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03 September 2012
News: HP Launches Open WebOS into Beta, Pushes Ahead with Hiring

Hard on the heels of the news that HP's webOS Global Business Unit is being spun off as an independent but wholly owned company called Gram, the company on Friday officially launched Open webOS into beta.
24 August 2012
News: Twitter latest big name to join Linux Foundation

The Linux Foundation will announce next week that Twitter has joined the organization, along with open source storage services company Inktank and high-performance data center manufacturer Servergy.
19 August 2012
News: Coming Soon: A 'Pure GNOME' Ubuntu Linux

Linux fans in general and Ubuntu users in particular are already well-acquainted with the many desktop environments that are available for distributions of the free and open source operating system.
15 August 2012
News: Oracle updates Java, JavaFX for OS X, ARM, and Linux

Standard edition of Java will run on Mac OS X, two versions of ARM processor; JavaFX gains Linux and multitouch capabilities
08 August 2012
News: Linux distributors duke it out in cloud OS market

Linux operating system distributor Suse says it is gaining ground among cloud service providers as their choice platform for delivering the open source OS to customers, but at least one analyst says the market is still split between the Suse, Red Hat and Canonical's Ubuntu.
07 August 2012
News: Torvalds, Kroah-Hartman and other Linux luminaries will attend first-ever Korean Linux Forum

Several of the Linux world's biggest names - including Greg Kroah-Hartman and Linus Torvalds himself - will be present at the Linux Foundation's first Korean Linux Forum, to be held October 11-12 at the JW Marriott in Seoul.
News: Damn Small Linux getting a big update

The developer of Damn Small Linux, a distribution designed to work on older and less powerful hardware, has released his first new version of the software in four years.
News: XBMC now working with Android gaming sensation Ouya

The team behind open-source media platform XBMC announced today that it would be working with the developers of Ouya to make sure that XBMC works on the still-developing but widely hyped Android gaming console.
06 August 2012
News: Nvidia releases new Unix driver to fix high-risk privilege escalation vulnerability

Graphics chip maker Nvidia released a new version of its Unix driver on Friday in order to address a high-risk vulnerability that can be exploited by local users to gain root privileges on Linux systems.
03 August 2012
News: Installing Linux on Windows 8 PCs: No easy answers

Here's Microsoft's plan: Every new PC sold with Windows 8 will be locked up tight with Microsoft's UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) secure boot on. Microsoft says that this is to help secure your PCs from rootkits and malware. It also happens to stop you from easily installing Linux or any other operating system, such as Windows 7 or XP, on a Windows 8 system. Thanks Microsoft. We really needed that kind of protection!
News: KDE 4.9 Brings Fresh Stability and Performance to the Linux Desktop

The year of the Linux desktop may be the subject of never-ending debate, but few would deny that we currently seem to be in the midst of a week of Linux desktop news.
02 August 2012
News: Tweet from a Commodore 64? We Do That and More to Celebrate the Beloved PC's 30th Birthday

Thirty years ago, Commodore Business Machines released the Commodore 64, an 8-bit home personal computer that became an iconic cultural force.
30 July 2012
News: SolusOS: A New Linux Distro with a Focus on the Familiar

There's been no end in sight to the controversy over Linux desktop environments, and with new contenders including Unity, GNOME 3, and Cinnamon--to name just a few--users now face more choices than ever before.
News: Linux Foundation adds three members: Calxeda, Reaktor and Antelink

The Linux Foundation announced today that three new companies -- data center specialist Calxeda, open-source network compliance provider Antelink, and consultants Reaktor -- have become members.
News: RHEL now available on Reserved Instances in Amazon's cloud

Amazon Web Services has added the ability to run Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a Reserved Instance, which allows users to cut their costs, the company said on Monday.
25 July 2012
News: Fedora Linux Moves Forward with UEFI Secure Boot Plans

Windows 8's Secure Boot technology has been a hot topic this summer, causing no end of discussion and debate among the various Linux distributions, which are struggling to figure out the best approach for getting around it.
20 July 2012
News: Oracle's wooing of CentOS users called FUD

Oracle's recent launch of a campaign to convert users of CentOS -- a free version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux that uses community support, rather than an paid option -- is being met with skepticism by some members of the business Linux community.
19 July 2012
News: Ubuntu Linux 12.10 Will Integrate Web Apps into the Desktop

The next version of Ubuntu Linux will include a new feature that can incorporate commonly used Web apps directly into the user's desktop, Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth announced at OSCON on Thursday.
News: Canonical equips Ubuntu with desktop Web apps

Canonical is adding a new feature to its Ubuntu operating system that will allow desktop users to access popular Internet services without opening a browser window. Instead, a Web page can be accessed as a desktop application.
17 July 2012
News: Popular open-source media player XBMC headed to Android

The developers of well-known open-source media player XBMC have a beta version of their software working on Android, the team has announced.

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