• Objects! Aaah-ah ... the savior of software-defined storage?

  Software-defined storage (SDS) is one of those terms that has been readily hijacked by vendors over the past few years.

  The term developed from the adoption of software-defined networking (SDN), used to define the separation of control and data traffic in the networking world, which provides the abstraction needed to deliver more efficient network management and to virtualise network functionality.

  Where SDN was reasonably easy to define, SDS has been less clear. Looking at the SDS Wikipedia page, there is far less detail there than on the page for SDN, with only a vague definition of what SDS characteristics should be.

• Managing Log Files and More With Elastic Stack

  Managing log files is becoming increasingly harder with growing amounts of data and differing file formats. Giovanni Bechis, in his upcoming talk at LinuxCon Europe, describes a solution using the ELK stack (ElasticSearch, Logstash, Kibana), which he says let's you easily collect, parse, and manage log files from different sources.

  We talked with Bechis, a Software Engineer at SNB S.r.l., a to learn more about how ELK can be used to aggregate any kind of data in a productive way.

• Red Hat, Google Engineers Work on a Way for Kubernetes to Run Containers Without Docker

  In 2015, when the Open Container Initiative (OCI) was launched to create industry standards around containers, it used Docker’s container runtime and image format as the base. But now a number of companies are undertaking a project that would break the OCI stack away from Docker in preference of Kubernetes, Google’s open source container orchestration engine.

  This new project is geared for Kubernetes. It will directly interface with Kubernetes pods. It will enable Kubernetes — not Docker — to launch and manage containers at scale.

  “What we want is a daemon that can be used by Kubernetes for running container images that are stored on Docker registries,” said Dan Walsh, the long-time SELinux project lead, and consulting engineer with Red Hat, speaking with The New Stack. Red Hat’s and Google’s developers are taking the lead with this project, for now, called simply OCID (OCI daemon). “In order to do that,” Walsh continued, “we wanted to build a series of libraries, to be able to facilitate running these container images.”

• Linux Professional Institute Launches New Website and Brand Identity to Reflect Rededication to Its Mission

  Linux Professional Institute (LPI) is pleased to announce the launch of its new website, film, and brand identity. These efforts enforce LPI's purpose: to enable economic and creative opportunities for everybody by making Open Source knowledge and skills certification universally accessible.

• The future’s hiring - Linux Professional Institute

• Cloudera Tests Impala Against Competitive Analytics Engines

  In the cloud and on the Big Data scene, there is a pronounced need for advanced data analytics and database-driven insigts. Apache Impala has emerged as an important tool providing these solutions, and Cloudera is out with some notable test results for Impala. Cloudera, focused on Apache Hadoop, released benchmark results that show that its analytic database solution, powered by Apache Impala (incubating), delivers very fast capabilities for cloud-native workloads but does so at better cost performance compared to alternatives.

• Learn how to deploy OpenStack for free

  The course is designed for those who want a high-level overview of OpenStack to gauge whether their organization needs OpenStack solutions or not. The course also helps users in getting started with a small scale OpenStack test environment so they can test and experiment with it.

• Support Is Now the Differentiator in the OpenStack Race

  When it comes to OpenStack cloud computing distributions, now offered by a variety of vendors, we are at a tipping point. As businesses and organizations demand flexible solutions for deploying cloud solutions based on OpenStack, competition is fierce. With so many vendors competing in this arena, market consolidation was bound to arrive, and it is here. What will the key differentiator be going forward? That would be support.

  Just last month, Red Hat announced its latest platform: OpenStack Platform 9. One day later, VMware introduced VMware Integrated OpenStack 3. Both distributions are based on the OpenStack Mitaka release. From Mirantis to Canonical, Hewlett-Packard and others, there are now several OpenStack distribution providers competing with each other, and updates arrive at a rapid-fire pace.

• XDC2017 X.Org/Mesa/Wayland Conference To Be Hosted By Google

• Intel's FastUIDraw Is Very Promising For Fast, GPU-Accelerated Drawing

• Nouveau Developers Remain Frustrated By NVIDIA's Firmware Practices

  Nouveau developers Samuel Pitoiset, Karol Herbst, Pierre Moreau, and Martin Peres presented their status update on this open-source, reverse-engineered NVIDIA Linux graphics driver during the second day of the XDC2016 conference.

