Facebook Pushes Forward on Android Strategy With New Beta Test Program

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ZDNet

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June 28, 2013

The world’s largest social network is showing some more love for Google’s mobile operating system.

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Intel Readies Its Last Graphics Changes For Linux 3.11

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Phoronix

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June 28, 2013

After having already prepared a number of changes for the Intel graphics driver in the upcoming Linux 3.11 kernel, Intel OTC has now published their last batch of changes they hope to see merged into this next kernel merge window…

BSD Release: GhostBSD 3.1

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DistroWatch

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June 28, 2013

Eric Turgeon has announced the release of GhostBSD 3.1, an updated version of the project’s desktop-oriented operating system based on FreeBSD, with a choice of GNOME 2, LXDE and Openbox desktop user interfaces: “GhostBSD 3.1 is now available. This release is a respin of 3.0, including many bug….

New MintBox 2 is on its Way

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OStatic

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June 28, 2013

Last year the Linux Mint project in association with CompuLab introduced the mintBox, a tiny Linux Mint computer about the size of a cable modem. “It’s tiny, it’s silent, it’s extremely versatile,” so said Clement Lefebvre, founder of Mint. Well, today, Lefebvre previewed the next generation of MintBox.

In June 2012 the original mintBox shipped with 1.0 GHz dual core CPU, 4 GB RAM, and a 250 GB hard drive for $476. A “Pro” version upped the CPU to 1.65 GHz and the RAM to 8 GB for another $73. Linux Mint 13 was the operating system then, featuring the Cinnamon desktop.

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New MIPS Processors Coming, May Target Android

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LinuxGizmos

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June 27, 2013

Imagination Technologies announced a MIPS “Warrior” family of 32/64-bit processors designed for everything from high-end networking equipment to Android tablets, and also announced updates to its embedded-focused MIPS Aptiv 32-bit processor line. The Warrior IP will feature multi-core hardware virtualization and multi-threading, MIPS SIMD architecture, and Imagination’s security framework. The new Warrior and updated Aptiv […]

When the Ecosystem is Broken, You Gotta Blame the Platform

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ZDNet

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June 27, 2013

Two of the biggest mobile platforms give a lot of latitude to partners to make things work properly. That’s a convenient approach, but for customers blame usually comes back to the platform when things go bad.

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Where Are All the Android Laptops?

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ZDNet

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June 27, 2013

PC OEMs seem obsessed with making complicated, high-cost, Windows 8-baed devices. Why are none of them trying to make cheap Android laptops?

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Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Ubuntu 13.04 (LAMP)

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Falko Timme

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June 27, 2013

Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Ubuntu 13.04 (LAMP)

LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on an Ubuntu 13.04 server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support.

LLVM Clang 3.4 Already Has Some Performance Changes

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Phoronix

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June 27, 2013

While LLVM 3.3 was released last week, there are already some performance changes for the latest LLVM 3.4 and Clang 3.4 SVN development code for this C/C++ compiler stack.

Better Power Management for Radeon Driver in Linux

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The H

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June 27, 2013

An AMD developer has published a patch series that significantly improves support for the runtime power management features in the Linux kernel’s Radeon driver. The patches also include support for new GPUs.