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Shane Remington, co-founder of the Peppermint operating system (OS), announced plans to merge the previous two Peppermint OSes into one OS to be released as Peppermint Two.

The Linux Foundation welcomes its newest member, Yahoo!.

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS server release is nearing the end of its support life; Mark Shuttleworth, Founder of Ubuntu, and Jono Bacon, Ubuntu Community Manager, summarize what this milestone release meant to the Ubuntu project and community.

On Wednesday, April 20, 2011, Adam Drew of Red Hat will host the Making Music with FOSS webcast as part of the Open Your World Forum Series sponsored by opensource.com.

Announced today on the Fedora announce mailing list, the Fedora 15 (Lovelock) beta is now available for download.

The Call for Presentations (CFP) for the Ohio Linux Fest (OLF) end on May 1, 2011 and organizers are encouraging individuals to submit their proposals as soon as possible.

Oracle announced its intentions to move OpenOffice.org to a community-based open source project and to no longer offer a commercial version of Open Office.

OpenStack today announced the availability of the Cactus releases of Compute and Object Storage.

The Linux Foundation announced the keynote speakers and details of the Gala event to take place at LinuxCon North America on August 17-19 in Vancouver, Canada.

Zorin announces its own commercial Linux computer called the Zorin PC and is marketing the new PC as a gateway for Windows users to move to a Linux-based system.