• #photos happenings

  We recently released GNOME 3.22. It will be in Fedora Workstation 25. Go look at the video — it’s awesome!

• Talking at mrmcds 2016 in Darmstadt, Germany

  My own talk on GNOME (video) was well visited. I explained why I think GNOME is a good candidate for shipping security software to the masses. I said that GNOME cares about its users and goes the extra mile to support as many users as possible. That includes making certain decisions to provide a secure by default system. I gave two examples of how I think GNOME pushes the envelope when it comes to making security usable. One was the problem of OpenPGP Keysigning. I mentioned that it’s a very geeky thing which mortals do not understand. Neither do many security people, to be honest. And you can’t even blame them because it’s a messy thing to do. Doing it properly™ involves a metric ton of OpSec to protect the integrity of the key to be signed. I think that we can make the process much more usable than it is right now while even maintaining security. This year, I had Andrei working with me to make this happen.

• Who wrote GTK+ and more

  I’ve just posted on the GTK+ development blog the latest article in the “who writes GTK+” series. Now that we have a proper development blog, this is the kind of content that should be present there instead of my personal blog.

  If you’re not following the GTK+ development blog, you really should do so now. Additionally, you should follow @GTKToolkit on Twitter and, if you’re into niche social platforms, a kernel developer, or a Linus groupie, there’s the GTK+ page on Google Plus.

• WebKitGTK+ 2.14 and the Web Engines Hackfest

  Carlos Garcia has recently released WebKitGTK+ 2.14, the latest stable release. This is a great release that brings a lot of improvements and works much better on Wayland, which is becoming mature enough to be used by default. In particular, it fixes the clipboard, which was one of the main missing features, thanks to Carlos Garnacho! We have also been able to contribute a bit to this release =)

• Making money from copylefted code

  I wanted to put this out there while I still have it fresh in my mind. Here at the copyleft BoF with Bradlely Kuhn at LAS GNOME. One of the biggest take away from this is something that Bryan Lunduke said that people are able to make money off from copyleft if we don’t actually brand it as free and open source software. So it seems that if we don’t advertise something as free or open source or that there is software available, then there is a decent chance that you can make money.

• Help Send Conservancy to Embedded Linux Conference Europe

  Last month, Conservancy made a public commitment to attend Linux-related events to get feedback from developers about our work generally, and Conservancy's GPL Compliance Program for Linux Developers specifically. As always, even before that, we were regularly submitting talks to nearly any event with Linux in its name. As a small charity, we always request travel funding from the organizers, who are often quite gracious. As I mentioned in my blog posts about LCA 2016 and GUADEC 2016, the organizers covered my travel funding there, and recently both Karen and I both received travel funding to speak at LCA 2017 and DebConf 2016, as well as many other events this year.

• Copyleft, attribution, and data: other considerations

  When looking at solutions, it is important to understand that the practical concerns I blogged about aren’t just theoretical — they matter in practice too. For example, Peter Desmet has done a great job showing how overreaching licenses make bullfrog maps (and other data combinations) illegal. Alex Barth of OpenStreetMap has also discussed how ODbL creates problems for OSM users (though he got some Wikipedia-related facts wrong). And I’ve spoken to very well-intentioned organizations (including thoughtful, impactful non-profits) scared off from OSM for similar reasons.

• Red Hat’s stock price and employee headcount are rising

  Red Hat’s future growth prospects – which the open-source software company has invested in by adding roughly 1,000 new hires over the last six months – helped push the company’s shares 5 percent higher in early trading Thursday.

  The uptick in the stock came after the Raleigh-based company reported a better-than-expected 19 percent jump in revenue in its fiscal second quarter and boosted its revenue guidance for entire fiscal year to a range of $2.415 billion to $2.435 billion, a $15 million bump at the upper end.

• New Red Hat project looks a lot like a Docker fork

  There have been rumblings about a possible split in the Docker ecosystem. Now Red Hat and the Open Container Initiative have unveiled a project that may not be pitched as a Docker fork, but sure has the makings of one.

  The OCID project uses many Docker pieces to create a runtime for containers that can be embedded directly into the Kubernetes container orchestration system.

• Red Hat Earnings And Cash Flow Remain Robust In Q2

• Dgplug contributor grant recipient Trishna Guha

  I am happy to announce that Trishna Guha is the recipient of a dgplug contributor grant for 2016. She is an upstream contributor in Fedora Cloud SIG, and hacks on Bodhi in her free time. Trishna started her open source journey just a year back during the dgplug summer training 2015, you can read more about her work in a previous blog post. She has also become an active member of the local Pune PyLadies chapter.

