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40 years ago, somewhere in Welkom, a small city located in the Free State province of South Africa, was born Mark Richard Shuttleworth, the founding father of Canonical, who develops the most popular Linux operating system in the world, Ubuntu.

AMD has unleashed earlier today, September 18, 2013, the AMD Catalyst 13.9 video driver for Linux platforms, bringing official support for the Linux kernel 3.10 branch.

Canonical announced a few hours ago, that the brand-new Mozilla Thunderbird 24 email client landed in the Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.10 and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS operating systems.

Canonical announced a few minutes ago, September 17, that they've updated the Mozilla Firefox packages to version 24.0, on all their supported Ubuntu operating systems, making Ubuntu the first Linux distribution with Firefox 24.

Gaetan Bisson has announced on September 17 that the /etc/sysctl.conf configuration file will be deprecated in the Arch Linux operating system, because of systemd 207 or later.

GNOME 3.10 should be released this month, on September 25, and every Linux users who uses it expects the unexpected, so we thought it will be a very good idea to preview some of its upcoming features.

Canonical also unveiled the first Beta release of the upcoming Edubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander) operating system, which is also the first development version of Edubuntu 13.10. Except from the fact that Edubuntu 13.10 Beta 1 includes the 3.11.0.4 Ubuntu Linux kernel, which is based on the upstream Linux 3.11 RC7 kernel, there are no other visible changes in this release.

The Ubuntu Studio 13.10 Beta 1 operating system is the last *buntu edition from the Saucy Salamander Beta 1 releases published by Canonical last week. Ubuntu Studio 13.10 Beta 1 (Saucy Salamander) is distributed as DVD ISO image, supporting both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures. Enjoy our screenshot tour of Ubuntu Studio 13.10 Beta 1.

A brand-new maintenance release of the Long Term Supported (LTS) Linux 3.4 kernel has been announced by the famous Greg Kroah-Hartman, and it is now available for download. Linux kernel 3.4.62 LTS is a minor release, bringing x86 and M32R fixes, some updated drivers (networking related), as well as lots of networking improvements, especially for IPv6 and IPv4.

After the release of the Linux 3.11.1, 3.10.12 LTS and 3.4.62 LTS kernels, Greg Kroah-Hartman also announced the immediate availability for download of Linux kernel 3.0.96 LTS.

After the release of Kubuntu 13.10 Beta 1 and Lubuntu 13.10 Beta, the Xubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander) Beta 1 operating system was unleashed for testing, bringing new applications and system enhancements. This first Beta release of Xubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander) is distributed as Live DVD ISO images, supporting both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures.

A few minutes ago, September 14, Greg Kroah-Hartman announced that the first maintenance release for the 3.11 LTS branch of the Linux kernel is now available for download.

Greg Kroah-Hartman also announced today, September 14, that the twelfth maintenance release for the 3.10 LTS branch of the Linux kernel is now available for download.

After six months of hard work, Jeff Hoogland has announced on September 12 that the final release of the Bodhi Linux 2.4.0 operating system is available for download, bringing improvements and bugfixes.

Clement Lefebvre, the founding father of the extremely popular Linux Mint operating system, had the pleasure of announcing today, September 13, that the next-gen MintBox mini PC is available for purchase.

Canonical, through Marina Engelvuori, has announced recently that the Ubuntu community is developing a Facebook application for Ubuntu smartphones, which will be ready for launch later this year.

Linus Torvalds made a Git commit on September 11, modifying the codename of the Linux kernel from "Linux for Workgroups" to "Suicidal Squirrel."

The following tutorial will teach all Ubuntu users how to install an unofficial Google Drive client, called Grive, on their healthy Ubuntu operating system(s).

The GNOME developers announced a few days ago that the fifth maintenance release of the stable GNOME Settings Daemon 3.8 package, a daemon run by all GNOME sessions to provide live access to configuration settings and the changes done to them, is available for download.

Canonical announced a few days ago that a kernel update is available for its Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) Linux operating system, fixing eight vulnerabilities found in the Linux kernel packages.