The Raspberry Pi: One Year Since Launch, One Million Sold

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March 1, 2013

The folks who built the Raspberry Pi knew they had a great idea, but they probably didn’t anticipate just how successful it would be. The Raspberry Pi Foundation today is celebrating the computer’s first birthday, a million devices sold, and countless DIY and programming projects completed.

The credit card-sized, ARM-based computer was released on Feb. 29, 2012 and can be purchased for $25 or $35 depending on the model. In a blog post titled “Happy birthday to us!” foundation community manager Liz Upton wrote that today is “as near as we can get [to the anniversary date]; we launched on a leap day last year. We’re going to have a really great party in 2016.”

Announcing Oracle Linux 6.4

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March 1, 2013

The Oracle Linux team is pleased to announce the availability of Oracle Linux 6.4, the fourth update release for Oracle Linux 6. The individual RPM packages have already been published from our public yum repository and ISO images will soon be available from the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud. Oracle Linux 6.4 includes new features and improvements, most notably a new version of the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel. For further details, please see the Oracle Linux 6.4 Release Notes.

MWC 2013: New Buzzword is M2M

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ZDNet

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March 1, 2013

At this week’s Mobile World Congress, machine-to-machine is the new wave of the wireless revolution which involves getting devices to talk with other devices, with no humans in between.

Read more at Enterprise Open Source Toolkit

OpenStack: Common Questions People Ask

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Muktware

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March 1, 2013

For those who need to know about cloud computing Wikipedia has detailed description.

Twitter Open Sources Java Streaming Library Hosebird

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March 1, 2013

Twitter has open sourced a Java library for accessing its Streaming API that supports OAuth and automatic reconnections with appropriate wait periods. Twitter says it has been “battle-tested in production” and provides usage examples.

The 2013 Case for Open Mobile Devices–from Phones to Tablets

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March 1, 2013

Firefox OS developer phones

In a post a few weeks ago, I discussed the impending arrival of a slew of mobile phones based on Firefox OS and Ubuntu, and we’ve seen a few of these show up now, like the Firefox OS phones seen here. There are many concrete signs that we are going to see heavy competition among open mobile operating systems this year. But we aren’t just going to see phones based on them.

Many people are excited about Ubuntu Touch, which Canonical has delivered in a tablet version. And, it turns out that both Firefox OS phones and Ubuntu Touch tablets were seen at the Mobile World Congress show this week, with Ubuntu Touch qualifying as the most exciting thing out of the conference, according to CNet.

Google Launches Zopfli, A Better Zip Compressor for Static Content

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ZDNet

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March 1, 2013

The venerable DEFLATE algorithm just got better thanks to a new open-sourced project from Google, but it is not without its costs.

Read more at Enterprise Open Source Toolkit

VMware: “If Amazon Wins, We All Lose”

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March 1, 2013

Someone has a problem, and it doesn’t appear to be Amazon. In a somewhat shocking declaration, VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger told a group of VMware partners that if “a workload goes to Amazon, you lose, and we have lost forever,” as reported by CRN. This is true so far as it goes: the more enterprises move applications to the public cloud, the less need they have for VMware’s technology, or for other datacenter-bound infrastructure.

But where Gelsinger really tips his hand is addressing why he wants to keep customers out of the public cloud:

Distribution Release: OS4 13.3

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March 1, 2013

Roberto Dohnert has announced the release of OS4 13.3, an updated version of the project’s Xubuntu-based desktop Linux distribution: “Today we are pleased to announce the update of OS4 OpenDesktop. OpenDesktop is the leading provider of cutting-edge Linux desktop technology to the masses. With this release we encompass…

Why Google Built the Pricey, Powerful Chromebook Pixel

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CNET

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March 1, 2013

With Chrome OS foundering, the company needed to take a bold step to kick-start its cloud vision. [Read more]