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When Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers and other executives take the stage at this week’s Cisco Partner Summit, I wonder: Will Cisco executives arrive with Cius tablets? The answer to that question could reveal how Cisco is feeling about its purpose-built tablets, which run Google Android. Here's the update.

Over the past year, I’ve watched closely as Microsoft’s two flagship cloud platforms — Office 365 and Windows Azure — gained anecdotal momentum. But here’s the challenge from Microsoft: It seems like the cloud computing world has increasingly gone open source. Here's the mounting evidence.

Nearly two years ago, Oracle went to court and accused Google's Android team of infringing patents and copyrights related to the Java programming language. After about 900 motions and filings, and legal fees that are undoubtedly mind-boggling, the trial will finally get started this week. Android has faced many legal challenges, but this is easily one of the most significant, and one of the only ones targeting Google itself rather than the company's hardware partners.

LXer Feature: 15-Apr-2012

The latest installment of the LXWR of the weeks big stories for your reading pleasure. Enjoy!

Linus Torvalds announced the release of the Linux 3.4-rc3 kernel on Sunday evening...

According to survey results released earlier this year, Ubuntu still has a lot of room to grow in the cloud space. But it seems to be doing just that, the latest indicator being HP’s release of cloud products based partially on Ubuntu. Here’s the scoop, and why it matters for the Ubuntu world in particular.

Monitoring how much bandwidth is used is a fundamental task to check the status of your servers, or just your desktop, so i always test new tools to see if i find something good. This is the third article of this series and in this one I’ll take a look at Bmon, speedometer and Nload these 3 programs join NetHogs, IPTState, pktstats and IPTraf in my list of useful network tools.

There was a time not so long ago when finding applications to handle media manipulation on Linux was really difficult. One could barely find a decent player for media files.

Developers behind ErLLVM, an LLVM back-end for supporting high-performance Erlang, have called upon this code to be included in mainline LLVM...

A full review of Siduction 11.1.

"Canonical is seeking a business development lead to engage and develop strong relationships with industry partners in the run up to the launch of Ubuntu as a smartphone operating system,".

KDE is not only a graphical frontend for Linux. It comes with a set of applications and also with a set of system administration tools that can help power users take control of their desktops or laptops without dropping to the command line.

The yearly Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is the right spot for buyers and industry insiders to gather information regarding the hottest electronic devices and upcoming products. Previously, the stage was ruled by Google’s Android. Never the less, this year Linux attracted lots of attention, as reported by a PCWorld.com article. Below are a portion of the Linux products which were presented at this year’s CES.

This guide explains how you can set up an iSCSI target and an iSCSI initiator (client), both running Debian Squeeze. The iSCSI protocol is a storage area network (SAN) protocol which allows iSCSI initiators to use storage devices on the (remote) iSCSI target using normal ethernet cabling. To the iSCSI initiator, the remote storage looks like a normal, locally-attached hard drive.

Intel introduced their new Z77 "Panther Point" chipset earlier this month in advance of the Ivy Bridge processor launch. Questions have begun to pour in how the line-up of Z77 motherboards are working under Linux. Are there any Linux compatibility problems? Here is my brief statement on the matter for now after having already used two Z77 motherboards for a while under Linux.

Last week, we had our biggest turn-out ever for our Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit and our Legal Summit held immediately before. Collab has come a long way since the first meeting in 2007 at the Googleplex. While some of the issues and players have changed at heart the result is the same: a cross-section of people from the industry and community who may otherwise not meet collaborating together. We have assembled slides and videos from the week so if you weren't able to join us, please enjoy.

This week the University of Oxford and the Vatican announced a plan to collaborate in digitizing 1.5 million pages of rare and ancient texts, most dating from the 16th century or earlier. The project is expected to span about 4 years and was made possible by a donation of £2 million (approximately $3.1 million) from the Polonsky Foundation—a charitable organization that supports higher education, medical research, and other general matters in the arts and sciences.

The first batch of Raspberry Pi computers are being issued to users. A group of schoolchildren in Leeds are the first to get their hands on production models of the bare-bones computer. Costing only £16, the tiny computer has been designed to inspire anyone, especially children, to get started with computer programming.

FS Icons by Frank Souza is a beautiful icon set for Ubuntu that will give your desktop a new fresh look. The icon set was updated only recently with more application, devices, action icons etc. and If you want a different icon set than Faenza and Awoken, try it out.

A new bill making its way through Congress could allow the government to snoop on private data.