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So Long, Cinnamon: Cinnarch Linux is reborn as Antergos

pcadvisor@idg.co.uk (Katherine Noyes) — Wed, 15 May 2013 11:50:00 GMT

Regular PCWorld readers may recall Cinnarch, a Linux distribution I covered last fall that combined Arch Linux with the relatively new and alternative Cinnamon desktop environment.

Ingram Micro sees surge in uptake of Cloud services offerings

pcadvisor@idg.co.uk (Mike Gee) — Tue, 14 May 2013 11:52:00 GMT

Resellers are becoming more interested and involved in Cloud services, according to leading distributor, Ingram Micro which has seen a surge in the uptake of its Cloud services products.

Canonical staff to get working Ubuntu phones by late May

pcadvisor@idg.co.uk (Katherine Noyes) — Fri, 10 May 2013 12:39:00 GMT

Canonical on Wednesday announced its next moves on the way to market with a Linux-powered phone.

Debian wheezes out Version 7

pcadvisor@idg.co.uk (Jon Gold) — Mon, 06 May 2013 20:30:00 GMT

The latest version of Debian -- Version 7.0, codenamed "Wheezy" -- is now in stable release, bringing with it accessibility enhancements, a new version of the GNOME 3.4 desktop environment and support for multiple hardware architectures.

How Facebook aims to reinvent hardware

pcadvisor@idg.co.uk (Brandon Butler) — Mon, 06 May 2013 10:14:00 GMT

Facebook used to be a company just like many others: It would buy servers, racks and other hardware from vendors like HP and Dell and rent out co-location space from vendors like DuPont Fabros and others.

Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition review - Linux laptop an Ultrabook in all but name

pcadvisor@idg.co.uk (Katherine Noyes and Dietrich Schmitz) — Mon, 06 May 2013 07:08:00 GMT

Dell's Linux laptop has good hardware and a decent toolkit. Here's our Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition review.

Google and Adobe beautify fonts on Linux, iOS

pcadvisor@idg.co.uk (Katherine Noyes) — Sun, 05 May 2013 14:52:00 GMT

Users of Android, Chrome OS, Linux, and iOS devices may not realize it, but FreeType open source software is used to render fonts on more than a billion such devices. Not only that, but the FreeType project this week got a significant update from none other than Adobe and Google.

From the ashes of Fuduntu, FuSE Linux is born

pcadvisor@idg.co.uk (Katherine Noyes) — Wed, 01 May 2013 11:41:00 GMT

Scarcely two weeks after announcing that it would be shutting its doors later this year, the Fuduntu Linux team on Sunday announced that they have decided instead to end the project immediately.

Control and security of corporate open-source projects proves difficult

pcadvisor@idg.co.uk (Ellen Messmer) — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:02:00 GMT

Open source has become a staple for software development in the enterprise, but keeping track of it and maintaining security for it remains an elusive goal, according to a survey of more than 3,500 data architects and developers published today by Sonatype, which provides component lifecycle management products and also operates the Central Repository for downloading open-source software.

Linux kernel 3.9 adds full Chrome OS support

pcadvisor@idg.co.uk (Katherine Noyes) — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 11:41:00 GMT

Linux creator Linus Torvalds on Monday released version 3.9 of the Linux kernel, and particularly intriguing among numerous new features and improvements is support for laptops running Google's Chrome OS.

Fedora 19 alpha offers a peek at what's coming

pcadvisor@idg.co.uk (Katherine Noyes) — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 13:09:00 GMT

It's been about three months since the release of Fedora 18 "Spherical Cow," but this week afforded the first glimpse at the next version of the popular Linux distribution.

Tiny single-board BeagleBone computer arrives at $45

pcadvisor@idg.co.uk (John P. Mello Jr.) — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 11:47:00 GMT

There's a new low-cost single-board computer on the block designed to give the million-selling Raspberry Pi a run for its money.

Coming soon to Linux: A lightweight KDE alternative

pcadvisor@idg.co.uk (Katherine Noyes) — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 12:05:00 GMT

Choice has always been a hallmark of the desktop Linux world, where users can select not just the distribution they prefer but also the desktop environment, among virtually countless other features.