• Linux application Flowblade version 1.8 .

• Samsung Z2 now officially launched in Nepal

  Today, Samsung Mobile Nepal has officially launched the Tizen based Samsung Z2 to its customers based in Nepal. If you’re Interested in this smartphone it will cost you Rs. 7,290 and is available right now from official Samsung outlets in Nepal.

• Samsung’s Family Hub Smart Refrigerator to Feature Samsung Pay

  Samsung’s Family Hub smart refrigerator is probably one of the smartest Internet of Things gadgets around and yet the device is getting even smarter. Samsung is said to be working on modalities to include Samsung Pay on the smart refrigerator.

  The Family Hub is Samsung’s way of redefining kitchen experiences, thereby taking the idea of smart home products to a realistic pedestal. The Family Hub combines the conventional refrigeration functions of the refrigerator with innovative functions as the hub for family communications, entertainment, and smart home services. With these functions, Family Hub transforms the kitchen into an ideal space for family time.

• Amazon India now offering the Samsung Z2 SM-Z200F Online

  Amazon India now offering the Samsung Z2 SM-Z200F Online http://www.tizenexperts.com/2016/09/samsung-z2-sm-z200f-smartphone-available-amazon-india/

• How Long Do Android and iPhone Owners Keep Their Phones?

  "Our earlier analysis of iPhone age indicates that the average age of an upgraded iPhone increased by more than three months over three years, while the age of upgraded Android phones increased by less than one month," said CIRP founder Josh Lowitz.

• YouTube Gaming v1.7 rolls out with improvements to chat and Android Nougat support, new easter egg [APK Download]

• With Google Pixel, the Android promise fulfilled, at last!

  This October Google will have fulfilled the promise they’ve been making on the Android operating system for the past decade. In the year 2005, Google acquired Android. In 2011, Google acquired Motorola (then, not long after, sold everything but their patents). In 2016, Google is in a position to not only create a set of Android smartphones and control the hardware, sales, and distribution, but the software, too. Google will be panned for copying Apple’s game plan with these devices, but these devices will be exactly what consumers want, and will buy.

• Android Browser Security--What You Haven't Been Told

• Google open-sources Show and Tell, a model for producing image captions

  Google today is announcing that it has open-sourced Show and Tell, a model for automatically generating captions for images.

  Google first published a paper on the model in 2014 and released an update in 2015 to document a newer and more accurate version of the model. Google has improved the technology even more since then, and that’s what’s becoming available today on GitHub under an open-source Apache license, as part of Google’s TensorFlow deep learning framework.

• Lenovo N21 Chromebook Now Has Mainline Coreboot Support

  The Lenovo N21 Chromebook is now supported by mainline Coreboot. But then again that's not a huge surprise considering Google's focus on Chromebook/Chromebox support in Coreboot.

• Sixth Annual Percona Live Open Source Database Conference Call for Speakers Now Open

• Mozilla Says Goodbye to Firefox Hello in Firefox 49

  In October 2014, as part of the Firefox 34 beta release, Mozilla introduced its Firefox Hello communications technology enabling users to make calls directly from the browser. On Sept. 20, 2016, Mozilla formally removed support for Firefox Hello as part of the new Firefox 49 release.

  The Mozilla Bugzilla entry for the removal of Firefox Hello provides little insight as to why the communications feature is being pulled from the open-source browser. As it turns out, the Firefox Hello removal is related to shifting priorities at Mozilla.

• Almost Fully Funded - Pledge now!

  The Pepper and Carrot motion comic is almost funded. The pledge from Ethic Cinema put it on good road (as it seemed it would fail). Ethic Cinema is non profit organization that wants to make open source art (as they call it Libre Art). Purism's creative director, François Téchené, is member and co-founder of Ethic Cinema. Lets push final bits so we can get this free as in freedom artwork.

  Notice that Pepper and Carrot is a webcomic (also available as book) free as in freedom artwork done by David Revoy who also supports this campaign. Also the support is done by Krita community on their landing page.

