Amazon’s Android Set-Top Box Reportedly Set for March Release

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February 21, 2014

It didn’t make its intended launch window of the 2013 holiday shopping season, but Amazon’s web TV set-top box is apparently still very much on the roadmap. Re/code reports word from multiple sources today that Amazon is aiming for a March rollout of its Apple TV and Roku competitor. Having invested in developing a rich and varied Prime Instant Video library, Amazon has done a good job of distributing that content across platforms, but there are obvious benefits to the web company controlling and selling its own hardware.

Up to this point, the anticipation has been that an Amazon set-top box would run on Android, likely a customized version of the software as can be found on its Kindle tablets, with third-party app support helping to…

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Jolla Embarks on Sailfish 1.0 with an Android Launcher — and an Angry Birds Cover

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February 21, 2014

Jolla’s Sailfish software reaches commercial readiness — and you’ll be able to try it out as a launcher on your Android phone. [Read more]

The NVIDIA GTX 750 Ti Maxwell Continues Running Great On Linux

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February 21, 2014

Back on Tuesday I delivered a launch-day review of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti on Linux. This first graphics card built on NVIDIA’s new Maxwell architecture has been running fantastic under Linux for being a mid-range graphics card. The GM107 GPU core found on the GTX 750 Ti is incredibly power efficient, as was shown in numerous articles on launch-day. For those curious more about the GeForce GTX 750 Ti Linux performance, here are some more OpenCL and OpenGL performance results.

May Open Source Be With You

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February 21, 2014

My introduction to open source software began when I was sitting on a server room floor, with my head in my hands, completely frustrated with a Windows 2000 server. Every night there were some services that would crash. Every morning I would get yelled at by my over-bearing boss. I was new to the company, it was my first IT job fresh out of Network Admin college, where I graduated at the top of my class, but I couldn’t fix this problem because it was a “known Microsoft issue,” and I just had to wait for the update.

GNOME 3.12 Might Come To Fedora 20, Packages Available

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February 21, 2014

With Fedora 21 not being released until at least August, some developers are working on possibly shipping the GNOME 3.12 packages in Fedora 20 as a stable release update…

Broadwell Now Officially Enabled With Intel Mesa

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February 21, 2014

After the latest round of improvements, support for Intel’s next-generation Broadwell processors with their more advanced HD Graphics is now enabled by default within Intel’s Mesa 3D driver…

Distribution Release: GParted Live 0.18.0-1

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February 21, 2014

Curtis Gedak has announced the release of GParted Live 0.18.0-1, an updated version of the Debian-based live CD with utilities for disk management and data rescue tasks: “The GParted team is proud to announce a new stable release of GParted Live.

São Paulo IT Professionals Go On Strike

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February 21, 2014

Techies in the Brazilian state can’t agree with employers around payrise and benefits; employers cannot fire or deduct pay from those involved in the action

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Google’s Tim Bray Steps Down in the Name of Working Remotely

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February 21, 2014

Does Bray leaving Google suggest a new twist in the working-from-home ethos of Silicon Valley? [Read more]

Chromebook Usage: Still a Tiny Splash in the Vast PC Pond

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February 21, 2014

For Google’s Chromebooks, making a dent in the PC install base is going to take a while.

Chrome OS, the browser-based operating system used by Chromebooks, drove 0.2 percent of desktop Web traffic in North America last month, according to a usage study by Chitika. That’s up from 0.1 percent last September, and up from 0.07 percent a year ago.

By comparison, Linux Web traffic grew from 1.1 percent to 1.9 percent over the last five months. Chitika didn’t provide statistics for Windows or Mac, but they presumably account for nearly all of the remaining desktop traffic.