 Wayland Preparing For 1.0 Stable ReleaseThis weekend at FOSDEM 2012 what Kristian Hogsberg is expected to say in Brussels will surprise many of you: Wayland 1.0 is gearing up for release as their first stable release. Wayland [a new X server for Linux] is supposed to be ready to take on the Linux desktop (...) [OSNews]  Red Hat Extends RHEL Lifecycle to Ten Years ike your RHEL on your servers just the way it is? Thatâs fine by Red Hat, which has extended its flagship Linux operating system's lifecycle to ten years. [OSNews] First Plasma Active Tablet Announced The first tablet computer that comes with Plasma Active pre-installed is to be named "Spark". It sports an open Linux stack on unlocked hardware and comes with an open content and services market. The user experience is, of course, Plasma Active and it will be available to the general public. (...) [OSNews] Linux Mint 13 gets back to desktop basics Bucking the trend of increasingly experimental desktop interfaces, the developers behind the Linux Mint are adopting a simpler desktop for the next version of the open-source Linux distribution. [ComputerWorld] * Creating a Native Feeling on Mac OS X, Linux * This is a call out for help on creating a consistent and native feeling on Mac OS X and Linux. As I have never owned a Mac and haven't used Linux as my main OS for over 3 years I need the community of OSNews to help me do this. Read more on this exclusive OSNews (...) [OSNews] Mandriva Faces Bankruptcy - Again Somewhere in 2001, I bought a computer magazine which came with a Linux CD. I had heard of Linux before, but while we did have broadband back then and was technically capable of downloading a Linux distribution, this method was far easier. This was my first foray into Linux - it was Mandrake. (...) [OSNews] AmiKit 1.6.0 Released AmiKit 1.6.0 is available for free download. It's a compilation of more than 300 Amiga programs that turns your Windows, Mac or Linux computer into an Amiga environment. This new version includes full and registered version of Directory Opus Magellan II, as well as a new emulation engine, full (...) [OSNews] Linux 3.2 Released Linux 3.2 has been released [like 34 weeks ago, sorry for the delay]. The changes include support for Ext4 block sizes bigger than 4KB and up to 1MB, btrfs has been updated with faster scrubbing, automatic backup of critical filesystem metadata, detailed corruption messages and tools for manual (...) [OSNews] Image gallery: Which Linux desktop is for you? The four top Linux distributions -- Fedora, Mint, openSUSE and Ubuntu -- differ widely in their approach to the desktop. We look at all four and figure out which is right for you. [ComputerWorld] Fedora, Mint, openSUSE, Ubuntu: Which Linux desktop is for you? The four top Linux distributions -- Fedora, Mint, openSUSE and Ubuntu -- differ widely in their approach to the desktop. We look at all four and figure out which is right for you. [ComputerWorld] Microsoft To Enable Linux On Its Windows Azure Cloud Microsoft is preparing to launch a new persistent virtual machine feature on its Azure cloud platform, enabling customers to host Linux, SharePoint and SQL Server there . . . To date, Microsoft has been balking at customer requests to add persistent VMs to Azure, hoping to get customers to (...) [OSNews] Red/System Language Gets OS X, ARM, Android Backends Red/System, the new programming language that is used in the Syllable project, has reached its next milestone: an ARM code generator backend for its compiler. It supports Android (screenshot) and generic ARM Linux (screenshot on Debian). Earlier, the backend for generating Mac OS X executables (...) [OSNews] Boxee 1.5 for Desktops Arrives, but the End Is Nigh Boxee released version 1.5 of its free multimedia streaming software for Mac, Windows, and Linux desktops today, but simultaneously announced that it will cease offering the Boxee desktop software after January 2012. Thereafter, the company will limit its focus to devices such as the D-Link (...) [OSNews] Razor-qt is a new Linux desktop alternative Among GNOME 3, Ubuntu Linux's Unity, and Windows 8's Metro, there's no denying that desktop environments have become a hot topic in 2011. More specifically, mobile-inspired interfaces are becoming increasingly commonplace, challenging users to accept a whole new paradigm in the desktop (...) [ComputerWorld] Android Drivers To Be Included in Linux 3.3 Kernel "Android drivers are returning to the Linux kernel. Kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman has retrieved the Android drivers removed from the staging area of Linux 2.6.33 in the spring of 2010 andput them back into his development branch for version 3.3 of the Linux kernel. [...] The plan is for (...) [OSNews]
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