• CouchDB 2.0 released

• Key article on China and Open Source Software, thoughts for Europe

  05 The fastest way for Europe to achieve all these goals is to create an Open Source (Technologies) Agency in partnership with China and India and I would go so far as to also suggest Iran, Russia, and Turkey as well as Malaysia and Indonesia. We divide the world at our peril. My memorandum to Vice President Biden is still available online for exploitation by anyone. The Americans refuse to take open source seriously because vendors own the US Congress and the US White House and they will pay to the death of all of us for the right to continue looting public treasuries instead of providing integrated open source solutions helpful to humanity. There are 9 major open source categories, 27 critical sub-categories -- I have listed them at the P2P Foundation Category:Open Source Everything, but there is no government anywhere that a) understands this or is addressing open source as a universal ecology. That is the next big leap, in my generally humble opinion.

• Telenav releases OpenStreetView, an automotive-integrated open source platform designed to accelerate the advancement of OpenStreetMap

  Telenav®, Inc. (NASDAQ:TNAV), a leader in connected car and location-based services today announced the availability of OpenStreetView (OSV), a free open source platform designed to accelerate the advancement of OpenStreetMap® (OSM). The platform includes free iOS and Android apps with optional auto OBD-II integration and web tools to equip drivers and the nearly three million global OSM editors.

• Open Budget: updated data reveal volatile practices

  “The data confirm a broader trend documented by IBP on volatility in government budget transparency practices. Improvements in budget transparency are often followed by regressions in subsequent years”, OGP added. But on the positive side, “the data show that more governments are publishing Citizens’ Budgets —simplified summaries of technical budget reports issued in languages and through media that are widely accessible.”

• Amsterdam, Murcia and Zurich to test CPaas project

  The project aims to provide an open platform (City Platform-as-a-service - CPaas) that combines Open Government data with big data and the Internet of Things technologies to address challenges of the modern urban environment. The three European cities were chosen because of their proven experience in Open Data, the project website says.

• Industrial IoT Group Releases Security Framework

  The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) , which was founded by AT&T, Cisco, GE, IBM, and Intel, released a common framework for security that it hopes will help industrial Internet of Things (IoT) deployments better address security problems.

  Security is critical to industrial IoT because attacks could have dire consequences, such as impacting human lives or the environment, said Hamed Soroush, senior research security engineer with Real-Time Innovations and the co-chair of the IIC security working group.

• An Early Port Of GCC To AMD's GCN Architecture

  While still in its early stages, there's a port in the works of the GNU Compiler Collection for AMD's GCN (Graphics Core Next) instruction set architecture.

  Longtime SUSE toolchain expert Jan Hubicka started a port of GCC to AMD GCN a few weeks back. Hubicka has been experimenting with porting GCC to GCN for running on recent generations of GPUs. He noted in an email to Phoronix that it's still a bit early to report on, but the slides are now uploaded for any interested readers.

• The State Of GNU's GDB Debugger In 2016

  At the GNU Tools Cauldron that took place earlier this month in Hebden Bridge, UK was the annual status update of the GDB debugger.

  Red Hat developer Pedro Alves talked about the state of the GNU Debugger with some recently-accomplished changes plus other work on the horizon for this widely-used GNU program.

• Matthew Garrett Explains How to Increase Security at Boot Time [Ed: Microsoft apologist Matthew Garrett is promoting UEFI again, even after the Lenovo debacle]

  Security of the boot chain is a vital component of any other security solution, said Matthew Garrett of CoreOS in his presentation at Linux Security Summit. If someone is able to tamper with your boot chain then any other security functionality can be subverted. And, if someone can interfere with your kernel, any amount of self-protection the kernel might have doesn’t really matter.

  “The boot loader is in a kind of intermediate position,” Garrett said. It can modify the kernel before it passes control to it, and then there’s no way the kernel can verify itself once it’s running. In the Linux ecosystem, he continued, the primary protection in the desktop and server space is UEFI secure boot, which is a firmware feature whereby the firmware verifies a signature on the bootloader before it executes it. The bootloader in turn verifies a signature on the next step of the boot process, and so on.

• Is open source security software too much of a risk for enterprises? [Ed: inverses the truth; proprietary software has secret back doors that cannot be found and patched]

  Although free, there are many institutions that are reluctant to use open source software, for obvious reasons. Using open source software that is not controlled by the enterprise -- in production environments and in mission-critical applications -- introduces risks that could be detrimental to the basic tenants of cybersecurity, such as confidentiality, integrity and availability. This includes open source security software like the tools Netflix uses.

