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Are you willing to learn? Are you willing to take control of your computer? If so, Arch is the Linux for you.

If you work with file archives that come in many different "flavors", you might find this little trick to be a handy one.

VMware Horizon 6 will be able to deliver Red Hat and Ubuntu Linux desktops. VMware has launched an early access program for customers to test a version of Horizon 6 that can package server-based Red Hat and Ubuntu Linux desktops so they can be accessed from remote computers and mobile devices.

A waterproof safe dropped into the deepest part of the ocean is not as 'secure' as it is useless. It's possible to overdo security and end up damaging productivity.

Christoph Hellwig, who holds copyrights on portions of the Linux kernel, alleges VMware combined proprietary source code with open-source code in its ESXi product line but has not released it publicly as required by the General Public License version 2 (GPLv2).

Chrome for Linux provides almost all of the features of a Chromebook -- and as a result I get the best of both worlds: The security, freedom and ownership of Linux, and the flexibility of gaining access to services and apps through Chrome.

Red Hat has customized a version of its Linux distribution to run Docker containers. The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Atomic Host strips away all the utilities residing in the stock distribution of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) that aren’t needed to run Docker containers.

Here are some of the major announcements from MWC that show that Linux has become an unstoppable force.

You may recall the saga of patent troll Bedrock, which claims that it has patents over Linux and successfully sued Google over Google's Linux use. Well, the verdict from Bedrock's suit against Yahoo on similar grounds has come in — and Yahoo is victorious, not least because Yahoo went second and got to see how the arguments in the Google case went.

Apparently it's source-code delay week, as Google joins Apple in delaying the release of source code for open source licensed software. Except, unlike Apple, which promptly released the source code in question Monday afternoon, Google stated yesterday that it will not release the source code for Android 3.0 ("Honeycomb") until after the release of the next version of Android ("Ice Cream Sandwich").

Microsoft is picking up Skype for around $8 billion. The move means big changes for Microsoft's place in the cloud and mobile markets... and probably the end of the road for Skype for Linux.

To date, Apple has been very good about keeping up with its open source commitments, pushing all of the open source code it uses and modifies back upstream in a timely manner. But now Apple is significantly tardy on releasing the source code from some of the LGPL components of WebKit in iOS 4.3.