Wayland & Weston 1.3 Have Been Released

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October 11, 2013

While it’s arriving late, the Wayland 1.3 release with the adjoining Weston 1.3 reference compositor is now available for your next-generation display server needs…

Lenovo Leaks Manual for Budget Android Laptop by Accident

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CNET

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October 11, 2013

After a manual for the “IdeaPad A10” is put on the Web, Lenovo confirms that it’s planning to release this new 10.1-inch laptop that runs Android instead of Windows. [Read more]

Raspberry Pi Fans Celebrate 1.75M Units Sold

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LinuxGizmos

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October 11, 2013

The Raspberry Pi Foundation announced it has sold 1.75 million of its Linux-ready, open platform Raspberry Pi single board computers (SBCs) to date, with one million of them manufactured in the U.K. In other Pi news, the foundation announced a deal in which the $25 Pi Model A and the $30 Pi Camera Board are […]

Chromebooks: Unlikely Battlefield for Intel vs. ARM

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ZDNet

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October 10, 2013

Intel has been gearing up to put its processors against ARM, and it’s logical that would happen with tablets. New Chromebooks have put the two technologies head-to-head unexpectedly.

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Google Offers “Leet” Cash Prizes for Updates to Linux and Other OS Software

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ArsTechnica

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October 10, 2013

Google is offering rewards as high as $3,133.70 for software updates that improve the security of OpenSSL, OpenSSH, BIND, and several other open-source packages that are critical to the stability of the Internet.

The program announced Wednesday expands on Google’s current bug-bounty program, which pays from $500 to $3,133.70 to people who privately report bugs found in the company’s software and Web properties. Security researchers inside the company considered modifying the program to reward bug reports in open-source software, but eventually decided against that approach. The reason: bug bounty programs often invite a flood of reports of varying quality that can overwhelm the finite resources of open-source developers. What’s more, it’s frequently much harder to patch a vulnerability than merely to find it.

Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Not So Kind to Android Tinkerers

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CNET

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October 10, 2013

A quirk in Samsung’s latest phablet could potentially make it harder for users who choose to install their own operating system to have their warranties honored. [Read more]

Rename – A Command Line Tool For Renaming Multiple Files in Linux

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Tecmint

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October 10, 2013

We often use “mv” command to rename a single file in Linux. However, renaming multiple or group of files quickly makes it very difficult task in a terminal. Linux comes with a very powerful built-in tool called rename. The rename command is used to rename multiple or group of files,…

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Valve Will Release Steam Machines With Radeon GPUs

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Phoronix

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October 10, 2013

While the Steam Machines prototype consoles are running with Intel CPUs and NVIDIA GPUs, Valve has said in 2014 they will release some Steam Machines that are powered by AMD Radeon graphics…

Coming Soon: openSUSE 13.1 With YaST in Ruby

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October 10, 2013

YaST during installation

On July 31st the YaST team announced that the final Ruby conversion of YaST YCP code is over and YaST is now at version 3.0. It took about a week for the new YaST to enter Factory, which makes it a part of the upcoming openSUSE 13.1 release. In the following article we’ll answer the questions of why this change took place, what exactly happened, and where YaST is going. We spoke to two SUSE developers who had been involved with the port, Josef Reidinger and David Majda.

The Gap Between High Performance and High Availability

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insideHPC

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October 10, 2013

Clive Longbottom contrasts the architectures of high-performance and high-availability clusters. And while users may request the best of both worlds, the end game often comes down to money.