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Mobile backend as a service StackMob is announcing a hosted HTML5 solution that will make it easier for developers to build HTML5 and hybrid apps that use HTML5.

The move allows the company to become a more full fledged platform as a service.

lwn: Developers tend to fear compiler bugs, and for good reason: such bugs can be hard to find and hard to work around.

Linux and Open Source: "Web company, NGINX's original creators and developers will provide support for small, medium or large-scale commercial Web site installations."

ComputerWorldUK:Microsoft may try to revive support for Hyper-V in OpenStack as the community considers removing the code, which one OpenStack developer called broken and unmaintained, from the stack.

IT World: "Bucking the trend of increasingly experimental desktop interfaces, the developers behind the Linux Mint are adopting a simpler desktop for the next version of the open-source Linux distribution."

Datamation: The Mayan calendar suggests that an apocalypse is due this year.

LinuxBSDos:Cinnamon is a new desktop environment, forked from GNOME 3 by the developers of Linux Mint.

Wired: The real beauty of open source software isn't that it's free; it's that it's free to change. Developers can tinker with it, strip it down or build it out, depending on their wants and needs.

Most people know that BitTorrent is far from anonymous, but seeing all your recent downloads listed on a public website is still quite a revelation.

This is exactly what Youhavedownloaded.com does. The developers of the site want to make people aware of the public nature of BitTorrent, and are currently working on a more anonymous version of the leading file-sharing technology.

The company revealed more details about its plans for a Windows 8 Metro app store. A test version of the store is expected in late February alongside the first Windows 8 beta.