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• 02 January 2013

• News: Rumors swirl as Ubuntu prepares 'disruptive' announcement

  A teaser on the home page of popular Linux distribution Ubuntu hints at a major new smartphone and tablet-related release, as time ticks down to an announcement set for 1 p.m. EST.

• News: Make 2013 the year you switch to Linux

  For many PC users, the prospect of switching away from Mac or Windows and onto Linux can be a nerve-wracking one.

• News: Five Linux predictions for 2013

  Now that the final curtain is about to drop on the year that was 2012, there's no better time to look ahead and try to anticipate what 2013 will bring.

• 27 December 2012

• News: Five reasons 2012 was a great year for Linux

  The end of the year is always a good time to take stock of where things stand in any niche or field, and Linux is no exception.

• 26 December 2012

• Opinion: Another year, another totally different top 10 Linux distros

  Between the new innovations that emerge practically every day and the fairly constant rate of change in general, things never stay the same for long in technology.

• 22 December 2012

• News: Turn your Raspberry Pi into a tiny Linux laptop

  Ever since the tiny $35 Raspberry Pi PC began shipping earlier this year, there's been virtually no limit to the fresh uses and extensions that have been envisioned for it.

• 21 December 2012

• News: GitHub growth points to open source's enterprise acceptance

  Every day 10,000 new users sign up for GitHub, an online repository for open source projects that already has 2.8 million members.

• News: The 'Linux Diversity' collection: One kit, 10 Linux distros

  With all the wide variety of free and open source software out there, it can sometimes feel like an insurmountable challenge to download and try each and every one that interests you.

• 20 December 2012

• News: Mac users get an official Ubuntu One client

  Google's Drive file storage and synchronization service may often claim a larger share of media headlines than Canonical's competing Ubuntu One cloud service does, but this week Ubuntu One gained a critical competitive edge.

• 19 December 2012

• News: Three new features coming in Linux Mint 15

  It's been just a few weeks since the launch of Linux Mint 14 “Nadia,” but already the project behind the popular distribution has been making plans for its next release.

• 18 December 2012

• Opinion: Coming soon: A new, open laptop from the creator of Chumby

  Open source software has become an increasingly widespread part of the computing world thanks to the ever-growing popularity of Linux, Firefox, LibreOffice, and other prominent examples. Fully open hardware, however, is still much less common.

• 17 December 2012

• News: Raspberry Pi gets an app store

  Raspberry Pi, a $25 credit-card sized Linux computer introduced earlier this year, is getting its own app store.

• 15 December 2012

• News: After three years, Slax Linux is reborn with version 7.0

  There's no denying 2012 has been a fruitful year for Linux distributions in general, but something about it has also seemed to favor the rebirth of distros we hadn't heard from in years.

• 13 December 2012

• News: Linux 3.8 will drop support for Intel 386 chips

  Launched back in 1985, the venerable i386 processor has served countless PC users around the globe long and well, but recently the developers of the Linux kernel decided to drop support for it.

• 12 December 2012

• Opinion: Coming in Ubuntu Linux 13.04: instant purchases from the desktop

  Canonical may not have published an official alpha release for its core Ubuntu Linux 13.04 OS last week--or a corresponding list of new features--but on Friday the company did reveal some specifics about what's coming in this next version of its popular Linux distribution.

• 11 December 2012

• News: Linux 3.7 adds major new ARM processor support

  The latest version of the Linux kernel, which was released Monday, includes groundbreaking new features making it compatible with the increasingly popular ARM processor architecture.

• 10 December 2012

• News: Stallman attacks are 'FUD,' argues Canonical community manager

  Canonical community manager Jono Bacon says that Richard Stallman's accusations that Ubuntu spies on users are "childish" and aimed at creating an air of FUD around the product.

• 08 December 2012

• News: Ubuntu Linux 13.04 hits alpha, but details are under wraps

  Even as Ubuntu Linux 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" continues to make headlines following its release back in October, work is proceeding in earnest on its successor, Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail."

• 07 December 2012

• Opinion: ZevenOS 5.0: a lightweight Linux with a multimedia twist

  There are Linux distributions out there for pretty much every taste and purpose, but every once in a while I'll come across one that seems especially intriguing.

• 06 December 2012

• News: Ekiga 4.0 offers a fresh, open source Skype alternative

  Longtime users of Ubuntu Linux may already be familiar with open source Ekiga, which used to be the default Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) client in that popular Linux distribution, but late last month the telephony software got a major update.

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