Linux Web Usage Almost Doubled, Now At ~2%?

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February 20, 2014

A new report out from a major Internet advertising firm has shown the number of Linux devices almost doubling in the last quarter of 2013 and putting the Linux usage on the web at just under 2%…

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SUSE Cloud 3 Arrives for OpenStack IaaS Private Clouds

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OStatic

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February 20, 2014

SUSE has announced theavailability of SUSE Cloud 3, the next version of its OpenStack distribution for building Infrastructure-as-a-Service private clouds. The offering is especially focused on data centers where administrators want to take advantage of multiple types of computing environments, and it has full support for VMware vSphere through integration with VMware vCenter Server.

SUSE Cloud 3 is based on OpenStack Havana and includes support for Orchestration (Heat) and Telemetry (Ceilometer). It also includes support for OpenStack Block Storage (Cinder), OpenStack Networking (Neutron) and the plug-in model of these projects.

A Look At The New Gedit GUI In GNOME 3.12

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Phoronix

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February 20, 2014

With the upcoming release of GNOME 3.12 there is a brand new user-interface for Gedit, GNOME’s text editor…

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LibreOffice 4.2.1 Has 100+ Bug-Fixes

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Phoronix

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February 20, 2014

Less than one month after the release of the major LibreOffice 4.2 update, LibreOffice 4.2.1 has been released to ship a large number of fixes for discovered problems…

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Possible Summer Improvements To The GCC Compiler

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Phoronix

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February 20, 2014

For any students looking to get involved with this year’s Google Summer of Code, the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) has several interesting projects that are looking to be tackled…

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A Look into the Open Source Hardware Community

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February 20, 2014

AS you may know, just few weeks ago OSHWA published the results from 2013 Open Hardware Community survey. You can find original datasheets and everything here. Despite raw data is good, I thought it was good to spend some time looking at the data trying to gather more insights, when possible.

Systemd 209 Is A Massive Release, Readies Kdbus

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Phoronix

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February 20, 2014

Lennart Poettering has announced the release of systemd 209 and once again it’s another massive release with stuffing more features into the init system, including preparing the user-space side for the kernel D-Bus implementation…

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Apple ‘Snapped Up’ Sapphire Displays, says Canonical Founder

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CNET

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February 20, 2014

Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth claims that Apple has acquired a large supply of sapphire displays, possibly alluding to displays that would be used on a future Apple iPhone.

Raising Linux to Grow Open Source

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LinuxInsider

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February 20, 2014

The open source business model has an inherent ability to bring software rivals together for mutual gain. This approach to developing and distributing software keeps expanding the usefulness and success of the Linux operating system as well. Linux has not yet come close to replacing Windows on the desktop, but open source is much more than Linux. Its “co-opetive” nature is spreading through the enterprise as much as it is driving the many different Linux development communities.

Linux 3.14 File-System HDD Benchmarks

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Phoronix

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February 20, 2014

Early Linux 3.14 kernel benchmarks indicated there might be some slowdowns in disk/file-system performance for this next major kernel release. That early testing was done from an Intel ultrabook with solid-state drive while we’re now in the process of carrying out more focused testing of Linux 3.14 on both HDDs and SSDs. In this article are our first hard drive benchmarks from the Linux 3.14 Git kernel compared to the stable 3.12 and 3.13 kernels.

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