Linux Mint 17.2 “Rafaela” MATE RC Is Out and Based on MATE 1.10 – Screenshot Tour

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June 17, 2015

Linux Mint developers have just revealed that Linux Mint 17.2 “Rafaela” MATE RC is now available for download and testing. It integrates the latest MATE 1.10 and numerous other changes and improvements.

The MATE and Cinnamon flavors are always released together by the Linux Mint developers and today’s there’s no difference. We already covered the launch of the Cinnamon flavor, but the MATE one is just as important. It’s a nice coincidence that both of them are shipping with… (read more)

AMD Will Be Working On Open-Source Fiji GPU Support In The AMDGPU Linux Driver

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Phoronix

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June 17, 2015

While the new AMDGPU kernel DRM driver is being added to the Linux 4.2 kernel as the next-gen driver for supporting Tonga, Carrizo, and all other new AMD graphics hardware, the 4.2 version will not support AMD’s newly-announced Fiji GPUs…

The New Oculus Rift is Our First Glimpse of Real, Mainstream VR

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The Verge

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June 17, 2015

Seeing the Oculus Rift at E3 feels like the end of a journey. It’s experienced a more dramatic trajectory than perhaps anything else at the show, from a simple prototype in 2012 to the flagship product of a company that Facebook paid $2 billion for. Oculus’ booth is lined with lavish prints of virtual reality games like Lucky’s Tale and EVE Valkyrie, and co-founder Palmer Luckey is chatting with journalists under the calming purple light. But really, it’s a beginning: our first look at one of the earliest attempts to make VR a real medium instead of a science fictional dream, complete with a totally new control system.

The finished Rift, which will see release in early 2016, is a surprisingly low-key device. It’s big, but its size is…

Debian Launches A Diversity Sponsorship Travel Program

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Phoronix

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June 17, 2015

Debian feels that greater diversity at DebConf and in the Debian community will “significantly help” them in their goal of becoming the Universal Operating System, so they’ve launched a diversity sponsorship program for their annual DebConf event…

SUSE Continues Working On AMD HSA Support In GCC

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Phoronix

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June 17, 2015

SUSE in cooperation with AMD continues working on the HSA (Heterogeneous System Architecture) support inside the GCC compiler stack…

Music, The GNOME Music Player, Is Getting Smart New Features

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The Linux Foundation

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June 17, 2015

Music, the GNOME music player that isnâ€™t Rhythmbox, has been quietly progressing in the past few GNOME releases. The app now has a basic feature set that ticks all the right boxes, e.g. search, smart playlists, etc and is fronted by a modern interface that swaps chrome and clutter for instant usability. But the app is set to [â€¦]

Sound Recording and Editing with Audacity on Ubuntu

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Falko Timme

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June 17, 2015

In all the years I have been dealing with both Linux and sound recordings, I have never found a simplest and more powerful tool than Audacity to get the job done. This open source sound recorder, editor, analyzer, generator and effect applicator is surely one of the most useful and important tools ever to be produced by the free software community.

5 Steps to Becoming a Quality Docker Contributor

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OpenSource.com

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June 17, 2015

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There are many benefits to contributing to a popular open source project like Docker:

All the Top Sellers in Steam Have Linux Support

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Softpedia

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June 17, 2015

This year’s Steam Summer Sale is probably one of the biggest put together by Valve so far, and it looks like Linux is also present in a way that will certainly get noticed. All of the games in the Top Sellers chart have Linux support.

In the previous summer sales, it was rather difficult to find games with Linux support, but the number of games that can be played natively on Linux has been increasing constantly, month after month. This is somewhat paradoxical if we consider… (read more)

Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) Will Be Based on Linux Kernel 4.1, Says Canonical

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June 17, 2015

It’s official! The final version of the Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) will be based on the forthcoming Linux 4.1 kernel, due for release at the end of June 2015, according to Canonical.

On June 16, Joseph Salisbury informs us that Canonical’s Ubuntu Kernel Team took the unanimous decision to rebase the upcoming Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) operating system on Li… (read more)