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Lee Mathews / Download Squad:
First Chrome OS systems to come from Acer, Dell, and HP? — Last month at Computex, Acer’s rumored Chrome OS netbook was nowhere to be found. Of course, I’d already said it wasn’t going to be on display — and Acer backed up my prediction days later with an official press release.
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Klint Finley / DevOpsANGLE:
Dell Announces A Linux Laptop Designed for Developers — A few years ago Dell began offering the Ubuntu distribution of Linux on its desktops and laptaps, but quietly dropped the option from its online store in 2010 (though it’s still possible to order certain machines with Ubuntu).
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Precise Pangolin rolls out: Ubuntu 12.04 released, introduces Unity HUD — The developers behind the Ubuntu project have announced the availability of Ubuntu 12.04, codenamed Precise Pangolin. The new version of the popular Linux distribution brings updated software, several major user …
Scott Merrill / TechCrunch:
An Interview With Linus Torvalds — The Millenium Technology Prize, awarded every two years, is a Finnish award designed “to improve the quality of life and to promote sustainable development-oriented research, development and innovation.” Sir Tim Berners-Lee won the prize in 2004.
Barb Darrow / GigaOM:
Red Hat, IBM sign on for OpenStack — Two tech powers — IBM and Red Hat — are ready to officially bless OpenStack’s open source cloud project. — The news — which should come next week or the week after at the OpenStack Spring Conference — is a big boost to OpenStack …
Klint Finley / SiliconANGLE:
What’s Next for Linux as Red Hat Passes the $1 Billion Mark? — Today Red Hat announced that it has become the first $1 billion open source company. Although it’s long been known that Red Hat would hit this milestone soon, it’s a major achievement in the history of Linux and open source.
Natethomas / XBMC:
XBMC 11.0 – Eden — It’s been over a year in the works and today we are excited to announce that XBMC 11.0 is finally ready and available for download. You can find XBMC 11.0 here. — XBMC 11.0 Milestones include Addon Rollbacks, vast improvements in Confluence (the default skin) …
Harrison Weber / The Next Web:
Anonymous has just released its own operating system: Anonymous-OS — For reasons unknown at the moment, the famous and perhaps infamous hacker group Anonymous has just released its own OS. As described on Source Forge, “Anonymous-OS Live is an ubuntu-based distribution and created …
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / Open Source Blog:
Intel distributes LibreOffice, can Microsoft be pleased? — Intel supports LibreOffice, can Microsoft be pleased? — LibreOffice, the OpenOffice fork, is a very popular open-source office suite. But, while it has great support from Linux distributors, like openSUSE and Ubuntu …
Ray Walters / ExtremeTech:
Canonical reveals Ubuntu for Android — Canonical is making good on its promise to bring its popular Ubuntu flavor of Linux to a broader range of devices by announcing Ubuntu for Android, a release that will enable a full desktop computing experience on a docked Android smartphone.
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Canonical ending support for Kubuntu, reassigning lead developer — Jonathan Riddell, the lead developer of the Kubuntu project, announced today that his work on the KDE-based Ubuntu variant will no longer be funded by Canonical after the upcoming 12.04 release.