Red Hat CEO Whitehurst on Innovation, OpenStack, Hadoop

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May 17, 2013

As computing systems become commoditized, the “profit pools are going to evaporate” for enterprise software vendors, said Whitehurst.

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Is Patenting Open Source Software The New Normal?

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OStatic

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May 17, 2013

In an interesting new Outercurve Foundation blog post from Penn State professor Clark Asay, he discusses “the tactic of patenting open source software to guard against patent trolls and the weaponization of corporate patent portfolios…gaining momentum in the FOSS community.” Depending on who you talk to, the practice of patenting open source creations is either poison or an obvious requirement in a competitive world. There is a lot of gray area in this space, though, ranging from copyleft protections to other strategies that project protectors can pursue.

Improving U.S. Weather Prediction With Petascale Supercomputing

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insideHPC

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May 17, 2013

Over at the Washington Post, Jason Samenow writes that an infusion of funding into the National Weather Service from Hurricane Sandy relief legislation promises to facilitate massive upgrades to key supercomputers, dramatically improving local, national, and global weather forecasts.

This is a breakthrough moment for the National Weather Service and the entire U.S. weather enterprise in terms of positioning itself with the computing capacity and more sophisticated models we’ve all been waiting for,” said Louis Uccellini, director of the National Weather Service.

The $23.7 million in improvements to NWS’s forecasting systems from the Sandy supplemental will facilitate a more than ten-fold increase in the capacity of the supercomputer running the GFS model, ramping compute capacity from 213 teraflops to 2,600 teraflops by the 2015 fiscal year. Read the Full Story.

Google And SAP: Two Very Different Cloud Strategies

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ReadWrite

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May 17, 2013

While both Google and SAP shared a 1980’s music sensibility at their respective conferences this week – Billy Idol performed at Google I/O and U2’s Bono walked the floor at SAPPHIRE – the two companies see the future of computing very differently. Even when the two companies agree on the importance of cloud computing, their strategies couldn’t be more different.

For one thing, SAP’s new cloud isn’t even a cloud. But then, SAP’s Bono wasn’t really Bono, either, but merely an impersonator.

Switching From Windows to Nix or a Newbie to Linux – 20 Useful Commands for Linux Newbies

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Tecmint

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May 17, 2013

So you are planning to switch from Windows to Linux, or have just switched to Linux? Oops!!! what I am asking! For what else reason would you have been here. From my past experience when I was new to Nux, commands and terminal really scared me, I was worried about the commands, as to what […]

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Samsung: Galaxy S4 Sales to Hit 10 Million Next Week

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CNET

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May 17, 2013

That’s a faster sales rate than the Galaxy S3, the company’s co-CEO Shin Jong-kyun said recently in an interview. [Read more]

How Four Open Source Usage Models Impact Compliance

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Wazi

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May 17, 2013

Before I jump into my topic, here is some background for those new to open source licenses.

Open source licenses, like any license, grant the licensee certain rights that are usually reserved by and for the copyright holder (the author of the open source software (OSS) code), and spell out conditions that must be met by the licensee. You may use the OSS according to the grants given, so long as you comply with the requirements of the license.

The first question to ask regarding potential copyright infringement: Is there an act involved that is restricted by copyright law? If there is, you need permission from the copyright holder to proceed with that act. If the copyright holder has granted a license, you must comply with the conditions of that license. In the case of open source licenses, the operative question ends up being: Is there a distribution? Distribution is the key act that triggers the license requirements of most open source licenses. If there is a distribution, there must be compliance by the person or entity making the distribution.¹

Securing SSH On Ubuntu Precise With WiKID Two-Factor Authentication

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May 17, 2013

Securing SSH On Ubuntu Precise With WiKID Two-Factor Authentication

SSH offers a highly secure channel for remote administration of servers. However, if you face an audit for regulatory or business requirements, such as Visa/Mastercard PCI, you need to be aware of some potential authentication related short-comings that may cause headaches in an audit. In this document we are going to demonstrate how to combine two-factor authentication from WiKID on Ubuntu. This document will also serve as the basis for additional tutorials because many services on Linux use PAM for authentication.

ownCloud Fixes Critical Security Vulnerabilities

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The H

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May 17, 2013

The ownCloud developers have released versions 5.0.6, 4.0.15, and 4.5.11 to fix a number of serious vulnerabilities in their software including SQL injection, code execution and privilege escalation problems.

openSUSE Kicks Off Development with Milestone 1

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May 17, 2013

openSUSE is pleased to announce that the newest Milestone for the upcoming version of openSUSE 13.1. is available for testing. As early version, it is expected that this Milestone is not fully functional or very stable and we welcome bug reports and fixes for the issues. This is the first in a series of upcoming updates to the distribution that will end with the final release of 13.1 projected by November of 2013. As usual with an alpha release, the most prominent changes in openSUSE 13.1 Milestone 1 come from the upgrades that packages are going through.