. As of the last tally (earlier today), we had broken $3,000. At the current rate, we’ll likely hit around $3,500 by midnight. So I’m extending the goal line out by a few days. Let’s, say, Friday. At sundown. In Seattle, WA [aka 9:05 PM Pacific Time]. Another, even more, arbitrary deadline. But that gives plenty of time to meet the goal.

Recently I have been emulating Yosemite Sam, but with less creative verbiage. “Why?”, you may ask. Well, it is due to the “new and improved” Evolution 3.4.1 in my shiny Mageia 2 upgrade on my daily use tower PC.

The first beta release of KDE SC 4.9 is now available...

A new AIIM survey found that companies clearly recognize the value of big data analytics, but struggle when it comes to choosing tools -- whether open source or not -- to get at the answers they need. It's an area IT pros can clearly exploit to help their companies in this increasingly important area.

An announcement was made on May 16th, 2012, regarding an agreement between the Department of Defense, the Department of Veterans Affairs and 3M to create a public use version of the HDD, called HDD Access, which will be available for download from the HDD Access website later this year.

When asked whether the release would be later this year or next year, Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth said "possibly," though he could not provide a specific date.

Fedora is always loaded with new technologies, and the new Fedora 17 release has the most ever. Get a head start on what's going to appear in Red Hat Enterprise Linux by grabbing a copy of the new Beefy Miracle.

Should you be looking towards purchasing a new high-end graphics card from AMD or NVIDIA, here are some updated benchmarks of the AMD Radeon HD 7950 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 when both graphics cards were tested under Ubuntu 12.04 with their proprietary Linux graphics drivers.

After writing last month the open-source graphics card is dead and why the open-source graphics card failed, this weekend I received an email that begins with "Open Graphics! Here we go again! As our master thesis work we have implemented a open source graphics accelerator."..

The Mageia development team announced last evening, June 3rd, that the ISO images of the Mageia 2 operating system have been updated to include a new wallpaper.

This tutorial shows how to set up a standalone storage server on Ubuntu 12.04. Instead of NFS, I will use GlusterFS here. The client system will be able to access the storage as if it was a local filesystem. GlusterFS is a clustered file-system capable of scaling to several peta-bytes. It aggregates various storage bricks over Infiniband RDMA or TCP/IP interconnect into one large parallel network file system. Storage bricks can be made of any commodity hardware such as x86_64 servers with SATA-II RAID and Infiniband HBA.

I'd like to ask the LXer and Linux communities what tablet they think is the best match for someone who uses Linux on the desktop.

There is good news for Debian Sid users. "The final bits of GNOME 3.4 have landed and if all looks as good as it does now, they should migrate to wheezy in about a week," posts Jordi Mallach on his blog.

Canonical will be present, for the first time, at the Computex exhibition in Taipei, Asia’s largest ICT trade show.

Fedora 17, Beefy Miracle, post installation guide. Things to do after installing Fedora 17.

Here's the latest in the steaming excitement concerning Valve's Source Engine and Steam client coming to Linux...

Halo fans probably know this better than anyone, but for those of you who are in the dark, this is for you. The Marathon Trilogy was a suite of first-person shooters developed for the classic Macintosh in the mid-90s by Bungie Software.