Managing disk space has always been a significant task for sysadmins. Running out of disk space used to be the start of a long and complex series of tasks to increase the space available to a disk partition. It also required taking the system off-line. This usually involved installing a new hard drive, booting to recovery or single-user mode, creating a partition and a filesystem on the new hard drive, using temporary mount points to move the data from the too-small filesystem to the new, larger one, changing the content of the /etc/fstab file to reflect the correct device name for the new partition, and rebooting to remount the new filesystem on the correct mount point.

• Red Hat Rising: Bulls Breath Sigh of Relief as Linux Rebounds

  Shares of Linux and open-source software vendor Red Hat (RHT) are up $3.37, or over 4%, at $80.41, holding onto most of last night’s gains, after the company yesterday afternoon reported fiscal Q2 revenue and profit that topped analysts’ expectations, beat with its Q3 outlook as well, and raised its year outlook above consensus.

• Red Hat Inc. (RHT) Earns Buy Rating from Barclays PLC

• Red Hat (RHT): Reit Buy On Strong Billings Growth - Needham

• Red Hat Inc. (RHT) Given "Buy" Rating at Mizuho

• Bigger Enterprise Deals Drive Red Hat Beat-And-Raise

• CLSA Analysts Tip Their Hat To Red Hat Following Q2 Earnings

• Jim Cramer -- Plenty of Growth Ahead for Red Hat

• Red Hat (RHT) Stock Gains as Q2 Earnings, Guidance Top Estimates

• Red Hat surges 6.4%; big deals help beat Street expectations

• Oppenheimer Reiterates Buy as Red Hat (RHT) Reports Solid 2Q Results

• Red Hat (RHT) Beats on Q2 Earnings, Raises FY17 Outlook

• Why Red Hat, Shutterfly, Amazon, TerraForm and More Are in the Spotlight

• 3 Stocks to Watch Thursday: Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO), Red Hat Inc (RHT) and Sarepta Therapeutics Inc (SRPT)

• Red Hat's (RHT) CEO Jim Whitehurst on Q2 2017 Results - Earnings Call Transcript

• Red Hat Inc. (RHT) Given New $92.00 Price Target at Citigroup Inc.

• Red Hat Inc: Why Red Hat Stock is Smoking Hot Today

• Jefferies Group Reiterates "Neutral" Rating for Red Hat Inc. (RHT)

• BMO Capital Raises Price Target on Red Hat (RHT) Following 2Q

• Red Hat Inc's (NYSE:RHT) Price Target Increased to $89, Reiterated as Outperform: BMO Capital

• Red Hat posts solid Q2 earnings, subscription revenue grows

• Red Hat grows subscription revenue in Q2

• S&P 500 Movers: LVLT, RHT

• Red Hat sees double-digit revenue growth in Q2

• Red Hat lifts outlook after quarter's solid demand

• Red Hat Posts Solid Earnings Beat

• Red Hat beats Street 2Q forecasts

• Red Hat sees revenue rise in second quarter

• Red Hat (RHT) Stock Jumps in After-Hours Trading on Q2 Beat, Guidance

• Red Hat +6% after hours; Q2 results, outlook positive

• Analyst Upgrades: Amazon.com, Inc., Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, and Red Hat Inc

  RHT has jumped 7% in pre-market trading, after the company's solid second-quarter earnings and upwardly revised outlook were met with a bevy of price-target hikes. CLSA offered up the most optimistic goal, boosting its price target to $99 from $94. Elsewhere, Mizuho Securities said it believes Red Hat Inc's results were "driven by stronger-than-expected cloud sales." Today's projected price move could have RHT filling a late-June bear gap. Longer term, the shares are up a modest 5.2% year-over-year, based on last night's settlement at $77.04. Nevertheless, analysts are mostly optimistic, with 14 of 16 maintaining a "buy" or better rating and not a single "sell" to be found.

