Mozilla to Sharpen Its Focus on Open Gaming in 2013

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January 2, 2013

Here on the first day of 2013, it’s already very clear that this year will be a banner year for open source gaming, what with players like Valve and Ouya poised to deliver game platforms based on open source tools. Mobile phones and tablets have also become havens for games, though, (think of Angry Birds) and it’s clear that Mozilla wants to woo game developers for its upcoming Firefox OS mobile operating system.

In late December, Mozilla held its Game On competition, which invited hackers to contribute their best ideas to new games designed to work on any device, anywhere. Mozilla has also launched a mailing list dedicated to community games.

“Come show us what’s possible using the web as an open gaming platform and create game prototypes for the Mozilla Game On Competition,” said the Game On announcement. The only rule for the competition was that games had to be built to run in modern browsers…Read more at Ostatic

Resolve to be more open in 2013

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January 2, 2013

How do you resolve to be more open in 2013?

Contribute to an open source project

Take an open source course

Be an open source mentor

Recommend open source books to friends

Other (tell us in the comments)

It’s a new year, with new opportunities for the open source way to change and innovate life, education, government, business, health, and law. For each of us as individuals, 2013 is a chance to resolve to be more open…Read more at OpenSource.com

FreeBSD Moves Along On ARM Support

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January 2, 2013

While Linux continues to move along quite briskly on ARM hardware support and already has 64-bit ARM AArch64 support, that’s not the case in the BSD world. With FreeBSD, they’re still working on bringing up ARMv6 support and pulling in support for the different ARM SoCs/boards…

Distribution Release: Parsix GNU/Linux 4.0r1

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January 2, 2013

Happy new year! The honour of the first release announcement of 2013 goes to Parsix GNU/Linux, a distribution based on Debian’s testing branch and featuring the GNOME 3 desktop: “The updated 4.0r1 version has been synchronized with Debian’s testing repositories as of December 29, 2012 and brings lots….Read more at DistroWatch

Ubuntu teaser counts down to January 2nd launch, hints at touch-based OS

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January 2, 2013

“So close, you can almost touch it.” The Ubuntu home page is currently dominated by a banner with that teaser, along with a clock counting down to 8AM ET on Wednesday, January 2nd. Our guess is that the pre-CES announcement may focus on mobile, with a touch-friendly interface possibly on the horizon. During a Slashdot Q&A in December, Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth clued readers in on the company’s plans to bring the OS to mobile devices, including smartphones and tablets, as part of a strategy to familiarize desktop users with the Linux-based operating system. While this week’s announcement may fall in line with that objective, it’s likely to be just one part of the equation, with 14.04 LTS not set to launch until April 2014 at the earliest. Either way, we have more than a day to go before Ubuntu’s mystery is unveiled, so tune your browser to the source link below to join in on the countdown fun….Read more at Engadget Mobile

The year GNOMES, Ubuntu sufferers forked off to Mint Linux

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December 31, 2012

It’s been a rough year for Linux on the desktop. More specifically, it’s been a rough year for GNOME-based Linux on the desktop. But a glimmer of hope may have appeared thanks to a Mint-flavoured distribution of the open-source operating system.

KDE, XFCE and other desktop interfaces soldiered on in 2012 in their stolid ways, while GNOME 3, Gnome Shell and Ubuntu’s GNOME-derived Unity desktop largely succeeded in turning the Linux world upside down, though perhaps not in the way they intended.

This year marks the first time many GNOME users were forced to face up to the unpleasant realisation that the community does not directly control the direction of development. The GNOME team is in charge as is Canonical, the maker of Ubuntu.

To be a GNOME or Unity user today is to be a pawn in a larger fight for…Read more at The Register

Henry Newman’s Top Ten Storage Predictions for 2013

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insideHPC

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December 31, 2012

Over at Enterprise Storage Forum, Henry Newman from Instrumental is out with his Ten Storage Predictions for 2012, and his last one is more of plea for reason.

The industry really needs more than POSIX (open/fopen, read/fread,write/fwrite) and more than simple REST put/get interfaces for data in the future. Neither has the richness to address the myriad of polices that are needed in our future world. I predict that there will finally be some honest discussion about this amongst the customers that need it and the vendors that could create it. Maybe this should be my request to Santa. I have tried to encourage this discussion for years and I have gotten no traction…Read the Full Story…Read more at insideHPC

The Most Popular Linux Hardware Of 2012

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Phoronix

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December 31, 2012

Here’s a look at some of the most popular PC components for Linux users this year.

Similar to The Most Popular Linux Benchmarks Of 2012 article that was published earlier today, by leveraging the vast amount of hardware/software data being continuously collected and analyzed on OpenBenchmarking.org in conjunction with the Phoronix Test Suite, posted on this page are some of the most common PC hardware components that were spotted this calendar year. With the hardware being quite common to Linux systems, the support for the listed hardware should be in fairly good shape.

These lists are generated based upon those running the Phoronix Test Suite who opted to have their anonymous software/hardware details uploaded to OpenBenchmarking.org Analytics. The lists are sorted by popularity while being refined to remove any virtualized and non-Linux components.

Top 2012 Linux Graphics Processors:

– Intel HD 2500/4000 “Ivy Bridge” (Gen7)
– Intel Core IGP (Gen5)…

BSD Release: FreeBSD 9.1

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DistroWatch

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December 31, 2012

FreeBSD 9.1 has been released: “The FreeBSD Release Engineering team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE. This is the second release from the stable/9 branch, which improves on the stability of FreeBSD 9.0 and introduces some new features. Some of the highlights: new Intel GPU….Read more at DistroWatch

Gnome Extension Shows Ubuntu How To Do Shopping Lens Right

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Muktware

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December 31, 2012

Now, Gnome Shell is also getting online shopping lens. Alen Bell has created a Gnome Shell extension which allows a user to conduct online shopping search right from Gnome’s Dash.