Apple Dominates Tablet Market in Q2 with 70 Percent Share

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August 14, 2012

The next-place company, Samsung, was only able to muster a 9.2 percent share during the period, according to iSuppli. [Read more]

McRae: Are We Removing What Defines Arch Linux?

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LWN

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August 14, 2012

Allan McRae defends recent and planned changes to the Arch Linux distribution. “The module control is more complex. Right… because ‘rc.d start foo’ is much simpler than systemctl start foo’. I think the real criticism people are trying to express is that the rc.d way of doing things is more traditional Arch. But have you looked at the quality of scripts in /etc/rc.d? It is generally poor. Moving to systemd unit files instead will be an advantage as they are much more simple to write and can be pushed to the upstream packages.“

Kicking Off a Year of Open Source Everything

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Lifehacker

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August 14, 2012

Click here to read Kicking Off a Year of Open Source Everything

Berlin filmmaker Sam Muirhead is attempting to live a completely open source life for one year. Here’s why.More Â»

Ubuntu 12.10 Is Faster With Intel Hardware

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August 14, 2012

While benchmarks have already indicated ARM performance improvements in Ubuntu 12.10, early testing of this “Quantal Quetzal” release has also revealed that Intel hardware is benefiting too from performance optimizations for this Linux operating system update due out in October.

Android Is Winning

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TechCrunch

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August 14, 2012

The latest numbers are in: Android is on top, followed by iOS in a distant second.

This word comes from Gartner, a top research firm for these sorts of things. Overall, within the last quarter, Android outsold iOS devices nearly three to one while capturing 64% of the worldwide market share. Samsung was the top dog accounting for 90M handset sales.

There is no denying Android’s dominance anymore. There is no way even the most rabid Apple fanboy can deny that iOS is in second place now. Android is winning.

This report by Gartner looked at the second quarter smartphone sales. That pegs the date range from April to June, which admittedly was a high point for Android while iPhone sales were starting to cool down. The Samsung Galaxy S III launched in late May, likely accounting for a good chunk of Samsung’s haul. It was a great quarter for Android and Samsung.

Gartner’s Q1 report notes similar rankings with Samsung and Android on top, too. At that time, Samsung had just overtaken Nokia as the top worldwide seller of mobile devices. Android was hovering around in the mid fifty percent range in the market share pie, and Apple had its second best iPhone quarter ever with 33M units sold (Apple sold 37M in the previous quarter). But now we have a clearer image and Android is securely positioned at the top of the mobile mountain.

New Open Source Calligra Suite Release Enhances ODF Document Support

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ComputerWorld

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August 14, 2012

Calligra has published the second stable release of its open source suite that includes word processing, spreadsheets and a sketching program.

oVirt 3.1 “Narrows Gap” With Proprietary Virtualization

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The H

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August 14, 2012

With new capabilities such as capturing and cloning live snapshots and added hotplug capabilties, the new release of the open source oVirt virtualization management platform gets that much closer to its proprietary competitors.

BackTrack 5 R3 Adds Tools for Arduino and Teensy Attacks

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The H

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August 14, 2012

The lastest release of the security-oriented Linux distribution adds over 60 new tools to its collection. For the first time, it also includes tools for “physical exploitation” through Arduinos and other development boards

Features Coming Up For Xen 4.2 Virtualization

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Phoronix

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August 14, 2012

Xen 4.2 will be released in the near future for this one of the leading virtualization platforms available for Linux. Xen 4.2 is packing in a number of new features…

A Second Look Needed for HPC as a Service

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insideHPC

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August 14, 2012

Over at Scalablilty.com, Joe Landman writes that “As-A-Service” (AAS) models do a good job of lowering up-front costs, there is are a number of other factors to consider when looking at Cloud HPC.

One of the more painful aspects to the AAS models are customer experiences. We’ve got lots of customers whom are interested in high performance on their systems (or they wouldn’t be talking to us). Many start out telling us how some other system is better performance (at least on paper). And a few months down the road of using it, they realize it really isn’t better performance. Its much worse. We’ve had customers try this on various cloud vendor’s gear, telling us how much better it was, then come back later and say “lets build a private cloud.” Fads suck. They waste time/effort/resources. They slow projects down. Unfortunately, fads are hype magnets. HPC as a service is not a fad. But with all the hype around AAS models, its pretty close to being tarnished by similar failures.

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