12 year old boy writes to his hero Linux Founder Linus Torvalds; The Linux Foundation flies him out to LinuxCon to meet Linus!
The story of Zach goes like this – his school organized a project where students were asked to write a letter to their heroes, while most kids wrote to celebrities, Zach wrote to the ‘real’ hero of the modern technology … Continued
Happy Birthday Linux!
On August 25, 1991 Linus Torvalds posted a message to a newsgroup asking what users wanted most in an operating system he was working on. The rest is history. As of June 2014, more than 97% of the world’s 500 … Continued
Corruption Watch: Microsoft Lobbying Designed to Kill Chile’s Free Software Policy and Promote Microsoft With Subsidies, More Dirty Tricks Emerge in Munich
Dr. Roy Schestowitz Techrights.org Summary: Microsoft is systematically attacking migrations to GNU, Linux and Free software, using dirty tricks, as always Windows, the common carrier of Microsoft, is such a sordid mess that it suffers regular glitches and conducts mass … Continued
European Space Operations Centre Now Runs on SUSE Linux Enterprise Servers
Softpedia August 19th, 2014 The European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) is now powered by SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and it’s making a firm commitment towards open source and Linux software. This is not exactly something completely unexpected. The European Space … Continued
Start your path to Linux Certification for Free
Starting in early August the Linux Foundation, with edX, is going to offer a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), called Introduction to Linux, to help people explore the various tools and techniques commonly used by Linux programmers, system administrators and … Continued
Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel Coming to Linux
Rachel Paxton-Gillilan ign.com Borderlands: The Pre-sequel will be the first Borderlands IP to release on Linux, according to 2K. Take-Two Interactive’s first leaked the news with their recently released financials, which listed Linux as a platform for Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel. … Continued
Slashdot: Netflix Now Works On Linux With HTML5 DRM Video Support In Chrome
An anonymous reader writes “Beginning with the Chrome 38 Beta it’s now possible to watch Netflix without any Wine/Silverlight plug-ins but will work natively using Chrome’s DRM-HTML5 video capabilities with Netflix. The steps just involve using the latest beta of … Continued
Distro Watch: The Best Linux Distributions For 2014
Danny Stieben on 24th July, 2014 Linux Mint also makes the list because it is the most popular Ubuntu-based derivative, and it’s also the most talked-about distribution according to DistroWatch. And now that they have a release based on Ubuntu’s … Continued
Linux Creator Linus Torvalds Serves Up A Tour of His Home Office
Published on Jul 17, 2014 The Linux FoundationSee inside the workspace of the world’s most famous developer, Linux creator Linus Torvalds, in this rare, personal tour.
How to use public PCs safely with Linux
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols ZDnet July 2014 Public PCs aren’t safe, so what’s a PC user to do? Carry a Linux distribution on a USB stick in their backpocket of course! I’ve always been wary of “public” PCs in hotel business … Continued