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The KDE Project has published its manifesto, benefits and principles.

None of Google services - Android, Chrome OS, Google Drive support Open Document Formats. I am left with puzzling questions why is Google not supporting ODF and locking users into an incompatible and vendor-locked OOXML format? Will Google endorse open standards and Open Document Formats or its users will be forced to use Microsoft's OOXML? I

The smartphone world has suddenly gone too Samsung-ish. A fresh new design from other manufactures should bring a nice change in the segment. Why don’t Google roll the ball back to HTC, who had designed their very first Nexus device? Their designs have been fairly different from other manufactures and HTC One X was a pure winner. Unibody design anyone? While Sony and LG have more or less produced not-so-innovative and at times, ugly devices, Motorola has shown some good design skills, with its RAZR devices as well.

Amazon's integration with Unity is a welcome move as it opens doors for other GNU/Linux based distributions to find new revenue generation models beyond donation.

openSUSE 12.2 has been released and as a new user of openSUSE (along with Kubuntu 12.10) I was looking forward to this release due to many reasons. I am not a developer or a system admin so my requirements with an OS is similar to the requirements of an average user. In this review I am looking at openSUSE from a casual PC user's point of view.

It's here. We have been writing about the 'official' edition of Ubuntu Gnome for almost a year now and it's finally here. The first ISO (alpha) images of Gnome Shell edition of Ubuntu is now available for download and testing.

There is good news for all GNOME users. It's official and GNOME Shell edition of Ubuntu is coming this October.

A popular Disney sitcom Shake it Up, which is telecast around the globe, attacks open source as a 'rookie mistake'.

A group of European students are working on creating a free and open source network to allows anyone to get connected to the Internet without any interference from the ISPs. It's one of the major open source project.

A number of outstanding bugs still present in Fedora 18 apps have delayed the release by a week. This was decided in a go/no go meeting organized by Fedora QA team this week.

Manjaro Linux is a Linux Distribution based on well tested snapshots of the Arch Linux repositories and will be 100% compatible with Arch. We manage our repository with our own developed tool called BoxIt which is designed like git.

Canonical had earlier released Ubuntu with two different Unity shells, a normal default Unity 3D as well as Unity 2D for old low spec computers without 3D acceleration. But from Ubuntu 12.10, the 2d shell will no longer be available.

Two leading GNU/Linux players have explained their plans about how to deal with secure boot. While Canonical decided to ditch Grub2 due to GPLv3, Fedora's approach was to use Grub2 and use Microsoft keys. That left openSUSE/SUSE Linux Enterprise.

Android is like a Swiss knife. It runs on your smatphones, tablets, smart TVs, microwave ovens, cars and much more. That's not all. There are areas where Android can do what you never expected before. One such area is controlling your DSLR cameras via your Android devices.

So, in my opinion, Ubuntu's target audience is simply the one which wants to use computing power to get a job done.

Stallman has said what was expected from him, while he admits that games like Steam will make GNU/Linux popular he also warned about such games.

Speaking during a panel discussion at the NetEvents Americas, a BT expert claimed, "We analyzed more than 1,000 Android applications and found a third compromised with some form of active or dormant malware."

Jeff Hoogland has announced the release of Bodhi Linux version 2.00. This stable release comes after two months of hard work and bug fixing, followed by a Bodhi Linux 2.00 Release Candidate.

During LinuxCon this year one of the lead Linux kernel developers, Alan Cox, pointed at the challenge the community is facing in terms of gender gap. Unlike other areas where women are in leadership positions open source is an exception. So, we are starting an interview series on Muktware 'Woman Force In Open Source' where we will feature one female developer/executive every week. We are starting this series with Elizabeth Krumbach the winner of the O'Reilly Open Source Award.

As a notion of thanks to the wonderful work done by the community and attract more members, Fedora is giving away open-hardware devices for free. Users will have to enter their names in a form and if you are lucky enough, you can win a device you love.