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I installed Ubuntu Touch "1.0" on my first-generation Nexus 7 tablet and have been using it as my main tablet system for the last four days. Here's how it went.

Android becomes a 5-year-old on Tuesday, and the app development community deserves almost as much credit as Google for making the OS such a smashing success.

Today we’re pleased to announce that The Linux Foundation will host the Open Virtualization Alliance (OVA), the organization dedicated to education and advocacy for KVM. KVM is growing in popularity among businesses and open source communities like OpenStack with a 50 percent increase in deployments this year, according to IDC. We will work with OVA to extend education and advocacy that supports and helps advance the important work of this developer community.

As Linux takes over the network operating system, the roles of Linux admin and network admin grow increasingly entwined.

The Open Virtualization Alliance has joined the Linux Foundation as a collaborative project to deepen its ties with the Linux community.

Linux Mint, an Ubuntu and Debian-based Linux distribution, has seen tremendous growth in community support and installed base in recent years. Since arriving on the scene in 2006 with its first release called "Ada," Mint has become the most popular FOSS operating system on DistroWatch.com, surpassing both Ubuntu and Debian themselves.

Collaboration can change the world and Linux and open source developers must use what they’ve learned to lead the way. This was the message delivered by Mark Hinkle, director of open source solutions at Citrix, in his inspirational keynote at LinuxCon and CloudOpen Europe in Edinburgh this morning.

Getting a Nexus 7? It's the best small-screen tablet you can buy, but you'll want to install the right apps. Here are 20 of our favorites in a variety of categories.

I'm not quite sure how this happened but it seems the dumbed-down computer tech of our everyday life is not easy enough; the public is baffled and apparently needs even more simplification.

Just a week after the previous update, the developer has released yet another version of the famous application, bringing even more features and changes.

Mobile Media Ventures' iConsole.tv gaming system is quickly turning into a jack of all trades, as the company now plans to support SteamOS through its PC's Android interface. Valve's TV-friendly platform will only be a shortcut away, MMV claims. Players won't have to partition drives, tweak firmware or otherwise mess with low-level settings, either. We won't know how well this Linux-on-Linux approach works until the company provides more details in the months ahead, but it's promising -- it could greatly expand iConsole.tv's game library without compromising on simplicity of use.

The founder of Canonical, Mark Shuttleworth, has caused a stir in open-source circles as he calls Ubuntu's detractors the Open Source Tea Party.

Android is open—except for all the good parts.

At Muktware we publish a series of interviews to feature women active in the Open Source world. Marta Rybczynska is a very active contributor to the KDE project and in this interview we talked to her to understand her work.

After months of bug fixing and stabilizing the Alpha, we are happy to announce the availability of OpenMandriva Lx’s first ever Beta.

Kubuntu was released yesterday and it comes with the brand new KDE Plasma workspaces and other KDE technologies. Like any other operating system Kubuntu also needs a little bit of work to get it ready for you.

Networking is the last bastion of proprietary systems, but Cumulus Networks sees a near future where Linux powers network hardware by default.

Google’s third-quarter results were published on Thursday, and I had a chance to look into the results this morning. Some of the key financial figures were already covered in Thursday's brief post on this, so I’d like to focus on what I thought was interesting out of the conference call.

The Medibuntu repository was discontinued and is no longer available. As a consequence, you might see error messages in the Update Manager, Package Manager and Software Manager.

Free Windows utility Kingo Android Root makes it a snap to jailbreak just about any Android smartphone. Here's how to use it.