Antergos 17.9 Gnome - Ghost riders in the Tux

Antergos 17.9 is a weird distro, full of polarities. It comes with a weak live session, and it does not really demo what it can do. The installer is good, robust, and if offers some neat tricks, including extra software and proprietary graphics driver. I'm really impressed by that. The installed system behaved reasonably, but with some oddities. Hardware support isn't the best, most notably touchpad and what happened after waking from suspend. On the other hand, you get good smartphone and media support, a colorful and practical software selection, a moderately reasonable package manager with some tiny dependency hiccups, pretty looks, okay performance, and nowhere does it advertise its Archness. Much better than I expected, not as good as it should be. Well, taking everything into consideration, I guess it deserves something like 7.5/10. Antergos needs a livelier live session, more hardware love out of the box, and a handful of small tweaks around desktop usability. Shouldn't be too hard to nail. Worth watching.

LibreELEC (Krypton) v8.1.2 BETA

This is the third beta for our 8.2 release. It addresses minor findings related to the Samba bump: we now detect and avoid invalid Samba v3 configurations, old samba.conf.sample templates are overwritten with the new v4 template, and remote SMB shares are mounted using SMB2 or where possible SMB3. The release also adds support for the Raspberry Pi IQAudIO Digi+ board and a Xiaomi BT remote, and includes security fixes for the Blueborne Linux/BlueZ vulnerability. This is hopefully the final 8.1.x beta release; next will be 8.2.0.

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Red Hat: Microsoft Blobs, Being Red Hat, Red Hat Patents, and Imminent Financial Results (RHT)

• Microsoft and Red Hat strengthen alliance with SQL Server on Linux

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux, or RHEL, will be a reference platform for SQL Server 2017, which has been fully tested for performance, security and reliability. Benchmarks performed by Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Co. found that SQL Server 2017 actually ran faster on Linux than on Windows, with a lower overall cost of ownership.

• Red Hat is pretty good at being Red Hat

  Today I attended Red Hat’s European analyst day at the Tate Modern art gallery. Here are some of thoughts based on what I heard. So it turns out Red Hat is pretty good at being Red Hat. By that I mean Red Hat sticks to the knitting, carries water and chops wood, and generally just does a good job of packaging open source technology for enterprise adoption. It’s fashionable these days to decry open source – “it’s not a business”. Maybe not for you, but for Red Hat it sure is. Enterprises trust Red Hat precisely because it makes open source boring. Exciting and cool, on the other hand, often means getting paged in the middle of the night. Enterprise people generally don’t like that kind of thing.

• Red Hat updates its open source patent promise

• Red Hat (RHT) 2nd Quarter Earnings: What To Expect

• Red Hat, Inc. (RHT) registers a price change of -0.51% while Rambus Inc. (RMBS) finishes with a flow of -2.32%

• Red Hat, Inc. (NASDAQ:RHT) Expected To Report Earnings On Monday

• Imagination Technologies, Red Hat, MabVax Therapeutics Holdings and more - AFTER HOURS

• In-Depth Technical Analysis: Zoe’s Kitchen, Inc. (ZOES), Red Hat, Inc. (RHT)

• The Important Messages From Red Hat, Inc. (RHT) and Snap Inc. (SNAP) Have Been Divulged By Its Data