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May 22, 2012

Google to centralize Android development and sales

According to a Wall Street Journal report, Google is going to radically shift how it works with its partners in developing and selling Android. read more...

Red Hat celebrates 10 years of Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Ten years ago, Red Hat was just another Linux distributor, then they got serious about the business market and everything changed. read more...

May 15, 2012

Fedora 17 & GNOME 3.4: Return to a useful Linux desktop (Review)

Fedora 16, thanks in large part to GNOME 3.2, was an awful Linux distribution. With this new version, and GNOME 3.4, Fedora 17 is back to being a useful Linux distribution. read more...

Richard M. Stallman, free software leader falls ill at conference

Richard M. Stallman, creator of the concept of the free software and president and founder of the Free Software Foundation fell sick at a technology conference in Spain. read more...

May 10, 2012

Red Hat to debut OpenShift PaaS solutions for on-premise enterprise use soon

As it prepares for battle against VMware on the cloud front, Red Hat announced today that it will launch later this year its fee-based PaaS service with support and will begin shipping this summer integrated PaaS solutions that enterprises can deploy on premise that give its developers freedom to innovate while allowing IT to manage how apps are developed and deployed. read more...

Dell readies Ubuntu Linux laptop for developers

Dell is working on an Ubuntu Linux-powered laptop that will be just for developers. read more...

May 08, 2012

The muddled mess of the Oracle vs. Google trial

There were no winners in Oracle vs. Google. Only losers, including all programmers, and perhaps everyone else as well. read more...

Ubuntu 12.04 vs. Windows 8: Five points of comparison

The leading Linux desktop and the number one desktop of all, Windows, are both undergoing radical transformations, but which will be the better for it? read more...

May 07, 2012

Red Hat debuts OpenShift Origin project, takes swipe at VMware's Cloud Foundry

Red Hat has announced an open source project called OpenShift Origin that will provide upstream code and improvements for its year-old OpenShift PaaS. The open source Origin components are being released under the Apache v2 license. read more...

Linus Torvalds likes the Google Chrome OS Linux desktop

Torvalds, still annoyed at the direction that GNOME 3 has taken, has some nice things to say about Google’s new Chrome Aura Linux desktop interface. read more...

May 03, 2012

VMware, Piston partner on OpenStack layer for Cloud Foundry

VMware has partnered with enterprise cloud computing vendor Piston Cloud Computing to develop an OpenStack interface to VMware’s Bosh developer toolchain for its open source Cloud Foundry Paas. VMware is trying to establish itself as a viable open source friend to developers. read more...

Red Hat debuts OpenShift Origin project, takes swipe at VMware's Cloud Foundry

Red Hat has announced an open source project called OpenShift Origin that will provide upstream code and improvements for its year-old OpenShift PaaS. The open source Origin components are being released under the Apache v2 license. read more...