• Red Hat Inc. (RHT) Updates FY17 Earnings Guidance

• IBM Power Systems, Red Hat extend alliance for cloud platforms

• Red Hat Profit Tops View, Outlook Strong; Shares Up 6%

• Red Hat (RHT) Tops Q2 EPS by 1c

• Red Hat Inc. Earnings Rise 15% In Q2

• Red Hat Inc. (RHT) Posts Quarterly Earnings Results, Beats Estimates By $0.01 EPS

• Earnings Whispers: Jabil Circuit, Inc. (JBL) And Red Hat Inc (RHT)

• Red Hat shares rally on earnings beat, outlook

• Red Hat (RHT) calls more active than puts into Q2 results and outlook

• Red Hat Inc. (RHT) Stock Rating Reaffirmed by Mizuho

• Mizuho Securities Reiterates Buy Ahead of Red Hat's (RHT) 2Q Report

• A look at a High Market Cap Stock: Red Hat, Inc., RHT

• Red Hat Inc. (RHT) Releases Earnings Results, Beats Estimates By $0.01 EPS

• Looking At Recent Analyst Ratings: Red Hat Inc (NYSE:RHT), Allstate Corp (NYSE:ALL)

• Watch These 4 Companies Report: RHT, BBBY, GIS, KMX

• Red Hat Research Coverage Started at Drexel Hamilton (RHT)

• Red Hat's “Buy” Rating Reaffirmed at Mizuho (RHT)

• Red Hat Inc (RHT) Releases Earnings Results, Beats Expectations By $0.01 EPS

• Red Hat Inc (NYSE:RHT) Analysts Recommendations and Insider Trading

• Revenue Update on Red Hat Inc(NYSE:RHT)

• Take Your Hat Off To Red Hat

• Leading stocks in today's market: Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT)

• Red Hat: Shares Rally after Earnings Beat

• International Business Machines (NYSE:IBM) announced extended Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT) collaboration for next-generation cloud platforms: SeaWorld Entertainment, (NYSE:SEAS), Kellogg Company (NYSE:K)

• Forecast Report: RHT (NYSE:RHT)

• Analysts At UBS Securities Reiterated Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT) As Buy

• Red Hat Posts Better-than-Expected Q2 Results, Q3 Guidance Above Street - Shares up 5% After-Hours (NYSE:RHT)

• Red Hat Inc. (NYSE: RHT) Rating Reiterated at Mizuho

• BMO Capital Markets Indicates Potential 15.52% Increase In Shares Of Red Hat, Inc.

• Wednesday’s Hot Stocks: Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT), Ariad Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ:ARIA), Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC), Exelixis, Inc. (NASDAQ:EXEL)

• Changes To Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT) Target Prices

Today, September 22, 2016, the openSUSE Project proudly announced the release and immediate availability for download of the second Beta development milestone towards the openSUSE Leap 42.2 operating system.

openSUSE Leap 42.2 Beta 2 comes with several interesting improvements and up-to-date software components, including the KDE Applications 16.08.0, KDE Frameworks 5.26.0, GStreamer 1.8.3, GTK+ 2.24.31, GTK+ 3.20.9, json-glib 1.2.2, Wireshark 2.2.0, and Xen 4.7.0_12.

Other than that, the openSUSE KDE team did a fantastic job of integrating the recently announced Beta release of the KDE Plasma 5.8 LTS desktop environment into openSUSE Leap 42.2 Beta 2 so you can get an early taste and see if there are any show stoppers that need to be addressed before the final version lands in mid-November.

Also: New Leap Beta Adds Plasma 5.8 Beta

Earlier this month it was revealed that ArduPilot, an open-source autopilot solution, would no longer be associated with the Linux Foundation’s Dronecode Project, an open-source drone platform. This came as a surprise to many considering that the idea of Dronecode came from the minds of ArduPilot.

“Dronecode was established around ArduPilot,” said Craig Elder, former technical community manager for Dronecode who leads software teams in ArduPilot. “What we tried to do with Dronecode was to do a better job at engaging the companies who are using ArduPilot.”

The reasoning behind this move is that ArduPilot is based on the open-source GPL license. According to Chris Anderson, chairman of Dronecode, the GPL license is great for the open-source development community, but toxic for companies.

Also: Hybrid approach to federal open source

• Linux "lockout" tangle snarls Lenovo

  After failing to install Linux on a recent Lenovo laptop, a Reddit user claims to have received a short reply from Lenovo's support team: "This system has a Signature Edition of Windows 10 Home installed. It is locked per our agreement with Microsoft."

  The company is reportedly shutting discussion threads on its official forums to prevent "disruption," though the snarl of links and outrage flying around makes everything rather murky. The core facts at hand appear to be that a) the BIOS is programmed to enforce a RAID setup that is currently compatible only with Windows 10, and there's no technical rationale for it, it's just there to prevent other operating systems being installed. A is, of course, more plausibly true than B.

