KDE Frameworks 5 Alpha Two Is Out

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March 4, 2014

Frameworks 5 based apps on Wayland

Today KDE released the second alpha of Frameworks 5, part of a series of releases leading up to the final version planned for June 2014. This release includes progress since the previous alpha last month.

See the announcement on kde.org for more information and links to downloads. For information about Frameworks 5, see this earlier article on the dot.

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The Potential for OpenStack in the Enterprise

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OpenSource.com

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March 4, 2014

Big things are in store for OpenStack this year. The community is growing, now at almost 14,000 people from more than 130 countries. The next version, Icehouse, is scheduled to be released on April 17, followed by the next OpenStack Summit in May. But what will this lead to?

In a post on virtual-strategy.com, Chuck Dubuque, the Director of Product Marketing for Virtualization and OpenStack at Red Hat, provided the following prediction:

When Friends Tell Friends to Use Linux

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LinuxInsider

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March 4, 2014

It’s a natural human tendency to want to share a good thing with the people you care about, and Linux is certainly no exception. It can be downright painful, in fact, for FOSS fans to sit by and watch their friends and loved ones suffer in the clutches of other OSes. Even so, is it always a good idea to recommend Linux? One longtime Linux aficionado and blogger isn’t so sure. “Arm yourself with the information needed before telling someone to install such and such distro because it’s great,” warned blogger Ken Starks.

Distribution Release: Wifislax 4.8

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DistroWatch

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March 4, 2014

Version 4.8 of Wifislax has been released. Wifislax is Slackware-based live CD with an extensive collection of tools designed to perform various wireless connection analyses and related security tests. Like Wifislax 4.7, this latest release is also built from packages found in Slackware Linux 14.1, but several of….

Radeon Gallium3D Performance Gets Close To Catalyst On Ubuntu 14.04

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Phoronix

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March 4, 2014

With the open-source graphics driver stack found in the forthcoming release of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Mesa 10.1 + Linux 3.13), the performance of the community-developed Radeon Gallium3D driver is now close to that of the official AMD Catalyst driver for recent generations of Radeon graphics cards. In several OpenGL tests the “RadeonSI” driver can even run 80% the speed of AMD’s official Catalyst Linux driver.

Samsung Announces Quad Core Powered Chromebook 2

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Muktware

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March 4, 2014

Samsung’s Chrombooks are the #1 best selling devices on Amazon.com and the new breed is going to ensure increasing dominance of Linux in the desktop space.

Mini-ITX Baseboard Accepts ARM or x86 COMs

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LinuxGizmos

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March 4, 2014

Data Modul unveiled a signage-oriented Mini-ITX format baseboard that accepts both ARM- and Atom-based Qseven COMs, and drives LCDs as large as 82 inches. Standards such as the Qseven spec for computer-on-modules (COMs) are designed in part to enable customers to easily replace one COM with another — even from other manufacturers using other processors […]

Stratasys Aims to Take MakerBot, 3D Printing Mainstream

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ZDNet

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March 4, 2014

Stratasys is hoping that MakerBot desktop systems will ultimately lead to a halo effect for its industrial strength products for manufacturing.

Read more at Enterprise Open Source Toolkit

New 15,000 rpm Disk Drives. Why?

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ZDNet

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March 3, 2014

Seagate and HGST have announced 600GB 15k SAS drives. Weren’t SSDs supposed to kill fast hard drives? Here’s why they haven’t.

Read more at Enterprise Open Source Toolkit

Second Debian init System Vote Concludes

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LWN

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March 3, 2014

The second vote by the Debian technical committee addressed init system coupling. Bdale Garbee has announced the results of that vote. “With all 8 votes cast, this CFV on the init system coupling issue has ended in a tie between options “L” and “N”. Given my vote on this issue, it should be no surprise that I use my casting vote to declare option “N” is the winner.” (Thanks to Josh Triplett)

Option N: “The TC chooses to not pass a resolution at the current time about whether software may require specific init systems.“