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Here's an interesting look at the state of the Ubuntu bug count as it concerns Linux graphics driver issues...

Back in 2008 and 2009 I kept a really close eye on the top 50 open source companies and their partnering strategies. Fast forward to 2012 and whatever became of those top 50 open source companies? Some are thriving, some are dead, and some are repositioning for the cloud and barely even mention open source anymore. Here's the update.

The FBI has been lobbying top internet companies like Yahoo and Google to support a proposal that would force them to provide backdoors for government surveillance, according to CNET.

The Bureau has been quietly meeting with representatives of these companies, as well as Microsoft (which owns Hotmail and Skype), Facebook and others to argue for a legislative proposal, drafted by the FBI, that would require social-networking sites and VoIP, instant messaging and e-mail providers to alter their code to make their products wiretap-friendly.

A whopping 85 percent of Citrix Systems VARs see an opportunity to build private clouds using CloudStack, the open source cloud computing alternative to OpenStack. Here are the details and implications.

Being present at the Ubuntu Developer Summit for Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal), Electronic Arts announced the immediate availability for download of two games in Ubuntu Software Center.

DHS Warns of Cyber Attack Targeting Natural Gas Industry: Companies Requested Not To Take Action to Remove Attackers, Says Source

According to reports, which were confirmed Friday by ICS-CERT, an active Phishing campaign is responsible for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issuing three warnings since the end of March that the natural gas industry has been under ongoing cyber attack. However, it’s the advice that the DHS is giving that should raise some red flags.

In future releases, more design changes will be introduced to Gnome 3 and there will be a better login and notifications experience.

This is a short post on how I replaced MySQL with MariaDB and then installed mod_ruid2 as an alternative to php-fcgi (for Apache), for enhanced performance on Debian Squeeze.

CNET learns the FBI is quietly pushing its plan to force surveillance backdoors on social networks, VoIP, and Web e-mail providers, and that the bureau is asking Internet companies not to oppose a law making those backdoors mandatory.

For reasons mentioned in yesterday’s blog item, I’m not at the Ubuntu Developers Summit in Oakland. Oh, I could go up there and attend — it’s only 80 miles from the cozy confines of the Felton redwoods — but I value my life and I’d like to keep it, thank you very much.

This is not to say that I don’t hear about what’s going on there from friends, as well as from members of the Ubuntu Apocalypse, who are in attendance and are blogging, tweeting and communicating in some form or another (no smoke signals yet, sadly). I do hear a lot of what’s going on, and I thank everyone for posting the updates.

Apache OpenOffice 3.4, the first (stable) release of the free software office suite since its development was handed over to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), has been released. The announcement was made earlier today.

Get a sneak-peek at the new Vivaldi Content Store for the Vivaldi tablet!

All eyes on Judge Alsup as big questions remain unanswered Analysis No judge has tried harder than Judge Alsup, presiding over the Oracle-versus-Google case, to persuade two warring parties not to go to court. But he hadn't counted for the egos of the two billionaire Larrys.…

ITTIA DB SQL version 5.4 provides features such as clustered indexes, scrollable SQL cursors, a Python scripting API, Unicode SQL query strings, for any environment with or without operating system.

“IQnection has rewritten the website code and is rebuilding Linux.org from the ground up. Our developers are currently working on the next roll-out which will add some pretty incredible social aspects to the site.”

Mark Shuttleworth, father of the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, proudly announced earlier today, May 7th, at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Oakland, USA, the goals for the upcoming Ubuntu 12.10 operating system.

Google showed incredible stupidity, arrogance or both when it sniffed not just WiFi networks, but private information such as email addresses while it was at it. When you purport to do no evil, you better have a better grip on what's going on inside your business.

Next in our series of Python modules you should know is pydkim. This package is used to sign and verify email according to the DKIM standards from within Python programs.

OSHackers is a website that aims to count GNU/Linux users and place them geographically using their Linux distribution as the marker. You can visit OSHackers and put yourself on the map, and you can search for people that use Linux around your area.

A few days ago, a post on the Ubuntu Forums was announcing a PPA for Ubuntu 12.04 that adds two patches for Unity: 'Dodge windows' and minimize/unminimize on click for the Unity launcher, but initially, the patches had a few bugs (including a bug that prevented minimize from working with multiple windows) which have been fixed recently.