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• Linux Mint 13 rallies behind Gnome

  With the new version of Linux Mint, released Wednesday, the developers behind the open source Linux distribution have put all energies behind Gnome, offering two versions of the desktop interface.

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  Alternatives to Raspberry Pi you can get right now

  Sure, of course you want a Raspberry Pi, be it for running a media centre, teaching computer science, home automation experiments or just for the hell of it. Unfortunately, a few hundred thousand other people also want one — join the queue!

• Linux 3.4 released quickly, after smooth development cycle

  Just over two months after its last major release, Linus Torvalds has posted the newest version of the open source Linux kernel, which supports new graphics processors from Nvidia and Intel, improves file system functionality and comes with a new security module.

• Open-source messaging at (nearly) the speed of light

  Felix Ehm, a member of CERN's beams control group, has always had a curious and scientific bent.

• Red Hat preps RHEL 7 for second half of 2013

  The next major release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), version 7, is targeted for release in the second half of 2013, Red Hat said on Tuesday, as it also celebrated the tenth anniversary of its enterprise OS.

• Open source cloud project backers duking it out for support

  In the less than two months since Citrix gave its CloudStack software an Apache license, cloud providers are beginning to support the open source model.

• Google files for new trial on copyright claims in Android suit

  Google is seeking a new trial on copyright claims in Oracle's intellectual-property lawsuit against it over the Android mobile OS, according to a filing made late Tuesday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

• For a lightweight Linux desktop, try the new Xfce 4.10

  Choice is one of the best parts of the desktop Linux world, where there's a distribution to suit virtually every taste and purpose.

• IDC: Explosive growth expected for Hadoop, MapReduce-related revenues

  The market for software related to the Hadoop and MapReduce programming frameworks for large-scale data analysis will jump from $US77 million in 2011 to $US812.8 million in 2016, a compound annual growth rate of 60.2 per cent, according to a new report released by analyst firm IDC.

• Wide-Open Search

  Twitter, Facebook, the Library of Congress -- all of these institutions have mind-numbing amounts of structured and unstructured data that must be indexed and searched quickly. In Twitter's case, that's about 300 million new pieces of information to index every day.

• Open-source cloud frameworks: A work in progress

  When IT consultancy OpenCredo set out to launch three new applications within seven months for a major insurance underwriter, it had three goals in mind: Trim development time from the usual years-long pace, allow for frequent changes from the client, and build a system that can handle unpredictable traffic spikes.

• Tibco adds Hadoop support to its Spotfire in-memory analytics

  Tibco has brought its Spotfire in-memory analytics software into the burgeoning ecosystem around Hadoop, an open-source framework for processing large sets of information, the company announced Tuesday.

• Oracle wants judge to bar ex-Sun CEO Schwartz's testimony in Google suit

  Oracle has asked a judge to bar Google from using some testimony given by former Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz in the companies' intellectual-property suit over the Android mobile OS, saying it has "no legal and factual predicate."

• Ceph spinoff looks to monetize open-source storage framework

  The main developers behind the popular Ceph open-source storage framework announced today that they have created a new company, dubbed Inktank, to provide paid support and consulting for the system.

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  Java creator: Fears over consequences of possible Oracle trial win may be overblown

  Should Oracle prevail in its intellectual-property lawsuit against Google over alleged Java patent and copyright violations in the Android mobile OS, it shouldn't result in the "industrial meltdown" some observers fear, Java creator James Gosling said in a blog post late Tuesday.