Samba 4.0

• FTC ends Google investigation
• Samba implements Windows AD
• News Bites

Linux Phones

• Ubuntu launches a new phone OS
• Samsung announces Tizen phone
• Perl turns 25

Big Data DB

• vert.x project leader
• Apache Cassandra v1.2 released
• HPC app contest

The Linux New Media Awards are back! Organized by the publisher of Linux Magazine and Linux Pro Magazine, these awards honor projects, organizations, people, and companies for their outstanding contributions to the Linux/FLOSS community.

With its move into Hall 6, CeBIT is now allocating even more space to the Open Source Area in 2013. The Open Source Forum, together with the Open Source Park making up this themed area on CeBIT, will benefit from the move as well.

Land of the fries, home of the beer? Belgium has more to offer than that! In 2001 the LBW went to Bouillon, and this year the geeks returned to the small country in Western Europe – specifically to Diksmuide in West Flanders.

OSCON always manages to change with the times without giving up the original vision of community and new ideas.

Canonical announces the Ubuntu App Showdown – a contest in which participants create an Ubuntu app from scratch in three weeks.

June 6, 2012: the World IPv6 Day launched

Citrix unveils its cloud computing strategy and moves CloudStack to the Apache Software Foundation.