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This week we look at cloud risks you might not have considered, writing a good BYOD acceptable use policy and 5 reasons for switching to HTML5.

After a bit more testing, unless I can basically fully replicate my old desktop with Linux Mint & MATE, I think I'll go with Linux Mint & KDE when Linux Mint 13 LTS "M[...]a" comes out.

Kickstarter is doing lots of good to Linux gaming as more and more developers are adding Linux support. We already had Double Fine Adventure and Wasteland 2 and now Shadowrun Returns, which has been fully funded in 28 hours ($400k) will most likely come to Linux as well. Jordan Weisman has kickstarted Shadowrun Returns, a graphically rich 2D turn-based single player game with deep story interaction, meaningful character development, and highly-contextual tactical combat. The game is sequel to popular cyberpunk RPG 'Shadowrun' created by Weisman and released way back in 1989. Shadowrun Returns has generated over $500k so far with 11K+ backers.

This is the short linux and open-source news overview for week 13 of 2012. It features small articles bundeling (important) open source related news in one page. This week includes bunch of news, april fools day jokes, systemd & udev, OS/2, KDE, Minecraft and a game called Linux Tycoon.

Run! Run as fast as you can to GOG.com! If you hadn’t already heard, today is the last day to get your free copy of Fallout from Good Old Games. This is great news for gamers who are fans of this style RPG and want to relive a classic, but for some reason they only distribute the Windows version.

While we have seen that Intel's Sandy Bridge is doing well on the new GCC 4.7 compiler, has AMD's Bulldozer CPU architecture advanced at all for this leading multi-platform compiler? Up today are benchmarks of GCC 4.7.0 -- with comparative benchmarks going back to GCC 4.4 -- from an AMD FX-8150 Eight-Core Bulldozer setup.

Memory errors, files flung - how did Redmond win? Yes it crashed a lot. It crashed less than its predecessor though, and kept Microsoft on the path to desktop domination. This was Windows 3.1, released on 6 April 1992, nearly two years after Windows 3.0 was pushed out in May 1990.…

I am not sure how this happened, and the last thing I want to do is criticize an over-worked single developer, but the Linux version was DOA on the download page. They were introducing a Linux-specific version of their product that didn't work. To make it worse, they didn't seem to have a clue that their Linux version did not work.

You will find one of those new features in System Settings, the hub for most graphical administrative tools in Ubuntu and GNOME 3 desktops in general. The tool or application is called Privacy. What it does is not new per se, but new in the manner it executes them.

This story is special, as it was created in an open source manner. The story was written in collaborative fashion by 2-3 dozen people working on it simultaneously. The story is a shining example of the collaborative power of Google Docs. We would like to thank all those who contributed to this story.

For publisher and thinker Tim O'Reilly, the future of technology will not be based in software algorithms as it is today, but on the biggest databases, and the guys who control the most important data on the web are the ones he believes will be the most successful.

Another noteworthy session from this year's Linux Foundation Summit was two Oracle engineers talking about DTrace on Linux. Kris Van Hees and Elena Zannoni of Oracle were at the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit to promote DTrace on Linux. Last year was when it was reported Oracle was bringing DTrace to Linux. In particular, they wanted to bring this Solaris technology from their Sun Microsystems acquisition over to their RHEL-derived Oracle Enterprise Linux.

The first BSD I was able to get to boot on that old Maxspeed Maxterm's VIA C3 processor was OpenBSD (it had to be version 4.2). While following the extensive OpenBSD FAQ is a very good idea now, back then you couldn't get the disk layout right without a strict FAQ-tual reading.

While reading an interesting Blog I discovered a new treasure: TRESOR, in short TRESOR is a secure implementation of AES which is resistant against cold boot attacks and other attacks on main memory. Contrary to popular assumption, DRAMs used in most modern computers retain their contents for seconds to minutes after power is lost, even at operating temperatures and even if removed from a motherboard. Although DRAMs become less reliable when they are not refreshed, they are not immediately erased, and their contents persist sufficiently for malicious (or forensic) acquisition of usable full-system memory images. This is a cold based attack.

Slackware 13.37 and SalixOS 13.37, like most current Linux distributions, use the Open Source nouveau driver by default if an NVIDIA graphics chipset is detected. Nouveau works well with most NVIDIA graphics cards and chipsets but by no means all of them. In some cases the hardware detection works as it should but misconfigures X.org. In other cases, particularly older, legacy chipsets and very new chipsets, the hardware simply is unsupported.

Chris Mason, the Oracle engineer who's the lead developer of the Btrfs, just finished a session at the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit about his promising and feature-rich file-system.

So, you just had to go overboard with your PPA’s, didn’t you? The lure of bleeding-edge software was just to great for you to be able to stick with the tried-and-true software that was already available in your existing repositories.

Linux Mint Debian Update Pack 4 is finally considered stable and is now available for all LMDE users. The update replaces GNOME 2 with GNOME Shell (although it's possible to "freeze" LMDE to GNOME 2) and it also brings Cinnamon and Mate desktop, so LMDE users can choose from three GNOME-based "shells".

LibreOffice OnLine will however be a real competitor to Microsoft Office 365, the web version of Microsoft Office. We will have more features than Microsoft Office 365 and we will not be sending informations to whatever special agency, even when the solution is hosted inside the user's organization, which is unfortunately the case with Office 365.

What does server consolidation mean to you and how does it relate to virtualization. Find out what it can mean for your business.