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Ubuntu 14.04 "Trusty Tahr" isn't scheduled for final release until April 17, but because it's a Long-Term Support version, its arrival is the focus of considerable anticipation, particularly among business users. ...

I think Microsoft has a real shot of being a top-tier Android hardware company. Yes, I'm quite serious....

A critical Linux bug that many are comparing to the "goto fail" problem that afflicted Apple last month was recently discovered, prompting Linux distribution and application developers to scramble to incorporate a new patch into their code. ...

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Want a good-paying Linux job, but don't have the skills? The Linux Foundation is setting up a new program of online classes for you....

Yes, GnuTLS has major security holes. So what? Almost no one uses it in ways where it could be vulnerable to fraud....

In a surprising move, Red Hat will enable users to run .NET applications and SQL Server on its OpenShift Platform-as-a-Service cloud....

re a government worker and have been wanting to run Red Hat Enterprise Linux securely on your Amazon cloud, it...

The Linux Foundation will offer a Linux development course on edX , the massive open online course (MOOC) platform developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University. The move is part of an edX effort, announced Thursday, to expand its course offerings to include content from nonacademic institutions. All edX content previously came from the nonprofit's 32 member schools,...

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The GnuTLS library, used in a great deal of software, including many Linux distributions, has been revealed to have a bug that could allow an attacker to ste ...

The enterprise edition of Puppet , an open source data center orchestration and management tool, has hit

ll be interesting see how this move works, given that both OpenStack and Red Hat...

Linaro, the open-source development consortium for Linux on ARM architecture, is working on software, tools, and drivers that could hasten the release of 64-bit Android. The move is significant because, apart from Apple's iPhone 5s, no 64-bit smartphones have been announced, a situation that analysts partly attribute to the lack of 64-bit Android for ARM processors, which are the most widely used...

" JavaScript everywhere , and everything ported to JavaScript" -- it's either a running joke in IT these days or a stone-cold truth....

From the RingRing dept.: anonical today announces it has signed agreements with mobile device manufacturers bq (www.bq.com) (Spain) and Meizu (China) to bring Ubuntu smartphones to consumers globally. Canonical is working with these partners to ship the first Ubuntu devices on the latest hardware in 2014. Ubuntu has also received significant support from the world™s biggest carriers, some of which...

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Other Linux distributions are moving to MariaDB for their default database management system, but Ubuntu is standing by Oracle's MySQL. Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth explains why....

Munich is continuing its switch to open source software with its decision to start using Kolab Enterprise groupware for its city-wide IT infrastructure. The city of Munich successfully completed its switch from Windows NT to its own open source Linux distribution, LiMux, in December. It created over 14,800 LiMux workspaces for its approximately 15,500 desktops. ...