News

• Gnome 3.8 released
• Aereo wins battle to stream broadcast TV

openSUSE 12.3 Out

• New browser engine
• Pirates on the run
• Ubuntu reduces non‑LTS support

Projects

• OpenDaylight open source framework
• ASF promotes CloudStack

Display server expert Daniel Stone explains what is really happening with the future of graphical display protocols on Linux.

We talk with Jean Hollis Weber, a volunteer with ODFAuthors, the LibreOffice Documentation team, and the Friends of OpenDocument Inc.

When memorizing facts, learning, storing, and processing internalizes the subject matter. The Fresh Memory program offers various methods to help you anchor the facts in your memory.

Jailbreak Spat

• White House goes on record in support of freedom to jailbreak cell phones
• News Bites

10 RHEL 6.4 Released

• Yahoo ends telecommuting,
• Canonical UDS
• LG purchases WebOS from HP

11 Passwords Passé

• FIDO alliance seeks new authentication methods
• Largest Mersenne prime discovered

We talk with Jean Hollis Weber, a volunteer with ODFAuthors, the LibreOffice Documentation team, and the Friends of OpenDocument Inc.

A closed-source code base is a huge, ever-fading inertial mass. When it begins, with those first exhilarating lines, or even up through the first few releases, you can truly say that you are writing it. But after a while, it is more like you are tending it – or feeding it. It becomes an investment, an asset, a castle you are protecting, which means all your strategies are defensive and your dreams will not stray far from your spot of holy ground.

The Raspberry Pi computer has rekindled interest in tinkering with hardware and created a market for products combining the tiny computer with customized software.