During today's FESCo meeting, the engineering and steering committee approved a number of new features for Fedora 18, a.k.a. the Spherical Cow...
http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTEyMjM
http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTEyMjM
Look out C++, the Years of the Snake are upon youOpen... and Shut The enterprise, long the stodgy bastion of mainframes, Oracle databases, and Windows servers, is starting to look a lot more like the consumer technology companies that eschew it.…
http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/18/scripting_languages_in_the_enterprise/
http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/18/scripting_languages_in_the_enterprise/
The following FLOSS for science related books were published during the month of May 2012.
http://www.floss4science.com/floss-for-science-books-may-2012/
http://www.floss4science.com/floss-for-science-books-may-2012/
Patches emerged last week for supporting the GL_ARB_base_instance OpenGL extension within Mesa and Gallium3D's Mesa state tracker. This OpenGL extension was only conceived last year and became part of the specification with OpenGL 4.2...
http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTEyMjI
http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTEyMjI
MapR is now available on Amazon's Elastic MapReduce service, albeit an older version than the newly released MapR 2.0
http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/MapR-offers-Hadoop-as-a-service-1620425.html/from/rss
http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/MapR-offers-Hadoop-as-a-service-1620425.html/from/rss
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Subject: Nouveau X.Org Driver Finally Releases Version 1.0
After being in development for many years, the xf86-video-nouveau X.Org DDX driver finally saw its first release and it is version 1.0...
http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTEyMjA
http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTEyMjA
Shutter is a free and open-source screenshot program that offers advanced capturing, sharing and editing abilities. It stands out for its feature richness and editing power that will save you time jumping from one application to the other, and adds professional look, or artistic style to your screenshots!
http://worldofgnome.org/become-a-screenshot-master-with-shutter/
http://worldofgnome.org/become-a-screenshot-master-with-shutter/
Take a look at the new Linux Mint 13 from ReviewLinux.Com. Its GNOME desktop manager makes this an easy alternative to Windows 7 and beyond! Why pay for an OS when one can use Linux Mint to read your email or browse the web. The learning curve is not a steep one, you’ll pick Linux Mint up quickly and no more virus worries. Check out Linux Mint today plus visit ReviewLinux.Com for all your Linux needs.
http://www.reviewlinux.com/video-review-linux-mint-13-reviewlinux-com-5807.html
http://www.reviewlinux.com/video-review-linux-mint-13-reviewlinux-com-5807.html
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Wed Dec 31 1969 19:00:00 EST
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Subject: 'Unity Revamped' Adds Missing Functionality to Ubuntu 12.04
A new a customized build of Unity is now available that adds missing features to back to the Unity Shell.
http://www.ubuntuvibes.com/2012/06/unity-revamped-adds-missing.html
http://www.ubuntuvibes.com/2012/06/unity-revamped-adds-missing.html
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Wed Dec 31 1969 19:00:00 EST
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Subject: Cheese awaits redesign -and maybe Facebook/Twitter support?
Cheese the webcam Gnome’s application that was written as part of Google’s 2007 Summer of Code lead by daniel g. siegel and mentored by Raphaël Slinckx is under a new design development.Yet another Gnome App that it might get cloud support?
http://worldofgnome.org/cheese-awaits-redesign/
http://worldofgnome.org/cheese-awaits-redesign/
While the process to transfer the leadership of the Mandriva distribution into a non-profit foundation continues, the developers have released a first technology preview of Mandriva 2012
http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Mandriva-technology-preview-released-1619943.html/from/rss
http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Mandriva-technology-preview-released-1619943.html/from/rss
Today we are proud to launch a new Mozilla Webmaker app to the world. Meet Thimble, the new tool that makes it incredibly simple for anyone to create and share their own web pages and other projects in minutes. Thimble … Continue reading
http://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2012/06/18/introducing_thimble/
http://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2012/06/18/introducing_thimble/
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Wed Dec 31 1969 19:00:00 EST
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Subject: Free NVIDIA graphics driver reaches version 1.0
The developers of the Nouveau project have released version 1.0.0 of their open source graphics driver for X.org. With this release, the last part of the free driver stack for NVIDIA graphics components has left beta state
http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Free-NVIDIA-graphics-driver-reaches-version-1-0-1620188.html/from/rss
http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Free-NVIDIA-graphics-driver-reaches-version-1-0-1620188.html/from/rss
Paul Whalen proudly announced a few minutes ago, June 19th, that the stable version of the ARM edition of the Fedora 17 (Beefy Miracle) operating system is now available for download.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Fedora-17-ARM-Edition-Officially-Released-276498.shtml
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Fedora-17-ARM-Edition-Officially-Released-276498.shtml
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Wed Dec 31 1969 19:00:00 EST
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Subject: Ubuntu system may be more locked down than a certified Windows 8 system
The significant difference between the Ubuntu approach and the Microsoft approach is that there's no indication that Canonical will be offering any kind of signing service. A system carrying only the Ubuntu signing key will conform to these requirements and may be certified by Canonical, but will not boot any OS other than Ubuntu unless the user disables secure boot or imports their own key database. That is, a certified Ubuntu system may be more locked down than a certified Windows 8 system.
http://www.muktware.com/3709/ubuntus-uefi-secure-boot-requirements-odms
http://www.muktware.com/3709/ubuntus-uefi-secure-boot-requirements-odms
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Wed Dec 31 1969 19:00:00 EST
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Subject: Benchmark raises questions over SPDY performance
A researcher has reported that the performance improvements that SPDY brings to the web may be a lot less than suggested. Meanwhile an Nginx developer rolls out the first test release of their SPDY implementation
http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Benchmark-raises-questions-over-SPDY-performance-1619953.html/from/rss
http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Benchmark-raises-questions-over-SPDY-performance-1619953.html/from/rss
What, we fire thousands and the shares go down?Analysis Last week Nokia did exactly what analysts have been begging it to do for years - it took an axe to the company's bureaucracy and purged the leadership. The latest 10,000 redundancies leave the company with its smallest workforce since 1998. Nokia's reward was a further 18 per cent fall in its share price. Thanks, markets.…
http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/18/nokia_analysis/
http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/18/nokia_analysis/
Canonical proudly announced last evening, June 18th, that in collaboration will Dell they will ship laptops pre-loaded with the Ubuntu operating systems.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Canonical-Dell-Sell-Ubuntu-Laptops-in-India-276338.shtml
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Canonical-Dell-Sell-Ubuntu-Laptops-in-India-276338.shtml
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Wed Dec 31 1969 19:00:00 EST
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Subject: Microsoft's Folly: Building a Combined PC and Post-PC Device
With its newly announced Microsoft Surface tablet/laptop hybrid, Microsoft is trying to be a PC and post-PC device in one gadget -- and it's going to be extremely difficult serving two masters.
http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/mobile-cloud-view/microsofts-folly-trying-to-build-a-combined-pc-and-post-pc-device/
http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/mobile-cloud-view/microsofts-folly-trying-to-build-a-combined-pc-and-post-pc-device/
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Wed Dec 31 1969 19:00:00 EST
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Subject: Unity 4 game engine will support Linux natively
Unity Technologies has announced that their upcoming Unity 4 game engine will support publishing of games on the Linux platform. Brian Fargo's Wasteland sequel is among the games that will use the new Linux support
http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Unity-4-game-engine-will-support-Linux-natively-1620664.html/from/rss
http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Unity-4-game-engine-will-support-Linux-natively-1620664.html/from/rss