The team behind Linux Mint has announced two of the distributions latest versions – Linux Mint 16 Cinnamon and Linux Mint 16 MATE – which are now available for download. The team…
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Linus Torvalds closes merge window two days early with Linux 3.13-rc1 release
Linus Torvalds has closed Linux 3.13 merge window two days early by releasing the Linux 3.13-rc1 on Friday instead of the usual Sunday release cycle. The new kernel brings with a lot…
FreeBSD 10.0 behind schedule
FreeBSD 10.0 stable was slated for November release; however, it isn’t going to happen from the way things are progressing and chances are that the distribution might not even ship in this…
Linux 3.12 released as Torvalds brews Linux 4.0 plans
Linus Torvalds has released Linux 3.12 keeping in line with the Sunday release cycle and has also started brewing plans for Linux 4.0 slated for 2014 end release. The Linux 3.12 kernel…
Linux 3.12-rc7 released, final version expected next week
Linux 3.12-rc7, which would probably be the last of the release candidates for Linux 3.12, has been released. The decrease in the rc sizes which was observed over the course of last…
Linux 3.12-rc6 released a day early
Linus Torvalds has released Linux-3.12-rc6 as he is flying out to attend a kernel summit taking place in Edinburgh. Torvalds notes in the release announcement that nothing major happened this week and…
Linus Torvalds announces Linux 3.12-rc5 after a relatively calm week
Come Sunday and Linus Torvalds is ready to release the next release candidate for Linux kernel – this week it was the Linux 3.12-rc5. Torvalds released the Linux 3.12-rc5 noting that the…
Linux 3.12-rc4 released
Getting back to his Sunday schedule, Linus Torvalds has released the fourth release candidate of the Linux 3.12 Kernel. Already half way into the release cycle, the Linux 3.12 doesn’t bring in…
Arduino boards to run full Linux thanks to TI’s new ARM-based chip
Arduino, one of the most sought after open source electronics board, will be more powerful now thanks to Texas Instrument’s (TI) new ARM-based chip capable of clocking 1GHz speeds. Massimo Banzi, co-founder…
FreeBSD 9.2 stable released, finally
FreeBSD Foundation has announced the release of FreeBSD 9.2 today after a string of delays and a couple of extra RC releases. Originally scheduled for an August 31 release, FreeBSD 9.2 is…
Torvalds releases Linux 3.12-rc3 kernel
Linus Torvalds is back to his Sunday release routine and has made available the third release candidate for the Linux 3.12 kernel. Torvalds notes in the mailing list announcement that there is…
Samsung open sources Galaxy Note 3, Galaxy Gear kernel source code
Just a couple of days after international availability of Galaxy Note 3 and Galaxy Gear, Samsung has made available the open source kernel files of the new gadgets. Samsung has posted code…
IBM releases FusedOS operating system
IBM has publicly released its open source general purpose FusedOS operating system on Thursday – just days after it released its new cloud operating system. FusedOS is basically a fusion between a…
Oracle unveils open source tablet ‘DukePad’
At this year’s JavaOne conference technical keynote, Oracle unveiled DukePad – a prototype tablet powered by the Raspberry Pi running the Raspbian Linux operating system and featuring an interface built using Java…
Linus Torvalds announces Linux 3.12-rc2
Linus Torvalds has announced the second release candidate of Linux 3.12 yesterday keeping with his recent Monday release cycles. Linux 3.12 packs some amazing features including lot of improvements in the open-source…