today's leftovers
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Are Chromebooks a danger to open source software?
Chromebooks have proven to be extremely popular devices, with many getting rave reviews on Amazon from very satisfied customers.
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Chromebooks Just Outsold Windows Laptops For the First Time
US Business-to-business (B2B) sales* of notebooks running Google’s Chrome OS passed 50% between June and early July 2015, with overall education season sales up almost 40% over the same period last year.
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Hulu Now Using Flash + DRM, Linux Users Ignored
Hulu is an American streaming service that provides users with a selection of TV shows, movies, and pretty much anything in between. The online company was using Flash for the service, but now they have added a new layer of DRM and Linux users are no longer able to use it.
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Danish Meteorological to Install First Cray in Iceland
...high performance and tightly integrated Cray Linux...
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CA Inc (NASDAQ:CA) Joins Linux Foundation
The project is designed to create a collaborative environment among top industry leaders and academic institutions to drive both improvements and enterprise innovation on the mainframe. The project will initially focus on reinforcing four key areas: scalability, availability, performance and security.
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LinuxCon Day 3 recap: Linus Torvalds, kernel interns, and the Internet Archive
On the final day of LinuxCon North America 2015, Linux Foundation Executive Director Jim Zemlin welcomed a "surprise" guest, Linus Torvalds, to the stage for a brief Q&A session. Zemlin read quotes from a recent article about Torvalds, The creator of Linux on the future without him, which said, "Torvalds may be the most influential individual economic force of the past 20 years." Torvalds jokingly responded, "I love open source and how all the credit goes to me," but then he explained that the power he has over the Linux kernel is just the power to say no—he doesn't actually write the code anymore.
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KDE Applications 15.08 Arrives with 107 Apps Ported to KDE Frameworks 5
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A Touch of Plasma in the Mountains
These are but a few things the KDE contributors are going to focus on in Randa. All in all there should be something for everyone to get behind and support.
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KDE Applications 15.08 - Kontact Suite Technical Preview and Dolphin 5
Today KDE released KDE Applications 15.08, the collection of more than 150 applications. This release features the Kontact Suite and Dolphin ported to KDE Frameworks 5.
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Post GUADEC
GUADEC 2015 was a lot of fun, from preparation till the conference happening. I gave a lightning talk on my work on Polari, a talk on GNOME’s release videos and a talk at FOSSGBG on my experience getting started in GNOME.
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Thanks, Gothenburg!
GUADEC is the GNOME project’s primary annual event, held every year in a different European city. This year, it was the turn of Gothenburg, Sweden. The conference brought together contributors, enthusiasts and partners from around the world for three days of talks, followed by three days of workshops (called “Birds of a Feather” sessions). It ran between the 6th and 12th of August.
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Antergos Now Sports an Awesome and Much Improved Installer
Antergos is a Linux distribution based on Arch Linux that follows the same rolling release model. Its developers have just released a new version of the Cnchi installer, which has made some great progress.
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IPFire 2.17 Open-Source Firewall Disables TRIM for Buggy SSDs to Prevent Data Loss
The IPFire development team, through Michael Tremer, had the great pleasure of announcing the release and immediate availability for download of the Core Update 93 for the open-source IPFire 2.17 firewall software.
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jemalloc-4.0.0 for fedora and epel
There are a few fedora packages that rely on jemalloc. If you have a chance to help testing, please recompile and test the package against the updated version. You can leave comments here, or send me a mail.
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Manjaro Linux 2015.08 KDE-Next Screenshot Tour
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Linux Mangaka Koe - Screencast and Screenshots
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Manjaro KDE-Next Uses a Flat and Beautiful Version of KDE Plasma 5.4 Beta
Manjaro developers have released a version of their distro powered by the latest KDE Plasma 5.4, which is still in development stages. The results are very interesting and offer a polished and very different desktop.
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Huawei, Red Hat complete multi-vendor test in heavy traffic NFV situations
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There's a better way to run a company
In June, author and Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst appeared on an episode of theCUBE, where he shared his thoughts on leading an open organization and the future of organizational decision making. Below is a video of that appearance—on Wednesday, June 24, 2015—along with a transcript of the conversation for the first six and a half minutes. This is a transcription.
