Canonical's MAAS "metal-as-a-service" provisioning tool is available for testing in Ubuntu 12.04 Beta 2 and LTS.

The XBMC team announces the release of a new and improved XBMC 11.0 (Eden) for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and iOS, as well as XBMCbuntu Final, built on the LXDE desktop.

Gnome 3.4 offers new features, updates, a multitude of bug fixes, and other minor improvements.

The Vector Linux 7.0, desktop distribution features four lightweight desktop configurations with JWM, IceWM, Openbox and LXDE.

Annual Future of Open Source Survey points out market opportunities.

All presentations from the Open Source Forum at CeBIT 2012 are now available for free from the Linux Magazine video archive.

Changes in the new Linux 3.3 release include the merge of kernel code from the Android project.

Fluendo, Lineo Solutions, Mocana, and NVidia join the Linux Foundation and see the benefits of Linux in the future of computing.

At the Linux New Media Awards 2012 prize giving ceremony for special achievements in the field of Linux and free software, Libre Office and Android each took two of a total of seven prizes.

Knoppix v7.0, 32- and 64-bit versions, with ADRIANE v1.4 and cellphone support.