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Cinnamon desktop on Linux Mint 15. Linux Mint The Linux Mint project yesterday released version 15 of the increasingly popular desktop operating system, with upgrades to the MATE and Cinnamon desktop environments as well as new applications for managing software and drivers. Code-named "Olivia,"...

Although Google is offering a limited set of developer tools for Glass–and more are on the way –the company doesn’t want to stop hackers from tinkering even further. Indeed, during a developer conference session on Thursday, Google showed a variety of ways to gain deeper access to Glass. Some, such...

We've seen several Linux tablets emerge over the past year or so, but examples with triple-boot capabilities are much less common. Enter the Python S3, a tablet released on Monday by Italian Ekoore that can boot three operating systems: Ubuntu Linux , Android, and Windows 8 . “The Python series was...

If you’re like me and happen to have a bunch of vintage Macs powered by Motorola 680x0 CPUs lying around, then you probably like to tinker with them. And what better way to tinker with obsolete hardware than by installing an obsolete version of Linux on it? It’s a difficult and time-consuming...

Wikipedia For years, the Linux operating system has contained a high-severity vulnerability that gives untrusted users with restricted accounts nearly unfettered "root" access over machines, including servers running in shared Web hosting facilities and other sensitive environments. Surprisingly,...

AIX is not the only game in town

If you want to peddle boxes, you have to sell the ISVs first IBM is opening a Power Systems Linux Center in Beijing, China, in the hopes of getting more local ISVs interested in its Power Systems iron and luring them away from x86-based systems. With the Power Systems business taking it on the chin...

Regular PCWorld readers may recall Cinnarch , a Linux distribution I covered last fall that combined Arch Linux with the relatively new and alternative Cinnamon desktop environment. Cinnarch was just in beta at the time, but recently the project team behind it announced that they planned to abandon...

IBM opens a new Power Systems Linux Center in Beijing, the first such center Big Blue has opened in the world.

Download, then be nice to your mother, Linux Lord advises The first release candidate for version 3.10 of the Linux Kernel is upon us.…