Linux Mint 14 “Nadia” Released

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November 20, 2012

The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 14 â€œNadiaâ€.

Linux Mint 14 Nadia

For the first time since Linux Mint 11, the development team was able to capitalize on upstream technology which works and fits its goals. After 6 months of incremental development, Linux Mint 14 features an impressive list of improvements, increased stability and a refined desktop experience. Weâ€™re very proud of MATE, Cinnamon, MDM and all the components used in this release, and weâ€™re very excited to show you how they all fit together in Linux Mint 14.

Bottomley: Adventures in Microsoft UEFI Signing

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LWN

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November 20, 2012

James Bottomley’s UEFI bootloader signing experience is worth a read…still a few glitches in the system. “Once the account is created, you still can’t upload UEFI binaries for signature without first signing a paper contract. The agreements are pretty onerous, include a ton of excluded licences (including all GPL ones for drivers, but not bootloaders). The most onerous part is that the agreements seem to reach beyond the actual UEFI objects you sign. The Linux Foundation lawyers concluded it is mostly harmless to the LF because we don’t ship any products, but it could be nasty for other companies.“

Review: Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal a Mix of Promise, Pain

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ArsTechnica

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November 20, 2012

Tux shares a perch with Ubuntu 12.10's namesake bird Aurich Lawson / Thinkstock

Write this down: Ubuntu 12.10, the late-year arrival from Canonical’s six-month standard release factory, marks the first new release within the company’s current long-term support cycle. Got it? Good, because it may be the best takeaway from the latest Ubuntu release, codenamed Quantal Quetzal. After that, it’s a bit of a rocky ride.

The product’s development lineage is important to note from more of a business/adoption side perspective. The release of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS in April was Canonical’s fourth long-term support product and signaled the end of one full two-year development cycle. Quantal Quetzal is the first standard release on the road to pushing out Ubuntu 14.04 LTS in Spring 2014 (undoubtedly to be codenamed “Uber-rocking Unicorn” if the pattern holds), and it sets up themes and directions which will mature over the next two years.

Standard releases aren’t terribly different from the bi-annual LTS products, though they tend to be slightly less conservative in code offerings. The Ubuntu development community lets off the brakes a little and sticks some shiny back in.

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Development Release: Siduction 12.2.0 RC1

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DistroWatch

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November 20, 2012

Ferdinand Thommes has announced the availability of the first release candidate for siduction 12.2.0, a desktop Linux distribution based on Debian’s unstable branch and featuring four desktop environments – KDE, LXDE, Razor-qt and Xfce: “We are happy to present the first release candidate of siduction 2012.2 – ‘Riders….

HP Earnings Reel from Autonomy ‘Accounting Improprieties’

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CNET

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November 20, 2012

For its fourth quarter, Hewlett-Packard records a charge of $8.8 billion in its software unit, which had “serious accounting improprieties…and outright misrepresentations” when HP bought it. [Read more]

Patent Trolls Come Under US Antitrust Authority Scrutiny

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The H

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November 20, 2012

Cisco, Nokia and Intellectual Ventures will be taking part in informal US Department of Justice and FTC hearings on how non-practising entities, aka patent trolls, distort competition in technology markets.

Sony Coaxes Indie Vita, Android Developers with $99 SDK

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The Register

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November 20, 2012

Beta goodbye; Vita good buy?

Sony has launched an indie-focused portal for developers that includes access to the now-out-of-beta PlayStation Mobile software development kit.…

Kindle Fire HD 8.9 Teardown: A Samsung Tablet By Another Name?

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Gizmodo

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November 20, 2012

Click here to read Kindle Fire HD 8.9 Teardown: A Samsung Tablet By Another Name?

With its little brother having already spilled its guts, it was always going to be interesting to see how the new 9-inch Fire compared. Turns out it owes an awful lot to Samsung. More Â»

Firefox for Android 17 Expands Device Support

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The H

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November 20, 2012

Version 17.0 of Mozilla’s mobile web browser adds support for the older ARMv6 processor architecture, allowing it to run on millions of additional Android-based devices. The update also brings several other improvements.

Distribution Release: Zorin OS 6.1 “Educational”

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November 20, 2012

Artyom Zorin has announced the release of Zorin OS 6.1 “Educational” edition, an Ubuntu-based distribution for schools: “The Zorin OS team has released Zorin OS 6.1 Educational, the education-oriented version of our operating system designed for Windows users making the switch to Linux.