Elive Is a Debian and Enlightenment Distro Mix with Some Cool Features

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January 15, 2015

Elive, a Linux distribution based on Debian that uses Enlightenment as the default desktop environment, has been upgraded to version 2.5.2 Beta and is now available for download and testing.

A new Beta for the Elive Linux distro has been made available and it looks like the developers still have some pretty important changes to make. The development cycle is in full swing and the devs even upgraded the Debian base to a new version, which is quite a big step.

One of the first things that user… (read more)

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Adobe Lightroom for Android Smartphones Is Now Available, Tablet Version Coming Later

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Softpedia

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January 15, 2015

Last year, iPad users got some pretty exciting news. Adobe’s popular photo-editing software Lightroom arrived on their slates, providing a convenient way to refine photography, especially when bringing in a laptop wasn’t an option.

This week, Adobe is finally giving the same treatment to mobile Android users, who until now have been left out in the cold. However, a tablet-optimized version is still in development and the company doesn’t advise users to install the new Lightroom for Android on… (read more)

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SteamOS Arrives with New NVIDIA and AMD Drivers and Better 32-bit App Performance

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Softpedia

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January 15, 2015

Valve has just released a new update for the stable branch of SteamOS and they’ve updated a ton of important packages, including the proprietary drivers and the Linux kernel.

Most of the important development for SteamOS seems to be over and the developers are now working to improve upon the foundations. That means that they need to constantly upgrade the software and the core packages, including the drivers. These are some of the most important components because they are a great contributor… (read more)

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Microsoft Migration Tool Enables Linux Workloads to Move to Azure

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ZDNet

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January 14, 2015

Microsoft is now enabling testers of its Migration Accelerator tool to move Linux physical and virtual workloads more easily to Azure.

Build Your Own Raspberry Pi-Powered Handheld Linux Terminal

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The Linux Foundation

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January 14, 2015

If youâ€™re looking for a fun maker project, Chris Robinson at Node has posted a great one â€“ building a Raspberry Pi-powered handheld Linux terminal with a distinctly Nintendo DS-style look.

Robinson says his creation is â€œbest suited to command line stuffâ€ and â€œa pretty good tool for learning the command line interface as well as basic scripting.â€

Your New Community Manager Hire: 5 Areas to Focus On

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Jono Bacon

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January 14, 2015

So, you have just hired that new community manager into your organization. Their remit is simple: build a community that wraps around your product/technology/service. You have an idea of what success looks like, but you are also not entirely sure exactly what this new hire will be doing at a tactical level.

Lots of people are in this position. Here are five things you should focus on to help ensure they are successful.

1. Think carefully about the reporting line

When a new community manager joins a company the question is where they report. In many cases they report into Marketing, in some cases (particularly for technology companies) they report to Engineering. In some cases they report to the COO.

Much of this depends on what the community manager is doing. If they are managing social and forums, marketing may be a good fit. If they are building a developer community, engineering may be a good.

Unless Fedora 22 Is To Be Delayed, GCC 5 Might Not Make It

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Phoronix

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January 14, 2015

While Fedora developers have been trying hard for Fedora 22 to be released on time and be stricter about time-based releases with Fedora releases currently being notorious for delays, there’s already some challenges with the fresh Fedora 22 plans for releasing in mid-May…

Kickstarter: A Raspberry Pi-Powered 3D Printer OS

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Softpedia

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January 14, 2015

The Raspberry Pi credit card-sized personal computer has just been turned into the central driving component of 3D printers, solving one of the biggest issues with home-brewed additive manufacturing machines for the first time ever.

There have been some printers that used the board in the past, but they only used the Pi to send orders to an Arduino board, which subsequently had to do most of the work.

The new device, called Photon Elephant after its makers at Photon Elephant LLC, doesn’t do … (read more)

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Development Release: Elive 2.5.2 (Beta)

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DistroWatch

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January 14, 2015

Samuel Baggen has announced the release of Elive 2.5.2, the latest development release of the distribution that features a customised Enlightenment 17 as its preferred desktop: “The Elive team is proud to announce the release of beta version 2.5.2. This new version includes: GIT and SVN integrations into….

97 Percent of China’s PCs Now Powered by Windows

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Softpedia

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January 14, 2015

China is one of the countries where Microsoft really has a hard time making its modern operating systems more popular, as authorities not only that started an anti-trust investigation against the company but they also banned Windows 8 on government computers.

At the same time, Chinese officials are trying to dump Windows completely in the country and are now pushing local users to Linux, an open-source alternative which, in their opinion, is much better and more secure than Microsoft’s operat… (read more)

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