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The OpenNebula community has announced the release of OpenNebula 3.4 which now supports multiple data storage backends, with separate stores for VM images, disk images in file format, iSCSI/LVM for disk images on block devices and a specialised VMware store for the vmdk format. These new data storage backends work alongside new transfer drivers. The release also reintroduces the concept of load balanaced, high availability clusters.

Where do Linux gurus come from? From baby newbies. How do baby newbies become gurus? One good way is with the help of the best child- and beginner-oriented distribution, DoudouLinux. Linux gurus do not emerge fully-formed from special factories, though one could easily form this impression from employers who expect the impossible, and Linux/FOSS project leaders who don't understand that it takes more than Holy Rock Star Coders to create and support great software.

Linux is already being adopted by an increasing number of car makers such as GM and Jaguar predominantly for in-vehicle infotainment systems. But much work remains to ensure that Linux is automotive-grade. In this article we will discuss the opportunities for Linux in vehicles and the five requirements that need to be addressed to bring it up to speed.

Here is the first beta release of our new Salix edition, using the MATE Desktop Environment. For anyone not familiar with MATE, it's a GNOME2 fork, that continues development of the GNOME 2.x branch. MATE uses the traditional desktop metaphor that was abandoned for newer GNOME 3.x releases. There was a lot of work involved by the MATE developers with forking MATE and most issues that appeared due to forking have been ironed out. The desktop experience provided by the MATE Desktop should now be on par with that of GNOME 2.32.x, with the added advantage that MATE is actually actively developed.

Google has once again revamped Chrome OS, the company's computer operating system. Some users have categorized the changes as very minor, though others say they represent a complete turnaround for the operating system that makes the OS appear to more closely follow examples set by OS X and Windows.

Oracle has proposed dates for various releases on the path to the next new version of the open source implementation of the Java programming language. According to Mathias Axelsson, Oracle's Release Manager for the Java Development Kit (JDK), the company plans to release JDK 8 in September 2013. Before the final release though, the developers intend to publish six JDK "Milestone" releases that will incorporate the new features and enhancements:..

This week HP announced a menu of public and private cloud services with a dash of consulting and training too. For a company that has changed CEOs twice in two years, perhaps it was a step toward stability (even if it was fulfilling the fired CEO's vision).

Proxmox Virtual Environment 2.0 lets you run and manage both KVM virtual machines and OpenVZ containers using a powerful web interface. Koen reveals all…

Stunt Rally is a free and open source 3D rally/racing game for Linux. The game is based on VDrift and Ogre engine and comes with a track editor. Stunt Rally has been been updated to version 1.5 bringing in new features and multiplayer mode.

Samba has issued new versions and multiple patches for a remote code execution hole in its open source software that is included in most Linux distributions as well as Apple’s Mac OS X Server.

Will Schroeder Dr. Will Schroeder is one of the keynote speakers for Akademy 2012 in Tallinn, Estonia. Will is the CEO of Kitware Inc., a proven leader in the creation and support of open-source software.

Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it (Demotivational poster re: our best friend Microsoft )

Magnus Hagander is the president of PostgreSQL Europe and a member of Core Team of PostgreSQL. This year he was lecturing on the Prague PostgreSQL Developers’ Day for the third time.

The latest out of the Wayland development camp is a new, super CI repository setup by a Red Hat engineer that should make it easier to test out Wayland and its reference Weston compositor...

This tutorial explains the installation of a Samba fileserver on OpenSUSE 12.1 and how to configure it to share files over the SMB protocol as well as how to add users. Samba is configured as a standalone server, not as a domain controller. In the resulting setup, every user has his own home directory accessible via the SMB protocol and all users have a shared directory with read-/write access.

Hopefully you're not too anxious to know the codename for the future Fedora 18 Linux release, which will serve as the successor to Fedora 17's Beefy Miracle. Red Hat's legal department has caused a delay in coming up with the codename for this Fedora release due out in H2'2012...

"This is not the best time for this," said John Strand, founder and chief executive of Strand Consult.

Nokia said the problem was related to phone software, not to hardware, the network or the Windows Phone operating system.

"A memory management issue was discovered that could, in some cases, lead to loss of data connectivity," Nokia smartphone unit chief Jo Harlow and Nokia U.S. chief Chris Weber said in a joint statement.

Nokia said a software update, fixing the problem, would be available around April 16.

One of the world's largest research charities, the Wellcome Trust, is to support efforts by scientists to make their work freely available for all. The Trust is to establish a free, online publication to compete with established academic journals. They say their new title could be a "game changer" forcing other publishing houses to increase free access.

While some KDE users running Kubuntu were concerned following Canonical's decision to drop support for Kubuntu following the 12.04 LTS release, there's a new backer of the Kubuntu project outside of Canonical.

I like to think that Linux is about a flexible an operating system as you can find. But it can be easy to forget just how flexible it is. We can get ourselves stuck in our computing habits and stick with the old and familiar. And sometimes, just trying something new can sometimes seem daunting and just not worth the effort.