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IBM's New SMB Cloud-making Machines

Shawn Powers — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 16:40:55 +0000

This week IBM released a bunch of new hardware, including 8 new Power Systems, 3 PureSystems models, and new storage technology. This is good news for small and medium businesses, because it means the same powerful hardware that powers Watson (http://www-03.ibm.com/innovation/us/watson/) is now available at prices designed to compete with commodity hardware from other vendors. more>>

Kyle Rankin to Keynote SCALE 11x

LJ Staff — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 22:59:46 +0000

The Southern California Linux Expo SCALE 11X has just announced that popular Linux Journal columnist, Kyle Rankin, will give the second keynote at the expo in February.

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Texas Linux Fest is This Week - Win a Free Pass

Katherine Druckman — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 17:56:12 +0000

*Update*

Congratulations to our winners: Marc R., Elizabeth S., Patrick D., Trey D., and Steve A.
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OSI Announces It Will Open the Organization to Individual Members

Kevin Shockey — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 18:15:03 +0000

Wednesday, July 17, at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference in Portland, Oregon, the Open Source Initiative (OSI) announced a new initiative to open up the organization to individual members. Historically, the organization was open only to affiliate members, so this announcement marks a significant new direction for the open-source advocate. more>>

Public Art with Augmented Reality and Blender

Katherine Druckman — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 21:56:08 +0000

Augmented reality artist/developer, Nathan Shafer, has plans to illustrate the history of Exit Glacier in Seward, Alaska via 3D modeling using popular open source modeling software, Blender. more>>

Software Discrimination Is Never The Answer

Justin Ryan — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 16:53:08 +0000

Last night, as I was perusing social media, a post from a friend caught my attention. It seems that the web-types at Kogan, an online electronics retailer in Australia and the UK, have tired of the additional work required to support Internet Explorer 7, and to even the score, have imposed a 6.8% tax on shoppers using IE7. more>>

Blue Drop Awards Celebrate Achievements in Open Source Web Development

Katherine Druckman — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 19:22:01 +0000

The first ever Blue Drop Awards for excellence in Drupal development were announced yesterday. Organized and led by Ben Finklea of Volacci, the awards were both a community effort to celebrate the great work of Drupal Developers, and also a vehicle for Drupal and open source evangelism. more>>

The Future Web at DrupalCon Denver

Katherine Druckman — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 20:39:36 +0000

It's DrupalCon season once again, which means Drupalers from all over the world will converge next week on Denver, Colorado, to educate each other about their favorite CMS and platform, and this eternal debate about CMS vs. platform seems to be at the heart of this year's event. more>>

Munich Linux Migration Project LiMux Reports Success

Michael Reed — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 18:22:09 +0000

LiMux, a project to convert local government institutions to Linux and open source software in Munich, has exceeded initial expectations. The project has done slightly better than projections of 8,500 and now boasts 9,000 Linux migrated workstations. The progress and evolution of this project that began in 2003 is well worth examination. more>>

Linux Heavyweights Develop Secure Boot Strategy

Michael Reed — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 16:33:49 +0000

Canonical and Red Hat have issued a joint statement regarding Microsoft’s plan to make UEFI Secure Boot a requirement of Windows 8. Simultaneously, The Linux Foundation has issued a similar statement. more>>

SCALE 10X to host SCALE Kids Conference

Katherine Druckman — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 20:56:07 +0000

Very cool news from the organizers of SCaLE: more>>

SCALE Call for Papers Opens Today

Katherine Druckman — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 20:09:38 +0000

From the SCALE organizers (you might recognize one of them from our August cover): more>>

LibreOffice Developer Glimpse Proves Balance

Susan Linton — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 13:00:00 +0000

Florian Effenberger recently posted statistics of the number of developers contributing to the LibreOffice project. Several months ago, Cedric Bosdonnat offered data on the number of contribution and contributors from the various sources. more>>

OSCON Will Stream Keynotes and More Online

Katherine Druckman — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 16:32:20 +0000

Can't make it to OSCON this year? You can still catch keynotes, interviews and news via live streaming video.

Check back right here during the conference July 25-29, 2011 to enjoy some great content virtually.

Keynotes are Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at 9am Pacific. more>>

Mageia 2 Release Details Revealed

Susan Linton — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 13:00:00 +0000

After an extensive discussion with the community on the Mageia developmental mailing list, Anne Nicolas revealed the results concerning Mageia release and support cycles as well as the release schedule for Mageia 2. The consensus was to use basically the same cycle used in Mageia 1. more>>