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In 2012, a shocking number of enterprises will slink away from Oracle into the arms of competitors Red Hat and SUSE, new market research finds. In other words, no one is buying into Oracle's "Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel" RHEL clone. Imagine that.

WonderMedia Technologies announced a Cortex-A9 processor with support for Android 4.0 and Windows Embedded Compact 7. The Prizm WM8950 is limited to a single, 800MHz ARM core, but the system-on-chip also offers an ARM Mali-400 3D graphics processing unit, 1080p video decoders, a security engine, and support for peripherals including HDMI, LVDS, and DVI video outputs....

Desktop Linux market share had a growth of about 50% last year according to the recent data by NetMarketShare. If we look at the data for year 2010, there was no growth at all. However, in 2011, starting from 0.96% market share in February, desktop Linux market share ended at 1.41%.

Today, January 5th, the KDE development team unleashed the second and last Release Candidate version of the upcoming and highly anticipated KDE Software Compilation 4.8 environment.

News came out this week that Microsoft, Nokia and other partners are planning to spend big on advertising in 2012. That's great, but the ads need to be compelling, but more important the products need to be great.

This month Jon Masters takes a break from looking at the very latest developments in the Linux kernel community, to bring two New Year special editions of his column. We start with a look back at 2011 (with a look into the future to follow)...

How will developers' favorite working environments evolve in a cloud-based, post-PC world?

Installable packages are already available for a few distributions. However, I have only been able to install and use it on Linux Mint 12 and Fedora 16 (see how to install Cinnamon on Fedora 16).

Though I have been able to install it on Ubuntu 11.10, every attempt to use it has failed. As soon as I figure out why it does not seem to be usable on Ubuntu 11.10, I will post it. Cinnamon’s menu and panel have a few aspects that can be configured by right-clicking, but a few others need to be configured with the gconf-editor. This article shows how to install and use gconf-editor on Fedora 16 and Linux Mint 12 to modify them.

Nginx (pronounced "engine x") is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server. Nginx is known for its stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and low resource consumption. This tutorial shows how you can install Nginx on an OpenSUSE 12.1 server with PHP5 support (through PHP-FPM) and MySQL support.

One of the funnest features of digital image editing is taking pieces of different images and blending them together in a single image, like putting a funny hat on your mom or putting your dog on a jet ski. Or even something serious, like improving a photo of a landscape by adding an element from a different photo. Today we are going to learn how to do this in GIMP, the excellent open source image editing program.

IT's role has always been to manage, maintain and monitor the servers, applications and web sites inside your company, but has mostly had little input into business strategy. It's high time that changed, but it's up to you to make it happen.

In the post we will analyze the data and stats from last 3 years and particularly of last year, to see the growth of Linux on desktops, tablets and smart phones; comparing it to Microsoft Windows.

After months spent pondering the installation of a post-2.6.38 kernel that's actually being patched when needed for my Debian Squeeze system, I finally figured out how to add the Debian Backports 2.6.39 kernel without the operation removing every other kernel from the hard drive in the process.

Innocent websites were blocked and labelled phishers on Wednesday following an apparent conflict between OpenDNS and Google's Content Delivery Network (CDN). OpenDNS - a popular domain name lookup service* - sparked the outage by blocking access to googleapis.com, Google's treasure trove of useful scripts and apps for web developers. According to reports, a flood of errors hit pages that used Google-hosted jQuery and hundreds of thousands of sites fell over.

In an ideal world, Microsoft will add full Linux support to its Windows Azure cloud, helping customers to blend Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), SUSE, Canonical’s Ubuntu and other Linux distributions with the Windows Azure platform. But I'm betting SUSE is the first Linux to shack up with Windows Azure. Here's why.

Among the new features incorporated in Linux kernel 3.2 we can mention better support for large files by supporting for EXT4 block sizes bigger than 4KB and up to 1MB, upper limits of CPU time can now be set in the process scheduler, lots of Btrfs improvements, and much more.

Today I would like to take a moment to talk about three different ways to get access to some great games on your Linux PC. They are DJL, Desura and Gameoltih.

ZiiLabs says it is sampling a quad-core Cortex-A9 SoC (system-on-chip) designed for Android 4.0 tablets. Clocked at 1.5GHz, the ZMS-40 processor is equipped with 96 & StemCell& media processing cores supporting 3840 x 1080 resolution for 1080p 3D stereo video, features 200-megapixel/sec image processing, and supports the new HEVC (H.265) video compression standard, the company says....

Two of my favorite quotations are "Freedom of the press belongs to those who own one" (A.J. Liebling), and "Money changes everything" (Cyndi Lauper and Tom Gray). Tie these together with the Golden Rule, "the one with the gold makes the rules" and the struggles and turmoil of modern journalism come into sharp focus. It's a different game now as print news has drastically declined, TV news is limping along in a stale 40-year old format and inexplicably tries to replicate this moldy experience on the Web, and we get our news from a multitude of non-journalism sources like Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter.