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The best way I can think to describe it is to imagine if Wine evolved into an entire operating system that booted on hardware instead of running inside Linux. It’s not ready for prime time (and the developers make that very clear—it’s alpha software), but it’s worth checking out. Since it’s early in the development process, if you get involved now, you can have a say in what compatibilities get priority.

The voting is over in the first round of our annual GNU/Linux distro poll, which sought an answer to the simple question, “What Linux distro do you currently use most?” The result was a complete surprise, at least to us. But this was just round one of a two part polling process, and the round two poll is already up and running.

The guys over Unvanquished, a free and open-source FPS (first-person shooter) game for GNU/Linux, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows operating systems, have just returned from their winter holidays and released the first Alpha build for 2016. Unvanquished Alpha 47 comes with some interesting additions, among which we can mention Breakpad support for the game engine to provide users with a simpler and friendlier crash reporting system, but available only for Linux, Windows and NaCl.

At CES 2016 Nvidia announced some really interesting new hardware aimed at autonomous cars, along with NVIDIA DriveWorks, and they seem to have used Ubuntu for the demo. The fact that Nvidia shows upcoming technology running on a Linux distribution, in this case, Ubuntu, at CES 2016 shows just how much things have evolved for the open source operating system.

Panasonic announced that Firefox OS will power the new Panasonic DX900 UHD TVs, the first LED LCD TVs in the world with Ultra HD Premium specification, unveiled today at CES 2016.

WorkMail, the cloud-based email and calendar platform that constitutes Amazon’s answer to Microsoft Exchange and Google Apps, has entered general availability, with new features to boot. WorkMail does not provide all of the features of Google and Microsoft’s cloud-based apps — there’s no word processor, for example — but it competes in the most important categories.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 Service Pack 1 is Here!

There’s a long way to go before it becomes an “anyone can do this” hack, but games console tinkerers fail0verflow have replicated their PlayStation 3 work, getting Linux to run on Sony’s PlayStation 4. Full story at the click below…   http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/01/04/heres_your_linuxbooting_ps4_says_fail0verflow/

Linux is driving into 2016 with new members joining the Automotive Grade Linux project and a new Unified Code Base distribution to enable the next generation of automotive technology. “We are very excited to have Ford on board,” Dan Cauchy, general manager of Automotive at the Linux Foundation, told eWEEK.

Believe it or not, Microsoft is offering a Linux on its Azure cloud certification. Right after Microsoft releasing MS-Linux, a few years ago I would have said the next most unlikely thing for Microsoft to do would be to offer a Linux certification. Guess what? Full article at the click below… http://www.zdnet.com/article/not-a-typo-microsoft-is-offering-a-linux-certification/

Both Amazon and Apple are on the same boat GNU.org has a category on its website named “Philosophy of the GNU Project,” where the Microsoft software is described as malware, along with Apple and Amazon. It’s not all that clear why these statements exist on the GNU.org website, even if it’s powered by FSF (Free Software Foundation). Moreover, all of … Read More

Red Hat Enterprise Linux lands on Microsoft Azure cloud – no, we’re not pulling your leg   Microsoft has announced a partnership with Red Hat to support Red Hat Linux in the Azure cloud. “While today’s news does not mark our first collaboration with Microsoft, it is by far our deepest,” says Red Hat’s Paul Cormier, Products and Technologies president. There are four … Read More

This is the second point release of RHEL 7 Red Hat Inc., the leader in open source solutions, has had the great pleasure of announcing the release of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.2 operating system for desktops, servers, and cloud. Full article at the click below… http://news.softpedia.com/news/red-hat-enterprise-linux-7-2-boosts-network-performance-supports-linux-containers-496452.shtml

This year’s second major milestone release of the leading Linux operating system platform provides new security features as well as improved disaster recovery. Red Hat today released Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 (RHEL 7.2), the latest milestone update to its flagship operating system platform. Full article at the click below… http://www.eweek.com/enterprise-apps/red-hat-enterprise-linux-7.2-adds-security-dr-features.html

Both Red Hat and Canonical have free enterprise distributions: CentOS and Ubuntu respectively. Until last week, SUSE didn’t have any such offering — at least not officially. Everything changed with the arrival of Leap. I was at SUSECon 2015 when SUSE made the announcement, and I talked to over half a dozen SUSE executives and openSUSE developers, including Richard Brown, … Read More