Latest Linux News
- 25 October 2013
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News: Beginner-friendly Linux distro SolusOS to shut down
Developer Ikey Doherty announced this week that work on SolusOS, a Debian-based distro aimed at beginning Linux users, would come to a halt.
- 24 October 2013
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News: SteamOS could really help desktop Linux adoption, says Torvalds
The Linux desktop revolution is just around the corner!
- 15 October 2013
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News: The future of Linux: Evolving everywhere
Mark Shuttleworth's recent closure of Ubuntu Linux bug No. 1 ("Microsoft has a majority market share") placed a meaningful, if somewhat controversial, exclamation point on how far Linux has come since Linus Torvalds rolled out the first version of the OS in 1991 as a pet project.
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News: Just one killer exclusive could make Linux gaming take off, says Battlefield 4 boss
Ever since Linus Torvalds released the first Linux kernel more than two decades ago, advocates of the platform have said the Linux revolution was just around the corner. All it needed was that killer app/interface/feature! It's an old refrain, but in recent months we've seen a fresh new angle to this old chestnut: gaming.
- 11 October 2013
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News: Open software is not free: Red Hat
Open source is a development model and not a support one that does bug fixing, according to Red Hat global CEO and president, Jim Whitehurst.
- 10 October 2013
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News: Canonical's Saucy Salamander gives Ubuntu some speed
Canonical continues to make the Ubuntu server edition speedier and more versatile in cloud environments.
- 09 October 2013
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News: Moving Forward! with breakthrough Unisys technology
Unisys veteran, Vic Herring, has described the company's breakthrough fabric-based architecture as the most exciting technology he has been involved with in 40 years in the industry.
- 27 September 2013
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News: 'Free Unix!': The world-changing proclamation made 30 years ago today
It was 30 years ago today -- which is to say Sept. 27, 1983 -- that the seeds were planted for both Linux and the open source software movement, though neither is called that name by the man who help set both of them into motion, the irascible Richard Stallman.
- 26 September 2013
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News: Why SteamOS will challenge Windows for PC gaming supremacy
You have to give it to PC gamers. Throughout all the trials and tribulations of the past few years--plummeting PC sales, the mainstream shift to mobile, Windows RT, et cetera--gamers were one of the few bedrocks Microsoft could rely upon. Virtually all major PC games run on Windows, and many run only on Windows.
- 25 September 2013
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News: AMD, Nvidia ramp up Linux driver support after Valve's SteamOS announcement
Well, that didn't take long. Less than a day after Valve announced SteamOS, a Linux-based operating system based around the incredibly popular Steam PC gaming service, both AMD and Nvidia stepped up their driver support for the open-source OS.
- 19 September 2013
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News: Device-spanning Ubuntu Touch OS gets October 17 launch date
The audacious Ubuntu Edge smartphone crowdfunding experience may be dead, but the dream of merging phone and PC lives on. Ubuntu Touch, the form factor-spanning mobile operating system intended to power the Edge, finally has a release date: October 17, alongside Ubuntu Linux 13.10.
- 17 September 2013
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News: Munich to hand out Ubuntu Linux CDs to ward off upcoming Windows XPocalypse
The end is nigh, and the date of doom has been foretold. The Windows XPocalypse is set to unleash hell on April 8, 2014, and in a bid to preserve the security of its citizens, the German city of Munich is turning to an unlikely savior: Ubuntu Linux.
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News: Valve boss says Linux is the future of gaming, hints at Steam Box announcement
Tell me if you've heard this one before: "Linux and open source are the future of gaming."
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News: IBM hopes to Power cloud, analytics with $1 billion Linux investment
IBM will invest US$1 billion to promote Linux development over the next five years as it tries to adapt Power mainframes and servers to handle cloud and big data applications in distributed computing environments.
- 28 August 2013
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News: Canonical looking to tap Dell to promote Chinese version of Ubuntu OS
Canonical is in talks with Dell on making a version of Ubuntu supported by the Chinese government available as a pre-installed OS on the PC maker's upcoming products destined for the Chinese market.
- 22 August 2013
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News: Requiem for the Ubuntu Edge: The phone is dead, but the dream lives on
We are gathered here today to mourn the death of the Ubuntu Edge. This ambitious project blurred the line between smartphone and PC, and while it burned but only briefly, it burned brightly enough that its legacy will live on in the hearts of future generation of phones.
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News: Canonical misses smartphone crowdfunding goal by $19 million
Canonical raised only US$12.8 million of the $32 million it wanted for the production of the Ubuntu-based Edge smartphone.
- 21 August 2013
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News: How Windows, OS X, and Ubuntu are slowly turning your PC into a smartphone
The glorious era of PC stardom is over. Once the belle of the technology ball, desktops and laptops now share the spotlight with smartphones and tablets, and the embrace of mobile devices by consumers has provoked deep changes in the computing landscape.
- 16 August 2013
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News: Ubuntu Edge campaign shatters the crowdfunding record, likely for naught
It's official: The audacious Ubuntu Edge smartphone-slash-PC is the most successful crowdfunding campaign in history. Canonical currently sits atop a pledged cash horde of $10,420,890, a pile of dough bigger than the $10,266,845 raised for the Pebble Watch, the previous crowdfunding record holder.
- 29 July 2013
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News: Ubuntu Edge smartphone funding levels dying off
The first heady rush of support for Canonical's crowd-funded Ubuntu Edge smartphone appears to have tapered off, as donations for the eye-catching device have slowed substantially over the past several days.
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