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Russia’s parliament is preparing new rules in a bid to cut its reliance on foreign technology suppliers after US sanctions against some of the country’s largest companies, a move that could hurt sales at vendors such as Microsoft Corp.

The developer of Evolve OS, Ikey Doherty, has made a new desktop environment called Budgie Desktop and released a new version of it. Instead of adopting an existing desktop environment, he decided that it would be better to make his own.

Linux.com is teaming up with The New Stack to do a survey about what you think are the most popular open source cloud projects. The next-generation of the enterprise is being built now with open cloud technologies. Your choices will help identify and recognize the most popular open source projects that are defining the new way to build and manage applications and systems.

RHCSA exam results – David

Microsoft is announcing its biggest ever job cuts today, affecting 18,000 employees.

In a move that could shake up the nascent OpenStack cloud market, Oracle has partnered with Mirantis for OpenStack cloud technology. The partnership will bring commercial support for Mirantis OpenStack customers that want to deploy clouds with Oracle Linux and Oracle VM technologies.

Firefox OS has “unlocked the mobile ecosystem” and is quickly expanding across a broad range of devices and product categories in Europe, Latin America and Asia Pacific, according to a new post from Mozilla.

It was on this day in 1993 that Patrick Volkerding announced the Slackware 1.00 release that was inspired by the Softlanding Linux System. Slackware remains kicking after 21 years of guidance by its leader Patrick Volkerding. The most recent release of Slackware is version 14.1 that took place late last year with the Linux 3.10 kernel — a long way … Read More

That is the goal of Automotive Grade Linux, a 2-year-old project run by the Linux Foundation along with Toyota, Hyundai, Nissan, Jaguar Land Rover and dozens of software companies and automotive suppliers.

Lots of improvements in the latest version of Axigen, a viable Microsoft Exchange alternative.

Android in Volvo cars…another big win for Linux!

Red Hat Developer and Enterprise Linux 7 news

A Linux distribution that updates itself. That’s the idea behind the new commercial Linux product from CoreOS, called CoreOS Managed Linux.

Ubuntu Linux coming to a smartphone near you soon!

Summary: Facebook wants to remind everyone once again how serious they are about promoting the open source movement. Facebook loves to share how much it likes open source, and the social network has followed through on that note with a status update on its activities this year.