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So what happened in four short days? The news of SolusOS and Numix collaboration was a pretty big deal. It combined two potential FOSS powerhouses under one roof. It was certainly an exciting partnership.

Ahead of the Linux 3.13 kernel merge window in a few weeks time, Intel is seeking review of a proposed Power Supply Charging Framework for the Linux kernel.

OwnCloud, an open-source Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud vendor, is readying an Open Document Format editor to go with its open-source, private-cloud software.

The Wine development release 1.7.5 is now available. New items include: Improved support for simulated bold fonts; Unicode data updated to Unicode 6.3; Better support for typelib registration on 64-bit and Various bug fixes.

Today in Open Source: SteamOS versus Windows in gaming. Plus: The Fireweb phone, and WordPress 3.7 released

Last month NVIDIA announced they would begin providing open-source GPU documentation and ultimately supporting the reverse-engineered open-source Nouveau graphics driver project for their Linux desktop customers. NVIDIA released some basic documentation in that initial push and now they have followed up with a tiny bit more documentation.

The Wine development release 1.7.4 is now available.

We are glad to announce the release of UbuntuKylin 13.10. In this release, the Linux kernel has been updated to 3.11. We have added more useful applications, such as Youker Assistant, KuaiPan client, fcitx-qimpanel, Unity China video scope, Unity China photo scope and UbuntuKylin wallpapers. Besides, Chinese calendar, Indicator China Weather, Unity China music scope and WPS for UbuntuKylin have been updated. New features: system customization - provides new GRUB selection, slideshow and boot animation; Youker Assistant provides a simple but powerful way for users to use and manage their systems; Unity China video scope - shows Chinese video results searched from Youku service on Dash.

Taiwan-based Gigastone announced the first U.S. release of the SmartBox, a $40 Linux-based mobile accessory that combines an SD card reader, a WiFi content streamer and personal wireless network, and a 2500mAh-strong battery charger. The SmartBox lacks its own internal storage or Internet access, but can wirelessly stream SD card content to up to six mobile devices via WiFi.

Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander) has been released by Canonical, and we’re now trying to take an objective look at the features and changes integrated in this new version of the operating system.

The latest major update to Minecraft (1.7.1) and one of it's biggest yet is about to drop on our plates!

WhiteHat Aviator is a Web browser that’s just been released by WhiteHat Security, a Web security company based in Santa Clara, California. At a time when Web browsers are not in short supply, it’s tempting to ask, What’s the point of this new Web browser? Because it’s good for your privacy and security, says the guys from WhiteHat Security.

This week, we look at a history of computers on the Dr. Who show, how healthcare.gov is a high profile, but typical government IT project and how security budgets can't keep up with threats.

Companies that try to use some mutant form of open source to generate a contributor network effect are deluding themselves.

WordPress v3.7 Count Basie, new stable version of the popular CMS is available for download with a lot of improvements.

LinuxCertified Inc, a leading provider of Linux training and services, launched a new training course Linux Internals for SDN (Software Defined Networking) to be held in San Francisco Bay Area from November 14th - 15th, 2013.

This 2-day seminar is designed to bring software developers working with Linux for SDN, virtualization, or certain networking topics up to speed with a variety of details of the Linux kernel and user space implementation and use of virtualization technology and some specialized networking. This seminar provides a variety of hands-on experience.

The Raspberry Pi has been available for over 12 months now. Its launch was met with feverish excitement, but once the initial scramble for stock was over and people had a precious Pi cradled in hand, many turned to the question of what to do with all its potential.

While private sector businesses have been embracing Bring Your Own Device in a big way and finding ways to deal with security concerns around protecting company data, governments are more reluctant to adopt this policy. Are they right to try and control the phones of government workers or should they join the BYOD wave too?

Randal is joined by Gareth this week to talk about QGIS with Tim Sutton. QGIS is a user friendly Open Source Geographic Information System (GIS) licensed under the GNU General Public License. QGIS is an official project of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo). It runs on Linux, Unix, Mac OSX, Windows and Android and supports numerous vector, raster, and database formats and functionalities.

First phone to launch with Firefox OS 1.1 South Korean electronics giant LG has joined the likes of Alcatel, Geeksphone, and ZTE by offering a handset based on the Mozilla Foundation's open-source Firefox OS platform.…