First Beta of XBian 1.0 for Raspberry Pi

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June 26, 2013

The XBian media centre Linux distribution for the Raspberry Pi mini-computer has now reached beta status with the latest kernel and XBMC software bringing many improvements in performance and stability.

Fedora 19 Release Candidate Quietly Posted

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OStatic

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June 26, 2013

fedora The final release of Fedora 19 is due July 2 and a Release Candidate 1 was quietly released to testers in the early hours of June 25. Fedora’s list of new features is never boring and version 19 follows suite. Let’s see what’s coming.

As I look down through the Accepted Features List, I see almost a full house of 100 percents. The only feature still stuck at 90% is “AnacondaNewUI Followup,” summarized as, “this feature describe[s] the high level work items we have for anaconda related to newui in F-19.” Another with a question mark is “First-Class Cloud Images,” which is to make cloud images other than just EC2. Most of its implementation is postponed until F20.

First Ubuntu Weekly Update Video

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Jono Bacon

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June 26, 2013

Today we had our first Ubuntu Weekly Update with summaries from engineering managers and leads for Mir, Unity, Juju (Core and Ecosystem), Click, Smart Scopes, Ubuntu Touch, Community, and other areas. After the summaries we opened up the session to questions from viewers.

This weekly videocast will provide a regular in-depth, open, and transparent update of week-to-week engineering and community work going on.

See it below:

Can’t see the video? See it here!

Remember, you can always catch my regular weekly Q&A where you can bring any of your questions. Watch it live at Ubuntu On Airevery Wednesday at 6pm UTC.

Development Release: Parsix GNU/Linux 5.0 Test 2

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DistroWatch

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June 26, 2013

Alan Baghumian has announced the availability of the second test build of Parsix GNU/Linux 5.0, the project’s latest development release built on Debian “Wheezy” but featuring the GNOME 3.8 desktop: “The second testing release of Parsix GNU/Linux 5.0, code name ‘Lombardo’, is available now. This version ships with….

Mir Development Stats Dominated By Canonical

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Phoronix

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June 26, 2013

For those curious about the Mir Display Server development but aren’t actively following its Bazaar development repository, the development continues to be dominated by Canonical and here’s some numbers looking at the current development statistics surrounding Mir…

Running Ubuntu Linux Is Messy On The 2013 MacBook Air

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Phoronix

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June 26, 2013

Earlier this month, shortly after Intel announced their latest-generation Haswell processors, Apple rolled out their new 2013 MacBook Air laptops. From a hardware perspective, the new MacBook Airs are incredible. The 13-inch MacBook Air can get a 12-hour battery life with Intel Haswell CPU. The 11-inch model continues being an ultra portable computer and has excellent performance with its Core i5 Haswell processor and HD Graphics 5000. As soon as the Haswell MacBook Airs went on sale, I bought an 11-inch model for Linux testing. Ubuntu can be installed and run on the new Apple MacBook Air, but the experience is less than desirable.

Android-Controlled Exercycle Excites Kickstarter Fans

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LinuxGizmos

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June 25, 2013

After only two days on Kickstarter, an Android 4.1-powered exercise bike project has reached almost half its $250,000 goal. Peloton Cycle’s Peloton Bike is equipped with a 21.5-inch touchscreen console that runs Android 4.1 on a 1.5GHz dual-core ARM processor, offers multiple wireless options for connecting heart rate monitors, and delivers 1080p video chat and […]

Virtualization Tech Suits Carrier Grade Linux Requirements

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LinuxGizmos

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June 25, 2013

Wind River has announced a KVM-based virtualization extension to Wind River Linux designed for the telecom industry. The Wind River Open Virtualization Profile offers an open source, real-time kernel virtualization platform that features CPU isolation and under 3-second latency, and supports future network functions virtualization (NFV) standards, says Wind River. With bandwidth demands continuing to […]

Wind River: Getting Closer to the Network Virtualization Vision

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The Linux Foundation

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June 25, 2013

Wind River today released its real-time Open Virtualization Profile software for Wind River Linux developed with open source Kernel-Based Virtual Machine (KVM).

From their blog:

“The Wind River Open Virtualization Profile is built on top of our Yocto Project Compatible Wind River Linux, and provides customers with an optimized preemptible KVM capable of quickly context switching between virtual machines (average response to interrupt from hardware to guest OS as low as under 3 microseconds), and an optimized virtual switching fabric that can deliver packets between guests as quickly as it can get, thanks to the integration with the IntelÂ® Data Plane Development Kit.

Using Wind River Open Virtualization Profile, companies can build high performance virtual nodes, resulting in the consolidation of multiple physical legacy devices into powerful off-the-shelf multicore Intel blades….”

Open Door Policy: Microsoft’s K.Y. Srinivasan on Working with the Linux Community to Deliver Interoperability

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The Linux Foundation

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June 25, 2013

K.Y. Srinivasan, one of Microsoft’s Principal Software Developers who focuses on open source and interoperability talks about the interoperability enhancements he and his team have been undertaking with the Linux community, and about the larger vision guiding this work.

Can you start with how Microsoft and the Linux community are working together on kernel contributions?

It’s all part of our larger vision, which is to ensure that anything our customers want to run, they can run on Windows Server Hyper-V and in Windows Azure. This is what customers tell us they want.