DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 367

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August 16, 2010

This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Feature: Application review — Imagination and cpulimit News: Counting Ubuntu OEM installs, FreeBSD conferences, Patching a running kernel the easy way Questions and answers: Virtual Post Office Released last week: Peppermint, BackTrack, VectorLinux, Salix OS Upcoming releases: Fedora 14 Alpha Reader comments Read more in this week’s issue….

Intel, Nokia tout MeeGo as inclusive alternative to Android

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ArsTechnica

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August 16, 2010

During the annual LinuxCon conference last week in Boston, Linux Foundation executive director Jim Zemlin moderated a discussion panel about the Linux-based MeeGo platform with Nokia’s MeeGo Ecosystem Development head Thomas Miller and Intel open source technologist Derek Speed. During the panel, Miller and Speed discussed some of the technical and logistical characteristics that differentiate MeeGo from other mobile platforms.

The MeeGo project was launched earlier this year when Intel and Nokia brought together their respective mobile Linux platforms in a combined effort to reduce fragmentation and offer device vendors a standardized platform. The MeeGo platform is endorsed by the Linux Foundation, which has taken on a stewardship role with the aim of facilitating collaboration around the software. Although the underlying software components on which MeeGo is based are relatively mature and functional, the convergence process is still ongoing.

Google calls Oracle’s lawsuit an attack on open source Java

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August 16, 2010

Google says Oracle’s lawsuit is baseless and an attack on open source Java, while Java luminaries examine the merits of the case

Vi IMproved 7.3 Released w/ Fixes + New Features

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Phoronix

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August 16, 2010

Marking the end of two years of development is the release of Vim (Vi Improved) version 7.3. While this is considered a minor release of Vim, there are a handful of new features along with many bug-fixes…

jQuery Mobile Project announced

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August 16, 2010

The jQuery Project developers have announced the launch of the jQuery Mobile project, a new project for a cross-platform mobile version of their JavaScript framework

Main development phase for Linux kernel 2.6.36 concluded

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August 16, 2010

AppArmor, Fsnotify, built-in support for Turbo Boost on newer Intel mobile processors and a KMS driver for the latest GeForce graphics cards are some of the more significant changes in Linux kernel 2.6.36, scheduled for release in October

Green chip start-up gets $48 million in funding

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August 15, 2010

Silicon start-up Smooth-Stone seeks to use the power thriftiness of ARM processors to reduce the energy consumption at large data centers.

Smooth-Stone Aims to Make Low-Power Chip

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August 15, 2010

A start-up wants to modify low-power smartphone chips to run servers, the computers in corporate data centers. If successful, it would undermine Intel’s server-chip juggernaut.

Read more at New York Times

openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 136 is out!

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Sascha Manns

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August 14, 2010

We are pleased to announce our new Issue 136 of openSUSE Weekly News.

This Week:

* KDE bug team asks for help on Friday 13th
* Andrew Wafaa: oSC10 – Conference Update
* h-online/Thorsten Leemhuis: Kernel Log: 2.6.36 development and new stable kernels and drivers
* IBMDeveloperWorks/Roderick W. Smith:Resizing Linux partitions, Part 1: Basics
* Novell Now Offers SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 & 11 on Amazon Web Services

Like ever we have now finshed just the english Version under: http://en.opensuse.org/Weekly_news. From now on starts

the translating Process. You can see the actual results under: http://en.opensuse.org/Weekly_news#Translations. If any

Translation is ready the Translation Team moves the Language up to “Available”.

No we hope you enjoy the reading 🙂

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Resizing Linux partitions, Part 1: Basics

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August 13, 2010

Several tools exist to Resizing Linux partitions, but there are a number of potential pitfalls and restrictions that can make the task more difficult than it might at first seem. This article guides you through the task of resizing Linux partitions, beginning with basic preparations and moving on to common resizing scenarios using graphical user interface (GUI) tools.