Latest Linux Articles

• 19 June 2013

• News: Rogue public Cloud usage to be countered with proactivity

  In order to decrease the occurrence and mitigate the risks of rogue public Cloud usage, IT departments must be proactive in defining their Cloud strategy and assessing usage, according to Red Hat senior Cloud technology and alliances manager, Martin Zierer.

• 12 June 2013

• News: Red Hat shakes up OpenStack lineup

  Red Hat announced a large-scale restructuring of its OpenStack-based offerings today, bundling its Enterprise Linux software with the OpenStack platform, and creating a more comprehensive infrastructure product for private-cloud IaaS.

• 05 June 2013

• News: Big Switch lowers forecast for OpenDaylight SDN effort

  Citing concerns over technical and market direction, Big Switch Networks has downgraded its participation in the OpenDaylight consortium, a multivendor effort to define an open source SDN framework.

• 03 June 2013

• News: Open source luminary Atul Chitnis dies of cancer at age 51

  Atul Chitnis, a pioneering technologist and former contributing editor to the landmark Indian IT publication PCQuest, died Monday at the age of 51, following a battle with intestinal cancer.

• 31 May 2013

• News: Ubuntu's Bug #1 report closed after almost nine years

  Open-source advocate Mark Shuttleworth closed Ubuntu's seriocomic Bug #1 report on Thursday after leaving it open nearly nine years. The move heralded a major shift in rhetoric from the leader of the world's most popular Linux distribution.

• 27 May 2013

• News: Zorin OS 7: This may be the Linux distro you're looking for

  It's been almost a year since Zorin OS 6 made its debut, and since then several minor updates to the user-friendly Linux distribution have been released as well.

• 25 May 2013

• News: Considering a Linux career? Four tips for new college grads

  'Tis the season for college graduations, and that means there are countless fresh grads out there looking for their first real, professional jobs.

• 23 May 2013

• News: Skype for Linux 4.2 aims to deliver more polish

  It's been almost a year since Microsoft moved its newly acquired Skype for Linux out of beta with the release of version 4.0, surprising more than a few Linux fans with its apparent commitment to maintaining a telephony client for the free and open source operating system.

• 22 May 2013

• Opinion: $99 Linux stick turns any HDMI display into a virtual desktop

  Hard on the heels of the news that Dell's "Project Ophelia" thumb PC is expected to ship this summer, thin client vendor Devon IT on Tuesday rolled out a similar contender of its own called the Ceptor.

• 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.

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