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Making Sense of Mandriva Linux Foundation

A picture is worth a thousand words, as the saying goes. The picture below is not an org chart about a foundation’s governance, but it is rather an attempt at describing how the project will work and what it will aim at. It displays the general logic of  contributions, by and for the community but also integrates what will be external products meant to be sold by companies that are based on the software development and packaging done inside the foundation.

As usual, your feedback is welcome.

Google Plans to Ease the Android Update Problem

Google has announced a second attempt at solving the Android update problem. It will provide manufacturers with a Platform Development Kit to help them port new Android versions to their devices

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Android Jelly Bean Won’t Get Flash Player

As part of the slow death of Adobe’s Flash Player, the company has announced it won’t be making a certified version for Android’s new 4.1 OS – aka Jelly Bean.…

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AMD Catalyst 12.6 For Linux Disappoints

Following the changing of the Catalyst release schedule and dropping old hardware support, Catalyst 12.6 for Linux has been officially released. However, it’s already disappointing some Linux binary driver users…

 

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Gnome 3.6 Will Get Power Off Button

Gnome 3.6 will bring back the power-off or shutdown option as default in the Gnome Shell user menu.
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Ubuntu 12.04 Samba Standalone Server With tdbsam Backend

Ubuntu 12.04 Samba Standalone Server With tdbsam Backend

This tutorial explains the installation of a Samba fileserver on Ubuntu 12.04 and how to configure it to share files over the SMB protocol as well as how to add users. Samba is configured as a standalone server, not as a domain controller. In the resulting setup, every user has his own home directory accessible via the SMB protocol and all users have a shared directory with read-/write access.

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Gummiboot is an EFI Boot Loader That “Just Works”

Red Hat employees Kay Sievers and Harald Hoyer have announced a new EFI-only boot loader for Linux systems. The tool needs no configuration file and is completely user space independent

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Ubuntu 12.10 Alpha 2 Comes With Linux 3.5 Based Kernel

The second alpha 2 of Ubuntu 12.10 comes with a kernel based on the in-development Linux 3.5 kernel

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Ubuntu Adoption Grew Up to 160% In India Last Year

 
Ubuntu grew 160% last year in Indian markets. This is a rough statistics based on distro downloads, security updates and number of devices sold pre-installed with Ubuntu.
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Red Hat Announces Four Hybrid Cloud Products

Red Hat has announced four open source products for operating hybrid clouds, including one for setting up your own OpenShift PaaS

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