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- 27 August 2012
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Opinion: PC-in-a-Keyboard Comes with Ubuntu Linux Preloaded
The past six months or so have seen a veritable flurry of tiny, Linux-powered PCs descend upon the market, including not just the widely embraced Raspberry Pi but also the Mele A1000, the MK802, and the Oval Elephant, to name just a few.
- 24 August 2012
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Opinion: Twitter Joins the Linux Foundation
It's been quite the all-star cast of companies joining the Linux Foundation over the past year or so, and next week will see the addition of another doozy.
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News: Twitter latest big name to join Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation will announce next week that Twitter has joined the organization, along with open source storage services company Inktank and high-performance data center manufacturer Servergy.
- 23 August 2012
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Opinion: Five Reasons to Try the New PCLinuxOS
It's been a busy few months lately in the world of Linux distributions, and August appears to be no exception.
- 21 August 2012
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Opinion: Linux's '31 Flavors of Fun' Project: 19 Distros and Counting
Fans of Linux may recall the "31 Flavors of Fun" project I wrote about last month through which ambitious developer Todd Robinson planned to "create, and release, a complete desktop operating system each and every day for the period of 31 days" over the course of August.
- 19 August 2012
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News: Coming Soon: A 'Pure GNOME' Ubuntu Linux
Linux fans in general and Ubuntu users in particular are already well-acquainted with the many desktop environments that are available for distributions of the free and open source operating system.
- 15 August 2012
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Opinion: HP Spins Off 'Gram' as Independent Home for WebOS
The death of webOS has been proclaimed loudly and often ever since HP announced that it was donating the Linux-based mobile operating system to the open source community, but like the Energizer Bunny, it seems to keep going.
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News: Oracle updates Java, JavaFX for OS X, ARM, and Linux
Standard edition of Java will run on Mac OS X, two versions of ARM processor; JavaFX gains Linux and multitouch capabilities
- 14 August 2012
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Opinion: Dreaming of a Linux Ultrabook? Meet the New ZaReason UltraLap 430
There's been a marked jump in recent months in the number of options facing Linux fans interested in buying hardware with their favorite operating system preinstalled, but just recently one came out that seems particularly notable.
- 09 August 2012
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Opinion: GNOME Announces a Brand-New OS Coming in 2014
There's been plenty of excitement surrounding Firefox OS ever since Mozilla announced its first hardware partners earlier this year, but now it looks like there's yet another open source operating system entering the scene.
- 08 August 2012
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News: Linux distributors duke it out in cloud OS market
Linux operating system distributor Suse says it is gaining ground among cloud service providers as their choice platform for delivering the open source OS to customers, but at least one analyst says the market is still split between the Suse, Red Hat and Canonical's Ubuntu.
- 07 August 2012
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News: Torvalds, Kroah-Hartman and other Linux luminaries will attend first-ever Korean Linux Forum
Several of the Linux world's biggest names - including Greg Kroah-Hartman and Linus Torvalds himself - will be present at the Linux Foundation's first Korean Linux Forum, to be held October 11-12 at the JW Marriott in Seoul.
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Opinion: 'Damn Small Linux' Returns with a Brand-New Release Candidate
The past few months have seen a flurry of Linux distribution updates, and this one is certainly no exception.
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News: Damn Small Linux getting a big update
The developer of Damn Small Linux, a distribution designed to work on older and less powerful hardware, has released his first new version of the software in four years.
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News: XBMC now working with Android gaming sensation Ouya
The team behind open-source media platform XBMC announced today that it would be working with the developers of Ouya to make sure that XBMC works on the still-developing but widely hyped Android gaming console.
- 06 August 2012
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Opinion: Six Key Improvements in Bodhi Linux 2.0.1
It's been less than a year since I first wrote about Bodhi Linux 1.2.0, but already the popular, Ubuntu-based Linux distribution has reached its second major milestone.
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News: Nvidia releases new Unix driver to fix high-risk privilege escalation vulnerability
Graphics chip maker Nvidia released a new version of its Unix driver on Friday in order to address a high-risk vulnerability that can be exploited by local users to gain root privileges on Linux systems.
- 03 August 2012
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News: Installing Linux on Windows 8 PCs: No easy answers
Here's Microsoft's plan: Every new PC sold with Windows 8 will be locked up tight with Microsoft's UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) secure boot on. Microsoft says that this is to help secure your PCs from rootkits and malware. It also happens to stop you from easily installing Linux or any other operating system, such as Windows 7 or XP, on a Windows 8 system. Thanks Microsoft. We really needed that kind of protection!
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News: KDE 4.9 Brings Fresh Stability and Performance to the Linux Desktop
The year of the Linux desktop may be the subject of never-ending debate, but few would deny that we currently seem to be in the midst of a week of Linux desktop news.
- 02 August 2012
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News: Tweet from a Commodore 64? We Do That and More to Celebrate the Beloved PC's 30th Birthday
Thirty years ago, Commodore Business Machines released the Commodore 64, an 8-bit home personal computer that became an iconic cultural force.
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