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• 27 November 2012

• News: With 'Cinnarch,' Arch Linux gets a sprinkle of Cinnamon

  Hard on the heels of the news that the old GNOME 2 desktop is coming back by popular demand, the Cinnarch project late last week announced that its new Linux distribution combining Arch Linux with the alternative Cinnamon desktop environment has now reached beta.

• 24 November 2012

• News: GNOME: The traditional Linux desktop is coming back

  It would be difficult to imagine a more vivid testament to many Linux users' dislike of the new-style GNOME 3 desktop than the many alternative options that have sprung up in response.

• 23 November 2012

• News: Seven fresh reasons to try Linux Mint 14 'Nadia'

  It seems like the shiny new Linux releases are coming fast and furious this fall, and this week has been no exception.

• 21 November 2012

• News: Delays beset the Linux Foundation's Secure Boot workaround

  Linux aficionados who have been watching the Windows 8 Secure Boot saga unfold in recent months will likely remember that the Linux Foundation itself last month unveiled plans for a workaround that would help Linux users get past the problem.

• 20 November 2012

• News: System76 unveils an 'extreme performance' Ubuntu Linux laptop

  Fans of Linux in general or Ubuntu in particular may remember the launch late last month of System76's Sable Complete all-in-one Ubuntu desktop PC featuring a 21.5-inch, high-definition 1080p display and quad-core, third-generation Intel Core i5 or i7 processors.

• 16 November 2012

• News: Meet the PengPod, a 'true Linux' tablet starting at $120

  The tablet arena already includes countless contenders featuring Linux-based Android, but a company currently seeking funding on Indiegogo aims to produce a new line of what it calls "true Linux" devices.

• 14 November 2012

• News: New video offers a peek at Ubuntu for Android

  Ever since Canonical announced Ubuntu for Android back in February, the lack of specific product details seems to have done little to diminish excitement over the forthcoming Linux-based platform.

• 07 November 2012

• Opinion: Tiny $57 PC is like the Raspberry Pi, but faster and fully open

  It would be difficult to overstate the popularity of the tiny Raspberry Pi computer that launched earlier this year, but it's just one example of a rapidly growing class of small, inexpensive, Linux-powered devices, as I've already noted on several occasions before.

• News: Did AMD shoot itself in the foot by laying off open-source talent?

  The staff of Advanced Micro Devices' Operating System Research Center has been laid off, according to a report from The H Online, dramatically reducing the company's ability to contribute to the Linux community and support its own hardware on the platform.

• News: HP bets big on Linux

  HP has long been a contributor to Linux and open source software, but on Monday it ratcheted up its support another notch.

• 06 November 2012

• News: Android turns 5, hits 75 percent of the smartphone market

  Given Android's ubiquity today, it's almost hard to believe that it has only been around a few years.

• 05 November 2012

• News: Linux Foundation welcomes new members, as existing heavyweights up their commitments

  The Linux Foundation made several membership announcements over the weekend, welcoming new members Cloudsoft, Cloudscaling, CloudSigma and DreamHost to the fold at LinuxCon Europe, currently being held in Barcelona.

• 03 November 2012

• News: Calling all Linux Mint fans: There's a new online store to check out

  The month of October may have been more or less dominated by Ubuntu Linux for those of us anticipating its recent "Quantal Quetzal" release, but this week the Linux Mint project made an intriguing announcement of its own.

• 02 November 2012

• News: Red Hat, Xen, Java, Cloudera prepped for 64-bit ARM

  There's been a lot of talk from hardware vendors about 64-bit ARM servers, but without software the fledgling platform won't get very far. Several big vendors made announcements this week that show software support is on its way.

• 01 November 2012

• News: Linux distro spotlight: Fuduntu

  It's not unusual for Linux distributions to have somewhat offbeat names -- Ubuntu (named after an Africa-originated philosophy), Red Hat (the creator of the original distro, Marc Ewing, had a red lacrosse hat given to him by his grandfather), and the wonderful CrunchBang Linux (named after the characters usually used at the start of a script -- #!). In the case of Fuduntu, the origins of the name are quite simple: It's a combination of Unbuntu and Fedora, the Red Hat-sponsored Linux distribution.

• News: Facebook, others back Linaro's Linux-on-ARM project

  Facebook, Red Hat, Hewlett-Packard and other big vendors have joined a project to develop Linux OS software for the upcoming generation of ARM-based servers, the companies announced Thursday.

• 31 October 2012

• News: Ubuntu moves to new release schedule

  Canonical QA coordinator Nicholas Skaggs announced that the company's popular Linux-based operating system, Ubuntu, would be moving to a substantially different release schedule.

• News: Torvalds on laptops: Make higher-def resolution standard

  The outspoken creator of Linux, Linus Torvalds, called for laptop makers to follow the tablet world's lead in using the highest-resolution displays possible on mobile devices, in a post on Google Plus.

• News: Ubuntu Linux's Amazon integration gets a thumbs-down from the EFF

  There's been a considerable bit of feather-ruffling caused lately by Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu Linux.

• 30 October 2012

• News: Google's Chrome Remote Desktop sheds beta tag, adds new features

  Google’s Chrome Remote Desktop, a free browser add-on for Chrome is officially out of beta, and to celebrate, the search giant has added two new features to the service.

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