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Why Is the Linux Foundation Growing?

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eWeek
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Linux is one of the world’s leading operating systems powering much of the Internet and rapidly becoming a core mobile and embedded technology, as well. Helping to lead Linux forward is the Linux Foundation and its charismatic leader Jim Zemlin.

Jim Zemlin has been the executive director of the Linux Foundation since the organization was created in 2007, after a predecessor Linux group, called the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), collapsed. In a video interview with eWEEK, Zemlin explains why the Linux Foundation continues to grow year after year.

“It’s not important for us to grow just for growth’s sake,” Zemlin said.

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Oibaf’s Mesa 10.0 Comes To Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy

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Phoronix
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For those not comfortable in building Mesa and other open-source Linux graphics driver packages from source, the popular “Oibaf PPA” was updated this morning and it brings Mesa 10.0 Git to Ubuntu 13.10, 13.04, 12.10, and 12.04 LTS distributions. There’s also other newer graphics packages there too…

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SELinux User-Space Sees A Big Update

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Phoronix
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The user-space component to the SELinux project saw a major release yesterday. The libselinux, checkpolicy, libsemanage, libsepol, policycoreutils, and sepolgen software was updated to version 2.2…

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Blender 2.69 Gets A Halloween Release

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Phoronix
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Blender 2.69 is now out as the latest release of the open-source 3D modelling software…

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How to Speed Up Slow apt-get Install on Debian or Ubuntu

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The Linux Foundation
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If you feel that package installation by apt-get or aptitude is often too slow on your Debian or Ubuntu system, there are several ways to improve the situation. Have you considered switching default mirror sites being used? Have you checked the upstream bandwidth of your Internet connection to see if that is the bottleneck? Nothing […]
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Android KitKat Could Focus on Cheaper Phones and Wearables

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The Verge
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Android 4.4 KitKat isn’t just an advertising coup. According to former Wall Street Journal reporter Amir Efrati, it will also be Google’s latest attempt to make cheaper Android devices attainable, and prep the mobile OS for wearable computing.

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Slackware 14.1 Just Days Away

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OStatic
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slackwareSlackware 14.1 has been cooking for a while now and Willy Sudiarto Raharjo says it’s just day away now. His exact words today were, “Since RC 3 has been announced, there wasn’t much addition or changes happening on -Current, which means that the final release is just a matter of days.”

 

 
 
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Samsung Ships 5 Million Galaxy Note 3s in First Month

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ZDNet
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Samsung has shown great success with their Galaxy Note series and the latest device, the Note 3, is raising the bar for shipments.

IBM Bails on $600M CIA Cloud Deal, Lets Amazon Have It

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ZDNet
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Big Blue withdraws its bit to run the U.S. spy agency’s private cloud, ceding to Amazon, which originally won the contract.

Intel and ARM: Frenemies for the Greater Good?

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ZDNet
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Altera’s latest ARM processor will use Intel’s manufacturing processes. Is this the real kickoff to what could be a lucrative foundry business for Intel?

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