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The touchable mobile version of Ubuntu is now available as a developer preview. The snapshot delivered is early in development and already reveals some design issues with Canonical's "swipey" vision which will need addressing over the rest of the year

Here's some more details on my adventures with the Ubuntu Touch Developer Preview after experimenting with it for a little more than 24 hours on the Google Nexus 7 and Nexus 10 devices...

The Ubuntu Touch Developer Preview was released today along with loadable images for Galaxy Nexus, Nexus 4, Nexus 7 and Nexus 10.

While the U.S. jobs recovery steadily inches forward, the market for Linux professionals continues to leap ahead, with nine in ten (93 percent) of hiring managers are planning to hire a Linux pro in the next six months, according to a Dice survey of more than 850 hiring managers from corporations, small to medium-size businesses (SMBs), government organizations, and stafing agencies.

The Ubuntu mobile OS promises to bring multitasking and multiuser in a fully encrypted secure environment to tablets. A developer preview is to be available this week.

There are more than 1.3 million Linux-based Android devices activated every day, and a global ecosystem of companies is investing more than ever in Linux and embedded Linux to support the growth of Android.

With SecureBoot on UEFI support, BumbleBee to handle NVIDIA laptop graphics, bundled MariaDB and Steam for Linux in the repositories, Sabayon 11 has something new for everyone

I have a regional, collaborative philosophy of open data initiatives and municipalities. In North Carolina, the cities of Cary, Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill all share the economic engine that is the Research Triangle Park. They also share the innovation engine of five, top universities. The Triangle just got its next open data participant: the Town of Cary.

The Ubuntu Mobile Version is to be made available to developers this week, and will support the Samsung Galaxy Nexus and the Nexus 4 smartphones in the first release.

Disabling verification in the Shim bootloader allows Fedora 18 users to avoid all the operational restrictions that Secure Boot would otherwise entail

When your computer starts behaving strangely, won't boot, or you start getting strange errors that you can't pin down, a great way to troubleshoot the problem is to boot to a rescue disc and see if you can isolate the problem.

The second support release for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" can now be booted on systems that use UEFI firmware and have Secure Boot enabled. A second alpha for Kubuntu 13.04 and Ubuntu Cloud 13.04 has also been released

President Barack Obama, in an unusual foray into patent law, on Thursday said U.S. patent reform needs to go farther to address the trend of companies that do not manufacture any products aggressively suing other companies for patent infringement.

Linux has now also captured the largest share of consumer computing, if that category is defined to include, as it should, mobile devices and tablets as well as personal computers. According to a Goldman Sachs (GS) report issued last December, Google's (GOOG) Android -- which is Linux-based -- enjoys a 42% share of all newly sold consumer computing products, compared with 24% for Apple (AAPL) and 20% for Microsoft (MSFT).

The open source configuration management framework has moved from Ruby to Erlang for its core API server to enable better scaling and performance

Linux developer Matthew Garrett, who does a lot of research into UEFI topics, writes in a blog post that by storing a large amount of data in UEFI variables, he managed to disrupt a Samsung notebook running Windows to such a degree that it subsequently refused to start. In his post, the developer also points to some sample code of the Windows program that he executed at administrator level to disable the notebook. The developer had previously speculated that some Samsung notebooks with UEFI firmware may be rendered inoperative under Windows in the same way that they were when starting Linux under certain circumstances. The experiment to confirm this was successful.

If Linux Girl didn't have to spend such a large proportion of her salary dry-cleaning her cape each week, there's no doubt she would invest those extra fortunes in some of the many purveyors of ibuprofen and other pain-relieving medicines. Why? Because of all the headaches FOSS fans are forced to endure here in the Linux blogosphere.

The kernel developers are planning a kernel-based implementation of the D-Bus protocol, which will offer faster communication between system processes and between applications

What excites me about ZWheelz is the potential to improve our education system, environment, energy independence, and economy—all with what I like to call, one "EZ" project. It all began when I built a plane from a kit, then saw the documentary, Who Killed The Electric Car?, and decided to build an electric car. Turns out, it functioned really well, and I began wondering: "Why aren't there more electric vehicles on the road?"

The mobile revolution has changed user expectations of how they interact with different products. Meeting these changed expectations requires a huge amount of re-thinking from user experience (UX) designers. Pascal Mangold, CEO of Magnolia, recently explored this trend in an article on how the mobile revolution is challenging open source product interfaces and explained how Magnolia CMS, an open-source enterprise-grade Java Content Management System, redesigned its web-based interface to give its users an innovative new "driven by touch" content management experience.