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Canonical is promoting today its new partnership with Microsoft that allows Ubuntu Linux to run on Windows Azure. As the latest string of Microsoft-Linux news, following Microsoft sponsoring LinuxTag Berlin and then hosting GNOME & Mono Festival of Love, there's a new Microsoft-Canonical partnership.

Android is the Great Green Hope for end user Linux devices. Android and BYOD are perfect mates.

Samsung on Tuesday deepened its involvement in the Linux ecosystem, reportedly upgrading its silver membership in The Linux Foundation to platinum and forking over the $500,000 annual membership dues its new status requires. The move will give Samsung a seat on the Foundation's board alongside six other industry heavyweights, including IBM, Intel and Qualcomm.

Patrick Volkerding, the founder of Slackware Linux, agreed to an interview with LQ. Here is what he had to say. Some question were contributed by members. Those questions have the member's name in parenthesis after them. Thanks Pat!

In this tutorial we will take a look at what Database Denormalization is and how it is different from Normalization. Many DBAs probably use the Normalization rules in designing databases, either because they have never heard of Denormalization or they do not fully understand it.

To a large extent, BusyBox has been the "poster child" for GPL enforcement, at least in the US. That may now be changing with the announcement that the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) has signed up multiple Linux kernel and Samba developers whose copyrights can be used in license compliance efforts. That expands the scope of license enforcement activities while also removing the need to use the controversial GPLv2 death penalty threat to ensure compliance with the kernel's license—SFC should be able to go directly at kernel enforcement now.

If you've been waiting with the patience of biblical figure Job for your handset maker to release a hardware-specific version of Android's latest incarnation, the 4.0 operating system called "Ice Cream Sandwich," or ICS, and it hasn't yet, you can try cloning it. You can achieve this without rooting, by taking advantage of a launcher replacement app.

Twitter has released the tool it uses to track down bottlenecks in its systems, a distributed tracing system called "Zipkin", as open source

I hesitated for some time, until I finally decided to upgrade my Xubuntu 11.10 to the version 12.04. But I could not postpone it forever, could I? I had to take this step sooner or later. And the decision was made: do it now!

This tutorial shows how you can set up a Fedora 17 desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge.

When hackers brought down web security service Cloudflare last week, a post mortem by the company showed the hackers exploited four unrelated vulnerabilities, proving just how relentless hackers can be when getting into a system.

Microsoft continues to surprise the open-source community by allowing specific distros on their proprietary cloud service

This tutorial presents a step-by-step guide on how to dual-boot either one with Windows 7 on a computer with a single hard drive. Because the Cinnamon and MATE editions of Linux Mint 13 share the same installation program, the steps involved are the same regardless of the edition you use.

LXer Feature: 07-Jun-2012

Fie on ye, Red Hat. It's a sad bad day when you polish the Microsoft road apple.

In November 2006, when Novell signed a patent licensing deal with Microsoft, the free and open source software community, for the most part, was predictably appalled.

Lightspark is alternative free and open source Flash player and browser plugin for linux, development is focused for Linux Platform but it can also be compiled for Windows platform.

The second milestone release of JetBrains Kotlin language can now compile code that runs on Android. The IDE support for the language also lets developers try out Kotlin's compile-to-JavaScript capabilities

With today's updates, Canonical upgraded the default web browser in all its supported Ubuntu operating systems to Mozilla Firefox 13.0.

Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is one of the older real-time communications methods still in active use on the Internet. Due to its popularity, flexibility and cross-platform nature, it still has a very vibrant user base today.

Mozilla released Firefox 13 Wednesday, which it says is a speedier, safer version of the open source web browser. The newly launched Firefox also boasts a new home page and tab page layout similar to those of competing browsers such as Google's Chrome. Before the upgrade, when Firefox users clicked to open a new tab, they saw simply a blank page.