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Microsoft appears to be trying to build a tablet that's IT-friendly, but in the Bring Your Own Device era, users tend to be choosing their own devices, and this could be an outdated strategy.

A picture is worth a thousand words!

Good news and updates from the Google Summer of Code are out everyday, and we have our eyes and ears open to inform you of everything that worths your attention. Today we had an interesting blog post from Zan Dobersek who was happy to announce that the Gamepad API support patch for GNOME is coming round the corner.

GNU/Linux is the greatest global and collaborative effort in the history of computers. Everyone should be able to use it, and to help in the development of it no matter what disabilities or special abilities one has. This week we talk with Mobeen Iqbal from Vinux Project, who gives us an insight on how a distribution for the visual impaired is developed and loved by its users. Enjoy!

Is the windows tablet disruptive innovation ? Will it change the world ? Will it anger the PC manufacturers ?

There is a rather nasty RAID bug in some released versions of the Linux kernel. It won't destroy your data, but it could make it hard to access that data.

Artyom Zorin proudly announced yesterday, June 18th, the immediate availability for download of the Zorin OS 6 Core and Ultimate Linux operating systems.

Version 4 of the Unity 3D game engine will have native Linux support.

This shouldn't come as a big surprise since the Unity game engine coming to Linux has already been brought up previously and we've known it was being worked on, but now with Unity 4.0 it's finally materialized.

[not to be confused with Canonical's Unity or Unity Linux distribution]

A quick tip for Debian users who want to install and stay up to date with the latest Oracle Java 7 (JDK7): the WebUpd8 Java 7 PPA works on Debian too since the package is just an installer and all you have to do is manually add the PPA repository to the Software Sources.

HTML and CSS for novices could re-ignite kiddie coding cogitation Mozilla has released a web page creation editing tool that steps novice users through HTML and CSS.…

In this edition of the Linux Week in Review, I will shine a high powered laser on the growing use of Fedora to create rich Android applications.

For the main edition and for each Spin, there are installation images for 32- and 64-bit architectures. This article presents a review of the KDE Spin, using a 32-bit installation image on real hardware and in a virtual environment.

Unity Technologies has announced that their upcoming Unity 4 game engine will support publishing of games on the Linux platform. Brian Fargo's Wasteland sequel is among the games that will use the new Linux support

With its newly announced Microsoft Surface tablet/laptop hybrid, Microsoft is trying to be a PC and post-PC device in one gadget -- and it's going to be extremely difficult serving two masters.

Canonical proudly announced last evening, June 18th, that in collaboration will Dell they will ship laptops pre-loaded with the Ubuntu operating systems.

What, we fire thousands and the shares go down? Analysis Last week Nokia did exactly what analysts have been begging it to do for years - it took an axe to the company's bureaucracy and purged the leadership. The latest 10,000 redundancies leave the company with its smallest workforce since 1998. Nokia's reward was a further 18 per cent fall in its share price. Thanks, markets.…

A researcher has reported that the performance improvements that SPDY brings to the web may be a lot less than suggested. Meanwhile an Nginx developer rolls out the first test release of their SPDY implementation

The significant difference between the Ubuntu approach and the Microsoft approach is that there's no indication that Canonical will be offering any kind of signing service. A system carrying only the Ubuntu signing key will conform to these requirements and may be certified by Canonical, but will not boot any OS other than Ubuntu unless the user disables secure boot or imports their own key database. That is, a certified Ubuntu system may be more locked down than a certified Windows 8 system.

Paul Whalen proudly announced a few minutes ago, June 19th, that the stable version of the ARM edition of the Fedora 17 (Beefy Miracle) operating system is now available for download.

The developers of the Nouveau project have released version 1.0.0 of their open source graphics driver for X.org. With this release, the last part of the free driver stack for NVIDIA graphics components has left beta state