Right on time, and just in time for the first day of FOSDEM 2014, we have the great pleasure of announcing Mageia 4. We’re still having a grand time doing this together, and we hope you enjoy this release as much as we’ve enjoyed making it. And if you’re at FOSDEM, come and help us celebrate!


Read the full thing at http://blog.mageia.org/en/2014/02/01/new-year-new-resolutions-and-a-new-mageia-heres-mageia-4/

Here is four strong monitoring tools i would like to present for you.

Read the full thing at http://aarvik.dk/four-linux-server-monitoring-and-management-tools/

Finally Mageia 4 RC release is out! After many nights working on remaining nasty bugs, the isos are now available in your favourite public mirrors.

Read the full thing at http://blog.mageia.org/en/2014/01/19/we-won-the-battle-against-bugs-and-the-war-almost/

Red Hat, Inc, (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, and the CentOS Project today announced they are joining forces to build a new CentOS, capable of driving forward development and adoption of next-generation open source technologies.

Read the full thing at http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20140107006759/en/Red-Hat-CentOS-Project-Join-Forces-Speed

Every time I tell someone about OpenStreetMap, they inevitably ask “Why not use Google Maps?”. From a practical standpoint, it’s a reasonable question, but ultimately this is not just a matter of practicality, but of what kind of society we want to live in. I discussed this topic in a 2008 talk on OpenStreetMap I gave at the first MappingDC meeting. Here are many of same concepts, but expanded.

Read the full thing at http://blog.emacsen.net/blog/2014/01/04/why-the-world-needs-openstreetmap/

This semester I’m contributing towards HTML5 on BB10 with thanks to UCOSP and my team’s mentor Tim Windsor from Blackberry. We’re implementing and porting cordova (phonegap) plugins.

Setting up my development environment under linux (Ubuntu 13.04) took the full first day of our face-to-face sprint. I am thankful Tim was sitting across the table and was willing to answer my many questions.

For this tutorial I am going to assume you are on Ubuntu 13.04 but other linux distros should be the a similar process.

Read the full thing at http://danieru.com/2013/10/06/linux-blackberry-os-10-cordova-plugin-development-setup/

One of most widely respected repositories of embedded and mobile Linux news and information has returned to the web as an archive hosted here at LinuxGizmos.com.

QuinStreet acquired LinuxDevices.com in Feb. 2012 through its purchase of a group of websites from publisher Ziff Davis Enterprise. After the acquisition, LinuxDevices remained frozen in time for about a year before vanishing in May

Read the full thing at http://linuxgizmos.com/linuxdevices-content-online-again/

The OpenMandriva Community is proud to announce our first release, OpenMandriva Lx 2013.0!

OpenMandriva Lx is an exciting free Desktop Operating System that aims to cater to and interest first time and advanced users alike. It has the breadth and depth of an advanced system but is designed to be simple and straightforward in use.

Read the full thing at http://blog.openmandriva.org/en/2013/11/first-openmandriva-final-release-is-here/

A week ago we announced that we were trying to start a new Linux magazine that will make all of its contents available for free after a maximum nine months. The response so far has been phenomenal, and funds have come in far quicker than we expected.

Read the full thing at http://www.linuxvoice.com/free-licence-after-nine-months/

Remembering what all the default directories in Linux are for, can be hard at first. Here is a little “cheat sheet” that shows the Linux directory structure.

Read the full thing at http://dev-random.net/linux-directory-structure-explained/