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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.

When Red Hat announced very solid quarterly earnings a few days ago, CEO Jim Whitehurst was quick to attribute part of the strong performance to his company’s new focus on cloud computing.

CentOS, the well-regarded RHEL clone, which recently became a Red Hat partner, is already working on CentOS 7, its RHEL 7 clone. As Karanbir Singh, a CentOS developer, tweeted when asked if CentOS 7 would be out immediately, “Not quite, but we’re not far from there either.

Yesterday,” writes Tesla CEO Elon Musk in a blog post, “there was a wall of Tesla patents in the lobby of our Palo Alto headquarters. That is no longer the case. They have been removed, in the spirit of the open source movement, for the advancement of electric vehicle technology.”

The latest and greatest enterprise Linux release from Red Hat!

The Linux job market has been red-hot for a while now, with many companies desperate to find Linux professionals.

A new Steam Beta client has been released by Valve and it brings quite a few new features, especially for the Linux platform, which received support for virtual reality technology.

Tender documents issued this morning have confirmed that the Australian government will push ahead with seeking to build a whole-of-government content management system based on the open source Drupal platform.

Judging from the effort Samsung put into this announcement, the Samsung Z won’t be the last Tizen-based handset the company launches. But the question is what can the Tizen-based Samsung Z offer customers that an Android-based alternative might not? This slide show looks at what the Samsung Z offers prospective buyers.

Samsung showed off a prototype Tizen TV at the Tizen Developer Conference in San Francisco.

The idea of OS convergence is starting to take a hold in the world and major companies like Microsoft, Apple, and Canonical are working hard to achieve it. They share a number of similarities, but Microsoft is looking to also achieve convergence in the near future.

Open-source enterprise software firm Red Hat announced Monday that Enterprise Linux is now qualified for production use of SAP HANA, capping off a string of collaborations between the companies that have rolled out so far this year.

I love watching Linux distributions battle it out for desktop supremacy. One of the things that makes watching that battle so gloriously engaging is that each Linux distro, no matter how unique and special it may be, is made up of 99% of the same stuff – the same code – as all of the other distros.