Installing Debian Squeeze On Pogoplug v3/Oxnas Cleanly

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July 10, 2013

Installing Debian Squeeze On Pogoplug v3/Oxnas Cleanly

ArchLinux ARM (“ALARM”) has officially dropped support for the PogoPlug v3/Oxnas in June 2013. Actually, the Oxnas port was already broken before due to ArchLinux’ cutting edge philosophy and causing users many troubles, although it was working fine somewhen in 2012. The main purpose of this tutorial is to provide instructions on how to build and install a Debian rootfs from scratch on the Pogoplug v3/Oxnas, using only official binaries from Debian and ALARM.

Short-Term Thinking Led Australia Into an IT Skills Shortage

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ZDNet

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July 10, 2013

Job advertisements looking for candidates with a decade’s worth of experience is leading to a skills crisis of our own making.

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openSUSE Conference BoF Sessions Can Be Scheduled

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July 10, 2013

Within two weeks, in thessaloniki, the openSUSE Conference will start off again. Like last year, we have not only an awesome program but also reserved time for small sessions to get work done. We’ve got a wiki page where you can schedule such sessions before the event and on the event itself we’ll allow scheduling more sessions Unconference style. Read on to learn more about the BoF session, based on an article from our famous RW conference in 2011!

Wayland, Weston 1.2 Release Candidates Are Out

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Phoronix

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July 10, 2013

Kristian Høgsberg has announced the first release candidates for the upcoming Wayland 1.2 release along with the Weston 1.2 reference compositor…

Have We Lost Our Way in Supercomputing? Readers Weigh in at The Exascale Report

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insideHPC

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July 10, 2013

In this special feature from The Exascale Report, readers from the HPC community weigh in on what the new #1 supercomputer in China means to U.S. competitiveness and why the DOE needs a Battlefield Commander to take on the challenge of Exascale Computing.

Even if the new DOE leadership gives exascale the evangelism it needs, someone still needs to get OSTP on board. This nation needs OSTP to be a champion for exascale development. DOE needs a leader who is both willing and capable of building a strong support network, and that means getting OSTP and OMB on board, if we are to regain a global HPC leadership position. Every aspect of the U.S. economy depends on this.”

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Valve’s Dota 2 Is Coming Soon To Linux

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Phoronix

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July 10, 2013

Valve’s Dota 2 game will soon be released for Linux gamers. Dota 2 is the sequel to Defense of the Ancients and under Windows has proven to be a highly popular title, which is now being tested on Linux…

Many Minor Glitches Make Mint 15 More Work Than It’s Worth

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LinuxInsider

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July 10, 2013

The latest release of Linux Mint 15, nicknamed Olivia, tries really hard to reach new design goals but is marred by a series of petty flaws. The latest rendition of Linux Mint’s flagship desktop, Cinnamon 1.8, is ambitious but immature in its execution. If you choose the new MATE 1.6 desktop version over Cinnamon, you get a very workable GNOME 2 fork that may not be worth wallowing in yesteryear. Overall, the best of what is new with Linux Mint 15 could be an HTML5-themed login screen and the additional Software Sources and Driver Managers.

Development Release: SparkyLinux 3.0 RC

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July 10, 2013

Paweł Pijanowski has announced the availability of the release candidate for SparkyLinux 3.0, a Debian-based distribution with a choice of LXDE (default), Enlightenment, Openbox, JWM, MATE and now also Razor-qt desktop user interfaces: “SparkyLinux 3.0 RC ‘Annagerman’ is out. The release candidate of SparkyLinux 3 provides a few…

Published: A Power-Aware Scheduler For Linux

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Phoronix

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July 10, 2013

A Linux kernel scheduler that’s power-aware and aims for offering power-efficient performance has been published. The developer behind this new Linux scheduler is presently seeking other developer feedback on his set of nine patches…

Distribution Release: IPFire 2.13 Core 70

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DistroWatch

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July 10, 2013

Michael Tremer has announced the release of IPFire 2.13 Core 70, the latest stable release from the project developing open-source software solutions for routers and firewalls: “Today, the IPFire development team released the 70th Core update for IPFire 2. This update comes with a new kernel and some….