Technical board votes for shorter support cycles on standard releases.

Offensive Security announces the release of Kali Linux – their “most advanced, robust, and stable penetration testing distribution to date.”

New X replacement will support the Unity desktop in future Ubuntu releases.

The latest Enterprise Linux includes better support for Microsoft Hpyer-V and Active Directory.

After several delays, the Fedora Project has officially released Fedora 18 (“Spherical Cow”), the latest version of its Linux-based operating system.

Qt 5 offers developers enhanced productivity, flexibility, and easier cross-platform portability.

The last few years have been troubled for the Gnome Project. Once a premier desktop environment for Linux, it has seen its market share diminish amid user dissatisfaction over Gnome 3 and accusations that the project was ignoring users. Yet, over the last six months, something important has been happening: Slowly and quietly, the members of Gnome have started trying to turn the situation around.

These days, security and privacy issues are increasingly making the news, but where can the average free software user learn more about safer practices? One of the best answers I have found is Tails, a Debian-based distribution that seems as much about teaching users to make informed decisions as about the software itself.