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The inability to play the latest off the shelf commercial games has been a thorn in the side of Linux for a long time. With companies such as Valve starting to embrace other platforms, will that be the catalyst Linux needs to become a first class citizen?

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Matthew Dawkins has announced the availability of the first release candidate for Unity Linux 2010, a minimalist distribution and live CD based on Mandriva Linux: “The Unity Linux project is pleased to announce its first candidate for release, 2010 RC1. We have taken the last nine weeks to….

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Jesse Keating has announced the availability of the first alpha release of Fedora 13: “The Fedora 13 ‘Goddard’ alpha release is available. Among the top features for end users, we have: automatic print driver installation so when you plug in a USB printer, Fedora will automatically offer to….

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The first beta build of PCLinuxOS 2010 has been released: “PCLinuxOS 2010 Beta 1 features 2.6.32.8 kernel using the BFS scheduler for maximum desktop performance on i686 computers. This kernel supports up to 4 GB of memory. A PAE kernel is available from the Synaptic package manager providing….

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Miklós Vajna has announced the release of Frugalware Linux 1.2, a general-purpose, community-built distribution for intermediate Linux users: “The Frugalware developer team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.2, our twelfth stable release. No new features have been added since 1.2rc2, but 62 changes have….

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Microsoft cut another one of those notorious Linux patent covenants like it did with Novell.
This time it’s with Japan’s I-O Data Device Inc, whose customers will now be safe from Microsoft litigation for using I-O Data’s network-attached storage devices and routers, which run Linux. The deal covers other related but unspecified open source software too.
Microsoft didn’t say how much it’s getting paid but made clear that it was.
It’s the second Linux pact in two weeks. It announced a patent cross-license with Amazon last week covering the Kindle, which employs both open source and Amazon proprietary software, and – Amazon’s use of Linux-based servers. Microsoft is getting paid for that too.

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Fresh into her new job as the chief executive at Ubuntu, Jane Silber shares her vision for the Linux vendor’s strategy as it goes after the retail market in 2010.

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Jane Silber, Canonical’s new CEO, gives a look at what’s coming for the popular Linux distro.

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In the land of Linux, there are three giants. Three distributions which have stood the test of time and from which most others have come. What makes these three unique and how have they shaped Linux as we know it today?

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Carlie: What is it that you do for Linux Journal?

Shawn: That’s a scary question for your boss to ask…

Carlie: I meant “Tell our readers what you do for Linux Journal“. :p more>>

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