Now in its ninth year, the Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE) continues to gain ground as its popularity grows throughout the open source community.

Chronicler Zack Brown reports on the latest news, views, dilemmas, and developments within the Linux kernel community.

The Jeopardy game is over, and Watson, the supercomputer built and pro­grammed by IBM, won hands down. But, maddog tackles an item in the “Open Source Operating Systems” category.

Linux is a wonderful and underrated audio production platform, with great applications for every audio task. MuseScore and LilyPond bring elegance and sophistication to score writing, and Chordii is a wonderfully simple guitar sheet-music maker.

Open source in the news, at events around the globe, and now delivered in convenient flyer form.

Although you give up control of the underlying infrastructure when you use cloud computing, you can still maintain some control over security.

Friends are all about friendship – names and appearances typically don’t play any role at all. Sys admin Charly’s friend the Terminator is a convincing example.