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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.

If you have not heard of the new Raspberry Pi yet, then you surely will soon enough. The new budget computer has just passed its Conformité Européenne testing, so now it can be stamped with the commonly seen CE mark and sold throughout Europe. A limited number of units were sold before the device was certified, and distribution was halted until the Pi passed the quality control tests. The distributors of the Raspberry Pi also took the time to make sure that the device meets all the regulations enforced by Australian, Canadian, and US supervisory bodies. So now the new Raspberry Pi, starting at the mere price of $25, is ready to be unleashed upon the world, but what does this mean for Linux users and developers?

VxWorks developers can take advantage of the advanced features, cross platform flexibility, compliance with ANSI standards, and SQL offered by ITTIA DB SQL for building mission critical applications.

"We announced in November that we would be taking Ubuntu to a lot of new devices," said Peter Goodall, product manager for Canonical. "We've been very popular in the PC desktop and server space. We have done really well. We realized that to take Ubuntu into the next generation, we needed to move beyond the traditional PC and server and move into devices like tablets, TVs and even cars."

The Qt development toolkit is undergoing a major overhaul. The developers behind the project announced the availability of the Qt 5 alpha release this week. It's a key milestone on the path to the official launch of Qt 5, expected to occur later this year.

A 15 month study of 319 primary schools in rural Peru by the Inter-American Development bank (IDB) has concluded that the One Laptop per Child project is not enough, at least on its own, to improve educational outcomes. This is believed to be the first evaluation of OLPC that looks at student learning and was performed by taking 320 schools of which 210 were randomly selected to get OLPC-XO laptops.

One recently established government agency had the luxury of building its IT infrastructure from the ground up, and it chose open source software whenever possible. It also is open sourcing its custom code as a way of giving back to the community.

Verio is partnering with Citrix CloudStack to launch Cloudn, a cloud services platform that’s available now exclusively to partners. Verio joins a growing list of cloud services providers that are backing Citrix CloudStack, an open source cloud platform that is widely considered a rival to OpenStack. Here are details.

You’re a vile one, Mr. Hess. You have sarcasm in your soul. You have all the subtle diplomacy of a lovesick Troll.

A while back, Canonical announced that it will no longer fund Kubuntu, the KDE Ubuntu flavor, thus making it a community-only Ubuntu flavor. But there is some good news for Kubuntu users: Blue Systems will start sponsoring Kubuntu starting with version 12.10 for which the development cycle starts in May.