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Linus Torvalds made a Git commit on September 11, modifying the codename of the Linux kernel from "Linux for Workgroups" to "Suicidal Squirrel."

The following tutorial will teach all Ubuntu users how to install an unofficial Google Drive client, called Grive, on their healthy Ubuntu operating system(s).

The GNOME developers announced a few days ago that the fifth maintenance release of the stable GNOME Settings Daemon 3.8 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.

Canonical announced a few days ago that a kernel update is available for its Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) Linux operating system, fixing eight vulnerabilities found in the Linux kernel packages.

Offensive Security, the developer behind the Backtrack and Kali Linux operating systems, has announced a few days ago that a new maintenance release of the Kali Linux distribution for forensic and penetration testing tasks is available for download.

The XBMC development team, through Nathan Betzen, announced a few days ago that the seventh Alpha release of the upcoming XBMC 13 media center application was made available for download and testing.

On September 9, Jos Poortvliet has announced that the ARM edition of the openSUSE Linux operating system received new ARMv6-based images for the Raspberry Pi platform, thanks to Bernhard Wiedemann.

Alexander Wolf has announced a few hours ago, September 9, that the third maintenance release of the popular Stellarium 0.12, a cross-platform and open source virtual planetarium application, is available for download for the Linux, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows operating systems.

A few minutes ago, September 8, Greg Kroah-Hartman announced that the eleventh maintenance release for the 3.10 LTS branch of the Linux kernel is available for download. Linux kernel 3.10.11 introduces ARM, x86, and PowerPC fixes, as well as many updated drivers, including Nouveau, i915, iSCSI, and a few wireless ones.

Intel announced yesterday, September 7, 2013, that they've removed support for XMir, Canonical's new X11 display server that will be injected in the upcoming releases of the Ubuntu Linux operating system, from the xf86-video-intel package, the open source driver for Intel video cards.

Now that we know the name of the upcoming Fedora 20 Linux operating system, we can learn more about its release schedule, because we are so eager to test both Alpha and Beta versions, before the final release is out.

Lubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander) Beta 1 has been officially announced a few minutes ago, and it is available for download (see link at the end of the article) from the usual places.

The development team behind Rhythmbox, an integrated music management application for GNOME, originally inspired by Apple's iTunes app, proudly announced last evening, September 4, 2013, the immediate availability for download of Rhythmbox 3.0.

The GNOME development team announced a couple of days ago, September 2, that the first Beta release of the upcoming Epiphany (GNOME Web) 3.10 web browser is available for download and testing.

Robyn Bergeron, the Fedora Project leader, proudly announced a few minutes ago, September 3, the codename for the upcoming Fedora 20 operating system, due for release later this year.

The KDE Project proudly announced a few minutes ago, September 3, the immediate availability for download and update of the first maintenance release for the KDE Software Compilation 4.11 desktop environment.

On September 1, 2013, Arch Linux users were happy to find out that the Arch developers updated the LibreOffice packages to the latest stable version, 4.1.1, which was released a last week, on August 29, 2013.

A few hours ago, on September 2, 2013, Linus Torvalds happily announced the immediate availability for download of the final release of Linux kernel 3.11.

The Kubuntu Community was pleased to announce a few minutes ago, September 2, 2013, that professional and commercial support for the Kubuntu Linux operating system is now available for purchase.

The Meld developers were happy to announce last evening, September 1, the immediate availability for download of version 1.7.5 of the Meld software, a visual diff and merge utility targeted at developers.