Qt 5.2 Final Release Is “Coming Really Soon”

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Phoronix

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December 3, 2013

Digia has provided an update concerning the state of the Qt 5.2 final release, which could be out as soon as next week…

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The War Over Open Platform Services Is Just Getting Started

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ReadWrite

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December 3, 2013

The “platform as a service” marketâ€”or PaaS, in which cloud companies provide developers with hardware, OS and software tools and librariesâ€”is starting to heat up. IDC predicts it will $14 billion by 2014, and competitors are angling for enterprise wallets.

They’re also bickering constantly on Twitterâ€”most recently last weekend, when a tweet-fight broke out between Pivotal’s Cloud Foundry and Red Hat’s OpenShift over which of the two open-source platforms had more traction. The argument itself wasn’t conclusive, since neither outfit has yet shown major headway in PaaS in the only way that matters, with revenue and customers.

But it’s a big sign of things to come, as open-platform PaaS vendors make their play against the proprietary platforms that currently dominate the fast-growing PaaS space.

Build Your Own Simple Linux Banking Tool

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LinuxInsider

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December 3, 2013

The Linux OS lacks an effective yet simple checking and banking tool. There are money-management tools for Linux users, of course, but most full-fledged offerings are overkill for monitoring spending patterns and balancing financial accounts. In general, Linux financial applications are either too complex to use without an accounting degree or simple, spreadsheet-style apps that do little more than help you keep an electronic copy of your deposits and withdrawals.

Doom 3 BFG On Linux Is Still An Active Pet Project

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Phoronix

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December 3, 2013

Last week marked the one year anniversary of id Software open-sourcing their Doom 3 BFG engine changes. While they didn’t release a Linux client for Doom 3: BFG Edition, a small group of open-source developers did a community Linux version via the RBDOOM-3-BFG project. That though appears to be the only major development work still around the open-source Doom 3 code…

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Benchmarking Oracle’s Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel

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Phoronix

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December 3, 2013

Compared to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and other “EL” derivatives, Oracle Linux has an additional feature of shipping with what they call the “Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel”, a more recent and patched version of the Linux kernel over the standard Red Hat kernel. This morning we have out some new benchmarks comparing the RHEL 6.5 kernel in Oracle Linux to that of the Unbreakable Kernel…

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How OpenStack Differs from Amazon and Must Rise to the Occasion

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OpenSource.com

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December 3, 2013

This is a condensed version of the blog post: A tale of two expanding clouds: Amazon and OpenStack. Read more there about the OpenStack Summit in Hong Kong. Comments welcome.

Use Your Open Source Contributions to Get a Job

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OpenSource.com

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December 3, 2013

CodeDoor: get a job based on your contributions to open source

One night, after reading the Who’s Hiring Freelance thread on HackerNews, I decided there had to be a more efficient way to match programmers with freelance jobs. While sites like oDesk and eLance are general-purpose marketplaces for freelance workers, they seem to have more of an emphasis on price than quality. On the other hand, sites like TopTal and ooomf vet freelance programmers that apply to join the site by screening the candidates. So, while I’m sure they have a pool of excellent programmers for hire, they require applicants to spend time on a process that may or may not yield work opportunities, even if they get accepted.

So, I started CodeDoor, a platform

Linux Mint 16 “Petra” Released – Installation Guide with Screenshots & Features

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Tecmint

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December 3, 2013

Linux Mint 16 codename “Petra” based on Ubuntu 13.10 was released on Saturday 30 November, 2013 and made available in two editions i.e MATE & Cinnamon. The new release comes with latest and greatest updated software’s, security updates, bug fixes and many improvements. Some of the…

Wayland’s Chrome “Ozone” Port Advances

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Phoronix

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December 3, 2013

One month ago marked the first release of a Wayland-based Chromium web-browser. Intel developers ported the “Ozone” windowing/UI abstraction layer to Wayland some months ago but they are continuing to refine it and adding in new features. A few new features were recently added to improve Google’s software on Wayland…

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PC Market Expected to Post Steepest Decline Ever in 2013

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CNET

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December 3, 2013

Shipments will drop 10.1 percent this year, with another decline expected for 2014, according to IDC projections. [Read more]