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  • 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.

  • 31 May 2013

  • News: Ubuntu's Bug #1 report closed after almost nine years

    Open-source advocate Mark Shuttleworth closed Ubuntu's seriocomic Bug #1 report on Thursday after leaving it open nearly nine years. The move heralded a major shift in rhetoric from the leader of the world's most popular Linux distribution.

  • 27 May 2013

  • News: Zorin OS 7: This may be the Linux distro you're looking for

    It's been almost a year since Zorin OS 6 made its debut, and since then several minor updates to the user-friendly Linux distribution have been released as well.

  • 25 May 2013

  • News: Considering a Linux career? Four tips for new college grads

    'Tis the season for college graduations, and that means there are countless fresh grads out there looking for their first real, professional jobs.

  • 23 May 2013

  • News: Skype for Linux 4.2 aims to deliver more polish

    It's been almost a year since Microsoft moved its newly acquired Skype for Linux out of beta with the release of version 4.0, surprising more than a few Linux fans with its apparent commitment to maintaining a telephony client for the free and open source operating system.

  • 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.

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