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15 May 2013
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
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.
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.
05 May 2013
News: Google and Adobe beautify fonts on Linux, iOS

Users of Android, Chrome OS, Linux, and iOS devices may not realize it, but FreeType open source software is used to render fonts on more than a billion such devices. Not only that, but the FreeType project this week got a significant update from none other than Adobe and Google.
01 May 2013
News: From the ashes of Fuduntu, FuSE Linux is born

Scarcely two weeks after announcing that it would be shutting its doors later this year, the Fuduntu Linux team on Sunday announced that they have decided instead to end the project immediately.
30 April 2013
News: Control and security of corporate open-source projects proves difficult

Open source has become a staple for software development in the enterprise, but keeping track of it and maintaining security for it remains an elusive goal, according to a survey of more than 3,500 data architects and developers published today by Sonatype, which provides component lifecycle management products and also operates the Central Repository for downloading open-source software.
News: Linux kernel 3.9 adds full Chrome OS support

Linux creator Linus Torvalds on Monday released version 3.9 of the Linux kernel, and particularly intriguing among numerous new features and improvements is support for laptops running Google's Chrome OS.
27 April 2013
News: Fedora 19 alpha offers a peek at what's coming

It's been about three months since the release of Fedora 18 "Spherical Cow," but this week afforded the first glimpse at the next version of the popular Linux distribution.
24 April 2013
News: Tiny single-board BeagleBone computer arrives at $45

There's a new low-cost single-board computer on the block designed to give the million-selling Raspberry Pi a run for its money.
23 April 2013
News: Coming soon to Linux: A lightweight KDE alternative

Choice has always been a hallmark of the desktop Linux world, where users can select not just the distribution they prefer but also the desktop environment, among virtually countless other features.
18 April 2013
News: Open source is taking over the software world, survey says

It's been only a few weeks since the Linux Foundation released its report that enterprise use of Linux continues to rise, but on Wednesday fresh data came out that suggests the same is true of open source software in general.
17 April 2013
News: Fuduntu Linux to shut down, new distro to follow

The team in charge of maintaining and developing Fuduntu, a Linux-based operating system designed as a hybrid of Fedora and Ubuntu, voted Sunday to close down the project.
16 April 2013
News: Linux Foundation adds members, brings Xen project aboard

The Linux Foundation announced Monday that three companies have joined the organization -- mobile hardware maker Hisense, application and network acceleration provider Solarflare, and server manufacturer Thomas-Krenn.
News: Fuduntu Linux is closing its doors

Exactly a week after releasing a fresh update to its increasingly popular Linux distribution, the Fuduntu project on Monday announced that it's closing its doors for good.
15 April 2013
News: Red Hat Advances Enterprise OpenStack Distro to Early Adopter Program

Red Hat Distribution for OpenStack, or RDO, is designed to provide a place for the community to add upstream features to Red Hat's enterprise OpenStack distribution, similar to the role the open source Fedora Project plays for its Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
09 April 2013
News: OpenDaylight: the next Penguin?

It seems to be passe to be solid these days. The latest example of this is the just-announced OpenDaylight project, in which a bunch of the biggest names in computing and networking have gotten together to push an open source development effort to support software-defined (i.e., virtual) networking under the umbrella of the Linux Foundation.
News: Open-Xchange takes aim at no less than Microsoft Office, Google Docs

As his interviewer stumbles for an appropriately careful term to describe the state of open-source office software development, Rafael Laguna, CEO of Open-Xchange, offers to help.
News: Skeptcism follows Cisco-IBM led OpenDaylight SDN consortium

If you're skeptical about the intentions of the OpenDaylight SDN consortium, you're not alone.

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