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The merge window hasn't even officially opened yet on the Linux 3.13 kernel but it's already super exciting and I can't wait for the new code to start hitting mainline and to benchmark these massive changes to the Linux kernel. Here's just a few things to expect so far but it's already gearing up to be a super exciting release and perhaps the best of 2013.

KDE has released betas of the new versions of Applications and the KDE Development Platform. With API, dependency and feature freezes in place, the KDE team's focus is now on fixing bugs and further polishing. This release does not include Plasma Workspaces, which was frozen for new features in its 4.11 series.

The Anti Phishing Working Group is now lending its expertise to the IRS to help root out online and offline phishing scams that use a combination of e-mails and faxes to steal identities. Today's most successful online phishing scams use increasingly complex and sneaky tactics to trick people into divulging their banking account numbers, passwords and other personal information to steal people's identities.

Leadwerks, one of the recent commercial game engines that's being ported to Linux following a successful Kickstarter campaign, has shared more of their Linux game engine progress from a developer's perspective.

Wine 1.7.6 is now available as the latest bi-weekly release of the Wine software for running Windows applications and games on Linux.

The new philosophy for opentaps could be summed up as "Make it Benefit the Maximum Number of People," with the goals of making it as easy, inclusive, as useful as possible.

OpenSSH could be made to run programs if it received specially craftednetwork traffic from an authenticated user.

For those curious how Valve's popular Team Fortress 2 game is performing atop the Source Engine with Ubuntu 13.10 and the latest NVIDIA Linux drivers, here's updated benchmarks as we compare nine graphics cards spanning several GeForce generations.

Some people are still in denial about the rise of the Linux operating system with the Chrome Web browser interface, Chrome OS, and its hardware: the Chromebooks. The experts say, however, it's the one segment of the PC market that's growing while everything else shrinks.

Today in Open Source: The GIMP leaves SourceForge. Plus: Slackware 14.1 released, and a screenshot tour of GhostBSD 3.5 MATE

This week Nuxeo, the open source content management system for business, announced a major release that brings together several, earlier smaller releases. The platform provides the means to build "content-centric applications to manage business information in an open source package.

Another version of this great ebook management and conversion software has been released and it's now available for download

So id Software are moving Quake Live from a browser game to a native game, the bad news is they won't be supporting Linux (Or Mac).

VIDEO: Jonathan Bryce, executive director of the OpenStack Foundation, talks about where the open-source cloud is headed.

Version 14.1 of Slackware, the oldest Linux distribution still in development, has been officially released.

After we made up our mind on our preference, we asked you what you thought with yet another of our unscientific polls, which we posted on October 10th. “Would you like your smartphone, tablet and PC interface to be the same?” we asked. We offered four choices: “Yes, exactly the same;” “Similar but not exact;” “No” and “Don’t know.”

OpenSSH could be made to run programs if it received specially craftednetwork traffic from an authenticated user.

You'll find updates throughout the system, with the latest compilers and development tools, and recent versions of applications, window managers, desktop environments, and utilities. The Linux kernel is updated to version 3.10.17 (part of the 3.10.x kernel series that will be getting long-term support from the kernel developers). The x86_64 edition of Slackware also adds support for installing and booting on systems running UEFI firmware.

This week we look at Red Hat's goal to dominate the OpenStack cloud, how close we could be to a cloud-based Windows and how to avoid screwing up your Scrum.

This is the third release from the 3.x series, which improves GhsotBSD 3.1 and introduces some new features. Some of the highlights: OpenSSL has been updated to version 0.9.8y; DTrace hooks have been enabled by default in the GENERIC kernel; DTrace has been updated to version 1.9.0; Sendmail has been updated to version 8.14.7; OpenSSH has been updated to version 6.2p2; GNOME 2.32 has been replace by MATE 1.6; Xfce 4.10 is now part of desktop choice; GhostBSD BSM theme with custom Faenza icon; MATE, Xfce and LXDE contain a more uniform set of software.