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Clement Lefebvre announced last evening, April 11th, the immediate availability for download of the Release Candidate version of Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) 201204.

The Calyx Institute is founded by Nick Merrill after 6 years under an, ultimately, illegal gag order from the FBI. He was the owner of a small ISP and had been issued a "National Security Letter" from the FBI requesting information about one of his customers. The letter also included a gag order threatening him with prison if he did not observe it. Turns out the "NSF" was not issued after a judge had reviewed evidence and the FBI was way beyond the limits the Patriot Act had established. Nick has now made it his mission in life to make user privacy the focus of a new ISP. The Tor Project and others are signed on to change the way we access the internet and telecommunications services with end-to-end encryption. "Calyx will use all legal and technical means available to protect the privacy and integrity of user data," he says.

Not directly FOSS related but of interest to our readers I think - Scott

Gartner has released a new worldwide tablet sales forecast, covering 2012 through 2016. But… Can you really trust a Gartner forecast for a bunch of products that don’t exist (example: Windows 8 tablets) and a product family whose future is at risk (example: RIM QNX). Here’s a reality check.

Technology gulf between east and west clear to see Does China have the best hackers in the world? Well, new stats from code sprint site Interview Street would seem to indicate that they certainly dominate the global rankings when it comes to programming skills.…

Linberry is a great and amazing app for Linux distribution and work in ubuntu that offers a simple, quick and most efficient way to manage your Blackberry Smarthone using USB cable on Ubuntu Computer.

How exactly did CloudStack promoter Citrix Systems go from super-boring (multi-user software and the ICA protocol) to extremely strategic (desktops as a service, virtualization, mobile computing, collaboration and cloud computing)? Here's the answer.

ROSA Desktop is a Linux distribution derived from Mandriva Desktop and developed by ROSA, a technology outfit based in Moscow, The Russian Federation. ROSA Desktop 2012 beta is the first pre-release edition of what will become ROSA Desktop 2012. It is supposed to be a Long Term Support (LTS) edition, with a 5-year support period.

Given that the status of Mandriva is still a big question mark, it is good to see activity coming from the folks at ROSA. This article is a short review of this beta release. A detailed review will be published when the final edition becomes available.

On September 2 this year, SUSE will mark 20 years in the Linux business. That's an eternity in an industry where 18 months is considered a lifetime.

A while back when messing with the chromium OS development branch on my nettop i stumbled upon Aura, a Window manager for the Chromium "desktop". I put it down to Google doing their usual "trow the kitchen sink at developers and see what sticks" approach to things and left it at that. Much to my surprise i saw that Google where planning on pushing this update out to all Chromebooks and that it has already done so with to the beta branch of Chromium OS.

Back in 2010 there was the fork of KDE's KOffice to form what would be called the Calligra Suite, following unresolved disputes among KOffice developers. After being in development for quite some time, the Calligra developers have today made their first release: Calligra 2.4.

Support for ubuntu 10.10 maverick meerkat end on April 10, 2012. This date was established when Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat was released in october of 2010. This announcement on the Ubuntu Developer mailing list, Kate Stewart as Ubuntu Release Manager writes :

Canonical is planning on three major additions to the Linux-verse that could easily be a complete reversal of fortune (to the tune of the late Steve Jobs miraculously re-joining Apple).

LinuxCertified,Inc. a leading provider of Linux training, will offer Linux system administration bootcamp on April 14 - 15, 2012 near San Francisco (South Bay). This workshop is designed for busy information technology professionals and is designed to cover the most important Linux administration areas. All attendees get a free Linux laptop.

In an ongoing effort to make its Cloud Foundry the Linux of the cloud, the company announced today two open source projects — Bosh and re-engineered CloudFoundry.org management platform — and emphasized that its PaaS is open source and offers multi-cloud support for the new generation of cloud apps.

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:..