Ubuntu to Stop Brainstorm

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May 14, 2013

The collaborative ideas site is to finally close, having been left behind by changes to how Canonical designs the Ubuntu operating system. Meanwhile, the company is to return the “Community” button to the top of its pages.

Ubuntu 13.04 “Raring Ringtail” Server Installation Guide

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Tecmint

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May 14, 2013

Ubuntu 13.04 non LTS “Raring Ringtail” Server was released on 25 April 2013. This guide shows installation of recently released Ubuntu 13.04 Server with screenshots. This release includes latest and greatest packages, some of them are OpenStack Grizzly Pythan Juju 0.7 Ceph 0.56.4 MAAS…

Windows 8 ‘Sales’ Barely Half as Good as Microsoft Claims

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The Register

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May 14, 2013

Don’t even mention the XP/Vista sales comparisons

Microsoft claimed last week that it’s made ‘100 million’ Windows 8 sales and the claim has been widely repeated. But channel feedback and the experience on the ground point to a very different picture.…

Silvermont: Intel’s Silver Bullet for Mobile?

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ZDNet

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May 13, 2013

More than five years after Intel first announced Atom, the company has introduced the first top-to-bottom redesign of its low-power processor. With the Silvermont microarchitecture, does Intel finally have all the ingredients to challenge ARM in smartphones and tablets?

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Linux-Based Robonaut 2 Preps for Active ISS Duty

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LinuxGizmos

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May 13, 2013

NASA’s Linux-based “Robonaut 2″ is undergoing extensive testing on the International Space Station (ISS), and will soon be put to work. The humanoid Robonaut 2 will soon receive a major upgrade that will provide legs and an expanded battery pack, enabling it to perform more duties, including space walks. Robonaut 2 arrived at the ISS […]

Why I’m Ready to Ditch my Dedicated Server and Move to the Cloud

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ZDNet

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May 13, 2013

Servers are big boxes of stuff just waiting to break. Over the weekend I got to play network administrator, and the experience has convinced me it’s time to get rid of my dedicated server and move everything to hosted services.

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Could Hybrids be the Death of Tablets?

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ZDNet

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May 13, 2013

Are hybrid systems destined to kill off the tablet, or are they just another PC form factor waiting to fail?

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Tiny Module Snaps Quad-Core Qualcomm Into Devices

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LinuxGizmos

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May 13, 2013

Inforce Computing has spun a Qseven computer-on-module (COM) featuring Qualcomm’s quad-core, 1.7GHz Snapdragon S4 Pro APQ8064 system-on-chip (SOC). The $199 Linux- and Android-ready IFC6400 COM comes with 2GB RAM, 8GB flash, GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth, and a MIPI-CSI camera input, and is available with an optional Mini-ITX baseboard. Almost all the functionality on the IFC6400 is […]

Cinnarch Successor Antergos Arrives

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The H

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May 13, 2013

Replacing Cinnarch, Antergos offers a GNOME-defaulting, but fairly desktop agnostic take on Arch Linux. With an additional graphical installer, Live CD option, and more it’s sure to pick up some fans for its approach to desktop Linux.

New Open Source Phones: Nearly Upon Us

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OStatic

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May 13, 2013

In a 2010 post here on OStatic, I asked this question: “Is It Too Late for an Open Source Challenge to Android?” Now, of course, we know that there are several open source smartphone strategies in the works that will be coming to fruition this year. Mozilla is moving ever closer to delivering its first phones based on the Firefox OS platform, and urging developers to build apps. Meanwhile, Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth maintains that Ubuntu phones will ship in the coming months, and early reviews of the Ubuntu Touch operating system are already arriving.