Xen 4.3 Is Running Heavy On New Features

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February 12, 2013

Xen 4.3 is expected to be released in June of this year. While the developers working on this virtualization platform are only half-way through its development cycle, they already have an impressive number of features that are coming into this next open-source release…

Raspbmc Turns the Raspberry Pi Into a Media Centre

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February 12, 2013

The first stable release of the XBMC 12 based, open source media centre distribution turns the Raspberry Pi into an HD capable entertainment centre that can be installed without previous Linux experience.

In An Era Of Clang, Portable C Compiler Isn’t Beloved

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February 12, 2013

It’s going on two years since the release of PCC 1.0, but there hasn’t been any follow-on Portable C Compiler release nor is there much public-facing development activity happening…

Samsung’s Open Innovation Center Aims at Startup Innovation

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CNET

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February 12, 2013

The company announced the launch of its Open Innovation Center yesterday with designs on bringing better software products to its devices. [Read more]

Pitt: umockdev: Record and Mock Hardware for Debugging and Testing

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LWN

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February 12, 2013

Martin Pitt introduces umockdev, a device simulation library. “The umockdev-run program builds a sandbox using libumockdev, can load *.umockdev and *.ioctl files into it, and run a program in that sandbox. I. e. it is a CLI interface to libumockdev, which is useful in the ‘debug a failure with a particular device’ use case if you get the text dumps from a bug report.“

iPad to Face Greater Challenges for Market Share, Says Analyst

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CNET

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February 12, 2013

The iPad will see increasing competition not just from 7-inch tablets but potentially from new touch-screen Ultrabooks, forecasts a Citi analyst. [Read more]

Ernst & Young: Cloud, SaaS Dominating Tech Industry Aquisitions

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ZDNet

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February 12, 2013

The overwhelming priority for mergers and acquisitions appears to be centered around cloud computing and Software-as-a-Service, based on a new report from Ernst & Young.

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eScholar’s Mike Gargano: Nothing Can Stop Open Source

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LinuxInsider

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February 12, 2013

eScholar’s only business is helping state and local education agencies get the best bang for their buck from collecting and using educational data to drive better school performance results. That sometimes involves helping its customers work with data gleaned from a variety of commercial and open source enterprise databases. Other times, it becomes a task performed by eScholar’s own in-house software solutions built around open source code.

Distribution Release: ROSA 2012 “Desktop Fresh GNOME”

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DistroWatch

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February 12, 2013

Konstantin Kochereshkin has announced the release of ROSA 2012 “Desktop Fresh GNOME” edition, a desktop-oriented Linux distribution with GNOME 3.6.2: “ROSA community members have prepared a variation of the ROSA Desktop Fresh 2012 operating system with the GNOME desktop environment. Traditionally, original versions of ROSA Desktop operating system…

Google Summer of Code 2013 Announced

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February 12, 2013

Organisations, mentors and, most importantly, students are being called on to get ready for this year’s Google Summer of Code as Google funds students to work on a wide range of open source projects.