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Once again the Consumer Electronic Show (CES) in Las Vegas last week turned into the Mecca of electronic and mobile technology drawing over 150,000 pilgrims looking to experience the latest and greatest what the industry has to offer.

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To help drive this common platform, CentOS Project has created a new official meritocratic governance policy with a focus on helping new projects grow and distribute a full-featured, easy-to-use environment. Groups such as OpenStack, Xen4, Gluster, and oVirt can now customize CentOS Linux directly inside the project, building CentOS variants for new workloads on top of the slow-and-steady core platform.

This year at CES, Acer is introducing two new desktops – yes, you read that correctly, desktops – running the wildly successful variant of Linux known as Android. They’re cleverly positioning these exactly as I’ve been predicting for a long time: as monitors. They’re monitors with video inputs that the luddites can connect to a computer running Windows 8, complete … Read More

The German city of Munich has declared that its famous move to open source software is over and a success.

The pair have announced they will jointly develop “enterprise grade” private clouds that are based on Dell hardware and Red Hat’s Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform.

Code-named “Heisenbug” (sic), the latest version of Red Hat’s free edition of Linux, as opposed to the company’s commercial Red Hat Enterprise Linux distribution, is the 20th release of Fedora in 10 years.

Retiring official support for Windows XP has got organizations across the world thinking about security, fixes and stability of the OS. Govt of Kerela in India, announced its official support for free/open-source software in its State IT Policy and Govt of China declared Ubuntu as their nation’s official OS.

Results from our DcData poll “What Linux distribution do you use?” which started on 24 October 2009 are out! We asked our website visitors to choose from the following choices: Red Hat Enterprise, CentOS, Fedora, SUSE, Slackware, Ubuntu or Other Votes collected indicate the following interesting results from the most voted for to the least voted for:   Ubuntu, CentOS, SUSE, … Read More

RHEL 7 is based upon improvements and other work that happened over the past few release cycles in Fedora (Red Hat says it’s Fedora 19-based but in developer comments it turns out to be a mix of 18/19/20) and is riding on its new enterprise Linux 3.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for the masses, the Community Enterprise Operating System has been upgraded with some of the newest features from RHEL Red Hat is a very big name in the open source community. Not only is it one of the most well-known companies that profit off of open source, but they’re also responsible for Fedora, one of the … Read More

Suse Cloud 2.0 was named Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Solution of the Year at the 2013 Storage, Virtualization, Cloud (SVC) Awards. The SVC awards recognize products, projects and services as well as companies and teams operating in the cloud, virtualization and storage sectors. The product is designed to deliver enhanced capabilities for OpenStack-based private clouds and is the most enterprise-ready private cloud platform based on OpenStack.

Linux is being used in rival platforms and next week Jolla’s Sailfish OS phone will be unveiled . The Linux Foundation says that Tizen is doing well and the more competition we have in this space, the more pressure there will be on Google to open up .

With media player Winamp headed to software heaven, Crave’s Bonnie Burton, who once worked for the firm that made it, looks back on workplace tensions and fun — and Mike the llama. A “Tron” Winamp skin. Fans often often created skins for their favorite movies, TV shows, or bands. (Credit: d4fmac/Deviant Art) If you downloaded a song in the late … Read More

Mitchell Baker is contributing as part of #TheOpenAgenda—a campaign by Telefónica Digital to provoke debate around the benefits of an open philosophy for digital, technology and innovation. Get involved with the debate using #TheOpenAgenda on Twitter or view more at www.theopenagenda.com When the Web was developed, it wasn’t particularly planned out, it wasn’t an incremental change to an existing product, … Read More