On the Edge of Failure: Ubuntu Smartphone Looks Unlikely to Reach Crowdfunding Goal

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August 7, 2013

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The Edge, a smartphone that runs a mobile edition of the popular desktop OS Ubuntu, will only get made if would-be users pledge $32 million via the crowdfunding site Indiegogo. With a strict time limit of 30 days, this ambitious campaign needs to average more than $1 million per day, however the first half of that period has seen great initial momentum slow down to a crawl. In its 15 days on Indigegogo, the Edge project has attracted $8.3 million in pledges, leaving it nearly $24 million short.

UberStudent Pushes Users to the Head of the Class

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LinuxInsider

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August 7, 2013

Looking for an everything-included Linux distro designed for people who are just transitioning to Linux? Need an OS specifically tailored for students? Then look no further than UberStudent. I have used countless Linux distros, many with features for specialty users such as writers, artists and musicians. None of them had the user experience you get from UberStudent. It works out of the box. Developed by education specialist Stephen Ewen, UberStudent is a Linux distro that delivers tools for learning task completion and academic success.

Video: Trends in Next Generation HPC Architecture

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insideHPC

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August 7, 2013

In this video, Andrew Siegel from Argonne National Laboratory presents: Trends in Next Generation HPC Architecture.

It is well known that the design of next generation HPC systems requires architectural choices that leave application developers in a largely unfamiliar parameter regime relative to the trends of the past twenty years â€” overall levels of concurrency, bandwidth to FLOP/s ratios, memory per floating point unit, use of instruction-level and shared-memory parallelism, power, and resilience characteristics are a few common examples. While constrained to some degree by the technology, in designing future HPC systems there is still considerable latitude both in specific design tradeoffs and the programming models that are used to optimally express them.

Download the slides (PDF).

60 Commands of Linux : A Guide from Newbies to System Administrator

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Tecmint

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August 7, 2013

For a person new to Linux, finding Linux functional is still not very easy even after the emergence of user friendly Linux distribution like Ubuntu and Mint. The thing remains that there will always be some configuration on user’s part to be done manually. Just to start with, the first thing…

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Reviewing Kali Linux – The Distro for Security Geeks

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Aaron

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August 7, 2013

An introduction to Kali Linux – the distro for security geeks

When it comes to hacking, security, forensics etc, linux is the only and the preferred tool. Linux is very hacker friendly from ground up. But still there are distros that are more oriented towards assisting hackers. To name a few, backtrack, backbox, blackbuntu etc.

Backtrack is the most popular distro when it comes to penetration testing and security stuff. And now it has taken a new avatar called Kali Linux. Kali Linux is the new name of backtrack (version 5 rc3 was the last backtrack release).

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Why Agile Isn’t Enough for Many Software Projects

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ZDNet

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August 7, 2013

Agile and scrum — which encourage team-based partnerships between developers and end-users — don’t work well within large or complex environments, expert warns.

Read more at Enterprise Open Source Toolkit

Open Source as a Civic Duty

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OpenSource.com

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August 7, 2013

I occasionally get asked why I spend so much of my free time writing software and giving it away for free. There are a number of reasons for this—I like to build things and I use it as an excuse to practice and improve my skills—but one of the most driving motivators for me is that I see open source contributions as a civic duty, a moral obligation to the rest of the world.

Samsung Gains as Apple Display Supplier, Says Researcher

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CNET

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August 7, 2013

Despite expectations to the opposite, the South Korean electronics giant is growing as a display supplier to Apple, says NPD DisplaySearch. [Read more]

Coreboot Gains Haswell Graphics Firmware Support

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Phoronix

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August 7, 2013

Just days after the exciting news of Coreboot supporting the AMD “Kabini” APU, there’s more good news for this open-source project… There’s now Intel “Haswell” graphics firmware support!..

Distribution Release: Linux Deepin 12.12.1

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DistroWatch

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August 7, 2013

Linux Deepin is the leading community distribution from China featuring the Deepin Desktop Environment based on GNOME Shell. Linux Deepin 12.12.1 was announced today as an enhancement (and also a bug-fix) of the previous 12.12 release. New functions include the deepin-notifications plugin for the desktop, where users can….