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I'm delighted to announce the release of UberStudent 4.1 "Epicurus", Xfce Enduser Edition!
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Friday 16th of January 2015 09:00:07 PM Filed under

UberStudent is a Linux distribution for everyone, especially higher education and advanced secondary students, people who teach them, and their schools. It is designed for Linux beginners while being equally satisfying to advanced users.
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Moving steam's .local folder deletes all user files on Linux
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Friday 16th of January 2015 08:28:32 PM Filed under


Failing to add a check for an empty variable has left some Steam users on Linux running a recursive delete of their entire filesystem with user privileges.
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SparkyLinux 3.6-dev2 LXQt + KWin
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Friday 16th of January 2015 11:20:30 AM Filed under

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Torvalds Only Cares about the Kernel
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Friday 16th of January 2015 04:56:55 AM Filed under
Linus Torvalds is back in the news today after his keynote speech at Linux.conf.au. ArsTechnica.com covered the Q&A session with some of Torvalds most notable quotes. In other news, Phoronix.com previews GNOME 3.16 and Clement Lefebvre today announced new tiny PC "MintBox Mini." Lastly, Nick Heath covers Munich's Linux trials and travails.
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Linus Torvalds on why he isn’t nice: “I don’t care about you”
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Friday 16th of January 2015 01:26:08 AM Filed under
Following his keynote speech at the Linux.conf.au Conference in Auckland, New Zealand, Torvalds opened a Q&A session by fielding a question from Nebula One developer Matthew Garrett that accused Torvalds of having an abrasive tone in the Linux kernel mailing list. "Some people think I'm nice and are shocked when they find out different," Torvalds said in response (quoted via multiple Twitter accounts of the event). "I'm not a nice person, and I don't care about you. I care about the technology and the kernel—that's what's important to me."
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Tizen Leftovers
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 15th of January 2015 08:13:01 PM Filed under
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Samsung debuts its first Tizen phone — the Z1– in India
After much expectation and many false starts, Samsung finally launched the Tizen-based “Samsung Z1″ smartphone into India’s vast and rapidly growing market.
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Samsung brings Tizen to India: Does it stand a chance against Google?
After a string of rumours and amidst much fanfare, Samsung finally launched its first Tizen phone in India dubbed Z1. This time around, it’s the software that’s being talked about instead of the specs or design. And, why not? With Tizen, Samsung is trying to take on its long-time partner Google.
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The Intel Tizen Compute Stick?
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Samsung Unveils Smartphone Powered by Android Rival Tizen
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Samsung targets India with smartphone in bid to cut Android ties
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Gen-2 SmartThings hub will run Tizen
The SmartThings hub was a great home automation hub, and now it is time for the next version, the upgraded model with new new sensors, battery backup, optional cellular, and premium services … oh and it will be running Tizen.
When Samsung first acquired SmartThings, the company told of its plans to move from an embedded RTOS (real-time operating system) to Linux, which we hoped at the time was Tizen as it kinda made sense at the time. Now a SmartThings rep has told LinuxGizomos that “We will be moving to Tizen over time.”
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MintBox Mini: Compact Linux Mint PC coming soon for $295
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Thursday 15th of January 2015 06:53:51 PM Filed under
The MintBox Mini is a small form-factor desktop computer that comes with Linux Mint software preloaded. If the computer looks familiar, that’s because it’s a version of CompuLab’s fitlet, a line of small, fanless desktops introduced this week.
What makes this model a little different is that it’ll have a green case and come preloaded with the popular Linux Mint operating system.
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Tails 1.2.3 is out
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 15th of January 2015 05:54:44 PM Filed under



On January 3rd, the SSL certificate of our website hosting provider, boum.org, expired. This means that if you still are running Tails 1.2.1 or older, you will not get any update notification. Please help spreading the word!
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World record set for 100 TB sort by open source and public cloud team
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 15th of January 2015 05:39:54 PM Filed under



In October 2014, Databricks participated in the Sort Benchmark and set a new world record for sorting 100 terabytes (TB) of data, or 1 trillion 100-byte records. The team used Apache Spark on 207 EC2 virtual machines and sorted 100 TB of data in 23 minutes.
In comparison, the previous world record set by Hadoop MapReduce used 2100 machines in a private data center and took 72 minutes. This entry tied with a UCSD research team building high performance systems and we jointly set a new world record.
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The Companies That Support Linux: Micron Technology Inc.
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 15th of January 2015 05:34:09 PM Filed under
Storage industry technologies are undergoing a major shift and operating systems must evolve to keep pace with the change. That's one reason why Micron Technology, a global leader in advanced semiconductor systems including DRAM, NAND and NOR Flash, recently joined the Linux Foundation as a corporate member.
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