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Apparently, an independent developer has announced recently that it started developing a GUI (Graphical User Interface) front-end for the Linux uTorrent server software, written in C++ using Gtkmm, around the popular and powerful GTK+ toolkit, and called GuTorrent.

Unfortunately for some of you, Arch Linux is still not using the recently released Linux kernel 3.13. As such, Arch Linux 2014.02.01 is powered by Linux kernel 3.12.9, which is also the latest stable release of the upstream Linux 3.12 kernel series.

The developer of the beautiful and attractive Nitrux, Compass, and Flatter icon themes is preparing an ARM mini-computer called QtBox and designed to be portable, small (8.8cm x 8.8cm x 8.3cm), running the Nitrux 1.0 operating system and using the eye-candy KDE 4.12 desktop environment.

I’m writing the following article from the perspective of a normal user that uses Linux (Arch Linux at the moment) exclusively, both at home and work, for over 12 hours daily, with GNOME 3 as the main desktop environment. A users with over ten years experience in open source desktops, years during which I’ve tested any known desktop environment/window manager.

There was a time in my life when I heard great things about Maxthon (formerly known as MyIE2), back when it was based on the Internet Explorer web browser from Microsoft and only available for the Windows operating system. I never had the pleasure to work with it until today, when I’ve installed the new development version under my Arch Linux box.

The SparkyLinux development team has announced earlier today, the immediate availability for download of a new edition of their popular Linux operating system, this time based on the lightweight Xfce desktop environment.

The first maintenance release of the stable QupZilla 1.6 cross-platform web browser, based on the QtWebKit engine, has been announced a few days ago by its developer, David Rosca, for the Linux, Windows and Mac OS X operating systems.

On January 30, Canonical has announced in a security notice that a new Linux kernel update is available for its Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander) operating system, fixing a security issue found recently in the Linux kernel packages.

The GNOME Project has released the fifth development version of the upcoming GVFS (GNOME Virtual FileSystem) 1.20 application that will be part of the highly anticipated GNOME 3.12 desktop environment.

The following tutorial will teach all Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) users how to upgrade their healthy installations to the current stable release of the world’s most popular free operating system, Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander).

The development team behind the Enlightenment project, an open source, powerful, lightweight, and eye-candy desktop environment for the X window system has announced the third maintenance release of the stable Enlightenment 0.18 branch, which includes various fixes and improvements.

Microsoft has announced recently that an updated version of the stable Skype 4.2 free Internet telephony application is now available for download, fixing various issues and crashes found in the previous version (4.2.0.11).

Canonical was thrilled to announce earlier today, January 28, that its Juju service orchestration tool has been awarded at the 2013-2014 Cloud Awards contest as the Best Cloud Automation Solution.

Google, through Karen Grunberg and Daniel Xie, has announced earlier today, January 27, the immediate availability for download of a new maintenance release for the stable branch of the Google Chrome 32 web browser, for Linux, Windows, Mac and Chrome Frame platforms.

The following is a short reminder for those of you who still use the Ubuntu 13.04 operating system, that Canonical will no longer provide security/critical fixes and software updates for the Raring Ringtail distribution.

Paolo Bacchilega had the pleasure to announce that gThumb 3.3.1 is available for download, a release which brings several new features, as well as user visible changes. gThumb is an open source, easy-to-use and intuitive image viewer and browser utility that is mostly used under the powerful GNOME desktop environment.

The GNOME Project has announced that a new maintenance release of the 3.10 branch of the GNOME Chess application is now available for download, bringing fixes for several annoying bugs, updated translations, and various general enhancements.

The GNOME Project has announced that another development release towards the GNOME Boxes 3.12 remote and virtual machine management application for the GNOME desktop environment is available for download and testing.

Canonical has just announced a few minutes ago, January 23, the immediate availability of the second Alpha release of the upcoming Kubuntu, Edubuntu, Xubuntu, Ubuntu Kylin, Ubuntu GNOME, and Ubuntu Cloud 14.04 (Trusty Tahr) Linux operating systems.

Dconf, a low-level configuration system whose main purpose is to provide a backend to GSettings on platforms that do not already have configuration storage systems, has reached version 0.19.3 with assorted bugfixes and new features.