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Oracle announced a few minutes ago, May 22nd, the immediate availability for download of the popular VirtualBox 4.1.16 virtualization software.

The Open Source Initiative has announced that the Board has chosen new officers for a one year term and that Simon Phipps is the new President of the organisation. The appointment was made at the OSI meeting in Chicago over the weekend. Phipps told The H that his "focus for the year is to enable that transformation into an organisation fulfilling the first paragraph of OSI's mission and led by those it seeks to represent".

Mageia is very happy to announce the release of Mageia 2, our100% community-driven Linux distribution with users and contributors from countries all over the world.

In the wake of the announcement of the first ever KDE powered tablet, quite a few interesting things are happening in the background. One of them is the formation of a professional Partner Network for devices such as the Vivaldi tablet. Let's look at this Partner Network in more detail.

Back in December 2011, data-intensive Linux users rejoiced as Apache Hadoop reached its 1.0.0 milestone. Setting a benchmark for distributed computing software, this wonderful little program is now into release 1.0.3 but what is Hadoop and how can you benefit from using it? Designed with ‘web-scale’ operations in mind, Hadoop can handle massive amounts of information, allowing you to quickly and efficiently process volumes of data that other systems simply cannot handle. But that’s just the beginning. Hadoop also allows you to network this process – it can distribute large amounts of work across a cluster of machines, allowing you to handle workloads that a single processor simply cannot manage.

If you're new or relatively new to Linux, you may be looking around for good Linux resources and perhaps some tutorials. Whether you're new to Linux or looking to become a more advanced user, there are a lot of free online books and tutorials that can give you guidance. In this post, you'll find our updated collection of many good Linux reference guides online--all available at no cost.

Dick MacInnis has announced the release of Dream Studio 12.04, an Ubuntu-based distribution with a goal of helping users to create graphics, videos, music and websites.

The Mageia development team, through Anne Nicolas, proudly announced a few minutes ago, May 22nd, the immediate availability for download of the Mageia 2 Linux operating system.

China's antitrust authorities have approved Google's purchase of Motorola Mobility, on the condition that the Android operating system remains open source and its code is made freely available to original equipment manufacturers. Android devices had nearly 74 percent of the Chinese market in Q4, 2011, and that means Android is in a dominant position, China's Commerce Department said.

Rock musician and software developer Dick MacInnis, announced a few days ago the availability of the new Dream Studio release which is based on Ubuntu 12.04.

ownCloud has announced the version 4 of its community edition – adding innovations and enhancements that make the popular project even more flexible, secure and innovative.

ownCloud 4 has been released today, getting some much requested features like file encryption, file versioning, a new TODO app and more!

This tutorial shows how you can set up an Ubuntu Studio 12.04 desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge. Please note that Ubuntu Studio 12.04 uses Xfce as the default desktop environment.

In many ways, Scott Widdowson is your typical electrical engineer. Most days, when the weather’s good, he bikes the 15 miles along the Ottawa River to his company’s offices in the west end of the Canadian capital. Once there, he settles in for a day of reading technical specifications, poring over computer textbooks, or prying apart consumer electronics — logic probe in one hand and a soldering iron in the other.

Google has announced it has completed its acquisition of Motorola Mobility. The company began the acquisition process in August 2011, paying $12.5 billion for the mobile phone and tablet maker; with over 17,000 wireless related patents and 7,500 pending patents, Google's acquisition is widely believed to be about that patent portfolio.

Couple of days ago, WonderMedia (subsidiary of VIA Technologies, which in turn is a subsidiary of Formosa Plastics) announced its latest SoC processors, the 800MHz WM8950 and the faster 1.2GHz WM8850 with 512MB of DDR3 memory and 2GB nand flash. Display is via hdmi.

I am jumping the gun a bit and upgrading my Mageia 1 installation on my personal / business SOHO desktop PC tonight, May 21st, to Mageia 2. ... This upgrade is being done over the Internet using the new Mageia 2 media sources with ‘urpmi –auto-update -v’ from a command line login as root on console #1.

The Linux OpenCL support for Intel CPUs is not in as good shape as the Intel Windows OpenCL support at this time, but here are some benchmarks that explore the Intel Ivy Bridge OpenCL performance under Linux.

Linus Torvalds works weekends. We all knew that right? Just to reinforce that point, Torvalds released the third major kernel release of 2012 on Sunday. The Linux 3.4 release was a relatively rapid one, coming after two months and seven release candidates.

Canonical announced a few hours ago, May 21st, in a security notice, that a new Linux kernel update for its Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) operating system is now available, fixing two security vulnerabilities discovered in the Linux kernel packages by various developers.