The Raspberry Pi computer has rekindled interest in tinkering with hardware and created a market for products combining the tiny computer with customized software.

Anonymous Active

• Anonymous hacktivists launch Operation Last Resort
• KDE 4.10 released
• News Bites

Dell Goes Private

• Dell to buy back stock
• Fedora 18 released
• LibreOffice 4.0 out
• RaspPi Camera

Tech Employment

• Tech unemployment less than half national average
• Linux Foundation UEFI fix

Kernel team leader suggests new strategy based around LTS versions.

• NVidia gaming device
• Qt 5.0 Released
• Oracle NoSQL DB 2.0
• SuperSpeed USB 3.0

Samba 4.0

• FTC ends Google investigation
• Samba implements Windows AD
• News Bites

Linux Phones

• Ubuntu launches a new phone OS
• Samsung announces Tizen phone
• Perl turns 25

Big Data DB

• vert.x project leader
• Apache Cassandra v1.2 released
• HPC app contest

Chronicler Zack Brown reports on the latest news, views, dilemmas, and developments within the Linux kernel community.

The very day this magazine goes to print, Fedora 18 is enjoying its official release. I have watched the first official reviews come online gradually over the course of the day, as they always do with such events. The extensive Linux blog and tweet engine is always waiting for the next big topic, and it is always ready to lend some content space for anything new.

maddog reflects on some of the many souvenirs from his long career in computing.