October 2016
Slovakia: 40% ICT systems to use open source by 2020
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Monday 31st of October 2016 10:05:50 PM Filed under
By 2020, 40% of public administration ICT systems in Slovakia should use open source software. The target for open source is part of the country’s ICT architecture, which was updated in September.
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FreeBit, KazTransCom and Turkcell adopt Red Hat OpenStack Platform to improve agility, flexibility and efficiency
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Monday 31st of October 2016 08:48:10 PM Filed under
Red Hat, Inc. a provider of open source solutions, reports that communications leaders from around the world, including FreeBit, KazTransCom and Turkcell have deployed Red Hat OpenStack Platform, a highly scalable Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solution, as the foundation for their modern cloud initiatives.
In a world driven by the growth of digital services, new devices, and massive user numbers, communications leaders around the world are modernising their infrastructures to support advanced cloud services and improve the speed at which new services can be created.
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Ubuntu vs ChromeOS Work Flows
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Monday 31st of October 2016 08:36:34 PM Filed under

In recent months, I've had the opportunity to dive into work flows between your typical Chromebook and an Ubuntu-based PC. This article will offer a comparison of the different work flows between the two Ubuntu and ChromeOS. We'll examine common work flows like printing, scanning, word processing, email, among other tasks.
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Kanika Murarka: How do you Fedora?
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Monday 31st of October 2016 08:27:02 PM Filed under
Murarka first got involved with Fedora after meeting Sumantro Mukherjee. Sumantro, who was a Red Hat intern, told her about the pathway to to contribute to Fedora. She then started to contribute to Fedora Quality Assurance (QA). Kanika would like to see the participation of women in Fedora grow. She would like to help bring SIGs to universities that help women become contributors to Fedora. Kanika was impressed with how easy it was for “new contributor to get involved in the Fedora Project.” Murarka describes the Fedora community as “one of the most diverse community projects”.
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Linux 4.8.6
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Monday 31st of October 2016 08:22:15 PM Filed under
I'm announcing the release of the 4.8.6 kernel.
All users of the 4.8 kernel series must upgrade.
The updated 4.8.y git tree can be found at:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-4.8.y
and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web browser:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-st...
Also: Linux 4.4.29
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VMware brings Linux VDI out of obscurity with Horizon for Linux
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Monday 31st of October 2016 08:19:46 PM Filed under
VMware takes advantage of Sun Microsystems' loss by bringing the once-niche Linux VDI out of the shadows and into the sun with Horizon 7 for Linux.
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If Linux never was: Imagining an alternate reality without Linux
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Monday 31st of October 2016 08:13:45 PM Filed under
What would the world look like right now—all these years later—if Linux were never created? What would our daily lives look like? What actual, real-world impact would the simple act of a penguin not biting a Finnish man have on the lives of people on the other side of the world?
Well, as luck would have it [ahem], we happened to gain access to a (totally real) set of posts from the FriendFace account of a man living in an alternate universe that bears a striking resemblance to the one we just described. I present those to you now—unedited. You’re welcome.
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The (updated) history of Android
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Monday 31st of October 2016 07:57:39 PM Filed under
Android has been with us in one form or another for more than eight years. During that time, we've seen an absolutely breathtaking rate of change unlike any other development cycle that has ever existed. When it came time for Google to dive in to the smartphone wars, the company took its rapid-iteration, Web-style update cycle and applied it to an operating system, and the result has been an onslaught of continual improvement. Lately, Android has even been running on a previously unheard of six-month development cycle, and that's slower than it used to be. For the first year of Android’s commercial existence, Google was putting out a new version every two-and-a-half months.
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What Is Linux Kernel?
Submitted by Mohd Sohail on Monday 31st of October 2016 07:55:44 PM Filed under
So Linux is 25 years old now. The Linux kernel was created by a Finnish student named Linus Torvalds in 1991 who at the time was a 21-year-old computer science student at the University of Helsinki, Finland . On 25 August 1991, Torvalds posted the following to comp.os.minix, a newsgroup on Usenet-
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Games for GNU/Linux
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Monday 31st of October 2016 04:37:43 PM Filed under
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Some thoughts on 'Prison Run and Gun', a retro puzzle platformer on Steam that fans of the genre will enjoy
Prison Run and Gun was a game I discovered because of an IndieDB giveaway, and I kept an eye on it since then, waiting for the right moment to play it. Considering it currently is on sale (60% off), I decided to finally try it.
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'The Little Acre', a great looking adventure game with hand-drawn animations releases next month
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'Clouds & Sheep 2', throwing sheep around and keeping them happy, an amusing kids game
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Space Wars: Interstellar Empires, a turn-based tactical strategy MMO is coming to Linux next year
The MMO genre is something Linux doesn't really have a lot of games in, so I am pleased every time I hear about one coming. Space Wars: Interstellar Empires [Official Site] is a turn-based tactical strategy MMO that will launch in January 2017 with Linux support.
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'The Last Leviathan', a physics-based, ship building and destruction adventure game in Early Access for Linux
'The Last Leviathan' [Steam, Official Site], a physics-based, ship building and destruction adventure game recently released for Linux. It looked seriously fun, so I gave it a go and here are some thoughts.
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Septerra Core, an rpg from 1999 is another Wine-port from Topware Interactive
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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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