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Faced with declining attendance and revenue numbers, the Apache Software Foundation is seeking to hand off management of one of its 2012 will be the year of the lizard, as SUSE Linux steps up to celebrate two decades as the world's oldest commercial Linux entity.

The news that Canonical has dropped Kubuntu as an official distribution hits the KDE desktop where it counts.

The Linux Mint project's new desktop interface is now included in the Sabayon repositories, and so is the Razor-qt alternative SAN FRANCISCO -- The Linux Mint project has made quite a splash in the Linux world over the past few months, not just for the growing popularity of its user-friendly operating system but also for the launch of Cinnamon , ... (more)

"While much of the visual effects creation and compositing itself is still done with commercial tools such as Autodesk's Maya or The Foundry's Nuke, Landauer says open source is asserting itself in fields such as data manipulation and transformation.

The Ubuntu Business Desktop Remix is based on Ubuntu 11.10, and is intended for institutions and businesses to evaluate the Ubuntu desktop.

Nautilus Flickr Uploader is a simple GUI for uploading pictures to Flickr from the Nautilus file browser.

"This remix takes the most common changes we've observed among institutional users and bundles them into one CD which can be installed directly or used as a basis for further customization.

This article is a study note on installing Linux in Microsoft Windows in a VirtualBox.

Linpus Technologies, Inc., a Linux software solutions provider based in Taipei, Taiwan, just announced that they have ported Ice Cream Sandwich, the latest edition of Android, to run on x86 tablet, netbook and notebook computers.

Microsoft has always been accused of stealing left and right from the open source community.

Canonical has announced the availability of the Ubuntu Business Desktop Remix, a new variant of the popular Linux distribution that has been customized for use in enterprise environments.

"In previous editions, PC-BSD was KDE-only. Beginning from the new PC-BSD 9 release, the Ubuntu of the BSDs doesn't lock you into KDE anymore but allows you to choose your desktop environment among KDE 4.7, GNOME 2 , Xfce 4 and LXDE.

As we reported late last year, Canonical is very interested in taking Ubuntu to tablets, TVs and other new devices.

"As Ubuntu Linux continues to grow in popularity, most discussions of it tend to focus on the basics of the operating system itself, including especially details about its desktop environment and user interface.

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The current rankings on DistroWatch have been taken by some as evidence that Linux Mint has overtaken Ubuntu as the most popular Linux distribution by a healthy margin.

"NGINX, the popular open-source Web server, recently swept by Microsoft's Internet Information Services to become the second most popular Web server in the world.

"Mozilla introduced the plugin-container executable as part of an effort known as "out-of-process plugin support" in June 2010, with the Firefox 3.6.4 release.

"This is inspired by Linux distributions of the same theme that have appeared in the Linux community, only this is Rebecca Black Linux.

"Kubuntu maintained packages will be moving from Main to Universe. This will allow the community to have larger control of what Kubuntu will look like.