While the Ubuntu 13.10 release is just over one week away, Mir still hasn’t officially landed in the Ubuntu Phone images as the new display server. There’s been some bugs but it looks like it will now be landing rather soon…
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MongoDB’s Eliot Horowitz: The Database Renaissance Has Begun
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Distribution Release: SparkyLinux 3.1 “E17”, “MATE”, “Razor-qt”
Paweł Pijanowski has announced the release of SparkyLinux 3.1 “E17”, “MATE” and “Razor-qt” editions, a set of Debian-based distributions and live CDs featuring three popular lightweight desktop user interfaces: “SparkyLinux 3.1 ‘Annagerman’ E17, MATE and Razor-qt editions are out. The new ISO images of SparkyLinux provide a few….
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SUSE GSoC Students Rockin’ Ready!
We reached the conclusion of yet another Google Summer of Code. Our students and mentors put in a lot of effort, writing and reviewing code, documenting it and in the process and sharing and learning a lot. We’d like to share with you some of the experiences of our students, mentors and of course the state of the projects!
Nine out of twelve
Like previous years, we have our share of ups and downs, but in the end we completed nine of the twelve projects successfully. Following is a short summary of the work done over the summer, along with the experiences of the students and the mentors.
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Open Source is Brutal: An Interview With Google’s Chris DiBona
Chris DiBona is the Director of Open Source for Google. He is also one of the great champions of open source, dating back to when he first fell in love with Linux at his university.
At the All Things Open conference this year, Chris will give an update on Google’s current open source software activities and a retrospective, of sorts, on the origins and state of Android.
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What the Future Holds for an Open Source City
The future for Raleigh, NC as an open global city is very promising. There is a strong, participatory culture that is both leading and adding value to the open source, open government, and open data movements happening across the globe. The elected officials and city staff in Raleigh, particularly the IT staff, are committed to open source and understand the value of open data. This makes the economic future of Raleigh ripe for new businesses and entrepreneurs with ideas that spark innovation.
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Oh No, Too Many Distros?
Fossforce‘s Christine Hall said recently that those declaring “too many distros” are just spreading FUD and then ran a poll. Their results were surprising, too surprising. So, I ran my own poll. Turns out, my results are surprising too.
Fossforce’s poll showed a majority of respondents said there were too many distros, 29% thought the number is about right, and 19% said there were too few. They were “flabbergasted” and “surprised” as was I. The results had to be an anomaly. So, I ran my own poll to see what I’d get. My results show no anomaly at Fossforce after all.
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