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• Canonical's new Ubuntu focuses on the long haul

  As organizations move in-house systems to the cloud, Canonical wants them to consider switching their OSes as well.

• Wall Street Beat: Mixed news for tech puts dent in sector confidence

  Mixed news for hardware and some disappointing software vendor financial reports this week appeared to put a dent in confidence in the IT sector.

• Linux Foundation to offer introductory Linux MOOC on edX

  The Linux Foundation will offer a Linux development course on edX, the massive open online course (MOOC) platform developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University. The move is part of an edX effort, announced Thursday, to expand its course offerings to include content from nonacademic institutions. All edX content previously came from the nonprofit's 32 member schools, which include the University of California, Berkeley; Dartmouth College and McGill University.

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux now on Amazon's GovCloud

  RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) is now available on Amazon Web Services' GovCloud, an isolated part of Amazon's cloud designed for U.S. government agencies.

• Wind River outfits VxWorks for 'Internet of things'

  Wind River Systems has updated its widely used VxWorks embedded RTOS (real-time operating system) to make it ready for use on impending "Internet of things" systems.

• Why Ford is dumping Microsoft for Blackberry's QNX OS

  Ford is reportedly set to replace the Windows-based Sync platform in its cars with an open source Linux-based system used by several other automakers.

• In Pictures: 16 weirdest places you'll find Linux

  Linux is everywhere, if you look for it.

• North Korea goes OSX-like with new operating system

  If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, might the folks in Cupertino be pleased when they see the latest version of North Korea's home-grown operating system?

• Red Hat takes more active role in CentOS, funds developers

  Red Hat plans to take a greater role in the community developing CentOS, in the hope of attracting more paying customers to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), the distribution on which CentOS is based.

• Moving a city to Linux needs political backing, says Munich project leader

  This year saw the completion of the city of Munich's switch to Linux, a move that began about ten years ago. "One of the biggest lessons learned was that you can't do such a project without continued political backing," said Peter Hofmann, the leader of the LiMux project, summing up the experience.

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0 issued in beta form

  For the next generation of its flagship enterprise Linux distribution, Red Hat aims to support new cloud technologies while preserving the ways of the seasoned system administrator.

• In Pictures: 10 Linux distros to watch in 2014

  What to expect in the world of Linux in the upcoming year.

• Oracle integrates DTrace debugger into its Linux distribution

  Oracle has fully integrated the long-awaited Linux DTrace debugging tool into the latest release of its Linux distribution, potentially allowing administrators and developers to pinpoint the cause of thorny performance issues with more accuracy.

• New OpenSUSE embraces 64-bit ARM

  Joining Fedora and Ubuntu, the new version of the community driven OpenSUSE can now be run on AArch64 processors, further preparing the market for servers running on the new 64-bit ARM architecture.

• USENIX: Red Hat prepares for 64-bit ARM servers

  Enterprise open-source software vendor Red Hat is keeping an eye on the development of 64-bit ARM processors for servers, building up expertise in case the nascent platform takes hold in the data center.