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Why I use KDE’s Plasma, and why I am excited about Plasma 5.3

Itu2019s getting better and better with each release.

IBM researchers make quantum computing breakthroughs

IBM's Experimental Quantum Computing group's development has enormous potential for overcoming big data simulation and optimization challenges. (Includes infographic.)

Lies about uptime vendors may tell you

Youu2019d think the notion of uptime would be a simple one. A service is either running or itu2019s down, right? Wrong. Hereu2019s a look inside the world of uptime, downtime, service-level agreements and the u20189su2019 of availability.

Is Ubuntu moving away from .deb packages? Here is the complete story

Snappy will take the center stage at Ubuntu.

Why Red Hat is tackling BPM

Why Red Hat is tackling BPM

Red Hat has embedded a business resource planner to help developers build applications to solve complex optimization and scheduling problems.

Apple and climate change: Junk science and misguided idealism?

Are Apple's climate change efforts based on misguided idealism and junk science? Why the company might want to tone down its rhetoric about global warming

Who’s behind Linux now, and should you be afraid?

Most Linux kernel code isnu2019t developed by who you might think. Hereu2019s a closer look at why this matters.

Elementary OS releases Freya

Will the beautiful "Mac OS X for Linux" affect the adoption of Linux on desktops?

CoreOS moves tectonic plates, Docker may feel earthquakes

CoreOS gets $12 million funding from Google Ventures, announced Tectonic.

Microsoft closes acquisition of R software and services provider

Microsoft acquires Revolution Analytics, a commercial provider of services for the open source R programming language for statistical computing and predictive analytics.