today's leftovers
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NeoKylin, a Linux OS which looks like Windows XP is now China’s “Official” OS
China has developed an operating system “NeoKylin”, a Linux based OS for its users as a replacement to long used Windows XP.
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64-bit ARM Is Becoming Usable For Day-To-Day Linux Desktop
If you're lucky enough to find some capable 64-bit ARM (AArch64) hardware, the latest open-source Linux packages are working out well in the 64-bit ARM world for providing a decent Linux desktop experience.
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U.S. Tech Companies Cozy Up to China
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Dell Reportedly Shipping Ubuntu-Based Linux On 40%+ Of PCs In China
A report in the Wall Street Journal states, "Han Naiping, chief executive of China Standard Software, said that Dell became the first Western brand to make personal computers running his company’s NeoKylin operating system after they began a partnership in the second half of last year. Mr. Huang said 42% of Dell’s computers sold in China now run NeoKylin."
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Alien: Isolation's Linux and Mac system requirements appear from the shadows
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Yes, It Looks Like Alien Isolation Is Coming Soon For Linux
With this week's release of Catalyst 15.9 for Linux the change-log mentioned a fix for Alien: Isolation... The only problem is, it's not publicly released yet for Linux.
There's many wanting the game for Linux but there hasn't been an official announcement yet. Since the Catalyst 15.9 release notes mentioning Alien: Isolation, which have since been redacted on the AMD site, many Phoronix readers have written in with excitement.
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Clutter 1.24 Fixes Support For Embedding It In Other Toolkits
Clutter 1.24.0 was released today in time for the upcoming release of GNOME 3.18.0.
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Cinnamon 2.8 to Feature a Better Sound Applet with Media Controls
After announcing the visual workspace switcher applet, Clement Lefebvre, the lead developer of the Linux Mint and Cinnamon projects, had the great pleasure of announcing the new and improved sound applet of the upcoming Cinnamon 2.8 desktop environment.
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OpenMandriva Launches Gaming Portal to Help Users Install Windows Games
OpenMandriva's Kate Lebedeff had the great pleasure of announcing a new portal for Linux gamers who install the OpenMandriva Lx GNU/Linux operating system and want an easy way of playing their favorite Windows games.
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OpenSUSE 42.1 "Leap" Now In Beta
Announced this morning was the much anticipated beta of openSUSE 42.1 "Leap".
Today's openSUSE Leap Beta has changes to GRUB, Plymouth, and other packages. Found currently in openSUSE Leap is the Linux 4.1 kernel, KDE Frameworks 5.13, XDM 1.1.10, and more.
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openSUSE Leap 42.1 Beta Based on Linux Kernel 4.1 LTS
The openSUSE Project announces openSUSE Leap 42.1 Beta operating system has been released and is now available for download and testing.
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Absolute Linux 14.12 Is One of the Few Slackware Distros Still Maintained
There aren't too many Linux distributions out there that still use Slackaware as the base and that's a real shame. It used to be a lot higher in the user preferences, but it sort of faded away in the past few years. Absolute Linux is probably the only one that still managed to get some exposure in the news, but only because it's upgraded quite often, although not as often as we'd like.
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How Fedora monitors upstream releases
Have you updated your Fedora system recently? Hopefully you do this regularly. Updates fix various bugs and even add new features to your most loved applications. An update, to our users, is generally a notification from the Software application. If you’re an advanced user and prefer the command line, the process is simple:
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Debian/TeX Live 2015.20150917-1
Most importantly the fix for unicode-math that was broken for a short time, and for the Japanese users it seems that the LaTeX3 packages have gained support for upTeX. Good to hear.
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Debian To Stop Spinning New CD ISOs
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Reproducible builds: week 22 in Stretch cycle
The following 22 packages became reproducible due to changes in their build dependencies: breathe, cdi-api, geronimo-jpa-2.0-spec, geronimo-validation-1.0-spec, gradle-propdeps-plugin, jansi, javaparser, libjsr311-api-java, mac-widgets, mockito, mojarra, pastescript, plexus-utils2, powerline, python-psutil, python-sfml, python-tldap, pythondialog, tox, trident, truffle, zookeeper.
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Debian 8, Linux 3.18 Now Available For The MIPS CI20
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Reproducible builds: week 20 in Stretch cycle
The sensationalist “How Debian Is Trying to Shut Down the CIA” got started a few rants here...
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Semplice Linux 2015.2 Is Out, Based on Debian GNU/Linux 8.2 and Linux Kernel 4.1.7 LTS
The development team of the Debian-based Semplice Linux distribution has announced earlier today, September 18, the release and immediate availability for download of the Semplice for Workstations 2015.2 operating system.
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