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As part of our LinuxCon Preview series, I recently had the opportunity to ask a few questions of our keynote speaker Stormy Peters . ...

One of the most critical components in any flourishing community is to ensure contributions that are offered in good faith are fairly reviewed in a timely manner. Unfortunately, the success of Ubuntu has resulted in more contributions than we have had time to review, and Nigel Babu is leading the way to encourage the ...

Sugar CRM may have open source technology at its core, but with the latest release of its customer-relationship management platform offers two different interfaces for the commercial and community versions. ...

When Facebook users started getting nervous about the social networking company's privacy missteps, the open source community did what it does best -- stepped up to build a better platform based on transparency and open source tools.... ...

Since late 2009, talk of how Google's Chrome OS is being positioned to "take on" Microsoft Windows has been promoted by individuals who I believe have no idea what they're talking about. ...

Google has announced a new browser-based visual development tool called App Inventor that allows users to create Android applications without having to write any code. It appears to be aimed primarily at students... ...

Google has announced a new browser-based visual development tool called App Inventor that allows users to create Android applications without having to write any code. It appears to be aimed primarily at students... ...

3Crowd, a startup that provides management tools for cloud-based services, is announcing the public availability of its platform, CrowdDirector. Founded by BitGravity co-founder Barrett Lyon, 3Crowd’s management tools give enterprises greater controls over content delivery and other cloud services, enabling them to use multiple services at once. CrowdDirector serves as.. ...

Webfinger is a new Internet "identity discovery" mechanism, with which you can make personal or professional information about you or your organization discoverable through email addresses. Several well-known web service providers have implemented Webfinger for their customers' profiles, but if you manage your own mail server, all it takes to join the game is ...

Blue Water Embedded announced a royalty-free graphical user interface (GUI) development framework for embedded devices, including those running Linux. The Prism Runtime Framework is a cross-platform GUI toolkit that incorporates Prism Micro, a GUI toolkit for constrained color-depth targets, and Prism Insight, a Linux-compatible desktop GUI design and resource editing... ...

Linux is blessed with several different package managers, so using a different distribution often means learning a different way to install, update, and remove software. Use Juliet Kemp's handy package manager cheatsheet to get going with a minimum of fuss. ...

As mentioned in earlier posts, the new English wiki is scheduled to go live on Monday.  Here are a few technical details about the change itself: Schedule The transition will begin on Monday, June 12 at 17:00 GMT (1:oo PM EDT) The move should be completed in 10 – 15 minutes During the move ...

Less than one week after the release of version 2.6.9 of GIMP, the GIMP project has issued the tenth point update to the 2.6.x branch of GIMP to fix a bug that caused the open source image editing tool to crash when clicking on a scroll bar... ...

The hosting provider is taking a different approach with its new cloud hosting service based on Linux KVM virtualization. ...

Yesterday on Android Community , the results of a benchmark battle between Android 2.2 and iOS4 in a Javascript test were published. Android 2.2 put a serious beat down on iOS4 in the test. Today MeeGo has been put up against Android 2.2 in the same test and Android got a taste of its ...

The fragmentation of Linux has become a hot topic in recent weeks as industry leaders debate how the community can collaborate to compete against single, vertical operating systems without creating an ecosystem that pulls the community in too many directions at once to be truly effective... ...

After its sold-out debut last year, LinuxCon in year two is expected to be even better. ...

IBM researchers in Switzerland are standing server cooling on its head, using water as warm as 140 degrees to cool processors that have an unusually high safe operating temperature. ...

The research firm trims its 2010 forecast for global IT spending. What areas still look strong ...

The Opera web browser runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux, and on mobile phones and mobile devices. ...