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With the OpenStack Folsom Design Summit happening this week, much of the open cloud news has revolved around OpenStack’s growing list of partners and analysis of the open source platform’s role in the overall cloud ecosystem. Here are six stories featuring OpenStack, its partners and its prospects.

NOTE: This round-up of open cloud headlines is a new weekly feature on Linux.com. What were your top open cloud stories of the past week? Please let us know in the comments, below, or email editor Libby Clark, lclark (at) linuxfoundation.org.

There's a new Linux Mint in town, and something new has been added. Specifically, Mint's Cinnamon desktop is now part of Linux Mint's Debian Edition (LMDE). Mint giveth, and Mint taketh away. The 201204 LMDE release also says goodbye to GNOME 2.x, though users do have a transition plan one way or another.

KDE4 Activities are misunderstood, which is unfortunate because they are powerful, fast tools for organizing complex workflows. So what's the point, who needs them, and how do you use them?