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From the 'Linux = $$' files: IDC is out with its first quarter 2012 global server stats study and the numbers look good for Linux. While overall global server revenues were down, Linux server revenues were up.

For the most part, Fedora Linux releases have had names that weren't particularly controversial. For instance, Fedora 16 was named Verne and the default desktop wallpaper had a submarine type theme (an hommage to 20,000 Leagues under the Sea). With Fedora 17, which was officially released on Tuesday the codename is Beefy Miracle. It's a theme that has its own mascot and it's a fun one. Yet despite that, the default Fedora 17 desktop has no Beefy Miracle. Why is that?

The open source WordPress blogging platform turned Nine years old on Sunday (first WordPress release was May 27, 2003). It's hard to believe that it has been that long isn't it? (I've been a user for the last 8). WordPress started out as a 'simple' blogging platform that valued the user interface and ease-of-use over fancy knobs and deep features.

For years, web developers have had to build sites that work on Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser. It's something that at one time, held us Linux users in a bind as sites big and small claimed to only work on IE.

As all geeks know, today is the 35th anniversary of the release of Star Wars (and it's also Towel Day too). What you may not have known is that today also marks the release of Apache Wookie 0.10.0.

When Apache OpenOffice 3.4 was released last week -- the first OpenOffice release under Apache - I *guessed* that it was likely a better fit for Windows and Mac users than for Linux users. As it turns out, after a week of availability, that's exactly the case.

In New York's Financial District, Linux is your MAMA. The Linux Foundation rang the closing bell at the NYSE yesterday. The Linux Foundation is in NYC for their End User conference, which also served as a backdrop for an OpenMAMA announcement.

Linux distro names started to get 'weird' when Ubuntu arrived on the scenes with Weirdly Wacky African-inspired Animal names. Other distros, notably Fedora have taken a more democratic approach where community members vote on the release name, but that could soon change.

While there are a number of components that contribute to Instagram's success, it's important to realize that Linux is one one of them

As it turns out, a new analysis of code contributions for the OpenStack ESSEX release shows that Red Hat developers contributed more code than Canonical developers.

Android is now back in the Linux kernel as of the recent 3.3 release. That doesn't mean that Android however is a first class Linux citizen, according to developers speaking at the Linux Collaboration Summit this week.

Today Red Hat will officially become the first pure play Open Source and Linux vendor to top $1 Billion in revenues.

WOW.

Mozilla believes that the Web is the platform for apps, and not just business productivity apps, but gaming apps as well. To prove their point, the open source foundation now has a full HTML5 browser game out now called BrowserQuest.

Though we're still a few month away from the May release date for Fedora 17 - aka 'The Beefy Miracle' - the Fedora community is now turning its attention to naming Fedora 18.

Two years ago in March of 2010, Mark Shuttleworth stepped down as CEO of Canonical Ubuntu Linux. Shuttleworth moved aside to deal with the strategic technical issues of the project and his Chief Operating Office Jane Silber stepped up to become the CEO.

Mozilla's initial attempt to help enable an open web without the patent-encumbered H.264 video codecs has failed. In my opinion, this is a sad day for the open web and a terrible precedent for Mozilla to set.

Simply put, the regular update release cadence of LibreOffice provides the highest quality open source office suite ever created.

In my initial inquiries, I heard back from HP and Dell and both those vendors mentioned they had certified their servers for E5 with Red Hat and SUSE. No mention of Ubuntu. So I checked in with Canonical/Ubuntu to see if in fact they are supporting E5 for the upcoming 12.04 Ubuntu Linux release.

Kernel devs are a tight community and work together at conferences, IRC and mailing lists - something that we already knew. What I personally did not know was how those interactions combined to set broader policies.

Kroah-Hartman and his 'cabal' of developers devised such a 'conspiracy' for the 2.6.32 kernel, which at the time became the base for every major enterprise distro.

Add-ons have long been the weakest link in the chain of Firefox security. In Firefox 13, Mozilla is to close the gap a little tighter by forcing add-ons to do something they should have been doing all along: Implement ASLR (Address Space Layout Randomization).