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17 September 2013
News: Munich to hand out Ubuntu Linux CDs to ward off upcoming Windows XPocalypse

The end is nigh, and the date of doom has been foretold. The Windows XPocalypse is set to unleash hell on April 8, 2014, and in a bid to preserve the security of its citizens, the German city of Munich is turning to an unlikely savior: Ubuntu Linux.
News: Valve boss says Linux is the future of gaming, hints at Steam Box announcement

Tell me if you've heard this one before: "Linux and open source are the future of gaming."
News: IBM hopes to Power cloud, analytics with $1 billion Linux investment

IBM will invest US$1 billion to promote Linux development over the next five years as it tries to adapt Power mainframes and servers to handle cloud and big data applications in distributed computing environments.
28 August 2013
News: Canonical looking to tap Dell to promote Chinese version of Ubuntu OS

Canonical is in talks with Dell on making a version of Ubuntu supported by the Chinese government available as a pre-installed OS on the PC maker's upcoming products destined for the Chinese market.
22 August 2013
News: Requiem for the Ubuntu Edge: The phone is dead, but the dream lives on

We are gathered here today to mourn the death of the Ubuntu Edge. This ambitious project blurred the line between smartphone and PC, and while it burned but only briefly, it burned brightly enough that its legacy will live on in the hearts of future generation of phones.
News: Canonical misses smartphone crowdfunding goal by $19 million

Canonical raised only US$12.8 million of the $32 million it wanted for the production of the Ubuntu-based Edge smartphone.
21 August 2013
News: How Windows, OS X, and Ubuntu are slowly turning your PC into a smartphone

The glorious era of PC stardom is over. Once the belle of the technology ball, desktops and laptops now share the spotlight with smartphones and tablets, and the embrace of mobile devices by consumers has provoked deep changes in the computing landscape.
16 August 2013
News: Ubuntu Edge campaign shatters the crowdfunding record, likely for naught

It's official: The audacious Ubuntu Edge smartphone-slash-PC is the most successful crowdfunding campaign in history. Canonical currently sits atop a pledged cash horde of $10,420,890, a pile of dough bigger than the $10,266,845 raised for the Pebble Watch, the previous crowdfunding record holder.
29 July 2013
News: Ubuntu Edge smartphone funding levels dying off

The first heady rush of support for Canonical's crowd-funded Ubuntu Edge smartphone appears to have tapered off, as donations for the eye-catching device have slowed substantially over the past several days.
24 July 2013
News: Ultimate goal for Ubuntu Edge phone may go beyond crowdfunding campaign

Just what are those Linux lovers trying to pull here?
22 July 2013
News: Canonical takes Ubuntu forums offline in wake of password breach

Canonical, makers of the Ubuntu Linux distribution, recently announced that its Ubuntu help forums suffered a security breach over the weekend. Attackers were able to harvest an estimated 1.82 million user names, email addresses, and passwords from the site. Canonical says it isn't sure how hackers were able to breach its systems and the company has taken the forums at Ubuntuforums.org offline as a precaution.
News: Ubuntu forum defaced, breached by hackers

A website dedicated to discussion of the Ubuntu Linux distribution was breached on Saturday, with hackers gaining access to encrypted passwords and email addresses.
15 July 2013
News: The future of Linux: Evolving everywhere

Mark Shuttleworth's recent closure of Ubuntu Linux bug No. 1 ("Microsoft has a majority market share") placed a meaningful, if somewhat controversial, exclamation point on how far Linux has come since Linus Torvalds rolled out the first version of the OS in 1991 as a pet project.
24 June 2013
News: City of Munich spreads the gospel of Linux with Lubuntu giveaway

Plans are afoot to have Munich's city government distribute 2,000 Lubuntu installation CDs to users with older Windows PCs, after Microsoft stops releasing security updates for Windows XP next year.
21 June 2013
News: Linux Foundation sees broadening role for developers

Linux developers were once just that, developers. But their role is changing says the Linux Foundation, which is expanding its training options to help them.
20 June 2013
News: Canonical's Mir move doesn't sit well with some Linux developers

Nobody could accuse Canonical of resting on its laurels. The business side of Ubuntu – the best-known desktop Linux distribution – has expanded aggressively into mobility, pushed forward with a new desktop environment, and continued to release new versions of the flagship OS over the past few years.
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.