IBM’s MessageSight: Unboxing the New Machine-to-Machine Appliance

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May 2, 2013

See the un-boxing of IBM’s MessageSight, which helps organizations manage and communicate with mobile devices and sensors found in various systems.

The Perfect Desktop – Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail)

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Falko Timme

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May 2, 2013

The Perfect Desktop – Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail)

This tutorial shows how you can set up an Ubuntu 13.04 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.

Now, More Than Ever, VMware Must Embrace Open Source

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OStatic

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May 2, 2013

All the way back in 2008, I wrote a post here called “Open Source and the Fall of VMware,” which made the case that VMware’s huge market capitalization was precariously based on one primary bet: its proprietary virtualization solutions. At the time, VMware was experienceing rocky times, but since then the company has steadily shown signs of warming up to open source. It has even joined The OpenStack Foundation. However, now, more than ever, as open source solutions become more vital in the cloud and the virtualization space, VMware has to tie its strategy more closely to open source.

NVIDIA 319.17 Linux Driver Brings In New Features

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Phoronix

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May 2, 2013

One month after releasing the very first NVIDIA 319.xx Linux driver beta, NVIDIA has now released their 319.17 driver as a certified Linux driver that supports an assortment of new features…

Distribution Release: Korora 18

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DistroWatch

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May 2, 2013

Ian Firns has announced the release of Korora 18, a Fedora-based distribution with a large number of tweaks, tools and extras for improved user friendliness: “We have decided to make the existing beta release of Korora (Flo) 18 the final version, as the beta period did not reveal….

Google and Adobe Team Up to Improve iOS, Linux Fonts

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ZDNet

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May 2, 2013

The new Adobe rasterizer promises to boost font rendering across all Unix-derived platforms.

Read more at Enterprise Open Source Toolkit

ARM64 Support Will Improve In Linux 3.10 (AArch64)

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Phoronix

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May 2, 2013

Support for the emerging 64-bit ARM Architecture, a.k.a. ARM64 or AArch64, will see better support with the Linux 3.10 kernel…

KDE, A Community Made of Momentum – Aaron Seigo

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Muktware

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May 2, 2013

We just launched KDE Sutra, a KDE magazine by Muktware, to celebrate our 3rd anniversary. Aaron Seigo, the Plasma project leader, has written the introductory column for the magazine launch. Here I present to you Aaron Seigo! — Swapnil Bhartiya (editor KDE Sutra)

openSUSE G(r)eekos @Fosscomm 2013

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openSUSE

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May 2, 2013

Fosscomm (Free and Open Source Software Communities Meeting) is an annual conference for Free and Open Software. It’s organized from the Greek open source community for the Greek open source community in a different city of Greece each year. It’s an annual meeting for people who love open source technology, beers and party!

Of course the Greek openSUSE Community couldn’t miss this chance for having fun, drink beers, meet new people and talk about the technologies that openSUSE 12.3 has and the magnificent openSUSE Conference at Thessaloniki.

A Drooling Attack Over the BeagleBone Black

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LinuxInsider

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May 2, 2013

There’s been no shortage of gloom and doom here in the Linux blogosphere lately, what with Fuduntu’s demise, a fresh round of anti-FOSS FUD, and even criticisms of Linux distros’ girth. So it was with particular joy that Linux bloggers received the news about the all-new BeagleBone Black. “BeagleBoard.org on April 23 will officially announce a faster 1GHz version of its hackable, open-source BeagleBone SBC for only $45,” read the report, and in no time at all every patron down at the blogosphere’s Punchy Penguin Saloon was sitting up in rapt attention.