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• 16 January 2013

• News: Five Notable New Features in Fedora Linux 18 'Spherical Cow'

  After numerous delays along the way, the final version of Fedora Linux 18 "Spherical Cow" made its long-awaited debut on Tuesday.

• 10 January 2013

• News: Red Hat takes the wraps off RHEL 5.9

  Red Hat on Tuesday announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9, a new update to the company's popular open source enterprise platform.

• 08 January 2013

• News: Calling all GNOME 2 fans: Meet Fuduntu Linux 2013.1

  It's no secret that mobile-style interfaces such as Unity, GNOME 3, and even Windows 8's Modern UI have met with only a lukewarm reception among many desktop PC users.

• 05 January 2013

• News: The CuBox Pro: for $160, a tiny, open PC with 2GB of RAM

  One of the most striking tech trends of 2012 was the invasion of the tiny, inexpensive Linux PCs including the Raspberry Pi, the Cotton Candy, and increasingly innumerable others.

• 03 January 2013

• News: Samsung: Tizen Linux phones will arrive in 2013

  Hard on the heels of Wednesday's unveiling of Ubuntu Linux for phones, Samsung has now reportedly confirmed that it plans to ship new Linux-based mobile devices of its own later this year.

• News: Ubuntu for phones makes its official debut

  It's been close to a year since Canonical announced Ubuntu for Android, the smartphone version of its popular Linux distribution that's designed to launch the full Ubuntu desktop when an Android phone is docked with a keyboard and monitor.

• 02 January 2013

• News: Canonical prepares Ubuntu for smartphones

  Further expanding from its core mission of providing Linux distributions for desktop computers and servers, Canonical is developing a version of Ubuntu for smartphones.

• News: Canonical raises curtain on Ubuntu for smartphones

  Ubuntu is now a full-fledged smartphone operating system, featuring a host of platform-specific features and an innovative new interface, Canonical announced today.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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