Has GNOME Rejected Canonical help? Shuttleworth Responds
Mar 10, 2011"Unity is a shell for Gnome. Now Gnome leadership have to decide if they want the fruit or that competition to be an asset to Gnome, or not." ~Mark Shuttleworth founder of Ubuntu.
more »Canonical Changes Ubuntu Naming Conventions
Mar 09, 2011"One of the benefits of the direction that’s been taken with the next release of Ubuntu is that there is no longer a need for a separate netbook edition, says Gerry Carr of Canonical. "The introduction of the new shell for Ubuntu means that we have a user interface that works equally well whatever the form factor of the PC."
more »Fedora 15 Alpha Available Features GNOME 3 Desktop
Mar 09, 2011Fedora announces the availability of Fedora 15 Alpha which includes the GNOME 3 desktop, LibreOffice and the 2.6.38 kernel.
more »Kernel News What's happening in the kernel community
Mar 01, 2011Chronicler Zack Brown reports on the latest news, views, dilemmas, and developments within the Linux kernel community.
more »Letter from the Editor Nokia abandons ship?
Mar 01, 2011Whatever you might think about Nokia CEO Stephen Elop, one thing is certain: He sure can wield a metaphor.
more »RIPLinuX 11.4 Ready
Feb 18, 2011Recovery Is Possible (RIP) Linux 11.4 is a boot, rescue, backup, maintenance, as well as general purpose system on CD or USB.
more »LiMo Foundation Introduces LiMo 4
Feb 16, 2011The LiMo Foundation, a global consortium of mobile operators, device and technology vendors, announced the latest release of the LiMo Platform—LiMo 4.
more »Linaro Optimizes ST-Ericsson's Snowball ARM Board
Feb 15, 2011Announced today, the open source community will be able to buy the Snowball development boards that use ST-Ericsson's AP9500 chipset and run free open source software and tools that have been optimized by Linaro.
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New Linux Flaw Lets Attackers Escape VMs
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Hannah Montana Linux Is Back!
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System76 Refreshes the Lemur Laptop
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More than 43 Million Lines of Code in Linux Kernel 7.2
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Kubuntu Focus Goes Ultra
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Three Lines of Code Improve Linux Storage Performance
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AUR Hit Again with Malicious Packages
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