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It seems that my anti-Android rants have come back to haunt me like roadside Chili. Get the scoop on my first day with my new Android phone.

With the help of its embedded farm, set up in November 2010, the Open Source Automation Development Lab (OSADL) has tested and analysed Linux's experimental real-time (RT) capabilities. The OSADL analysed a total of 73 billion automated test cycles recorded over the last 12 months on more than 50 computers running mainline RT kernels on a range of CPUs.

The 6th annual Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit: is April 3-5, 2012 in San Francisco. If you are not going there, you can watch the first day's panels and keynotes on the web (see below).

While Intel has a lot of interesting work going on right now within their Linux kernel DRM driver and elsewhere within their open-source graphics stack, operating systems like OpenIndiana/Illumos and FreeBSD are still catching up, but they're still a ways off...

The transformation of open source projects into business ventures doesn’t always proceed smoothly: Witness Mandriva Linux and OpenOffice.org, to name just a couple examples. But ownCloud, which began the launch of a commercial entity in December 2011, seems to be off to a decidedly successful start, with the release of the company’s first commercial products. Here are the details.

When Citrix Systems submitted its CloudStack solution to the Apache Software Foundation — a popular home for open source projects — plenty of folks took notice. The Citrix CloudStack effort aims to accelerate “open source in the cloud era.” The big question: Can the Citrix CloudStack effort steal momentum from OpenStack (another fast-growing open source cloud platform)? Here's some perspective.

What exactly is happening at Mandriva, the French company that markets a well-known GNU/Linux distribution but seems unable to communicate its position to its users and the public at large?

Try the new opentaps v2 Notes Application, built with Apache Geronimo 3, OSGI blueprint, openJPA and HTML5/Javascript/CSS. New shipping integration for Fedex and Endicia are available for opentaps and ofbiz. opentaps in the Cloud is now available on the Amazon ec2 m1.medium instance type.

Dell remains on an acquisition binge. The latest deal involves Dell acquiring Clerity Solutions, which helps customers migrate applications from IBM mainframes to x86 servers running Linux and Windows. It's a safe bet the Dell-Clerity deal will give Linux server and Linux applications a boost. Here's why.

Ubuntu 12.04 has a number of challenges to overcome before we think it’s ready for the planned LTS release later this month. We kick off a irreverent list with a few gripes about Unity and the Dash…

ownCloud has launched commercial offerings based on Version 3 of the community edition, bringing business-class flexibility and security to the file sync and share market.

The Bring Your Own Device movement means more employees are mixing personal and business use on one device, and there are implications that both employee and company have to consider before implementing a BYOD policy.

Fantastic promotional video for Linux.

DEFT is a Linux distribution that is based on Lubuntu, itself based on Ubuntu Desktop, and loaded with the “best free and open source applications dedicated to incident response, cyber intelligence, computer forensics” and designed for use by the military, law enforcement, private security professional and IT auditors.

When you work for the Linux Foundation you get a lot of questions on just how Linux is built. Given the massive scale of the development and ubiquity of Linux today, some of us in the community might think everyone understands how the largest collaborative project in computing works. How you submit a patch. How maintainers work with Linux creator Linus Torvalds. But because of Linux's unprecedented growth in mobile, embedded and cloud computing, among other areas, new companies and developers are looking to participate. More than ever before, actually.

After the successful release of the GNOME 3.4 desktop environment on March 28th, the GNOME Project are once again proud to announce that a Live CD Linux distribution with GNOME 3.4, based on Fedora, is now available for download.

The Linux Foundation is releasing its annual Linux Development report today, with increases in overall activity, paid development, and Microsoft’s involvement detailed...

elementary GTK theme 3.0 has been released today, this being the first stable release that supports GTK3.

Years 2011 and 2012 brought, and will bring, significant changes to all of these operating systems. Maybe not on the core level, but certainly on the user interface level. Unity, GNOME3, and now Windows 8 user interface styles are... I won’t say they are bad or wrong. I will say they are different. Many people wrote on the Internet about their rants, excitement, pros and contras. I myself did not stand aside from that battle. I compared them both on early stages and running in the same Ubuntu system. But the war is far from being finished. It has just started. There will be more to come when the new Windows 8 eventually hits the shelves of computer stores. This wave promises to be much stronger than the Unity and GNOME3 ones.

Greg Kroah-Hartman announced on April 2nd the immediate available for download of the first maintenance release for the stable Linux 3.3 kernel series.