Welcome Editorial
Jan 23, 2013The very day this magazine goes to print, Fedora 18 is enjoying its official release. I have watched the first official reviews come online gradually over the course of the day, as they always do with such events. The extensive Linux blog and tweet engine is always waiting for the next big topic, and it is always ready to lend some content space for anything new.
more »Doghouse – Memory Collection Out with the old, in with the new
Jan 23, 2013maddog reflects on some of the many souvenirs from his long career in computing.
more »Discovering the New Gnome Gnome starts to reinvent itself, cautiously
Dec 28, 2012The last few years have been troubled for the Gnome Project. Once a premier desktop environment for Linux, it has seen its market share diminish amid user dissatisfaction over Gnome 3 and accusations that the project was ignoring users. Yet, over the last six months, something important has been happening: Slowly and quietly, the members of Gnome have started trying to turn the situation around.
more »Doghouse: Industry Report The software industry and developing countries
Dec 19, 2012A recent report highlights some advantages as well challenges for implementing free software in developing countries.
more »Tech Tools
Dec 19, 2012- Red Hat Releases RHEL 6.4 beta and Enterprise Virtualization 3.1
- Amazon Announces Redshift Data Warehouse Service
- Ceph on SUSE
- XtreemFS 1.4
Welcome Editorial
Dec 19, 2012As these pages go to print, I notice that we have reached issue 147. The number 147 might not seem particularly noteworthy to the rest of the world, but I noticed it. You see, the first issue with my picture on page 3 was issue 48, and if you count by ones from the beginning of the issue 48 cycle to the end of the issue 147 cycle, you get to 100 issues. This number 100 is always good for a milestone moment in our base 10 universe. Celebrating a numeral is not so important on its own, but having these reasons to look back can provide some context for looking ahead into the future – or looking around at the present.
more »Linux News
Dec 19, 2012- OpenShift for data centers and clouds
- MariaDB non-profit foundation launched
- Fedora 18 to include Mate desktop
- Oracle repository for kernel changes
- NVidia GeForce R310
- Android OS leads the smartphone market
- Microsoft contemplating yearly major release cycle
- HP writes off US$ 8.8 million on Autonomy
- Stallman alleges “surveillance code” in Unity
Kernel News Zack’s Kernel News
Dec 19, 2012Chronicler Zack Brown reports on the latest news, views, dilemmas, and developments within the Linux kernel community.
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