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• Fedora Linux capitulates to Microsoft boot certificate

  By Joab Jackson | 31 May, 2012 21:34

  In order to get its Linux distribution to run on the next generation of secured desktop computing hardware, the Fedora Project will obtain a digital signature from Microsoft, a developer from the project announced Wednesday.

• Proposal aims to improve EU software repository system

  By Loek Essers | 31 May, 2012 13:46

  The European Commission wants to improve its free and open-source software repository system using an enhanced metadata specification meant to help E.U. countries exchange more information about their free and open-source software projects.

• New open-source CRM app uses gamification

  By Chris Kanaracus | 30 May, 2012 19:29

  The backers of a new open-source CRM (customer relationship management) application called Zurmo are hoping to stand out in a crowded field via the use of gamification, the notion of applying game-like design principles in an effort to make users engage more closely with a product.

• Fedora 17 takes to the cloud

  By Joab Jackson | 29 May, 2012 18:45

  The newest release of the Red Hat-sponsored Fedora Linux distribution includes a number of technologies that haven't made their way into Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) yet, including a new version of the OpenStack cloud platform, code-named Essex, that the company plans to adopt in future editions of its flagship distribution.

• Linux Mint 13 rallies behind Gnome

  By Joab Jackson | 24 May, 2012 16:52

  With the new version of Linux Mint, released Wednesday, the developers behind the open source Linux distribution have put all energies behind Gnome, offering two versions of the desktop interface.

• Linux 3.4 released quickly, after smooth development cycle

  By Joab Jackson | 22 May, 2012 01:02

  Just over two months after its last major release, Linus Torvalds has posted the newest version of the open source Linux kernel, which supports new graphics processors from Nvidia and Intel, improves file system functionality and comes with a new security module.

• Open-source messaging at (nearly) the speed of light

  By Jon Gold | 18 May, 2012 06:25

  Felix Ehm, a member of CERN's beams control group, has always had a curious and scientific bent.

• Red Hat preps RHEL 7 for second half of 2013

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 16 May, 2012 06:06

  The next major release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), version 7, is targeted for release in the second half of 2013, Red Hat said on Tuesday, as it also celebrated the tenth anniversary of its enterprise OS.

• Open source cloud project backers duking it out for support

  By Brandon Butler | 12 May, 2012 07:26

  In the less than two months since Citrix gave its CloudStack software an Apache license, cloud providers are beginning to support the open source model.

• Google files for new trial on copyright claims in Android suit

  By Chris Kanaracus | 10 May, 2012 00:02

  Google is seeking a new trial on copyright claims in Oracle's intellectual-property lawsuit against it over the Android mobile OS, according to a filing made late Tuesday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

• IDC: Explosive growth expected for Hadoop, MapReduce-related revenues

  By Chris Kanaracus | 08 May, 2012 05:33

  The market for software related to the Hadoop and MapReduce programming frameworks for large-scale data analysis will jump from $US77 million in 2011 to $US812.8 million in 2016, a compound annual growth rate of 60.2 per cent, according to a new report released by analyst firm IDC.

• Wide-Open Search

  By Stacy Collett | 07 May, 2012 20:11

  Twitter, Facebook, the Library of Congress -- all of these institutions have mind-numbing amounts of structured and unstructured data that must be indexed and searched quickly. In Twitter's case, that's about 300 million new pieces of information to index every day.

• Open-source cloud frameworks: A work in progress

  By Robert L. Scheier | 07 May, 2012 20:11

  When IT consultancy OpenCredo set out to launch three new applications within seven months for a major insurance underwriter, it had three goals in mind: Trim development time from the usual years-long pace, allow for frequent changes from the client, and build a system that can handle unpredictable traffic spikes.

• Tibco adds Hadoop support to its Spotfire in-memory analytics

  By Chris Kanaracus | 07 May, 2012 14:06

  Tibco has brought its Spotfire in-memory analytics software into the burgeoning ecosystem around Hadoop, an open-source framework for processing large sets of information, the company announced Tuesday.

• Oracle wants judge to bar ex-Sun CEO Schwartz's testimony in Google suit

  By Chris Kanaracus | 05 May, 2012 03:44

  Oracle has asked a judge to bar Google from using some testimony given by former Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz in the companies' intellectual-property suit over the Android mobile OS, saying it has "no legal and factual predicate."