One of CeBITs most successful forums opens the new year with a new name. The popular Open Source Forum continues in 2014 under the name Special Conference: Open Source. This year, the forum will be bigger and offer a wider range of possibilities for sponsors.

New release offers better graphics drivers and expands filesystem support.

New mail protocol will shut out the NSA and prevent snooping on metadata.

A new web application helps users visualize distributed denial-of-service attacks.

Ubuntu 13.10 takes a step toward convergence, with lots of mobility, but Mir only partly here. 

Galileo board is targeted to embedded developers and educational institutions.

Ubuntu's replacement for the X graphics system will have to wait for a later release.

Big Blue writes a big check for Linux server and cloud development.

Recent privacy revelations bring new importance to the anonymous surfing Live distro.

Brief dust-up in the kernel community leads to an illuminating look at random number generation.