Android 4.x Now on 42% of Devices

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February 7, 2013

The latest Android numbers indicate it will only be a few months before Android 4.x takes over as the dominant version of Android, finally ousting Android 2.3 from its long held stronghold.

FreeBSD 9.1: LLVM/Clang Battling GCC

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Phoronix

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February 7, 2013

With LLVM/Clang having become the default FreeBSD x86 compiler as of last year and the recent FreeBSD 9.1 release shipping not only LLVM/Clang but also the libc++ library, new benchmarks were carried out of FreeBSD 9.1 looking at its two stock compilers.

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LibreOffice 4.0 Released With Immense Changes

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Phoronix

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February 7, 2013

The Document Foundation announced the release of LibreOffice 4.0 this morning…

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Intel’s Linux DRM Driver Plans For 2013

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Phoronix

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February 7, 2013

Daniel Vetter of Intel’s Open-Source Technology Center talked this weekend about recent and future improvements being worked on for the company’s open-source DRM graphics kernel driver…

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KDE 4.10 Review: Time To Switch To KDE

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Muktware

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February 7, 2013

This is an important release for the KDE user-base as it not only brings massive performance enhancements but also introduces many new features.

A List of Open Source Software Options from OSS Watch

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OpenSource.com

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February 7, 2013

I’m always on the lookout for open source software I might not already know about. I actually keep my own list on Delicious so that when people in workshops approach me and ask me for an open source alternative to the proprietary software they’re using, I can recommend something.

So, when I saw OSS Watch recently published a list of open source options for education, I had to peruse it.

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Ubuntu Powered Smartphones Coming This October

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Muktware

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February 7, 2013

The first Ubuntu smartphones maybe out this October.

Mesa Threading Support Is Slow, Still Being Developed

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Phoronix

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February 7, 2013

One of the ways that Intel has been trying to make their Mesa driver faster is through proper threading support, but for now the support is unfortunately slower while the code is still being actively developed…

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Tablets Rising: Apple No.1, Samsung No. 4 ‘PC Makers’

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CNET

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February 7, 2013

It’s not just smartphones — Apple and Samsung are leading the charge in PCs, which include tablets, according to market researcher Canalys. [Read more]

More than 1 in 8 Android Devices Run ‘Jelly Bean’

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ZDNet

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February 6, 2013

While it’s good news for Google, with at least five different flavors of Android still in use, the problem of fragmentation isn’t going to go away any time soon.

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