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The DistroRank Weekly Popularity Rankings have been now posted. There was a slight trend downward in most of the raw data from last week. The only two changes are Damn Small Linux rose one place to number 11 and Frugalware fell one place to number 12.

The Zorin OS team has released Zorin OS 6.2 Lite, the latest evolution of the Zorin OS Lite series of operating systems, designed specifically for Windows users using old or low-powered hardware. This release is based on Lubuntu 12.04.2 and uses the LXDE desktop environment to provide one of the fastest and most feature-packed interfaces for low-spec machines. This new release includes newly updated software out of the box. We also include our innovative Zorin Look Changer, Zorin Internet Browser Manager, Zorin OS Lite Extra Software and other programs from our earlier versions in Zorin OS 6.2 Lite.

Google reveals what it's like to wear and use Project Glass. And it's really awesome!

Eighteen months after HP abandoned its first tablet comes rumor of a new Android offering. Don't expect different results

The Ubuntu for Phones announcement has been quickly followed up by Ubuntu on Tablets, the image for which will be making an appearance tomorrow

Race the Sun, the fast-paced, procedurally generated racer, has as from today a Linux tech-demo available.

The people over at Muktware published a video the other day of Plasma Active running on Google's Nexus 7 tablet. You can see it here: Occasionally people ask me what I think about Plasma Active appearing on various devices, knowing that we're working on a tablet ourselves. It's a really good question, and gets to one of the core tensions around open culture: the interplay between control and benefit.

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This article will deal with installation and configuration of WebDAV server on Ubuntu Linux. WebDAV stands for Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning and allows connected users the edit and share data online via the HTTP protocol. This makes WebDAV a popular choice for developers when combined, for example, with Subversion or OpenLink Virtuoso. WebDAV is supported by number of clients ranging from davfs2, which makes it possible to mount the WebDAV's data storage to include into the local filesystem. This can be done with the mount command to various GUI applications with the native WebDAV support such as Nautilus, konqueror, etc.

The Saanich school district of British Columbia has banded together and is funding an open source Student Information System (SIS) called openStudent. It has been licensed under the Education Community Source license (modified Apache 2.0) to ensure that they have better control of the code. Yet, the decision didn't come about easily.

A new report shows Linux experience is in greater demand - and, hiring managers say, harder to find - than in past years.

Firefox PDF reader for Firefox Web browser might just be the add-on that put Adobe’s acrobat PDF reader out of business.

Cipher Prime has confirmed that their successfully funded game 'Auditorium 2: Duet' will be coming to Linux as well when it is finished.

SCALE 11X attendees have gained an added bonus to the schedule for the three-day event in Los Angeles starting on Friday..

SolusOS is one of those distributions you can install and use straight away without having to look for codecs and install Flash. There is a good range of applications and the desktop? Well that would be Gnome 2.3.

One programme is doing a lot to actually increase the numbers of women in FOSS - and which hardly gets any recognition for the good work it does.

Ubuntu spaceman Mark Shuttleworth is embracing the full horror of tablets and smartphones, calculating they’ll do little harm to his Linux distro’s PC business. Shuttleworth yesterday announced a fondleslab-friendly Ubuntu interface for tabs ahead of next week’s Mobile World Congress (MWC). The first tabs running the UI will be the Nexus 7 and Nexus 10 - the Ubuntu Touch Developer Preview for the kit will be available from tomorrow, 21 February.

Perhaps this is really the year of gaming on Linux, if you are reading this post probably you are interested in gaming and Linux, and I’ve got a good news for you : there is a big sale of games for Linux on Steam until FEB 21, 10AM PST.

Red Hat to Contribute Red Hat Storage Hadoop Plug-in to Apache Hadoop Community

No, LXDE will NOT use Qt. Don’t panic!! It’s just one of my side projects and was an experiment to test how good libfm and Qt are. Since the core library of PCManFM, libfm, is carefully separated from its Gtk+ UI code, theoratically it can be ported to other GUI toolkits. To give it a test, I played with Qt recently. The result is quite satisfactory and impressive. I must admit that working with Qt is quite pleasant.