With its move into Hall 6, CeBIT is now allocating even more space to the Open Source Area in 2013. The Open Source Forum, together with the Open Source Park making up this themed area on CeBIT, will benefit from the move as well.

Slax 7 features KDE4 with an assortment of pre-installed software and recovery tools.

The XtreemFS team releases a new stable version of their cloud filesystem: XtreemFS 1.4. 

Oracle creates a new Git repository for tracking Linux kernel changes.

NVidia announces the new NVidia GeForce R310 drivers, which, the company says, will dramatically improve performance and reduce game loading times for gamers using Linux.

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.