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Submitted by srlinuxx on Sunday 20th of March 2005 10:09:16 PM

This began as a list of original articles found on tuxmachines.org, either by me or someone else, but it has since morphed into a list of original articles found on tuxmachines.org and the articles I've had published elsewhere.

Linux Tycoon: Design and Manage Your Own Distribution - March 31, 2012
Ubuntu 12.04 Beta 2 Arrives for Testing - March 29, 2012
GNOME 3.4 Released with Lots of Improvement - March 28, 2012
Greg K-H Updates Tumbleweed Status - March 27, 2012
LibreOffice 3.4.6 Released - March 22, 2012
openSUSE 12.2 M2, Better Late than Never - March 21, 2012
Mitchell Baker Says H.264 is About User Experience - March 19, 2012
LibreOffice 3.5.1 Released with Fixes - March 18, 2012
Mageia 2 Beta 2, Still No Live Images - March 16, 2012
KDE Spark Tablet Renamed to Honor Classical Composer - March 15, 2012
Final Debian 5 Update Released - March 13, 2012
Arch Turns Ten - Mar 12, 2012
Raspberry Pi Orders Now Being Accepted - Feb 29, 2012
Upcoming GNOME 3.4 Previewed - Feb 28, 2012
Fedora's Beefy Miracle Sizzling with Alpha 1 - Feb 28, 2012
Amnesia, Scariest Game Ever, to Get Sequel - Feb 24, 2012
Intel Joins TDF, Adds LibreOffice to AppUp Center - Feb 23, 2012
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7 to 5.8 Risk Report - Feb 21, 2012
The Document Foundation Incorporated in Germany - Feb 20, 2012
KDE Spark Tablet Pre-Order Registration Open - Feb 16, 2012
LibreOffice 3.5 Released - Feb 14, 2012
Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 Reaches End of Life - Feb 10, 2012
Pardus Future Uncertain, Fork Probable - Feb 07, 2012
PCLinuxOS 2012.2 Released - Feb 02, 2012
openSUSE has a Dream - Jan 31, 2012
Mandriva Bankruptcy Crisis Averted, For Now - Jan 30, 2012
GhostBSD 2.5 - Now with an Easy Graphic Installer - Jan 26, 2012
Gentoo-based Toorox Releases 01.2012 GNOME Edition - Jan 25, 2012
Mandriva Decision Delayed Again - Jan 23, 2012
Xfce's Early April Fool's Joke - Jan 20, 2012
KDE 4.9 to get a New Widgets Explorer - Jan 19, 2012
Meet Bodhi's Bulky Brother: Bloathi - Jan 18, 2012
Mandriva Delays Bankruptcy Decision - Jan 17, 2012
LibreOffice 3.4.5 Released - Jan 16, 2012
Fedora Running Beefy Contest - Jan 13, 2012
Mageia 2 Inches Along with Another Alpha - Jan 12, 2012
Linux Mint 12 KDE Almost Ready - Jan 11, 2012
Greg KH Posts Status of Kernel Tree - Jan 10, 2012
Unused LibreOffice Code Expunged - Jan 9, 2012
Is Mandriva Finished This Time? - Jan 5, 2012
New aptosid Fork, siduction 11.1 Released - Jan 4, 2012
Lefebvre Introduces GNOME 3 Fork - Jan 3, 2012
Gentoo Gets New Year's Release - Jan 2, 2012

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