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"We announced in November that we would be taking Ubuntu to a lot of new devices," said Peter Goodall, product manager for Canonical. "We've been very popular in the PC desktop and server space. We have done really well. We realized that to take Ubuntu into the next generation, we needed to move beyond the traditional PC and server and move into devices like tablets, TVs and even cars."

The Qt development toolkit is undergoing a major overhaul. The developers behind the project announced the availability of the Qt 5 alpha release this week. It's a key milestone on the path to the official launch of Qt 5, expected to occur later this year.

A 15 month study of 319 primary schools in rural Peru by the Inter-American Development bank (IDB) has concluded that the One Laptop per Child project is not enough, at least on its own, to improve educational outcomes. This is believed to be the first evaluation of OLPC that looks at student learning and was performed by taking 320 schools of which 210 were randomly selected to get OLPC-XO laptops.

One recently established government agency had the luxury of building its IT infrastructure from the ground up, and it chose open source software whenever possible. It also is open sourcing its custom code as a way of giving back to the community.

Verio is partnering with Citrix CloudStack to launch Cloudn, a cloud services platform that’s available now exclusively to partners. Verio joins a growing list of cloud services providers that are backing Citrix CloudStack, an open source cloud platform that is widely considered a rival to OpenStack. Here are details.

You’re a vile one, Mr. Hess. You have sarcasm in your soul. You have all the subtle diplomacy of a lovesick Troll.

A while back, Canonical announced that it will no longer fund Kubuntu, the KDE Ubuntu flavor, thus making it a community-only Ubuntu flavor. But there is some good news for Kubuntu users: Blue Systems will start sponsoring Kubuntu starting with version 12.10 for which the development cycle starts in May.

Like the look of the new window manager on Chrome OS, Aura? Then you can build it in Chromium OS, the open source base to Google’s netbook OS

Two years ago, Rackspace went after Amazon in a big way, launching an open-source cloud initiative called OpenStack. Since that time, more than 150 companies have signed up to the anti-Amazon party. Last week, however, one big participant decided to leave OpenStack to create an after-party that by many accounts fixes a slew of problems inherent in OpenStack's design-by-committee approach.

Hewlett-Packard officially launched the HP Converged Cloud and HP Public Cloud strategies on April 10. The HP Public Cloud is built on OpenStack and will include a MySQL relational database service that competes with Microsoft SQL Azure and other cloud database platforms. Here are details.

How’s this for ironic: The new HP Public Cloud will promote MySQL databases as a service, essentially leveraging Oracle’s software to compete with the Microsoft SQL Azure cloud, among other public cloud database services. HP and Oracle essentially hate each other. But here's why HP embraced MySQL.

Read-Me is a Google Reader desktop application that doesn't come with many features and instead, it tries to improve the readability. The application features an interesting interface with partially hidden javasacript buttons that show up on hover (they can be completely hidden by clicking the top left button) and it also incorporates some of the Google Reader web interface features.

Yes, it's another huge sale of patents to an already huge IP behemoth. Microsoft is buying 800 of AOL's 1100 or so patents for a little over $1 billion, while also taking up a license for the remainder 300 AOL patents. In addition, Microsoft is buying all the patents owned by AOL subsidiary Netscape.

And Netscape's patents too? My gut tells me this is bad.. - Scott

While there are a number of components that contribute to Instagram's success, it's important to realize that Linux is one one of them

The beauty of Linux lies in the fact that there is a distro for everyone. It doesn’t matter whether you are a geek, beginner, Apple fan, Windows fan, gamer or developer, there’s surely one distro for you. And yes, if you are a Chinese, there is this distro just for you, and it is elegant and well-polished. Deepin is a Ubuntu-based distro for the Chinese and it is heavily modified to include plenty of useful stuff and rid of less useless/seldom used packages. After booting up Deepin, the first impression is that it is beautiful. The custom theme used is bright, elegant and refreshing.

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 continue our irreverent list with a few issues with calendaring…

A lot of time has passed since this article was originally written (January 2011), so some aspects of Chrome OS have changed…while still others have stayed quite the same. What do you think about the current state of Google’s experimental operating system? Let’s hear it in the comments.

Android is now dominating a lot of industries than just smart phones and tablets. I have covered many topics related to Android use in other gadgets like watches, belts, and even mirrors. And since Android is becoming famous in other industries, it is also finding a place in the auto industry.

The other feature worth writing about, is ROSA Media Player, or ROMP. It is a media player with a feature you will not find in Totem or other media players in other Linux or BSD desktop distributions. It is actually a fork of SMPlayer and was first released in November 2011.

Latest preview showcases new features, including new server product line, performance improvements, a revamped client GUI, and more