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• 21 May 2013

• Opinion: Mageia Linux 3 brings a raft of key updates

  Mageia has long been what you might call a "best-kept secret" of the Linux world, consistently residing among the top five distributions in DistroWatch's page-hit rankings despite minimal marketing and hoopla.

• 17 May 2013

• Opinion: New tablet boots Ubuntu Linux, Android, and Windows 8

  We've seen several Linux tablets emerge over the past year or so, but examples with triple-boot capabilities are much less common.

• 15 May 2013

• How-Tos: How to install Linux on a vintage 68K Mac

  If you're like me and happen to have a bunch of vintage Macs powered by Motorola 680x0 CPUs lying around, then you probably like to tinker with them. And what better way to tinker with obsolete hardware than by installing an obsolete version of Linux on it? It's a difficult and time-consuming procedure with no practical purpose, of course, but when has that ever stopped us?

• News: So Long, Cinnamon: Cinnarch Linux is reborn as Antergos

  Regular PCWorld readers may recall Cinnarch, a Linux distribution I covered last fall that combined Arch Linux with the relatively new and alternative Cinnamon desktop environment.

• 14 May 2013

• News: Ingram Micro sees surge in uptake of Cloud services offerings

  Resellers are becoming more interested and involved in Cloud services, according to leading distributor, Ingram Micro which has seen a surge in the uptake of its Cloud services products.

• 10 May 2013

• Opinion: Korora Linux 18 aims to deliver a friendlier Fedora

  There's no doubt that desktop Linux has become increasingly user-friendly over the years, but it's equally true that some distributions focus more on ease of use than others do.

• News: Canonical staff to get working Ubuntu phones by late May

  Canonical on Wednesday announced its next moves on the way to market with a Linux-powered phone.

• 09 May 2013

• Opinion: Linux code is the 'benchmark of quality,' study concludes

  Fans of free and open source software (FOSS) may recall a report from Coverity last year that found open source code typically has fewer defects per thousand lines of code than proprietary software code does.

• 07 May 2013

• Opinion: Five things to like About Debian 7.0 'Wheezy'

  After more than two years of development, the Debian project on Saturday released the long-awaited version 7.0 of its venerable Linux distribution.

• 06 May 2013

• News: Debian wheezes out Version 7

  The latest version of Debian -- Version 7.0, codenamed "Wheezy" -- is now in stable release, bringing with it accessibility enhancements, a new version of the GNOME 3.4 desktop environment and support for multiple hardware architectures.

• News: How Facebook aims to reinvent hardware

  Facebook used to be a company just like many others: It would buy servers, racks and other hardware from vendors like HP and Dell and rent out co-location space from vendors like DuPont Fabros and others.

• 05 May 2013

• News: Google and Adobe beautify fonts on Linux, iOS

  Users of Android, Chrome OS, Linux, and iOS devices may not realize it, but FreeType open source software is used to render fonts on more than a billion such devices. Not only that, but the FreeType project this week got a significant update from none other than Adobe and Google.

• 01 May 2013

• News: From the ashes of Fuduntu, FuSE Linux is born

  Scarcely two weeks after announcing that it would be shutting its doors later this year, the Fuduntu Linux team on Sunday announced that they have decided instead to end the project immediately.

• 30 April 2013

• News: Control and security of corporate open-source projects proves difficult

  Open source has become a staple for software development in the enterprise, but keeping track of it and maintaining security for it remains an elusive goal, according to a survey of more than 3,500 data architects and developers published today by Sonatype, which provides component lifecycle management products and also operates the Central Repository for downloading open-source software.

• News: Linux kernel 3.9 adds full Chrome OS support

  Linux creator Linus Torvalds on Monday released version 3.9 of the Linux kernel, and particularly intriguing among numerous new features and improvements is support for laptops running Google's Chrome OS.

• 27 April 2013

• News: Fedora 19 alpha offers a peek at what's coming

  It's been about three months since the release of Fedora 18 "Spherical Cow," but this week afforded the first glimpse at the next version of the popular Linux distribution.

• 25 April 2013

• Opinion: Ubuntu 13.04 'Raring Ringtail' debuts, to be followed by 'Saucy Salamander'

  Canonical on Thursday announced the final release of Ubuntu Linux 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" for both desktop PCs and servers.

• 24 April 2013

• News: Tiny single-board BeagleBone computer arrives at $45

  There's a new low-cost single-board computer on the block designed to give the million-selling Raspberry Pi a run for its money.

• 23 April 2013

• Opinion: First Firefox OS developer phones are already sold out

  The first two developer smartphones running Mozilla's upstart Firefox OS went on sale Tuesday morning and then quickly sold out.

• News: Coming soon to Linux: A lightweight KDE alternative

  Choice has always been a hallmark of the desktop Linux world, where users can select not just the distribution they prefer but also the desktop environment, among virtually countless other features.

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