Two weeks ago, The Linux Foundation announced a new Labs project — OpenMama. This project was the result of a relationship forged with NYSE Technologies years ago at our Enterprise End User Summit held in New York every year. 

Lennart Poettering and Kay Sievers discussed their concept of the "journal" at the 2011 Kernel Summit; now they have posted a detailed document describing how they think their syslog replacement should work. "Break-ins on high-profile web sites have become very common, including the recent widely reported kernel.org break-in. After a successful break-in the attacker usually attempts…

Mandriva releases its commercial edition of Mandriva Linux, Powerpack 2011, featuring the Fluendo DVD player, built-in parental controls and 3 months support as standard…

The TOP500 may have been a bit anticlimactic for some this year, but I still find the list to be a fascinating snapshot of the state of HPC today. Rich Miller from Datacenter Knowledge brings us this photo gallery of the Top 10…

The addition of lossless compression and a transparency mode to Google's open source image format could enable it to compete with the popular PNG format…

The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) is reporting a major vulnerability in BIND 9, with an apparent exploit in the wild. According to the announcement servers running BIND 9 and performing recursive queries should upgrade immediately. 

OMB Watch and the Sunlight Foundation today [November 16, 2011] released an open letter to the U.S. Senate supporting continued funding for the Electronic Government Fund's important transparency projects. 

Linux creator Linus Torvalds spoke at the LinuxCon Brazil event this week, and had some choice words for makers of proprietary technology, especially Apple and Microsoft. 

I heard some good things this week about the PGI Accelerator, which is designed to help mere mortals make their code go faster on x64+GPU platforms. To help get you started, The Portland Group is offering a new 2-day training course on programming GPUs using the PGI Accelerator programming model. This course will provide attendees with the…

Introducing people to the world of free and open source software (FOSS) has always been a priority for the openSUSE project. We’re not only doing so for new users with our distribution (did you get 12.1 yet?) or for new contributors with our project, we also frequently participate in programs like Googles Summer of Code or Code in.