LinuxUser: The Worlds Favourite Distribution gets a new version based on all the good parts of the Ubuntu LTS, and bundled with two traditional desktop environments...

ServerWatch: The developers behind Puppet are going a step further, taking aim at bare metal provisioning in an open source effort with EMC called Razor.

ZDnet: An old myth is that the Linux desktop doesn’t have the applications most users need, but lately some companies that have long supported Linux are pulling back from the Linux desktop and that’s a worry.

Linux Magazine: For its size, fail2ban, a utility that scans logfiles and bans suspicious IP addresses, punches well above its weight.

The H Open: Engine Yard has announced that JRuby core team members Thomas Enebo and Charles Nutter are leaving the company to join Red Hat in an apparently friendly deal between the two firms.

FreeSoftwareMagazine: Can users get to unleash some of the GUI's power? The answer is yes

Linux.com: Whatever you use – S3 Tools, Duplicity, Deja-Dup, or another tool – the important thing is to have backups and check them often

The Register: From Linux to big-data shifter

InternetNews: From the 'Bigger fish to Fry' files: