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DesktopLinux.com acquired ... 4 Feb 2012 | 02:31 pm
DesktopLinux.com's publisher, Ziff-Davis Enterprise, has been acquired by a Californian company -- as yet undisclosed, but rumored to be Foster City-based QuinStreet. Future plans for the site have no...
Red Hat unveils 10-year support plan 2 Feb 2012 | 07:13 pm
Red Hat has extended the life cycle of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 and 6 from seven to 10 years, with RHEL 6 now supported through 2020. Meanwhile, Linux kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman lef...
KDE 4.8 adds adaptive power management, new windowing tricks 27 Jan 2012 | 07:48 pm
Version 4.8 of the KDE desktop environment and software bundle was released, featuring improved, adaptive power management and new windowing layouts. KDE 4.8 is also faster and more stable, and offers...
Ubuntu 12.10 will bypass menus via predictive search 27 Jan 2012 | 01:17 pm
Canonical unveiled a search-oriented Head-Up Display (HUD) interface that will debut in Ubuntu 12.04. Aiming to reduce dependence on menus and eventually replace them with the help of gesture and voic...
Red Hat, Ubuntu, and Arch Linux patch Linux kernel exploit 26 Jan 2012 | 08:04 am
Canonical, Red Hat, and Arch Linux have released patches that fix a vulnerability in Linux kernels 2.6.39 and above that enable attackers to gain system root access. The distro patches followed a kern...
'Cinnamon' GNOME 3 fork now 'fully stable' with version 1.2 25 Jan 2012 | 01:04 pm
The Linux Mint team announced a "fully stable" version of its "Cinnamon" fork of GNOME 3.x. Available for several major Linux distributions, Cinnamon 1.2 is more customizable than GNOME 3.x, restores ...
Linux gains share on enterprise servers -- and desktops, too 20 Jan 2012 | 09:17 am
Linux jumped to 1.4 percent desktop market share from 0.97 percent in July, according to Net Applications. Meanwhile, a Linux Foundation survey on enterprise Linux says 79.8 percent of organizations a...
Linux Foundation tips 2012 schedule, sends LinuxCon to San Diego 14 Jan 2012 | 08:20 am
The Linux Foundation posted a calendar of its 2012 conferences. These include the Linux Kernel Summit, which will be held Aug. 26-28 in San Diego, where it will be co-located with the larger LinuxCon ...
Linux 3.2 goes bigtime on file systems, improves thin provisioning 7 Jan 2012 | 05:17 am
Linus Torvalds announced the release of the Linux 3.2 kernel, featuring file-system enhancements such as support for Ext4 block sizes up to 1MB, and faster Btrfs scrubbing. Linux 3.2 also adds some pr...
CentOS and Oracle release their Red Hat 6.2 clones 21 Dec 2011 | 11:50 am
A week after releasing CentOS 6.1, the CentOS project launched version 6.2 of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) clone, while Oracle released its own RHEL 6.2 variant with Oracle Linux 6.2. Meanwhile...
