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Dear Fedora fans, we are very sorry to announced today, January 14, 2014, that the Fedora 18 (Spherical Cow) Linux operating system has reached end of life (EOL).

A few days before the announcement for the end of life of Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail), Canonical has released the last major update of its soon to be unsupported Ubuntu operating system, fixing no more than nine vulnerabilities discovered by various developers in the upstream kernel packages.

Today, January 12, Linus Torvalds has announced the immediate availability for download and testing of the eight and last Release Candidate of the upcoming Linux kernel 3.13. Linux kernel 3.13 RC8 comes with the usual updated drivers (mostly for networking), arch updates (mostyl ARM and parisc), as well as various network updates. The final release should be available at the end of next week.

Offensive Security, the creator of the famous BackTrack Linux operating system, has announced that a new maintenance release for its Kali Linux distribution is now available for download.

The following tutorial will teach existing Arch Linux users how to install replace the GRUB boot loader in their operating systems with Syslinux, which offers a simple, fast and more modern boot loader.

The openSUSE forums were hacked earlier today, January 7, 2014, using a known vulnerability of the vBulletin 4.2.1 forum software, by a Pakistani hacker, named H4x0r HuSsY.

The KDE Project has announced a few minutes ago, January 7, the immediate availability for download and update of the fifth maintenance release for the KDE Software Compilation 4.11 desktop environment.

Happy New Year to all Ubuntu fans! The year 2014 has just started, and we already have to say goodbye to the Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail) Linux operating system, which reaches end of life on January 27.

The developers of the Rygel open source UPnP media server software have announced a new development version, 0.21.2, which adds several new features and fixes many bugs.

After almost one year of hard work, David King was proud to announced this past weekend that version 2.1.9 of his EasyTAG open source tag editor software that supports MP3, FLAC and Ogg Vorbis audio files, is now available for download with numerous new features and bugfixes.

Happy New Year to all Arch Linux fans! It's January and the Arch Linux developers prepared yet another updated ISO image of their powerful Arch Linux operating system, the first for 2014.

Glade, a RAD (Rapid Application Development) utility that allows developers to easily and quickly create user interfaces for the GTK+ toolkit has reached version 3.16.1 with assorted bugfixes and improvements.

The third development release of the upcoming GNOME Settings Daemon 3.12 package, a daemon run by all GNOME sessions to provide live access to configuration settings and the changes done to them, is available for download and testing via our Linux section on Softpedia.

The following tutorial will teach both existing and new Kubuntu/Ubuntu users how to install or upgrade the brand-new and featureful KDE SC 4.12 desktop environment on their existing and healthy Ubuntu/Kubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander) and 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) operating systems.

The GNOME developers behind the GDM (GNOME Display Manager) software have announced a few days ago the immediate availability for download and testing of version 3.11.3 of the default login manager app for the GNOME desktop environment.

44 years ago, somewhere in Helsinki, the capital and the largest city in Finland, was born Linus Benedict Torvalds, the founding father of Linux and the chief architect of the Linux kernel.

All Linux operating systems that use the NetworkManager software expose Wi-Fi passwords by default. Moreover, even if you don’t use NetworkManager, and you use another tool to configure and manage network connections via profiles, your Wi-Fi password(s) will still be stored in clear text by default, unless you manually encrypt it!

In this short article we want to remind everyone how Linux evolved over two decades, thanks to an infographic posted by the Linux Foundation two years ago to mark the 20th anniversary of Linux.

The GNOME Project has announced a few days ago that a new development release towards the stable GNOME Software 3.12 application for the GNOME desktop environment is available for download and testing, introducing two new features and lots of bugfixes.

Back in June, we were ready to announce the immediate availability for download of a new Linux distribution, called Unity-for-Arch, which used Ubuntu's Unity user interface on a basic Arch Linux Live CD.