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AnnouncementsBrief items Samsung becomes a Linux Foundation platinum memberThe Linux Foundation has announced that it has signed up Samsung at its highest membership level. "With today’s announcement, Samsung Electronics is reiterating its commitment to Linux and investing its resources in a platform it believes will help sustain its global leadership position. The company will work with The Linux Foundation on streamlining its participation with the kernel community and adopting open source best practices."
Red Hat launches CloudForms platformRed Hat has announced the availability of Red Hat CloudForms. "CloudForms is an open hybrid cloud management platform built to enable enterprises to create and manage Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) hybrid clouds with the ability to make self-service computing resources available to users in a managed, governed and secure way."
"Linux Tycoon" and "2299" now FreeBryan Lunduke has released his software under the GPL. "I put a challenge to the community last week: Help me raise enough funds to support me working full time, and I will Open Source (under the GPL) all of my games and software. The community stepped up and we hit that goal in just 8 short days -- helping to prove the viability of supporting Open Source development via Donations." "Linux Tycoon", the Linux-distro-simulation game, and "2299 : THE GAME" are the first of his games to be released under the GPL.
Articles of interest Free Software Supporter -- Issue 50, May 2012The May issue of the Free Software Supporter covers an FSF statement on Oracle v Google, DRM, a call on the new French president to "Stop software patents", and several other topics.
FSFE Newsletter - June 2012The Free Software Foundation Europe Newsletter for June covers the usage of terms like FOSS, Libre Software, FLOSS; enforcing web standards; French elections and non-free software; and several other topics.
Ah! The Morning After... (Groklaw)In a follow-up to yesterday's coverage of the Oracle v. Google ruling on the copyrightability of APIs, Groklaw has a summary of the reactions from various parties in and around the lawsuit, including interpretations on the case's broader impact. "The ruling totally wipes away the earlier partial ruling by the jury on the API question. Or as lawyers would say, it's now moot. There is no question of fair use for code that can't be copyrighted. You can't infringe something that isn't covered by copyright law, and so you don't need a defense like fair use."
8 million leaked passwords connected to LinkedIn, dating website (ars technica)Ars technica reports that a cracker has posted 8 million cryptographic hashes to the Internet that appear to belong to users of LinkedIn and also a popular dating website. "The massive dumps over the past three days came in postings to user forums dedicated to password cracking at insidepro.com. The bigger of the two lists contains almost 6.46 million passwords that have been converted into hashes using the SHA-1 cryptographic function. They use no cryptographic "salt," making the job of cracking them considerably faster. Rick Redman, a security consultant who specializes in password cracking, said the list almost certainly belongs to LinkedIn because he found a password in it that was unique to the professional social networking site. Robert Graham, CEO of Errata Security said much the same thing, as did researchers from Sophos. Several Twitter users reported similar findings." If you have an account on LinkedIn you should probably change your password.
Education and Certification LPI Announces Online Resource for Linux EducationThe Linux Professional Institute (LPI) has announced an online "one-stop-shopping" solution for learning resources for their Linux Professional Institute Certification (LPIC) program: the LPI Marketplace. "The LPI Marketplace was created for LPI by mindhub(TM) of Pearson VUE and is an online resource center offering a wide variety of learning products designed to help individuals prepare for LPI's industry-recognized certification, enhance their existing skills set and achieve their professional goals. Products in the LPI Marketplace will include a full range of expert reference materials including books, flash cards, practice exams, and video training modules. Content providers presently participating in the LPI Marketplace include such widely-recognized companies as Axzo Press, Element K, ExamForce, MeasureUp, McGraw-Hill, Sybex, Transcender and uCertify."
Linup Front GMBH Publishes Free Training ManualLinup Front GmbH has announced the availability of a free training manual, in German and English, for the new "Linux Essentials" certification published by the Linux Professional Institute (LPI). "The 250-page manual can be downloaded as a PDF file from http://shop.linupfront.com/ and is being published under a Creative Commons license allowing unmodified redistribution. The same content is also being issued as an Android app for tablets and smartphones, which can be obtained free of charge from the Google Play Store."
Calls for Presentations LCA2013 opens call for presentationsLinux.conf.au 2013 returns to the Australian National University in Canberra starting January 28. The call for presentations is now open. "This year, they are focusing on deep technical content, and the things that you think are going to really matter in the future. Do you have something to say about freedom and privacy, open source cloud systems, or energy efficient server farms of the future? Or something else that you are passionate about?" Submission deadline is July 6; see this page for more information.
Upcoming Events MeetBSD California 2012MeetBSD California 2012 will take place November 3-4, 2012 in Sunnyvale, CA. "It will feature one day of scheduled talks on Saturday followed by one day of unConference-style community-scheduled emergent activities on Sunday. We’re looking forward to another engaging and interesting conference! By combining scheduled talks and community-driven events like lightning talks and hacking sessions, we hope that everyone will get the most out of this year’s activities."
Events: June 7, 2012 to August 6, 2012The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
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