Linux Mint 14 “Nadia”

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August 24, 2012

Linux Mint 14 will be named “Nadia” and should be available at the end of November 2012.

In Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars Trilogy, Nadezhda “Nadia” Chernyshevski is Maya’s best friend.

Nadia is pronounced NAH-d’-yah. It is the English form of Nadya, which itself is the pet form of Nadezhda and is Russian for “hope”. It’s also a variant of Nadiyya which, in Arabic, means “moist, tender, delicate”.

Linux Mint 14 “Nadia” will feature the following editions:

Cinnamon
MATE
KDE
Xfce

Holly Is a Web-Based To-Do Manager for People Who Love the Command Line

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Lifehacker

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August 24, 2012

Click here to read Holly Is a Web-Based To-Do Manager for People Who Love the Command Line

If you’re at home at the command prompt, love your text editor, and you eat key commands for breakfast, Holly is the to-do manager for you. Holly sports impressive features, and all of them are accessible via key commands you already know, no sign-up required. More »

MPlayer2 Patches To Support Wayland

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August 24, 2012

MPlayer2, the fork of MPlayer, now has patches to support this video player while running on Wayland…

Zarafa Collaboration Platform 7.1 Released

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The H

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August 24, 2012

Expanded cluster and backup abilities will improve availability for the groupware solution, which also includes a new version of the Z-Push synchronisation service.

Apple’s Tim Cook Notches First Year as CEO

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CNET

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August 24, 2012

It’s been a year at the helm for Apple’s top executive, who is under more scrutiny than just about any corporate honcho anywhere. [Read more]

Pop Culture References for Open Source Principles

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OpenSource.com

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August 24, 2012

From Nine Inch Nails to Star Trek, open source principles are represented in much of pop culture. Ruth Suehle, community marketing leader for the Fedora Project and moderator of the Life channel at opensource.com, found this to be a great approach to explaining the open source way to people who don’t know much (or don’t want to know much) about its humble beginnings in software.

Opensource.com takes it a step further by writing original content and inviting contributors to share ways that open source is far-reaching—into the areas of business, education, government, health, law, and life.

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Samsung Reveals the Design Story Highlights for the Galaxy S III

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August 24, 2012

Samsung was very keen to let us know that its latest flagship phone was designed for humans. Now, the latest in the revealing series from the firm gives a little more insight into how the team went about that. For example, product designer Hangil Song explains how the rounded edges were inspired by pebbles in a stream, while sound engineer Joongsam Yun describes how they wanted to make the phone sound like a stroll in the forest. So, next time you’re barging your way down Mainstreet with four ounces of synthetic material blaring out Carly Rae Jepsen, remember, you’re doing it wrong.

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Development Release: PC-BSD 9.1-RC1

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August 24, 2012

Kris Moore has announced the availability of the first release candidate for PC-BSD 9.1: “The RC1 images for the upcoming PC-BSD 9.1 are now available for i386 and amd64 architectures. This release candidate provides both users and developers a means to test out new features in the upcoming….

Install Banshee 2.5 In Ubuntu

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Muktware

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August 24, 2012

Banshee team announced the release of version 2.5 a few days ago. The new version now supports better integration with Last.FM, and online social network for music lovers. Music that you listen in Banshee automatically gets updated in your Last.FM profile.

Open-Source Virtualization Management Coming for KVM, Xen and VMware

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ZDNet

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August 23, 2012

If your company runs multiple hypervisors than Convirture’s beta of its open-source virtualization management program, ConVirt Enterprise Cloud, which will add VMware to its KVM and Xen capabilities may be just what you need.

Read more at Enterprise Open Source Toolkit