Music and Game Resources Surface for the Raspberry Pi

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March 26, 2013

As we’ve reported on several occasions, the diminutive $25/$35 Linux computer dubbed Raspberry Pi is attracting developers and tinkerers, and showing up in multiple types of use cases. The tiny devices have already drawn interest from educational system and technology industry leaders, and there is even a supercomputer constructed with Lego pieces and multiple Raspberry Pi boards (part of which is shown here). This week, a number of new attractions for the Pi devices surfaced, including some that can provide rich music and gaming experiences.

GTK+ Is Becoming Very Usable With Wayland

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Phoronix

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March 26, 2013

The state of the GTK+ tool-kit for the Wayland Display Server is now ready for day-to-day use…

SUSE Hack Week 9 is Coming!

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March 26, 2013

The week starting on April 8 will be Hack Week 9 at SUSE! The SUSE engineers will be free to work on projects of their passion for a week. They work in teams or alone on projects, personal, upstream or new. Hackweek takes place both on-line and at SUSE offices all over the world. Each location has a program for the week itself but right now we’re in preparation mode. As always, we try to make the event as open as possible (that’s why we use github) so you can see what we’re planning and can join in the fun!

Hackweek plans

You can check out the Hackweek site for an overview of what’s going on, the agenda for the various SUSE locations and especially the current project ideas.

Apple Closes Gap on Samsung in Smart Connected Devices

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CNET

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March 26, 2013

The market, which consists of PCs, laptops, smartphones, and tablets, was driven by growth in tablets, which should outsell desktop PCs this year and laptops next year, according to research firm IDC. [Read more]

Distribution Release: ZevenOS 3.0 “Neptune”

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March 26, 2013

Leszek Lesner has announced the release of ZevenOS 3.0 “Neptune” edition, a Debian-based desktop Linux distribution for 64-bit computer systems with a customised KDE as the default desktop: “The Neptune team is proud to announce the release of Neptune 3.0 ‘Brotkasten’. This release features the Linux kernel 3.8.4….

Oracle’s Big Miss: The End Of An Enterprise Era?

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ReadWrite

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March 26, 2013

For decades the enterprise software industry has grown fat on outsized, upfront license fees coupled with ongoing, high-margin maintenance streams. Cracks in the model have threatened to dismantle the system for years, as reported by The Wall Street Journal back in 2009, with CIOs chafing at paying for low-value, high-cost maintenance.

But if Oracle’s big earnings miss last week is any indication, one of three disappointing quarters over the past two years, the cracks have widened to a chasm. As bellwether for the enterprise software incumbents, Oracle’s miss suggests that the legacy vendors may struggle to adapt to the world of open-source software and Software as a Service (SaaS) and, in particular, the subscription revenue models that drive both.

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Upstart 1.8 Reports File Modifications

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March 26, 2013

Upstart can now monitor files, reporting when certain files are created, deleted or modified. The event daemon also has a graphical monitor to track events that have been initiated.

LLVM/Clang 3.3 Offers Performance Improvements

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March 26, 2013

Recent compiler testing of the latest LLVM/Clang 3.3 SVN code-base has yielded some significant performance boosts for some common C/C++ benchmarks against LLVM/Clang 3.2…

Dell’s Ailing Business and 10 Ways to Restore Its Flagging Fortunes

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eWeek

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March 26, 2013

NEWS ANALYSIS: Dellâ€˜s business is struggling and itâ€™s thrashing about in search of a solution. The company needs to find a solution quickly if it is to survive as an independent IT company.

Reddit Co-Founder Alexis Ohanian Calls Out ‘Fellow Geeks’ for Ostracizing, Sexist Behavior

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The Verge

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March 26, 2013

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Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian has taken to his blog to call out “fellow geeks” — from tech industry employees to Reddit denizens — for the crude responses, death threats, and DDOS attacks that occurred after Adria Richards tweeted a picture of several men who made childish, sexual jokes behind her while at a programming convention. “It could have been an opportunity for a lot of important progress,” Ohanian told The Verge. “I was so upset by the discourse.”

Ohanian evangelizes the value of free speech on the internet, but notes that it’s something that must be used responsibly. “All technology comes down to how we use it,” the Reddit co-founder said. He felt that the Richards situation was poorly handled by those involved, but…