Klaus Knopper is the creator of Knoppix and co-founder of LinuxTag expo. He currently works as a teacher, programmer, and consultant. If you have a configuration problem, or if you just want to learn more about how Linux works, send your questions to: klaus@linux-magazine.com

• NVidia gaming device
• Qt 5.0 Released
• Oracle NoSQL DB 2.0
• SuperSpeed USB 3.0

Samba 4.0

• FTC ends Google investigation
• Samba implements Windows AD
• News Bites

Linux Phones

• Ubuntu launches a new phone OS
• Samsung announces Tizen phone
• Perl turns 25

Big Data DB

• vert.x project leader
• Apache Cassandra v1.2 released
• HPC app contest

Canonical announces a smartphone interface for the Ubuntu operating system.

The 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.

Red Hat Inc. joins a European Union initiative working to create LEADS (Large-scale Elastic Architecture for Data-as-a-Service) for mining and analyzing web data.

A recent report highlights some advantages as well challenges for implementing free software in developing countries.

• Red Hat Releases RHEL 6.4 beta and Enterprise Virtualization 3.1
• Amazon Announces Redshift Data Warehouse Service
• Ceph on SUSE 
• XtreemFS 1.4