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• What's New in GNOME 3.10?
  By Sean Michael Kerner | Tue, 01 Oct 2013
  

  Slideshow takes a look at the new open source desktop release

  
  
• Fedora Linux 20 Set to Integrate Hadoop
  By Sean Michael Kerner | Mon, 30 Sep 2013
  

  The open source Fedora Linux distribution is out with the first alpha development build of its Fedora 20 release, along with a long list of proposed changes.

  
  
• Mozilla Debuts Firefox 25 Beta Firefox 26 Aurora
  By Sean Michael Kerner | Fri, 27 Sep 2013
  

  Providing a preview of what's to come, Mozilla developers are now out with development versions of the next two releases of the open-source Firefox Web browser.

  
  
• VIDEO: Fedora Linux Turns 10
  By Sean Michael Kerner | Fri, 27 Sep 2013
  

  Fedora Linux Project Leader Robyn Bergeron talks about 10 years of the Red Hat sponsored community Linux project and what might lie on the road ahead.

  
  
• Open Source MySQL 5.7 Development Milestone Released by Oracle
  By Sean Michael Kerner | Fri, 27 Sep 2013
  

  Oracle is now out with a Development Milestone Release (DMR) for MySQL 5.7, offering the promise of dramatically improved scalability, among other enhancements.

  
  
• Open Source Apache Traffic Server 4 Accelerates the Web
  By Sean Michael Kerner | Thu, 05 Sep 2013
  

  The Apache Traffic Server 4 caching proxy server release improves Web performance and stability.

  
  
• Open Source LibreOffice Gets Commercial Support
  By Sean Michael Kerner | Wed, 04 Sep 2013
  

  Developers from SUSE Linux join the effort to provide support for LibreOffice, an OpenOffice fork.

  
  
• Kubuntu Linux Emerges From Ubuntu's Shadow
  By Sean Michael Kerner | Wed, 04 Sep 2013
  

  The KDE desktop variant of Ubuntu Linux gets its own commercial support as it begins life away from Canonical.

  
  
• SUSE Linux Lands on VMware Hybrid Cloud
  By Sean Michael Kerner | Wed, 28 Aug 2013
  

  The SUSE Linux Enterprise Server can now be run on VMware instances on-premises or in the cloud.

  
  
• Red Hat Demos CloudForms 2.1
  By Sean Michael Kerner | Tue, 27 Aug 2013
  

  CloudForms is a technology that enables hybrid cloud management.

  
  
• Nginx Plus Moves Open Source Web Server Forward
  By Sean Michael Kerner | Mon, 26 Aug 2013
  

  The new commercial Web server product bundles high availability and enterprise features on top of an open-source core.

  
  
• Linux Desktop Diversity
  By Sean Michael Kerner | Mon, 19 Aug 2013
  

  While many in the Linux community have long speculated on when "The Year of the Linux Desktop" would finally arrive, the reality is that there is no single such entity as THE Linux Desktop.

  
  
• VMware's Love-Hate Relationship With OpenStack
  By Sean Michael Kerner | Mon, 19 Aug 2013
  
  
• Study: Hybrid Cloud Approach Preferred in the Enterprise
  By Sean Michael Kerner | Mon, 19 Aug 2013
  

  A Rackspace-sponsored study finds high-demand for hybrid cloud, due partly to security concerns. But what actually is the risk?

  
  
• Mozilla Firefox 24 Enters Beta
  By Sean Michael Kerner | Fri, 16 Aug 2013
  

  Mozilla's open-source browser will receive new developer-friendly capabilities on the desktop and user-facing features on Android. -

  
  
• Fedora Linux Considers a New Approach
  By Sean Michael Kerner | Fri, 16 Aug 2013
  

  The Red Hat-sponsored community Linux distribution maps a new path forward that could help it provide more targeted solutions for desktop, cloud and server users.

  
  
• What Applications Do Enteprises Run on Linux?
  By Sean Michael Kerner | Fri, 16 Aug 2013
  

  New research from Linux vendor SUSE identifies the types of enterprise workloads where Linux is deployed and addresses the issue of vendor lock-in.

  
  
• Open-Source Adobe Brackets Web Development Comes to Linux
  By Sean Michael Kerner | Fri, 16 Aug 2013
  

  Adobe is now building out a number of new Web development tools, among them is the open-source Brackets code editor that is now available as a preview for Linux users.

  
  
• The Longterm Linux 3.10 Kernel
  By Sean Michael Kerner | Fri, 09 Aug 2013
  

  Linux kernel developers have selected a new long-term kernel that could serve as the basis for enterprise Linux distributions as well as consumer electronics devices.

  
  
• VMware Grows in 2Q13
  By Sean Michael Kerner | Thu, 25 Jul 2013
  

  VMware raises its outlook for the full year as its Software Defined Data Center strategy pays off.