Canonical is grooming Ubuntu for the cloud, and the Oneiric Ocelot release will do well on Amazon EC2

HP is capitalising on its membership of the OpenStack community to compete with Amazon Web Services

The Archos G9 Android tablet's power gives multimedia performance for consumers, but might offer value for business users

The Samsung Series 5 Chromebook is a fine cloud client - but users may find it hard to adapt to the lack of local storage

The GNOME 3.0 and Ubuntu Unity interfaces improve Linux desktops, but need some getting used to

The Turnkey Linux service runs on Amazon Web Services and is good for test driving cloud apps

OpenSUSE 11.4 is a modest release, marked by a raft of newly updated open-source applications and components

This latest release from the Debian project will play well in server deployments that draw on open-source components

The open-source office-productivity suite appears doomed for mediocrity, next to TDF's LibreOffice

This open-source office suite proves that forking is not always the kiss of death