Native Port Of Dear Esther Now Available

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Phoronix

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June 12, 2013

The native port of Dear Esther, a unique game powered by the Source Engine, is now available to Linux gamers…

Updated Nouveau Graphics Driver Released

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Phoronix

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June 12, 2013

It’s been a while since the last Nouveau DDX driver update, but xf86-video-nouveau 1.0.8 was released this morning. This updated Nouveau X.Org driver comes with nearly two dozen changes…

Raspberry Pi and Lego Mindstorms to be United by BrickPi

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The H

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June 12, 2013

The Raspberry Pi will be able to talk to Lego Mindstorms sensors and motors thanks to BrickPI and its closing-soon Kickstarter campaign. The open hardware and software designs are already available for makers to work with.

IBM Packs 128TB of Flash Into Brain-Simulating Supercomputer

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CNET

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June 12, 2013

To accommodate all the data needed to model the 70 million neurons that make up a mouse brain, Big Blue is using scads of the same type of memory used for PC solid-state drives. [Read more]

CyanogenMod is Working on Privacy Mode for Apps

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The H

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June 12, 2013

CyanogenMod founder Steve “Cyanogen” Kondik is working on privacy mode implementation for the open source third party firmware for Android devices. The per-app setting will allow users to not share their private data with apps.

Berlin Rejects Open Source Plan, Looks to Open Standards Instead

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ComputerWorld

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June 12, 2013

The German city-state of Berlin won’t migrate to open source software. Instead, its parliament decided in principle to choose workplace IT based on open standards.

Great Little Radio Player Tunes In Simplicity

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LinuxInsider

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June 12, 2013

The Great Little Radio Player is a perfect example of how great things can come in small packages. This robust Internet radio station streamer does not burden system resources and packs a powerhouse of listening pleasure immediately after installing it. It’s so fine-tuned that it needs no configuring to use it, but you can still tweak a few pleasantries to make it feel more at home on your computer. Unlike other radio players that give you a few nonpremium stations, GLRP’s streaming inventory is totally free.

So What If Chief Marketing Officers Outspend CIOs On Enterprise Tech?

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ReadWrite

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June 12, 2013

Guest author Esmeralda Swartz is chief marketing officer at MetraTech.

Most of the high-end products we purchase are bought without inherent understanding of how they work. That’s not usually a problem, but the Internet went nuts when Gartner recently predicted that by 2017, chief marketing officers (CMOs) will spend more on technology than chief information officers (CIOs) will.

Various technologists and data center experts howled that “People (CMOs) who don’t understand enterprise software are going to spend billions of dollars on stuff CIOs understand far better.”

What Do You Really Need To Know?

To which the logical, if counter-intuitive, response might be, “So what?”

CentOS Makes Its Mark in the Cloud

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Wazi

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June 12, 2013

With the worldwide public cloud market forecast to grow 18.5 percent in 2013 to $131 billion in total worldwide revenue, according to Gartner, companies are beginning to place their bets in the high stakes marketplace. I’ve been watching as Amazon Web Services works to hold off its challengers in the space. … Part of that growing community includes Linux distributions, including CentOS, a Linux distribution which provides a free enterprise-class computing platform.

Linux is growing rapidly in the cloud market. According to the Linux Foundation’s annual survey: 76 percent of organizations participating in the survey use Linux servers as part of their cloud infrastructure.¹

Perforce Unveils Collaboration and Code Review Tool Swarm

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The H

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June 12, 2013

Programmers can use Swarm to hook into their colleagues’ code and receive feedback on their own code. It can also be used to display and review sections of code side by side.