How to Set Up the Linux Mint 15 (Olivia) Desktop

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June 6, 2013

The Perfect Desktop – Linux Mint 15 (Olivia)

This tutorial shows how you can set up a Linux Mint 15 (Olivia) desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge.

ARM Mali Mesa Driver, New Code & Overclocking

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Phoronix

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June 6, 2013

The Lima driver is slowly but surely progressing for supporting ARM Mali graphics hardware in an open-source world. A Mesa driver has been started, their demo code can be faster than the binary driver, user-space memory management is being tackled, and evidently the management at ARM Holdings isn’t too happy…

Do High-Profile OpenStack Departures Spell Trouble?

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OStatic

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June 6, 2013

In a major announcement from Dell Computer last month, the company announced that its public cloud ecosystem and strategy will be centered on partners Joyent, ScaleMatrix and ZeroLag, and will emphasize recent acquisition Enstratius. That represented a very major reversal of its plans to deliver public cloud services based on the open source OpenStack cloud platform. Meanwhile, IBM–which has been firmly in the OpenStack camp–is spending billions to buy SoftLayer for its cloud computing infrastructure tools and services.

All of this is what I was getting at in my recent post, “In Five Years, Expect Far Fewer OpenStack Service Providers.” OpenStack has had much more hype than it has had deployments so far, despite its massive promise.

Intel 2.21.9 X.Org Driver Calls Out More Regressions

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Phoronix

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June 6, 2013

Chris Wilson of Intel’s Open-Source Technology Center is back to pushing out xf86-video-intel driver updates at an expedited rate. Rather than the new releases being about advancing the SNA acceleration architecture or new features, the past few have been about correcting regressions and other bugs…

OpenSUSE 13.1 Switching To Ruby-Based YaST

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Phoronix

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June 6, 2013

YaST, the SUSE-developed administration and control utility that’s original to the German-based Linux distribution, is being rewritten in Ruby for the upcoming openSUSE 13.1 release…

Install KDE 4.10.4 in openSUSE

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Muktware

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June 6, 2013

KDE 4.10.4 was released this week as part of the monthly update cycle.

Red Hat Betas Web-Developer Tool Collection

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June 6, 2013

The latest for Red Hat Enterprise Linux users with Red Hat Subscriptions is a beta of a collection of dynamic languages and databases selected for web developer use, which offers them newer versions than what comes with RHEL.

J.P. Morgan Cuts 2013 Forecast for IT Spending

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CNET

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June 6, 2013

Global IT spending is now slated to rise just 0.6 percent this year, down from the investment firm’s prior forecast of 1.2 percent. [Read more]

The Linux Standard Base: Order From Chaos

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LinuxInsider

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June 6, 2013

Imagine going out to do your shopping errands in a world devoid of standards. What would that be like? Without standard sizes, something as routine as buying clothes would be an exercise in frustration. Finding a replacement bulb or buying tires for your car would require unique parts made only by the manufacturer. That’s why the world of Linux has the Linux Standard Base, which offers a way to standardize many of the system internals used by Linux.

Big Switch Leaves OpenDaylight

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June 6, 2013

Friction over how to begin merging the code bases for the open source software defined networking project has seen Big Switch, a founder company, leave the project after sixty days.