News: Linux Top 3: Mint, Martian blueberries Fedora and domination of the supercomputer

One of the greatest strengths of Linux is the fact that can be used to activate the on-board devices smaller and scale up team literally the most powerful of the Earth.

Despite valiant efforts by the developers of Fedora for attempting to leave the version of Fedora 18 (aka the spherical cow) before the end of 2012, it not going to happen.

The beta of Fedora 18 has been delayed again, pushing out of the end of the general availability of the spherical cow until January 2013. Beta version of Fedora 18 is ready on Nov. 27 with a final version for January 08, 2013.

So, the Fedora community now is to vote on behalf of successor to the cow for Fedora 19. There are eight possible options that the Fedora community will vote: cubic calf, boson de Higgs, Loch Ness Monster Martian blueberries, Newtonian dynamics, parabolic, Schrödinger Cat and Tiddalik potassium

Vote for the name of Fedora 19 ends November 15 with the winner to announced on November 16.

Although it doesn't have a name as the next release of Fedora 18 as funky, the version of Linux Mint 14 is definitely something that many Linux users are waiting too.

Now in the stage of the RC, the version of Linux Mint 14, aka Nadia is now matte and cinnamon flavors.

"After 6 months of incremental development, Linux Mint 14 features an impressive list of improvements, greater stability and a refined desktop experience," wrote the founder of Linux Mint Clem Lefebvre. "We are very proud of Matt, cinnamon, MDM and all components used in this release, and we're very excited to show you how they fit into Linux Mint 14".

Fedora and Linux Mint are intended mainly to modest application requirements (although modest is difficult to define). Linux can and climbing community beyond its humble roots to feed the most powerful teams in the world.

Not just one or two of them, but almost all of them.

The latest Top 500 supercomputer list debuted this week and Linux numbers are astounding with 469 of 500 machines in the list currently work with Linux.

Sean Michael Kerner is a senior editor at InternetNews.com, the news service of the network of edge of business IT, the network for technology professionals to follow on Twitter @TechJournalist.

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