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Android Fork Cyanogen Back in the News as a New Company

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OStatic
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All the way back in 2009, when Android was still ramping up as a mobile platform, we covered a significant spat between Google and a developer named Steve Kondik. Kondik’s Cyanogenmod software framework was a modified Android ROM that angered Google because it included a number of proprietary Google applications, such as GMail and YouTube.

The dispute ended with some agreements, but Cyanogenmod continued on, and now the Android firmware project CyanogenMod is a brand new company, thanks to a $7 million Series A financing round led by Silicon Valley venture firms Benchmark Capital and Redpoint Ventures.

 

 
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Why Thin Disks Don’t Matter

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ZDNet
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Thinner disk drives – such as Seagate’s new 5mm drive – are the last gasp of an old strategy: making drives smaller. It won’t work. The future is elsewhere.

OpenSUSE Looks To Switch To Btrfs For Next Release

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Phoronix
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With today’s release of openSUSE 13.1 Beta has come some more interesting news about the future of the German-founded Linux distribution: they’re hoping to switch to the next-generation Btrfs Linux file-system as their future default file-system…

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OpenSUSE 13.1 Goes Into Beta With Linux 3.11

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Phoronix
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The first beta release of openSUSE 13.1 is now available and making the cut before the feature freeze was the Linux 3.11 kernel and Mesa 9.2.0…

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Yes, Agile Works in Larger Enterprise Projects, Too

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ZDNet
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‘Agile principles can be applied to large, even very large, groups of people, allowing them to be more connected to their work and its impact, despite being part of a huge system.’

A Guide to Kill, Pkill and Killall Commands to Terminate a Process in Linux

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Tecmint
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Linux Operating System comes with Kill command to terminate a process, which is no longer needed, or needs to be killed after a major change/update, without the need of restarting the server. Linux Operating System lets you start/stop a service without the need of restarting the machine, here comes…

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Linus Torvalds Doesn’t Want to be Microsoft’s CEO and other LinuxCon Ramblings

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ZDNet
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In a free-wheeling Q&A session Linus Torvalds and other top Linux programmers, talked about Linux, scuba-diving, and other odds and ends of the developer life.

Intel Iris Pro Linux Graphics Yield Some Wins Against Windows

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Phoronix
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For the past few days at Phoronix we have begun looking extensively at the Intel Iris Pro 5200 graphics under Linux, since receiving the System76 Galago UltraPro. The Iris Pro 5200 are the new high-end Intel Haswell graphics that have 128MB of embedded video RAM on the die, which should yield a nice performance boost when properly implemented within the Intel Linux driver. Already our testing has found the Iris Pro performance on Linux has doubled with open-source driver improvements since Haswell’s launch. Now we’re out today with our first Intel Iris Pro OpenGL gaming benchmarks between Ubuntu Linux and Microsoft Windows 8 for this Intel Core i7 Ultrabook.

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Samsung Tizen and LG Firefox OS Phones Coming Soon?

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LinuxGizmos
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Following the appearance of leaked photos showing Tizen 3.0 running on Samsung’s Galaxy S 4 phone, new rumors say the upcoming Galaxy S 5 smartphone will be available in both Android and Tizen versions. Meanwhile, an LG D300g phone uncovered in the FCC database suggest the first LG Firefox OS phone is nearing release. Against […]

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Intel: The Year of the Linux Desktop Is Here

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ZDNet
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Intel CTO Dirk Hohndel sees Linux as the leading end-user operating systems – thanks to smartphones, tablets, as well as the rise of Chromebooks.

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