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If you want a really fast computer, then Linux is your operating system and Intel may be your chip manufacturer. The June 2013 TOP500 supercomputer list is in and 476 of the top 500 fastest supercomputers in the world run Linux.

The message coming out of Red Hat's annual Red Hat Summit is that while Linux is Red Hat's foundation, OpenStack is its future.

TurnKey Linux, the ready-to-run Linux cloud server app company, is now offering 64-bit server apps on Amazon Web Services. TurnKey Linux is built on top of 64-bit Debian Squeeze 6.0.7 Linux.

Can the open-source, Linux-based Firefox mobile operating system become a mobile-space player? The question is far from answered but Mozilla has a new supporter: major electronics contract manufacturer Foxconn.

Microsoft can only hope that it's re-invention of Windows 8, Windows 8.1 aka Blue, works because Windows 8 continues to fall behind even Vista's dismal desktop operating system market acceptance numbers. As for the mobile operating system space, Microsoft needs a miracle.

Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth announces that Ubuntu Linux bug #1 -- "Microsoft has a majority market share" -- is closed. Rather than simply boasting of Linux's victory, Shuttleworth offers an olive branch.

Fedora 18 was slow to arrive, but Fedora 19, “Schrödinger's Cat," Red Hat's latest community Linux, is on schedule.

Microsoft has released a new version of Skype, its popular VoIP program, for Linux.

Who says you need a few million bucks to build a supercomputer? Joshua Kiepert put together a Linux-powered Beowulf cluster with Raspberry Pi computers for less than $2,000.

Mint isn't just an outstanding Linux desktop, it's the best new desktop operating system of any kind available now.

Aaron Swartz is no longer with us, but his last major project, the open-source DeadDrop/Strongbox, is bringing privacy to Internet users.

One reason Obama won the 2012 presidential election was his staff’s use of open source. Harper Reed, CTO of Obama for America, tells all.

This shouldn't come as any great surprise, but Linux is faster than Windows, and at least one anonymous Microsoft developer is willing to admit it and explain why that's the case.

Facebook and friends' Open Compute Project has made servers, motherboards and power supplies more affordable for data centers. Now it tackles perhaps its biggest challenge to date: high-end network switches.

Microsoft has had trouble getting people to use its Windows Phone operating systems but, thanks to Android, Microsoft might make as much as $3.4 billion in 2013.

The recent Google app store software update has turned Barnes & Noble's HD e-reader into a good, low-end Android tablet.

It's long been possible to run Windows instances on a Linux-based cloud and Linux instances on a Windows-based cloud. What's not so common is for Linux companies and Microsoft to work together to make this happen. But that's exactly what Microsoft and SUSE have been doing. And dogs and cats can live together! No, really, they can.

The International Space Station's laptops are moving from Windows to Linux and R2,the first Linux-powered humanoid robot in space, is now under-going in-flight testing.

After two years of waiting, Debian Linux, one of the most important core Linux distributions, has a new release: Wheezy.