Mark Shuttleworth has said that an 'interesting set of household brands' are looking at putting Ubuntu Touch on their own phones and tablets.
The United States' National Security Agency (NSA) are alleged to have to asked the creator of Linux, Linus Torvalds, to create 'backdoors' into GNU/Linux through which they could access.
Linux Mint's Clement Lefebvre has responded to remarks made by a Canonical developer saying that the OS was 'vulnerable' to security exploits.
Users of the popular Ubuntu-based operating system Linux Mint should not use it for online banking, a Canonical engineer has advised.
Hands up if you don't like open-source racing game SuperTuxKart? You, folks, are strange.
The Linux beta builds of professional non-linear video editing software Lightworks has been updated with a wider set of export formats and improved overall performance.
Just a couple of months after announcing it was heading to Linux, the popular freeware web-rbwoser 'Maxthon' is now in alpha testing.
Xubuntu are looking to the community to help source a set of wallpapers for the upcoming release of 14.04 LTS.
Honing the Ubuntu Touch tablet interface will be the "focus" of Ubuntu's development activities over the next 6 months.
In the first update to popular linux e-mail client Geary - the first since October's major release - a number of issues have been corrected.
The popular Messaging client WhatsApp will be available on Mozilla's Firefox OS before the end of the year, according to one Spanish carrier.
Another week, another top title announces plans to support Linux gaming - this time in the shape of strategy war game Total War: Rome II.
The Ubuntu Touch web browser finally has its own, unique User Agent string, a change that will improve the way many websites will appear.
Budgie is a new lightweight media player for GNOME, using client side decorations to present an attractive front to its nimble core.
Finding and accessing application toolbars on Ubuntu Touch has been made easier in recent builds of the mobile OS.
Good news gamers: Metro: Last Light is finally available to buy through Steam for Linux priced at £24.99/$39.99.
Debian, the foundation upon which many Linux distributions, including Ubuntu, are based, is to switch to Xfce as its default desktop environment.
GPU power management features arrive in the latest stable release of the Linux Kernel - an update that also brings EXT4 improvements.