Linux Mint 13

Source: About.com: Linux

The official release of Linux Mint 13 is now available. According to download statistics at distrowatch.com, the Ubuntu based Linux Mint has become the most popular distro of them all, followed by Ubuntu itself, Fedor ...
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LinuxTag Berlin 2012 Wrap-Up

Source: LXer

LinuxTag 2012 ended this weekend at the Berlin Messe in Germany. Sadly, the overall quality of the annual LinuxTag event seems to be going down hill. In the four years that I have been trekking to northern Germa ...
Full article at: LXer  More like this  20 hours ago, 8:16am CDT

Softpedia Linux Weekly, Issue 201

Source: Softpedia

The following Linux-based operating systems have been announced last week: Mageia 2 and Linux Mint 13. In other news: Linus Torvalds proudly released the Linux 3.4 kernel. Softpedia Linux Blog news includes articles about ExTiX 10, Nvidia video dr ...
Full article at: Softpedia  More like this  1 day ago, 6:33pm CDT

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Has Ubuntu One Lost The Personal Cloud Market?

Source: LXer

Google recently announced its Google Drive which is clearly positioned as a competitor to iCloud, SkyDrive or alternative to services like Dropbox or semi-open source Spider-Oak. A lot of Linux users are upset as there is no cl ...
Full article at: LXer  More like this  1 day ago, 8:21am CDT

This Week in Linux

Source: OStatic

Avid Linux watcher and your humble correspondent, Me, fell a little under the weather this week and missed a lot of Linux news. Mandriva is more of a mess than ever; Linux Mint, KANOTIX, and Mageia saw the ...
Full article at: OStatic  More like this  2 days ago, 10:33pm CDT

Microsoft: The Unlikely Sponsor Of Linux

Source: LXer

Besides the Fedora hot dog marketing strategy going on at LinuxTag in Berlin, another interesting aspect of this leading German Linux conference is the sponsors for this year's event. Microsoft and Nokia are among the leading sponsors. For this annual ...
Full article at: LXer  More like this  2 days ago, 3:39pm CDT

openSUSE Conference 2012 To Be Held in Prague

Source: Softpedia

openSUSE Conference, an event bringing together a wide variety of free and open source contributors to collaborate on one of the major Linux distribution projects, will be held this year in Prague. openSUSE Conference 2012 (oSC12 ...
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SUSE preps its own cloud launch

Source: ITWorld.com

May 23, 2012, 2:00 PM — The future of the enterprise will most certainly include the cloud, and SUSE plans to remain a major player in this space. Any thoughts that the Nürnberg-based Linux distribution vendor migh ...
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Build your own open-source cloud with ownCloud 4

Source: ZDNet

Summary: So you like the idea of cloud-computing, but you don’t trust any of the cloud vendors? With ownCloud 4 you can build your own. Like clouds, but don't trust cloud vendors? Roll your own with ownCloud. Big businesses use cloud serv ...
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