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Red Hat Inc (NYSE:RHT) Business Summary
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Media Alert: North Carolina Technology Association's Thought Leaders Series to Feature Keynote Presentation by Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst
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GSoC Pencils Down
Google Summer of Code 2015 has come to an end. And yes I am satisfactory to a certain level that I have produced something tangible and all of you are able to access it which is deployed in Openshift. And here is the link: http://askbotfedoratest-anuradhaw.rhcloud.com. The github repository which contains the code is here: https://github.com/anuradha1992/askbotfedoratest. We are planning to merge the code with the repo at https://github.com/fedoradesign/askbot-test so that others can also use it and build upon it.
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Call for release goal: package reconsideration
Every package maintainer should remove one of their packages from the archive.
It's dead simple. It is acceptable to adopt a package to replace the one that has been removed, or to add a new one to the archive.
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Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition Snapdeal, Aquaris E5 Ubuntu Edition Snapdeal, Price, specifications
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BQ Aquaris E4.5 & E5 Smartphones with Ubuntu OS Launched in India
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Aquaris E4.5, E5 Ubuntu Edition smartphones launched in India
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Aquaris E4.5 and E5 Ubuntu Editions debut in India with Snapdeal
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Aquaris E4.5 And E5 Ubuntu Edition Announced In India
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Aquaris E4.5, Aquaris E5 Ubuntu Edition all set to launch in India
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Aquaris E4.5, Aquaris E5 Ubuntu Editions launched in India, prices start from Rs 11,999: Specifications, features
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Aquaris E4.5 and Aquaris E5: First Ubuntu-powered smartphones launched in India
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Aquaris E4.5 and E5 Ubuntu Editions to be available in India via Snapdeal
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BQ Aquaris E4.5, Aquaris E5 HD with Ubuntu OS launched in India
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Spanish handset maker BQ announces India’s first Ubuntu smartphone
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BQ Aquaris E4.5, Aquaris E5 HD Ubuntu Edition Smartphones Launched in India
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Spain's BQ to launch Ubuntu OS smartphones in India
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First Ubuntu-powered smartphones launched in India
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Aquaris E4.5, E5 Ubuntu phones launched in India, challenge Google's Android
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Bq Aquaris E4.5 and E5 Ubuntu Editions to Launch in India via Snapdeal
Canonical has just announced that Aquaris E4.5 and E5 Ubuntu Editions will launch in India through Snapdeal, which is the biggest online marketplace in that country.
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Ubuntu 15.10 To Ship With Gnome's Overlay Scrollbars By Default
With Ubuntu 15.10 (currently in development, to be released on October 22), Unity will stop using its original overlay scrollbars for GTK3 apps and switch to Gnome's scrollbars instead.
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It’s here! Ubuntu phones finally debuting in India
Android, iOS and Windows Phone are usual culprits within the mobile space in India but over the years we have seen options like Firefox, Tizen and Sailfish trying their luck. And now, there's a new entrant into the market and the geeks might be familiar with this name i.e. Ubuntu.
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Ubuntu Touch OTA-6 Update Will Bring An Updated Unity 8, Updates For the Messaging App And Many Other Awesome Changes
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Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf Has Adopted GCC 5.x As The Default System’s Compiler
As you may know, Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf has finally managed to make the transition to GCC 5.x, the same change being already implemented on Ubuntu Touch.
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Ubuntu Touch Has Received Convergence Improvements
As you may know, Canonical’s end game is to make Ubuntu the first mobile-desktop convergent system available on the OS market. In order to achieve that, they are working at a new display server called Mir, porting the Unity 8 interface, currently available on Ubuntu Touch, to Ubuntu desktop and created the snappy packages, which are enhanced click packages.
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The Ubuntu Touch OTA-6 Update Has Reached Feature Freeze
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You Can Still Win an Ubuntu Phone, Here's What You Have to Do
We reported two weeks ago that Canonical launched a new contest for Ubuntu fans who want to win an Ubuntu phone device and many other goodies, which should have been ended on August 17, 2015.
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Xubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf To Get A New Panel Layout Switcher
According to a Launchpad bug report, a new application, called Xfce Panel Switch, should be included by default with Xubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf. The package is currently in the Wily new queue.
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The CinnXP Theme Makes Your Linux Mint Cinnamon Look Like Windows XP
As you may know, CinnXP is a theme for Cinnamon that makes the system look like Windows XP. Despite the fact that Windows XP is dead, it is still used on old systems and a lot of Linux distributions try to mimic its design.
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