OSTATIC: Continued code refinement and clean-up will make LibreOffice 4.1.0 more efficient, smaller, and easier to contribute to and compile.

TecMint: In this post, we will see how we can use history command effectively to extract the command which was executed by users in Bash shell.

InfoWorld: Punningly named PRISM Break, the site includes a long list of open source software solutions that protect Internet privacy.

InternetNews: From the 'Purveyors of the TRUTH' files:

eSecurity Planet: How does Red Hat go about building and developing a secure Linux operating system?

ServerWatch:  In a standing room-only set of sessions at the Red Hat Summit here this week, the future of Red Hat Enterprise Linux was revealed.

VB: In an interesting twist on the open source hardware movement, Sony has just announced it’s opening up its SmartWatch for your hacking pleasure.

HowtoForge: This tutorial describes how you can install Apache2 with mod_fcgid and PHP5 on OpenSUSE 12.3.

Linux User & Developer: New features in Red Hat Virtualization include Storage Live Migration, new third-party plug-in framework and support for new AMD and Intel chips.

OSTATIC: Fish is the Friendly, Interactive SHell, a shell that takes a modern look at the command line.

The VAR Guy: The National Security Agency (NSA) apparently uses Hadoop, NoSQL and other open source software to wage its Big Data war against terrorism.

OSTATIC: Systemd has been taking it on the chin lately because a lot of users just don't like it.

FOSS Force: When the revolt of the GNOME users first began, most of us probably figured this story would play-out along predictable lines, again following a plot similar to what we'd seen during the KDE revolution.

ghacks: Daniel Aleksandersen, the Opera employee who published news of the update on the Opera Desktop Team blog mentioned that there won't be a Linux version for the first release.

InfoWorld: A proposal to switch the German city's workstations to open source software was denied by the state's parliament.

 Datamation: Here's how KDE, GNOME, Unity, Mate, Cinnamon and Xfce each implement virtual workspaces.

 ZDnet: Who knew that SUSE Linux is so big into big data? Apparently a lot of big companies know but the secret for the rest of us is out.

 Linux User: Canonical are discussing the possibility of replacing Firefox with Chromium in the next version of Ubuntu

 Linux Gizmos: Variscite announced what it calls the world's tiniest Cortex-A9 system-on-module, measuring 52 x 17mm.