Stable CyanogenMod 10 Builds Arrive, Give Devices an Unofficial Taste of Jelly Bean

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November 13, 2012

The very first CyanogenMod 10 builds surfaced while Jelly Bean was still extremely fresh in our memories. The passions around Google’s new OS might have cooled months down the road, but that doesn’t diminish the impact now that the first stable CM10 builds are here. Four (relatively) safe versions have arrived for devices that are either just getting their official Android 4.1 builds or were never destined to get one in the first place: support for the Samsung Galaxy S III in Sprint and Verizon editions is a natural fit, but both the LG Optimus Black and Samsung’s Galaxy S II Skyrocket are making their own unofficial leaps. More devices should be coming down the road once any teething bugs are ironed out. You’re still taking your own risks by going with a custom ROM, but it may be worthwhile for CM10 if perks like a root-friendly file manager or an expanded desktop are too tempting.

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Citrix Is Preparing Cloud, A Relaunch Of The Cloud.com Service It Bought In 2011 For $200M+

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November 13, 2012

Cloud services are where the action is for enterprise IT companies right now, and Citrix, which bought the open source, cloud-computing platform Cloud.com for upwards of $200 million in 2011 (getting a killer domain name in the process), wants to be at the vanguard of that trend. It’s now preparing to launch a new service at the domain, which will simply be called “Cloud” (minus the dot-com). It has put up a placeholder at Cloud.com with a sign-up for “early access and pleasantly infrequent updates” for what it is describing as a “new Cloud on the horizon.”

It’s not clear at this point whether this will be a completely new product (one guess from TNW is a new home for Project Avalon), to compete against the likes of VMWare, Amazon, Oracle and Salesforce. On the other hand, it could simply be a relaunch of the services that existed at Cloud.com before the old page was taken down. The change was first brought to our attention by Fusible, which had a screenshot of how the page looked last week.

Distribution Release: Peppermint OS Three

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November 13, 2012

Kendall Weaver has announced the release of an updated build of Peppermint OS Three, a lightweight Linux distribution with Openbox, based on Ubuntu 12.04: “We’re proud and happy to announce the first re-spin of Peppermint Three in both 32-bit and 64-bit editions. The downloads are live now via….

Intel Pushes Their Linux-Friendly Xeon Phi

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November 13, 2012

In addition to NVIDIA and AMD announcing new high-end server/workstation GPUs to coincide with this week’s SuperComputing SC12 conference in Salt Lake City, Intel has announced new details and release information on their Xeon Phi co-processors…

70 Leading HPC Apps Add Support for Nvidia GPUs

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November 13, 2012

This week Nvidia announced that 70 more widely used applications have added support for GPU acceleration so far this year, bringing the total number available to researchers, engineers and designers to more than 200.

GPU computing first gained momentum among researchers who could download CUDA to accelerate their own applications for scientific discovery and research,â€ said Addison Snell, chief executive officer of Intersect360 Research. â€œWe are now in a new era where more commercial software is GPU-optimized, providing accelerated options across the full spectrum of engineering and business computing.â€

Galaxy Nexus And Nexus 7 Owners: You Can Manually Update To Android 4.2 Jelly Bean Now

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November 13, 2012

Google will be delivering Android 4.2 updates to owners of its Galaxy Nexus and Galaxy 7 devices over-the-air, and likely very soon, but if you’re just not able to wait, there’s a way to update manually right now using firmware downloads found on Google’s servers. You’ll need to have the GSM version of the Galaxy Nexus for this to work, and any version of the Nexus 7 tablet.

This doesn’t necessarily have to be that difficult, as the official ROMs you’ll need are readily available on Google’s servers. You can grab the one for the Galaxy Nexus here, and pick up the version for the Nexus 7 here. Installing both still does require dealing with some potentially intimidating backend tinkering, however, so if you’re not that comfortable or you haven’t used a tool like ClockworkMod’s ROM manager before, you may want to hold off until Google gets things served up the easy way.

Jelly Bean 4.2 is an incremental update from Jelly Bean 4.1, and brings a number of features, including a new photo sphere panorama style software camera, multiple user accounts on tablets, a new quick settings section, improved Google Now, Miracast support and more. The update should be delivered to the Nexus family of devices sometime in the next couple of days.

Should There Be A Unified BSD Operating System?

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November 13, 2012

There’s a call for unification of the four largest *BSD operating systems in a move to create a “unified BSD” with the best features in order to better compete with GNU/Linux.

Fourth Haiku Alpha Includes QR-Enabled Debugging

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November 13, 2012

After over a year of development, the open source BeOS-inspired operating system Haiku sees a new release that brings over 1000 bug fixes and many improvements. QR codes in the debugger also make bug reporting easier.

Development Release: GhostBSD 3.0-RC3

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November 13, 2012

Eric Turgeon has announced the availability of the third release candidate for GhostBSD 3.0, a FreeBSD-based operating system for the desktop with GNOME or LXDE: “The third release candidate of GhostBSD 3.0 now supports GNOME 2, LXDE and Openbox desktops and it is now available for testing.

OpenSUSE Board Election 2012

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November 13, 2012

This years openSUSE Election Committee is in the pleasant position to announce the 2012 Board elections[0].

The timeline we decided for this year election is the following:

November 13th (Phase 0)
– Announcement of the openSUSE Board election for 2012.
– Start of 2 week period to apply for an openSUSE membership (in order to vote).
– Start of 2 week phase to stand for a position in the openSUSE Board.

November 27th
– Notification of intent to run, and application for an openSUSE membership close (end of phase 0).

November 28th (Phase 1)
– Start of 1 week campaign for the candidates before the ballots open (campaign might be done until ballots close)…