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SprezzOS emerges, promising new-school tech with old-school gumption
By Nick Black, SprezzOS Project Hacker-in-Charge - Feb 02, 2013

LXer Feature: 01-Feb-2013

SprezzOS 1 has emerged for general use. I'll explain here the motivations of the SprezzOS Project, how we're unlike other new distros of note, and why you ought watch us for Linux's most exciting developments.

LXer Weekly Roundup for 27-Jan-2013
By Scott Ruecker (Phoenix, U.S.) - Jan 28, 2013

LXer Feature: 27-Jan-2013

The latest installment of the LXer Weekly Roundup. Enjoy!

LXer Weekly Roundup for 20-Jan-2013
By Scott Ruecker (Phoenix, U.S.) - Jan 20, 2013

LXer Feature: 20-Jan-2013

I need to apologize to all our readers. I have not been keeping up on the LXWR as of late and I am sorry. I could give many excuses but they would be just that, excuses. The roundup is going to get a lot better in the weeks ahead. It has yet to reach it's full potential and I know it.

Ubuntu releasing smartphone OS has better chance than other platforms
By ubuuser - Jan 09, 2013

LXer Feature: 09-Jan-2013

I am not talking about ubuntu winning against android, IOS or even windows, but ubuntu as an OS has more chance of winning than projects like tizen, bada, megoo, sailfish etc.

LXer Weekly Roundup for 16-Dec-2012
By Scott Ruecker (Phoenix, U.S.) - Dec 17, 2012

LXer Feature: 17-Dec-2012

The latest installment of the Weekly Roundup. Enjoy!

LXer Weekly Roundup for 09-Dec-2012
By Scott Ruecker (Phoenix, U.S.) - Dec 10, 2012

LXer Feature: 09-Dec-2012

The latest installment of the Weekly Roundup. Enjoy!

Correction on Secure Boot Article
By Carla Schroder - Dec 05, 2012

LXer Feature: 05-Dec-2012

This is an important correction to "Linux Has Not Won, Microsoft is as Dangerous as Ever, Fie on Secure Boot" that explains correctly how the Platform Key works.

Linux Has Not Won, Microsoft is as Dangerous as Ever, Fie on Secure Boot
By Carla Schroder - Dec 04, 2012

LXer Feature: 04-Dec-2012

I think UEFI Secure Boot is a shuck and a bald-faced Microsoft anti-competitive tool. I'll get to my reasons in a moment, because my most important point comes first:

Every purchase of a Windows license is an attack on Linux. Linux has not won, and Microsoft is as dangerous as ever.

LXer Weekly Roundup for 04-Nov-2012
By Scott Ruecker (Phoenix, U.S.) - Nov 05, 2012

LXer Feature: 04-Nov-2012

The latest installment of the Weekly Roundup. Enjoy!

LXer Weekly Roundup for 28-Oct-2012
By Scott Ruecker (Phoenix, U.S.) - Oct 29, 2012

LXer Feature: 28-Oct-2012

The latest installment of the Weekly Roundup. Enjoy!

KDE4 Plasma Active
By tracyanne - Oct 11, 2012

LXer Feature: 11-Oct-2012

I've recently replaced Unity, on the little MSI Netbook, that I wrote about recently after installing Ubuntu/Unity on it.

LXer Weekly Roundup for 07-Oct-2012
By Scott Ruecker (Phoenix, U.S.) - Oct 08, 2012

LXer Feature: 07-Oct-2012

The latest installment of the Weekly Roundup. Enjoy!

LXer Weekly Roundup for 23-Sept-2012
By Scott Ruecker (Phoenix, U.S.) - Sep 24, 2012

LXer Feature: 24-Sept-2012

The latest installment of the Weekly Roundup. Enjoy!

LXer Weekly Roundup for 16-Sept-2012
By Scott Ruecker (Phoenix, U.S.) - Sep 17, 2012

LXer Feature: 16-Sept-2012

The latest installment of the Weekly Roundup. Enjoy!

LXer Weekly Roundup for 02-Sept-2012
By Scott Ruecker (Phoenix, U.S.) - Sep 03, 2012

LXer Feature: 03-Sept-2012

For your long weekend reading pleasure I bring you more on the Apple v. Samsung court proceedings, Firefox 15 goes on a memory diet, Linus shows his love for the Gnome desktop again, Apparently Apple killed the Linux desktop and no one told me and Baldur's Gate might get ported to Linux. Enjoy

LXer Weekly Roundup for 26-Aug-2012
By Scott Ruecker (Phoenix, U.S.) - Aug 27, 2012

LXer Feature: 26-Aug-2012

The latest installment of the LXer Weekly Roundup for your reading pleasure. Enjoy!

LXer Weekly Roundup for 19-Aug-2012
By Scott Ruecker (Phoenix, U.S.) - Aug 19, 2012

LXer Feature: 19-Aug-2012

In the Roundup this week we have a 3.5.5 review of GNOME, as well as going all out and starting a OS of there own, Debian celebrates its 19th birthday, Red Hat finally commits to OpenStack and Carla Schroder talks about discovering and monitoring your hardware. Enjoy!

LXer Weekly Roundup for 12-Aug-2012
By Scott Ruecker (Phoenix, U.S.) - Aug 12, 2012

LXer Feature: 12-Aug-2012

The latest installment of the LXer Weekly Roundup for your reading pleasure. Enjoy!

ownCloud Invades More Distros, Apple AppStore, and Google Play
By Carla Schroder - Aug 01, 2012

LXer Feature: 01-Aug-2012

ownCloud is a baby in the cloud space, but a fast-growing and useful baby. ownCloud was born at a KDE community event in 2010, and is already an easy and flexible server for sharing and syncing files.

LXer Weekly Roundup for 29-Jul-2012
By Scott Ruecker (Phoenix, U.S.) - Jul 29, 2012