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Mozilla picks one of its own to be its new CEO

Mozilla has selected Chris Beard, who started with the company with the release of Firefox 1.0, to be its chief executive.

Samsung's Tizen smartphone OS: Dead or alive?

  • ZDNet; By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (Posted by sjvn on Jul 28, 2014 6:01 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Editorial; Groups: Mobile
Does Tizen have a future, or is it going to be another unlaunched Linux-based mobile operating system?

Six Clicks: The best Linux desktop environments

  • ZDNet; By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (Posted by sjvn on Jul 26, 2014 5:30 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Roundups
Unlike Windows or Mac OS X, Linux offers a wide variety of desktop environments. Here are my picks of the most important of these PC interfaces.

Oracle Linux 7 released

Oracle has released its clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

UK makes ODF its official documents format standard

Turning its back on Microsoft Office's native formats, the UK government has adopted the Open Document Format for all its sharable documents.

Red Hat releases Inktank Ceph Enterprise 1.2

  • ZDNet; By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (Posted by sjvn on Jul 16, 2014 10:55 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Cloud, Red Hat
Only months after acquiring Inktank, Ceph's parent company, Red Hat has released the next version of this open source, distributed storage system.

Ubuntu 14.04: Is Canonical taking on too much?

  • NetworkWorld; By Tom Henderson (Posted by sjvn on Jul 15, 2014 4:51 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: Cloud, Ubuntu
Some hits and some misses as Canonical tries to cover everything from the smartphone to the desktop to the cloud

KDE Plasma 5 Linux desktop arrives

  • ZDNet; By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (Posted by sjvn on Jul 15, 2014 2:57 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: KDE
The popular Linux desktop has its first major renovation in over six years.

Red Hat CEO Whitehurst on VMware, OpenStack and CentOS

'Open source gives us brand permission to enter a ton of categories,' said Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst.

CrossOver 13.2: Installing Windows program on Linux just got easier

CodeWeavers latest CrossOver has many improvements, one of which is that it makes it easier than ever to install Windows applications on Linux.

Red Hat moves forward with new OpenStack release

Red Hat's latest release underscores just how important OpenStack is to the Linux giant's future

Firefox web browser popularity wanes

  • ZDNet; By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (Posted by sjvn on Jul 8, 2014 7:06 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Editorial, News Story
There was a time when Firefox was the number two web browser, but those days may never come back. When you take a look at Net Applications' web desktop browser market share reports over the long run two things stand out. One, there's the rise of Google's Chrome to second place, and two, Mozilla's Firefox's steep decline.

CentOS 7 to be released shortly, project lead says

  • ZDNet; By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (Posted by sjvn on Jul 7, 2014 6:38 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Red Hat
The "official" Red Hat Enterprise Linux clone CentOS is releasing its next major version today.

Linux's DistroWatch site stumbles

DistroWatch, one of the most popular Linux desktop sites, stumbled over the 4th of July.

Six Linux home automation clicks

  • ZDNet; By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (Posted by sjvn on Jul 4, 2014 3:49 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Roundups
Long before people were talking about the Internet of Things, Linux-based home automation systems were available. Here are some of today's most interesting Linux-powered home gadgets.

Docker and Linux containers: Red Hat opens up on the issues

Container-type virtualisation, including software from Docker, looks promising but it has still to carve out a role, according to Red Hat platform business chief Jim Totton.

Getting everyone on the same open-source cloud page

  • CIO Engage; By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (Posted by sjvn on Jul 1, 2014 4:31 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Cloud
At June 2014's Linux Enterprise User Summit on Wall Street, Alan Clark, SUSE's director of industry initiatives and open source and chairman of the OpenStack Foundation, explained why and how to deploy open-source clouds in your business.

OwnCloud 7 beta released

  • ZDNet; By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (Posted by sjvn on Jun 27, 2014 7:20 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Cloud
Want a small office/home office cloud to call your own? OwnCloud may be all the cloud you need.

Windows wars? The Android and Chrome OS Alliance

Can Google's Rebel Alliance of Android and Chrome OS finally dent Microsoft's Windows Evil Empire? I expect we'll see this desktop operating system war start in late 2014.

Linux dominates supercomputers as never before

  • ZDNet; By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (Posted by sjvn on Jun 24, 2014 10:34 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Linux
The latest list of the fastest supercomputers in the world is out -- and not only does Linux rule, it's almost eliminated all of its competition.

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