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Expectations were high for the release of Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail, but let's see if the hype was well deserved. 13.04 delivers improved performance, and some refinements for the Unity desktop. The critics and the community have spoken, but as always I demand the final word.

Welcome to The H Roundup, your rapid review of the week with the most read news on The H, the security alerts and open source releases, and the essential feature articles – all in one quick-to-scan news item. This week: Continuous database migration, Google chat drops Jabber compatibility, possible VP8/WebM patent licensing problems, development plans for Ubuntu 13.10, Debian GNU/Hurd 2013 and a ready-to-roll robotics kit from Arduino.

The Linux Foundation today is releasing its annual Enterprise End User Report. Because this is the third year we've surveyed the world's largest enterprises and The Linux Foundation's End User Council about Linux adoption, we're able to share some interesting trending data.

Tizen is a Linux-based operating system that’s backed by Samsung and which is expected to ship on Samsung smartphones this year. But the OS isn’t just for mobile devices like phones and tablets. The folks at Tizen Experts got a chance to check out an early demo of Tizen running on an ultrabook, and it looks like a pretty it offers a pretty decent desktop Linux-style user experience.

Linux Advocate Dietrich Schmitz finds himself conflicted at Google's decision to remove open protocol XMPP in favor of a proprietary 'Hangouts' solution. Read why.

The most recent Linaro Connect (Linaro Connect Asia 2013 – LCA), held in Hong Kong the first week of March, really put a spotlight on the incredible momentum around ARM based technology and products moving into the Data Center. Yes – you read that correctly – the DATA CENTER!

This 2-month old article serves as a really good illustration as to how companies optimize the Linux-kernel together to run on the newest energy efficient ARM server-hardware, this 'cooperation' model instead of Intel's model who basically does all the heavy lifting alone - hkwint

After years of work near single-handedly by James Simmons, the independently-created DRM kernel mode-setting driver for many VIA Chrome IGPs is finally looking for inclusion into the mainline kernel...

Element4l is an immersive and experimental indie platform game, with a strong focus on flow and smooth gameplay, wrapped in an exceptional soundtrack by Mind Tree.

In Most of the UNIX like operating System swap partition is created during the installation time , However with the kernel 2.6 swap files can be used as swap partition.

Riku Voipio of Linaro, Andrew Wafaa of ARM, Olof Johannson of Google, Sonny Rao of Google and Marcin Juszkiewicz of Linaro talk about hacking and using the full performance of the ARM Powered Samsung Chromebook to run Ubuntu, Debian, Open Suse on this ARM Powered laptop, talking about how much the Mali-T604 is being used in this ARM Powered Chrome OS, which feature improvements the ARM Powered Chromebook may get to possibly improve battery life, and a bit about the possibility of running Chromium OS or Chrome OS on older/cheaper ARM Powered laptops such as ARM Cortex-A9 and previous.

Note: This is not an article, but a Youtube-blog - hkwint

Mozillux is basically Lubuntu with a set of applications the developer has decided would make Lubuntu a better distribution. ozillux looks a lot like the stock Lubuntu 12.04 release. The main difference is the panel down the left hand side. When you have a distribution like this that is so heavily based on another distribution then the thing that I think you have to review is the selection of applications that are included, and that is exactly what I have done with this review.

We are very happy to present to you the final release of siduction 2013.1 'Firestarter'. Siduction is a distribution based on Debian's unstable branch and we try to release snapshots quarterly. Version 2013.1 ships with five desktop environments - KDE SC, Xfce, LXDE, GNOME, and Razor-qt, all in 32-bit and 64-bit variants. New in this release cycle is GNOME 3, that we are happy to officially present. Also officially shipped for the first time is 'noX', a variant without an X server.

Some days ago I’ve published an article about copy.com, a service similar to Dropbox where a copy of one of your folders is synchronized on the cloud, this is true for any computer where you install the copy.com/dropbox/ubuntu one applet and so you can easily share your documents among your computers and have a copy on the cloud. But what if you don’t want to share a copy on the cloud of your documents but you need to quickly share a document among your computers? Usb stick is usually the best option, but there is also an alternative that use the local network to send data among computers: NitroShare

Great news Football/Soccer fans! Football Manager 14 will be officially supporting Linux as stated by the developers!

A gadget lover, Alexander is known to roll up his sleeves to become versant with the latest security technologies. On one flight, he and his aide-de-camp learned "BackTrack," a Linux-based product that helps people test their network security. Aides say the general often scores over 1 million points on the "Bejeweled Blitz" online puzzle game...

Since ISPConfig 3.0.5, it is possible to use multiple PHP versions on one server and select the optimal PHP version for a website. This feature works with PHP-FPM (starting with PHP 5.3) and FastCGI (all PHP 5.x versions). This tutorial shows how to build PHP 5.3 and PHP 5.4 as a PHP-FPM and a FastCGI version on an Ubuntu 13.04 server. These PHP versions can be used together with the default PHP (installed through apt) in ISPConfig.

Wardriving is the act of searching for Wifi networks by a someone on a vehicle, using a laptop, smartphone or personal digital assistant. A 22 year old IT security consultant and motorcycle enthusiast from New Zealand, Denis Andzakovic, has taken wardriving to a new level of coolness, with the help of the mighty tiny Raspberry Pi.

I often say, Lubuntu and LXLE are like a Ford Mustang and a Ford Shelby Mustang. Both are Fords, both are Mustangs, but the Shelby version is much more feature rich, with very different goals/purpose. Same is true for LXLE.

Generally speaking most recent cars have an on-board computer (called an engine control unit) that uses a 32bit, nominally 40Mhz, ARM based SOC and runs some version of Linux.

Here is how you can record your Linux desktop using ffmpeg.