Cloud Integrator App Migration Testing Tool

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June 10, 2013

Cloud Technology Partners, which handles enterprise application migrations, has launched a private beta of a SaaS tool aimed at speeding the process of checking source code.

Read more at Enterprise Open Source Toolkit

Schedule of openSUSE Conference

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June 10, 2013

the openSUSE Conference kicks off in less than 6 weeks! The conference Paper Committee has been receiving and judging a lot of presentation proposals and while there is still time to send in papers, a number of sessions has been confirmed already. In this article we will present you some of these sessions!

SNA Acceleration Works Great For Intel Core i7 Haswell

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June 10, 2013

To complement the Intel Haswell Linux OpenGL benchmarks that we have been publishing on Phoronix for the past week, up today are some Intel Linux 2D performance benchmarks of Haswell with the Intel Core i7 4770K CPU. The 2D performance is comparing Intel’s default UXA accelerated code-paths against the experimental SNA acceleration back-end.

“Sophisticated Android Trojan” Identified

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June 10, 2013

Using obfuscation, reflection, encryption and a range of Android vulnerabilities, the latest malware discovered by Kaspersky Lab is believed to have more in common with Windows malware than with other Android pests.

Samsung Unveils Galaxy Ace 3 Smartphone

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CNET

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June 10, 2013

The device comes with Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean), a 4-inch display, and a 5-megapixel camera. [Read more]

Canonical Working On Mir’s Performance, Mir On Mir

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Phoronix

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June 10, 2013

This past week Canonical developers made a little more progress on their Mir Display Server stack and the next-generation Unity desktop interface…

Mageia Releases New Mageia 3 ISO Images

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The H

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June 10, 2013

A configuration fault with the images meant that users who specified the use of online repositories inadvertently switched their distribution updates to receive development packages.

iRobot and Cisco Unveil AVA 500, The White Collar Telepresence Robot

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The Verge

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June 10, 2013

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In 2011, iRobot, best known for its vacuum cleaners and war machines, introduced its AVA platform. Now, in 2013, iRobot is ready to make good on AVA’s promise — almost. Today it’s announcing the AVA 500, a semi-autonomous telepresence robot for businesses, packed with Cisco’s TelePresence videoconferencing software, and bearing a too-high-to-publish pricetag. Unlike the original AVA, which carried an iPad on top of its skinny neck, the AVA 500 carries a hefty Cisco EX60 21.5-inch LCD “video endpoint,” and is proportioned and styled like an electronic car charging station. The display, which has an HD webcam atop it, can slide between “sitting” and “standing” heights. Primary navigation data is gathered by a Kinect-style sensor.

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Testing the Faith of the Linux Masses

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LinuxInsider

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June 10, 2013

In a world with sky-high divorce rates and inconsistent church attendance, it doesn’t seem too big a stretch to say that fidelity is an increasingly rare virtue in the population at large. Can the same be said of the Linux-using masses? That, indeed, is just what the clever crew over at TuxRadar apparently set out to learn recently via a thought-provoking Open Ballot. “Do you ever see yourself switching back to Windows or Mac OS X — or BSD, Solaris, MikeOS or any other OS — and leaving Linux behind?” TuxRadar’s query read.

ROSA Desktop Fresh R1 brings Azure and Steam support

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June 10, 2013

The latest release of ROSA Laboratory’s Fresh distribution branch allows users to run the distribution of Microsoft’s Hyper-V and gives them access to over a hundred games on Valve’s game platform.