Distribution Release: Kwheezy 1.1

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August 13, 2013

Kwheezy is a distribution that claims one hundred percent compatible with Debian 7.1 and features a pre-configured KDE desktop. About half a month after its initial release, version 1.1 became available today: “The new version is geared towards better locale/language support. Changes in version 1.1: Minor improvements to….

Red Hat CEO: Go Ahead, Copy Our Software

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ReadWrite

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August 13, 2013

Imagine your company spent more than $100 million developing a product. Now imagine that a competitor came along and cloned your product and distributed a near-perfect replica of it. Not good, right? If you’re Apple, you spend years and tens of millions of dollars fighting it, determined to be the one and only source of your product.

If you’re Red Hat, however, you embrace it—as Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst told ReadWrite in an interview.

After Unix

For years the enterprise data center was defined by expensive hardware running varieties of the Unix operating system. Over time, both Windows and Linux chewed into Unix’s market share, with Red Hat winning the bulk of the Linux spoils. The key to victory? Both Windows and Linux offered low-cost, high-value alternatives to Unix’s sky-high pricing.

GNU C Library 2.18 released

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LWN

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August 13, 2013

Version 2.18 of the GNU C library is out. It contains a lot of bug fixes, a number of architecture-specific optimizations, a new benchmark framework, and partial support for hardware lock elision, among many other changes.

1 Small App, 1 Giant Feather in Linux’s Cap

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LinuxInsider

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August 13, 2013

What a difference a day makes, as the old saying goes — or, perhaps more aptly here in the Linux community, what a difference an app makes. Which app, you may ask? Why that would be Microsoft Office for Android, of course — the arrival of which a few weeks ago has caused no shortage of jubilation in the Linux blogosphere. “The father of Linux, Linus Torvalds, once said, ‘if Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I’ve won,'” noted a recent article. “So, it looks like Linus has won.”

Install Linux Deepin 12.12 Desktop Manager on Ubuntu and Linux Mint

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Tecmint

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August 13, 2013

Linux Deepin is an Ubuntu based Chinese (Also available in English) Linux distribution that bundled with its own elegant and easy to use Desktop Environment and with other integrated beautiful unique applications, which polishes overall look and feel of Linux Deepin. It is available as standalone…

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Hawaii Wayland/Weston Shell Gets New Release

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Phoronix

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August 13, 2013

Hawaii Shell, a Qt 5 based desktop interface that has a Weston plug-in for Wayland support, has experienced a new release. This Hawaii Shell release for Wayland has many new desktop-related features for those wishing for something a little more than a stock Weston desktop…

AMD Radeon GPUs Run Great With Linux 3.11 Kernel, Mesa 9.3

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Phoronix

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August 13, 2013

While the Linux 3.11 kernel hasn’t even been officially released yet, on Phoronix we have already published a number of Radeon DPM benchmarks, the new dynamic power management code coming to the open-source driver. Early Phoronix tests of Radeon DPM have yielded performance improvements and great improvements for power/thermal use. In this article are new Linux 3.11 + Mesa Git benchmarks from a variety of AMD/ATI Radeon graphics cards.

Latest Google Glass Update Includes Emergency Alerts, More Voice Commands

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ZDNet

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August 13, 2013

You can now dictate more (and better) commands with the latest software update for Google Glass.

Read more at Enterprise Open Source Toolkit

Why Ubuntu’s Creator Still Invests His Fortune in an Unprofitable Company

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ArsTechnica

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August 13, 2013

Canonical

When Mark Shuttleworth founded Canonical in 2004, he made a promise to his staff: “You can count on me for two years.”

The idea was “to get the team to relax” and focus on the newly created Ubuntu operating system. Shuttleworth wanted to eliminate the pressure of becoming a blockbuster business overnight.

He issued no ultimatums. And although Shuttleworth wanted Canonical to be self-sustaining, he didn’t threaten to abandon Ubuntu if it lost money. “When we started, I told the team two years,” he recently told Ars. “I didn’t say, ’till it’s profitable.’ I said, ‘You can count on me for two years. What I want to really see is evidence of a clear path to success and really interesting disruption.'”

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Rugged PC/104 SBC Runs Linux on AMD G-Series APU

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LinuxGizmos

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August 13, 2013

Advantech has breathed new life into its Linux-friendly AMD-based PC/104 single board computer family with a fanless, ruggedized PC/104 model built around an AMD G-Series APU. The PCM-3356 offers up to 4GB of DDR3 RAM, features dual gigabit Ethernet ports, SATA, four USB ports, three serial ports, and two Mini-PCie sockets, and supports -40 to […]