http://www.linuxandlife.com – The Linux Foundation just announced that they have found a solution for the new BIOS of the upcoming Windows 8 PC. In short, if you are to purchase a Windows 8 PC in the near future, you will be able to install your favorite Linux distro on it. It has never been a problem to install Linux alongside with Windows on store-bought Windows computers. (Distributions)

http://www.linuxandlife.com – If you use both Linux and Twitter, you should surely tweet this, following the footsteps of other giants like Broadcom, Nvidia and Samsung, Twitter has joined the Linux Foundation confirming the growing stature Linux in the world of dedicated web servers and global data centers.  “Linux and its ability to be heavily tweaked is fundamental to our technology infrastructure,” said Chris Anis (Distributions)

http://www.archlinux.org – Pierre Schmitz wrote: The October release of the Arch Linux install medium is available for Download and can be used for new installs or as a rescue system. It contains a set of updated packages and the following notable changes: systemd is used to boot up the live system. initscripts are no longer available on the live system but are still installed by default on the target system. (Distributions)

http://www.linux-magazine.com – AMD announces its participation in OpenJDK Project “Sumatra” in collaboration with Oracle and other members of the OpenJDK community to help bring heterogeneous computing capabilities to Java for server and cloud environments. (Distributions)

http://www.linuxandlife.com – The newest kernel 3.6 has been released yesterday. Comparing to kernel 3.5, there are many changes and fixes in 3.6, according to Linus Torvalds. However, here are the 4 important new features in kernel 3.6: 1 - Hybrid sleep This is a combination of sleep mode and hibernation. It will copy the contents of RAM to the hard drive, as in hibernation, and then entering sleep mode. (Distributions)