• Which? slams Microsoft for Windows 10 update woes

  Which? has called on Microsoft to honour the rights of its customers after a survey found that 12 per cent of those who upgraded to Windows 10 from an earlier version had rolled back and that many more were annoyed with the update.

  More than half of those who rolled back to a previous edition said it was because the new version had caused problems with their devices.

  The problems included printers, WiFi cards and speakers no longer working, files being lost and emails no longer syncing. In some cases the computer required professional repair.

  Many complained that the only reason they upgraded in the first place was to get rid of the constant nagware employed by Microsoft through the GWX system installed on machines that qualified for a free upgrade.

  Many said that they had actually turned down the nagware offers and found that Windows 10 had installed anyway.

• Windows 10 software condemned by Which? [Ed: Microsoft should stand trial for it]

  Microsoft has been criticised over its Windows 10 software by consumer rights group Which?.

  The body said it had received hundreds of complaints about the upgrade, including lost files, emails no longer syncing and broken wi-fi and printing.

  In some cases, it said, users had had to pay for their computer to be repaired.

  Microsoft defended its software and highlighted that it provided help online and by phone.

  "The Windows 10 upgrade is a choice designed to help people take advantage of the most secure and most productive Windows," said a spokesman.

  "Customers have distinct options. Should a customer need help with the upgrade experience, we have numerous options including free customer support."

  Which? surveyed more than 5,500 of its members in June, and said that 12% of the 2,500 who had upgraded to Windows 10 had later reverted to an earlier version.

• Security advisories for Wednesday

• Why we should just simply call ourselves Hackers

  Developers, Programmers, Engineers, Code Artists, Coders, Codesmiths, Code Warriors, Craftsmen … these are currently the labels we use to explain our profession. One can get an idea of how this can appear confusing to the outsider.

  Computers can enrich our lives, give focus, amplify our adventures, gauge our science and grow our business. Right now computing is being embedded into everything and it is now more than ever that we need to redefine our role and show. some. fucking. solidarity.

  Rather than confusing pre-existing labels and shoe-horning them to our profession, which makes use of synthetic intelligence more than any, I propose that we call ourselves Hackers instead of the myriad other ways.

• Germany surveys cyber-attacks

  Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) has launched a survey to obtain information about actual cyber-attacks on business and government, to assess potential risks, and to determine protective measures. The study should result in new ICT security recommendations.

• Red Hat grows headcount by 25 percent in first half of fiscal 2017

  Red Hat has on-boarded 1,000 new hires in the first half of the year, particularly in sales, Chief Finance Officer Frank Calderoni told analysts Wednesday – a 25 percent increase of its workforce.

  By the end of the year, the company will scale its hiring plans back to normal, CEO Jim Whitehurst says. And sales – not acquisitions – will be how the Raleigh-based, open-source technology firm plans to make its $5 billion in five years goal.

  Speaking after the firm reported $600 million in second quarter revenue, up 19 percent year-over-year, Whitehurst says the $5 billion goal he outlined earlier this year is based on markets the company already plays in – no acquisitions required.

• Permabit Collaborates with Red Hat to enable customers to optimize their Hybrid Cloud Storage

• Red Hat Drives DevOps Adoption and Application Scalability with Latest Version of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform

• Permabit Collaborates with Red Hat to enable customers to optimize their Hybrid Cloud Storage

• Red Hat Jumps 6% on FYQ2 Earnings Beat; Raises Year Outlook

• Red Hat shares rally on earnings beat, outlook

• Red Hat Fiscal Q2 Earnings, Q3 Guidance Top Views, Stock Rises

• Stock Futures Signal Strong Open

• Red Hat Spikes Late On Beat; Stocks Rise As Fed Leaves Rates Alone

• Red Hat Historically Follows Earnings-Driven After-Hours Moves with More Aggressive Same Direction Trade in Follow-On Regular Session

• Red Hat (RHT) Stock Is the 'Chart of the Day'

• Android-powered BlackBerry Passport Silver Edition unit up for grabs

  If you recall, back in June there were rumors that BlackBerry is working on three new devices, codenamed Neon, Argon, and Mercury. While the Neon has already been released as the DTEK50, it looks like the Argon will carry DTEK60 moniker at launch.

• LeEco Pro 3 formally announced, powered by Snapdragon 821

  Only getting into the smartphone game last year, LeEco has seemingly come up out of the woodwork and is establishing itself as a player on the rise. The company isn’t content with holding still, either. LeEco has now announced the Le Pro 3, its new Qualcomm Snapdragon 821-powered flagship darling. While the latest Snapdragon is certainly one of the biggest claims to fame for the handset, the rest of the specs are pretty solid too.

  The Le Pro 3 will come in either 4GB RAM/32GB storage or 6GB RAM/64GB storage configurations. Other specs include a 5.5-inch 1080p display, a 16MP main cam with f/2.0 aperture as well as PDAF and LED flash, an 8MP wide-angle front cam, and a generous 4070 mAh battery that supports USB-C and Quick Charge 3.0. Following in Apple’s direction, the LeEco Le Pro 3 will ditch the headphone jack in favor USB-C audio that features LeEco’s Continual Digital Lossless Audio tech. The phone will include Type-C earbuds in the box.

• Google Give Android Nougat Statue to France’s Nougat City

  Earlier this year, Google officially launched Android 7.0, and as always, this version of Google’s mobile operating system had a tasty treat for a name. Last year was Marshmallow, and following on from that alphabetically, Google gave us Android Nougat. Many thought that this version of Android was going to be Android Nutella, and some employees working on Android 7.0 even alluded to as much, but ultimately it was Nougat that stuck from the many proposals sent Google’s way. Considering that different sweets and confectionery are known more or less in different parts of the world, it should come as no surprise that there is in fact a City known for Nougat.

• The Alexa-enabled CoWatch hits the market today

• How to install Android on a PC

• How to start an incognito chat in Google Allo

• Stream Android apps on Facebook Live with Bluestacks

• Morning brief: Pixels in pools, S7 on Android 7 and Galaxy C in China

• New leak suggests BlackBerry 'Argon' will be launched as DTEK60

• Dominate the world in strategy game 'Agenda', now on Linux, here's my review

• Kill deadly fast food products in the free shooter 'Space Jammers', it's really quite good

  You come up against deadly creatures that are basically fast food. You will destroy burgers, fries and so on. It's an amusing idea that sounds silly, but wow the game looks great.

• Convicted Galaxy, a procedurally generated space exploration game needs votes on Steam Greenlight

  It's always great when developers have a Linux build ready for testing before they submit their game to Greenlight. Too many developers list Linux as a platform, but don't actually have a Linux build. Something I come up against quite often actually.

• Lenovo Accused Of Locking Linux Out Of Certain Laptops At Microsoft's Request

  So whether Microsoft is truly to blame here is still an open question. At the very least, it does seem like Lenovo has some questions to answer -- and one hopes that the company will be more forthright and honest than it was back during the Superfish episode when it basically lied through its teeth until it couldn't lie any more.

• Polychromatic Works With New Razer Linux Drivers, Even More Devices

• OPNFV Taking the Best of Open Source to Build an NFV Platform

  The OPNFV project is somewhat unlike other collaborative projects hosted at Linux Foundation. Rather than being the home for a specific single piece of technology, OPNFV works with multiple upstream open-source communities in a bid to compose a complete Network Function Virtualization (NFV) platform.

• Is Microsoft Is Building Yet Another Skype Client? [Ed: avoid Skype on any device, it harvests data by the tons]

• Installing A Django Development Environment on Ubuntu

• Cloud Foundry Foundation and Pivotal to Open Source Training Materials

• Pivotal Announces Open Source Cloud Foundry Training

• Deus Ex Dividing onto Mac and Linux

• 'Firewatch', the first person mystery adventure game has a major update, new game mode and Unity update [Ed: Mono a spoiler]

• GNOME 3.22 Released

  The GNOME Community has just announced the official release of GNOME 3.22. GNOME 3.22 — which is slated to be used as the desktop environment for Fedora Workstation 25 — provides a multitude of new features, including a the updated Files application, and comprehensive Flatpak integration with the Software application.

  Fedora users that want to try out the new features in GNOME 3.22 can install a pre-release version of Fedora 25, which currently contains a pre-release of GNOME 3.22, but will be updated to include the stable 3.22 release. Alternatively, if you are running Fedora 24, and want to try out individual applications from the GNOME 3.22 release, these can be installed via Flatpak.