Open source is taking over the software world, survey says

pcadvisor@idg.co.uk (Katherine Noyes) — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 12:21:00 GMT

It's been only a few weeks since the Linux Foundation released its report that enterprise use of Linux continues to rise, but on Wednesday fresh data came out that suggests the same is true of open source software in general.

Fuduntu Linux to shut down, new distro to follow

pcadvisor@idg.co.uk (Jon Gold) — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 21:04:00 GMT

The team in charge of maintaining and developing Fuduntu, a Linux-based operating system designed as a hybrid of Fedora and Ubuntu, voted Sunday to close down the project.

Linux Foundation adds members, brings Xen project aboard

pcadvisor@idg.co.uk (Jon Gold) — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 16:03:00 GMT

The Linux Foundation announced Monday that three companies have joined the organization -- mobile hardware maker Hisense, application and network acceleration provider Solarflare, and server manufacturer Thomas-Krenn.

Fuduntu Linux is closing its doors

pcadvisor@idg.co.uk (Katherine Noyes) — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 11:49:00 GMT

Exactly a week after releasing a fresh update to its increasingly popular Linux distribution, the Fuduntu project on Monday announced that it's closing its doors for good.

Red Hat Advances Enterprise OpenStack Distro to Early Adopter Program

pcadvisor@idg.co.uk (Thor Olavsrud) — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 18:01:00 GMT

Red Hat Distribution for OpenStack, or RDO, is designed to provide a place for the community to add upstream features to Red Hat's enterprise OpenStack distribution, similar to the role the open source Fedora Project plays for its Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

OpenDaylight: the next Penguin?

pcadvisor@idg.co.uk (Scott Bradner) — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 17:21:00 GMT

It seems to be passe to be solid these days. The latest example of this is the just-announced OpenDaylight project, in which a bunch of the biggest names in computing and networking have gotten together to push an open source development effort to support software-defined (i.e., virtual) networking under the umbrella of the Linux Foundation.

Skeptcism follows Cisco-IBM led OpenDaylight SDN consortium

pcadvisor@idg.co.uk (Jim Duffy) — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 14:17:00 GMT

If you're skeptical about the intentions of the OpenDaylight SDN consortium, you're not alone.

Open-Xchange takes aim at no less than Microsoft Office, Google Docs

pcadvisor@idg.co.uk (Jon Gold) — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 14:17:00 GMT

As his interviewer stumbles for an appropriately careful term to describe the state of open-source office software development, Rafael Laguna, CEO of Open-Xchange, offers to help.

Ingram Micro to distribute CyberPower Systems' products

pcadvisor@idg.co.uk (Mike Gee) — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 12:15:00 GMT

Leading distributor, Ingram Micro, has signed a distribution agreement with global manufacturer of power protection and UPS products, CyberPower Systems.

Ubuntu 13.04 'Raring Ringtail' drops Wubi in final beta

pcadvisor@idg.co.uk (Katherine Noyes) — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 11:45:00 GMT

Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" may have technically hit beta 1 a few weeks ago, but at the time there was no beta release to test and try out. Rather, the only variations with actual beta images to see were Edubuntu, Kubuntu, Lubuntu, UbuntuKylin, Ubuntu Cloud, Ubuntu Studio, and Xubuntu.

Three Ubuntu Linux versions will reach end of life in May

pcadvisor@idg.co.uk (Katherine Noyes) — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 12:30:00 GMT

Hard on the heels of Canonical's decision last month to halve the support life for non-LTS releases of Ubuntu Linux, the company late last week announced that three versions of its popular Linux distribution will reach end of life in May.

GNOME 3.8 delivers more privacy and a new 'classic' mode

pcadvisor@idg.co.uk (Katherine Noyes) — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 13:31:00 GMT

Linux fans may recall the GNOME project's announcement late last fall that it was planning to drop its "fallback" mode aimed at systems incapable of 3D rendering and to deliver a brand-new "classic" mode instead.