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• Linux Mint 13 rallies behind Gnome

  By Joab Jackson | 24 May, 2012 16:52

  With the new version of Linux Mint, released Wednesday, the developers behind the open source Linux distribution have put all energies behind Gnome, offering two versions of the desktop interface.

• Linux 3.4 released quickly, after smooth development cycle

  By Joab Jackson | 22 May, 2012 01:02

  Just over two months after its last major release, Linus Torvalds has posted the newest version of the open source Linux kernel, which supports new graphics processors from Nvidia and Intel, improves file system functionality and comes with a new security module.

• Red Hat preps RHEL 7 for second half of 2013

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 16 May, 2012 06:06

  The next major release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), version 7, is targeted for release in the second half of 2013, Red Hat said on Tuesday, as it also celebrated the tenth anniversary of its enterprise OS.

• Open source cloud project backers duking it out for support

  By Brandon Butler | 12 May, 2012 07:26

  In the less than two months since Citrix gave its CloudStack software an Apache license, cloud providers are beginning to support the open source model.

• Google files for new trial on copyright claims in Android suit

  By Chris Kanaracus | 10 May, 2012 00:02

  Google is seeking a new trial on copyright claims in Oracle's intellectual-property lawsuit against it over the Android mobile OS, according to a filing made late Tuesday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

• For a lightweight Linux desktop, try the new Xfce 4.10

  By Katherine Noyes | 08 May, 2012 11:26

  Choice is one of the best parts of the desktop Linux world, where there's a distribution to suit virtually every taste and purpose.

• IDC: Explosive growth expected for Hadoop, MapReduce-related revenues

  By Chris Kanaracus | 08 May, 2012 05:33

  The market for software related to the Hadoop and MapReduce programming frameworks for large-scale data analysis will jump from $US77 million in 2011 to $US812.8 million in 2016, a compound annual growth rate of 60.2 per cent, according to a new report released by analyst firm IDC.

• Wide-Open Search

  By Stacy Collett | 07 May, 2012 20:11

  Twitter, Facebook, the Library of Congress -- all of these institutions have mind-numbing amounts of structured and unstructured data that must be indexed and searched quickly. In Twitter's case, that's about 300 million new pieces of information to index every day.

• Open-source cloud frameworks: A work in progress

  By Robert L. Scheier | 07 May, 2012 20:11

  When IT consultancy OpenCredo set out to launch three new applications within seven months for a major insurance underwriter, it had three goals in mind: Trim development time from the usual years-long pace, allow for frequent changes from the client, and build a system that can handle unpredictable traffic spikes.

• Tibco adds Hadoop support to its Spotfire in-memory analytics

  By Chris Kanaracus | 07 May, 2012 14:06

  Tibco has brought its Spotfire in-memory analytics software into the burgeoning ecosystem around Hadoop, an open-source framework for processing large sets of information, the company announced Tuesday.

• Oracle wants judge to bar ex-Sun CEO Schwartz's testimony in Google suit

  By Chris Kanaracus | 05 May, 2012 03:44

  Oracle has asked a judge to bar Google from using some testimony given by former Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz in the companies' intellectual-property suit over the Android mobile OS, saying it has "no legal and factual predicate."

• Ceph spinoff looks to monetize open-source storage framework

  By Jon Gold | 04 May, 2012 06:38

  The main developers behind the popular Ceph open-source storage framework announced today that they have created a new company, dubbed Inktank, to provide paid support and consulting for the system.

• Java creator: Fears over consequences of possible Oracle trial win may be overblown

  By Chris Kanaracus | 03 May, 2012 02:56

  Should Oracle prevail in its intellectual-property lawsuit against Google over alleged Java patent and copyright violations in the Android mobile OS, it shouldn't result in the "industrial meltdown" some observers fear, Java creator James Gosling said in a blog post late Tuesday.

• VMware, Piston Cloud pledge to develop open source PaaS offering

  By Brandon Butler | 01 May, 2012 04:26

  In a pairing of unlikely partners, Piston Cloud Computing announced it will work to support integration of VMware's open source platform-as-a-service offering Cloud Foundry with OpenStack, the open source infrastructure-as-a-service model.

• Google Drive for Linux is on the way

  By Katherine Noyes | 26 April, 2012 08:07

  The Google Drive launch has been one of the big announcements of the week, but it was a fairly unequivocal disappointment for one vocal category of users: Linux users are justifiably miffed that the new cloud storage service doesn't support the free and open source operating system.