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Mint is growing in popularity – this is a nice installation guide for those that are keen to look at taking the jump from Windows to Linux Full story

To view this email as a web page, click here Mimecast Newsletter Content Editor’s Foreword / Training / Events / Product & Service Update / Community/Blog / Industry News / Case Study Editor’s Foreword Dear Customer, Welcome to this latest edition of the Mimecast Customer Newsletter. This month, we want to give you the lowdown on our new and improved … Read More

Summary: The world’s “largest cyberattack” has been uncovered. Business and universities — and governments — were the main target of the attack by the data-stealing malware. Security researchers have discovered a new ‘data-vacuuming’ malware which has targeted a number of Middle Eastern countries including Israel and Iran. Kaspersky said it believes “Flame” is larger than its apparent infamous counterparts Stuxnet and Duqu, … Read More

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Microsoft is increasingly warming to open source. Not only is the company increasingly publishing open-source projects of its own, it’s also developing major parts of its web/cloud infrastructure in the open and is also supporting a variety of external open-source projects. This is great news, but it’s taken a long time and a considerable amount of hard work and damage-repair … Read More

The server virtualization and public cloud service market is dominated by three players: VMware, Microsoft and Citrix, and three hypervisors: vSphere, Hyper-V and Xen. So it’s easy to forget that there’s a fourth player, in the form of Red Hat, its KVM hypervisor, and its Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) platform. RHEV has been coming on quite nicely in terms … Read More

Engine Yard has announced that JRuby core team members Thomas Enebo and Charles Nutter are leaving the company to join Red Hat in an apparently friendly deal between the two firms. According to Red Hat’s Mark Little, bringing the two developers to the company “has been almost 2 years in the making”. In addition to JRuby, they will be working … Read More

Open … and Shut The good open source lord giveth, and it taketh away, and no one knows this better than Red Hat. As Red Hat chief executive Jim Whitehurst declared at this week’s Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco, California, open source and its children – including cloud computing – are laying waste to the economics of how … Read More

It’s no secret that open source software is playing an increasingly prominent role in businesses around the globe, but a recent survey has uncovered a few surprising findings about adopters’ motivations for choosing it. Specifically, freedom from vendor lock-in is now users’ top reason for choosing open source software, according to the 451 Group. “While we had seen vendor lock-in … Read More

The new wave of fun geek toys is inexpensive, hackable, tiny Linux-powered ARM computers, and they’re red hot. This is the year to go small. The ARM platform has been around for a long time, and nearly everyone has used an ARM-powered device. ARM CPUs come in 32-bit, 64-bit, and multiple core flavors. They are paired with amazing tiny powerful … Read More

Open Recall is a new space on The H for those things which are too small to package as news but are worth the linkage. Open Recall collates the interesting stories which didn’t quite make the cut. Mac support in Fedora 17 – Matthew Garrett has written a blog post about his efforts to improve support for Mac hardware in … Read More

The prices of solid-state drives are getting lower as there are more and more options on the market. (Credit: Dong Ngo/CNET) No matter how big or small your computer is, there are at least one internal drive on the inside to host its operating system and programs. This drive, be it a regular hard drive or a solid-state drive (SSD), … Read More

Besides the Fedora hot dog marketing strategy going on at LinuxTag in Berlin, another interesting aspect of this leading German Linux conference is the sponsors for this year’s event. Microsoft and Nokia are among the leading sponsors. For this annual conference at the Berlin Messe about Linux, hence the name LinuxTag, one of the leading sponsors of the event is… … Read More

There’s another Kickstarter-backed game that may be coming to Linux and it’s causing Linux gamers to become extremely excited. In the past day I’ve received no less than 30~40 emails from readers talking about this possible Linux port of Carmageddon: Reincarnation. Full story

After going into beta in March, the second and final beta release of NetBSD 6.0 is now available. NetBSD 6.0 Beta 2 carries a healthy number of fixes over the original NetBSD 6 beta with these changes being scattered across the board from fixing AMD CPU errata to security fixes and audio bugs.