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• Article | 24/05/2012 Linux Mint 13 rallies behind Gnome

  With the new version of Linux Mint, released Wednesday, the developers behind the open source Linux distribution have put all energies behind Gnome, o...
• Article | 22/05/2012 Linux 3.4 released quickly, after smooth development cycle

  Just over two months after its last major release, Linus Torvalds has posted the newest version of the open source Linux kernel, which supports new gr...
• Article | 16/05/2012 Red Hat preps RHEL 7 for second half of 2013

  The next major release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), version 7, is targeted for release in the second half of 2013, Red Hat said on Tuesday, as ...
• Article | 2/05/2012 Now with more RAM, the 'Vivaldi' Linux tablet is almost ready

  There was plenty of excitement earlier this year over the news that a fully open tablet was in the works, and late last week some new revelations were...
• Article | 20/04/2012 Linux Torvalds shortlisted for 2012 Millennium Technology Prize

  The Technology Academy Finland has shortlisted Linus Torvalds for its 2012 Millennium Technology Prize, worth over €1 million (US$1.3 million).
• Article | 13/04/2012 Opinion: Microsoft, instead of turning the lights off on XP, make it open source

  To state the obvious,, Microsoft is hugely important economically and culturally, and as Peter Parker (AKA Spiderman) was told by his grandfather: "Wi...
• Article | 4/04/2012 Look who's working on Linux now: Microsoft

  Linux powers countless smartphones, TVs, supercomputers, financial transactions, and websites around the globe--not to mention desktops--but the fact ...
• Article | 4/04/2012 Microsoft counted as key Linux contributor, for now anyway

  For the first time ever, and probably only temporarily, Microsoft can be counted as a key contributor to Linux.
• Article | 28/03/2012 Android apps can run on Windows PCs with Bluestacks emulator

  Software company Bluestacks is trying to close the gap between Microsoft's Windows and Google's Android OS with its App Player application, which was ...
• Article | 20/03/2012 Linux 3.3 released, integrates Android code

  Version 3.3 of the Linux kernel, now available after a short delay, includes kernel code from Android as well as an upgrade of networking features and...
• Article | 16/03/2012 No unified stack soon for big data

  Despite the growing interest in big data platforms, it may be some time before organizations will be able to deploy a standardized big data software s...
• Article | 13/03/2012 Oracle updates its Linux kernel with new advanced file system

  Oracle has updated the kernel of its Linux distribution to take advantage of the latest Linux advances, the company announced Tuesday.
• Article | 7/03/2012 Linux Professional Institute seeks trainers and students

  The Linux Professional Institute hopes to recruit more Linux trainers and students through two initiatives launched at the Cebit trade show in Hanover...
• Article | 29/02/2012 Mobile Linux: It's not just Android anymore

  The mobile world has been good to Linux, whose Android derivative has enjoyed a success that few could have predicted just a few short years ago.
• Article | 29/02/2012 Suse Enterprise Linux updated for new Dell, HP servers

  Suse has updated its enterprise Linux distribution, using a recent version of the Linux kernel to support the advanced management capabilities in fres...