Linaro announces the formation of the Linaro Enterprise Group (LEG). Linaro is a not-for-profit engineering organization that develops open source software for ARM architecture.

136 million Android units shipped, making up 75% of the market.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) publishes a blog post critical of the new search feature included in Ubuntu 12.10.

Phusion Passenger 4 offers improved scalability, Python WSGI support, multithreading, and better error diagnostics.

Plasma Active 3 offers new apps and improved performance.

Linux Foundation announces that Linux will continue to operate under Secure Boot-enabled systems.

ownCloud Inc. releases a new free community edition of its popular open source file sync and share project, with enhanced syncing, third-party storage mounting, and new content sharing.

Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have built a self-contained, Android-based network to study cyber disruptions and help secure hand-held devices.

Citrix announces version 6.1 of XenServer – a complete server virtualization platform built on the open source Xen hypervisor.

After five beta cycles, Slackware 14.0 arrives with many improvements and enhancements. The latest version offers two desktop environments: Xfce 4.10.0 and KDE 4.8.5.