January 2014
A look at ROSA Fresh R2 LXDE Edition
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Friday 31st of January 2014 09:46:32 PMHowever, in recent times the Russian company has introduced a new desktop lineup called ROSA "Fresh". This desktop version is intended to be, as the name suggests, fresher in terms of software versions and therefore features etc whilst aiming to maintain stability and a good solid user experience and more than just KDE and Gnome versions have been made available.
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OpenSSH 6.5 released
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Friday 31st of January 2014 09:37:48 PM Filed under

This is a feature-focused release. New features: * ssh(1), sshd(8): Add support for key exchange using elliptic-curve Diffie Hellman in Daniel Bernstein's Curve25519. This key exchange method is the default when both the client and server support it.
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FreeBSD Open-Source OS Comes to the PC-BSD Desktop
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Friday 31st of January 2014 09:33:19 PM Filed under
Linux isn't the only open-source operating system, and it isn't the only one with both server and desktop components either. The FreeBSD Project is one of the earliest open-source operating system projects, with roots connecting it to the original open-source BSD Unix work performed at the University of California at Berkeley. On Jan. 20, FreeBSD 10 debuted, providing server users with multiple performance and virtualization improvements. While FreeBSD itself could potentially be used as a desktop system, the PC-BSD open-source project is the home base for FreeBSD as a desktop operating system.
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An Intel Galileo Walkthrough
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Friday 31st of January 2014 09:27:03 PM Filed under

“Galileo” is software compatible with Arduino’s IDE, the operating system is a GNU/Linux distribution, which “runs” on the board only processor. The Arduino sketches are run as processes in the user space of the GNU/Linux operating system. The available IDE compiles the sketches in “.elf” format, an executable binary format, originally developed by UNIX System Laboratories and commonly used in GNU/Linux.
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It Pays To Sell GNU/Linux
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Friday 31st of January 2014 08:04:06 PM Filed under
For years I have watched the web-stats for GNU/Linux languish in Mexico. No longer. In the summer of 2013, retailers, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Acer and Canonical got together in Mexico and sold PCs.It does pay to have actual salespeople and retail shelf-space. Obviously the PCs are selling. I hope other countries get going on this, mine, for instance…
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Linux Video of the Week: Sailfish Mobile OS Updates
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Friday 31st of January 2014 08:02:46 PM Filed under
Jolla's Linux-based Sailfish project released its first handset in Finland this past November to favorable reviews. Since then the Meego-derived mobile operating system has publicized a few small, but interesting updates, including a new IRC client and a demo of the OS running on a Nexus 4 (watch the videos, below.)
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RT-enhanced Linux stack aims at comms gear
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Friday 31st of January 2014 07:55:44 PM Filed under
Like Enea Linux 3.0, the new Enea LWRT focuses on real-time Linux support. Enea LWRT is primarily aimed at cellular base stations and media gateways that require real-time features like determinism, minimal interrupt latency, and high throughput, says the company. The solution is said to be optimized for integrating Linux with Enea’s OSEck.
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Review: Pinguy OS 13.10 Beta 3
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Friday 31st of January 2014 07:47:19 PM Filed under
The desktop is mostly the same as before, so I won't dwell on that for too much. The Axe Menu, which essentially brought the Linux Mint Menu to GNOME 3/Shell, is sadly gone, replaced by the slightly less nice GnoMenu. There is a Conky system monitor sitting on the top-right of the desktop background that also displays the date and time. Docky gives a dock on the bottom that has been expanded to full width, but for some reason it shows an opaque background until the desktop background changes (after which point the Docky background becomes fully transparent). On the whole, the desktop works decently well.
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GNOME's Virtual Filesystem Reaches Version 1.19.5
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Friday 31st of January 2014 07:38:35 PM Filed under
GVFS 1.19.5 sets etag::value for FTP, sets infinite timeout for enumerate response for daemon, removes GVfsUriMountInfo, forces openpty(3) on BSD for SFTP, rates limit progress callbacks for daemon, and properly removes socket_dir for gvfsdaemon.
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Moonlight: Yet Another Linux Desktop Environment
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Friday 31st of January 2014 07:30:17 PM Filed under
Moonlight is a project still in its early stages and likely will fade away like the many other third-party desktop environments with limited manpower and scope. Moonlight Desktop is trying to be a lightweight desktop for the Raspberry Pi and other low-powered, low-end, old devices -- similar in scope to Xfce, LXDE, Enlightenment, etc. They really don't seem to be far along at all right now and are still working towards an appearance for their desktop.
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| Red Hat Hires a Blind Software Engineer to Improve Accessibility on Linux Desktop
Accessibility on a Linux desktop is not one of the strongest points to highlight. However, GNOME, one of the best desktop environments, has managed to do better comparatively (I think).
In a blog post by Christian Fredrik Schaller (Director for Desktop/Graphics, Red Hat), he mentions that they are making serious efforts to improve accessibility.
Starting with Red Hat hiring Lukas Tyrychtr, who is a blind software engineer to lead the effort in improving Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Fedora Workstation in terms of accessibility.
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