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Why Linux Mint is a worthwhile Windows XP replacement

  • ZDNet | Linux And Open Source Blog RSS; By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (Posted by bob on Mar 31, 2014 6:51 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Editorial; Groups: Linux, Microsoft, Mint
XP's support life is quickly coming to an end. Fortunately for Windows XP users, there's a Linux desktop--Linux Mint--that has the same look and feel but with far better security and speed.

New Intel Bay Trail-T SoCs target Android tablets

Intel is prepping a new Atom Z37x5 lineup — a family of at least nine Android-ready, quad-core Bay Trail-T tablet SoCs offering better graphics.

The Death of Windows XP Won’t Kill the ATM Industry, or Help Bitcoin

  • CoinDesk; By Nermin Hajdarbegovic (Posted by bob on Mar 31, 2014 12:11 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Linux
This is not as farfetched as it sounds: Linux has a much smaller footprint than Windows 7 and, as a result, some ATM operators are considering a switch to Linux rather than the Microsoft product. This would not be the first time ATMs have transitioned to a different OS. Before the industry moved to XP, most ATM’s were running IBM’s OS/2 operating system.

U.S. Department of Labor applies Creative Commons license to all work created with $150M grant

  • opensource.com (Posted by bob on Mar 30, 2014 10:17 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Creative Commons (CC) actively works to support foundations, governments, IGOs, and other funders who create, adopt and implement open policies. We believe publicly funded resources should be openly licensed resources. To support these and other emerging open policy efforts, CC is about to launch, with multiple global open organizations, an Open Policy Network and Institute for Open Leadership. The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has led the way in using open policy requirements in solicitations for grant requirements first with its Career Pathways Innovation Fund Grants Program,

Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part II, “What’s Happening?”)

  • Fedora Magazine (Posted by bob on Mar 30, 2014 7:02 AM EDT)
  • Groups: Fedora; Story Type: News Story
This is part two of a series based on talks at February at DevConf in the Czech Republic. You should start with Part I,”Why?”, unless you are inclined to just […]

Feds want an expanded ability to hack criminal suspects' computers

The United States Department of Justice wants to broaden its ability to hack criminal suspects’ computers, according to a new legal proposal that was first published by The Wall Street Journal on Thursday.

Hypervisors: The cloud's potential security Achilles heel

  • ZDNet | Linux And Open Source Blog RSS (Posted by bob on Mar 29, 2014 5:41 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Linux, Cloud; Story Type: News Story
A cloud is only as secure as the hypervisors that support its virtual machines and how secure are those? That's a darn good question and one we tend to avoid looking at.

Debian: 2887-1: ruby-actionmailer-3.2: Summary

Aaron Neyer discovered that missing input sanitising in the logging component of Ruby Actionmailer could result in denial of service through a malformed e-mail message.

KDE to Attend Freedesktop Summit 2014

Next week, from Monday the 31st of March to the 4th of April (Friday), developers from the major Linux desktops (GNOME, KDE, Unity and RazorQt) will meet in Nuremberg for the second Freedesktop Summit.

KDE Ships Release Candidate of Applications and Platform 4.13

  • KDE.news (Posted by bob on Mar 29, 2014 12:48 AM EDT)
  • Groups: KDE; Story Type: News Story
KDE has released the release candidate of the 4.13 versions of Applications and Development Platform. With API, dependency and feature freezes in place, the focus is now on fixing bugs and further polishing. We kindly request your assistance with finding and fixing issues. A partial list of improvements can be found in the 4.13 Feature Plan. A more complete list of the improvements and changes will be available for the final release in the middle of April. This release candidate release needs a thorough testing in order to improve quality and user experience. A variety of actual users is essential to maintaining high KDE quality, because developers cannot possibly test every configuration. User assistance helps find bugs early so they can be squashed before the final release. Please join the 4.13 team's release effort by installing the release candidate and reporting any bugs. Read this article to find out how you can help testing. The official announcement has information about how to install the RCs. Dot Categories: KDE Official News

Arduinos, 3D printing, and more at Red Hat open hardware day

  • opensource.com (Posted by bob on Mar 29, 2014 12:01 AM EDT)
  • Groups: Red Hat; Story Type: News Story
The Opensource.com team gathered in one of the large conference rooms at Red Hat tower in Raleigh on March 21 to make an open hardware day of it.

Sticky Tahr-fy pudding: Ubuntu 14.04 is slickest Linux desktop ever

Wait, Canonical actually listened to us? Review The final beta release of Ubuntu 14.04, due in April, is here.…

Consortium aims to build industrial IoT framework

AT&T, Cisco, GE, IBM, and Intel have launched the Industrial Internet Consortium, which aims to define interfaces between IoT devices and cloud services. The five founding members of the Industrial Internet Consortium announced plans for an Internet of Things (IoT) industry group back in August, and have now followed through with a name and a […]

WebScaleSQL: MySQL for Facebook-sized databases

  • ZDNet | Linux And Open Source Blog RSS (Posted by bob on Mar 28, 2014 4:55 PM EDT)
  • Groups: MySQL, Linux; Story Type: News Story
The MySQL Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, and Twitter engineering teams have joined forces to create their own version of MySQL, WebScaleSQL for their monster-sized databases.

Facebook's WebScaleSQL, Cisco investing in OpenStack, and more

  • opensource.com (Posted by bob on Mar 28, 2014 3:13 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Linux; Story Type: News Story
Open source news for your reading pleasure. March 22-28, 2014 In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we look at power management in the new Linux version, the rise of open source CoderDojos, and more.

University course teaches computer-human interaction with open hardware and OSS

  • opensource.com (Posted by bob on Mar 28, 2014 2:25 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Most people think of their interactions with computer systems to occur via a keyboard, mouse, or touchscreen. However, humans evolved to interact with thier environment and each other in much more intricate ways. Bridging the gap between the computational systems of the digital world and the natural world is being studied and tested in the Physical Computing course at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Albany. As a professor of the course, we are currently leveraging a variety of open source software and hardware projects to learn about fundamental core concepts with hands-on experiences and implementation of open source tools. On the software side, we use an open-source IDE (Arduino Sketch) and develop 3D printer designs using OpenSCAD. On the open source hardware portion of the course, we utilize the Arduinos and the PrintrBot Simple.

Free ebook tackles Android on x86

Intel and Apress have released a free 380-page ebook called “Android on x86: an Introduction to Optimizing for Intel Architecture.” The “Android on x86″ announcement refers to the ebook as “a one-stop reference guide to mindful programming” of Android applications using x86 platforms. Presumably, un-mindful hackers who’ve never quite mastered the Lotus Position will get […]

Bletchley Park code-breaker Jerry Roberts dies, aged 93

Raymond "Jerry" Roberts - one of the last of a top World War Two codebreaking team at Bletchley Park - has died, aged 93, following a short illness. Capt Roberts, from Liphook, Hampshire, was part of a group that cracked the German High Command's Tunny code at the British codebreaking centre.

Running GNOME 3.12 on Fedora 20.

  • Fedora Magazine; By Ryan Lerch (Posted by bob on Mar 28, 2014 6:22 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Fedora, GNOME
The GNOME Project recently announced the release of GNOME 3.12. This new version of GNOME provides updated versions of many of the core GNOME applications (notably, gedit, the GNOME text editor), as well as improvements to GNOME Shell.

GNOME 3.12: Pixel perfect ... but homeless

  • The Register; By Scott Gilbertson (Posted by bob on Mar 28, 2014 2:33 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: GNOME
When the GNOME 3.x desktop arrived it was, frankly, unusable. Fast-forward three years and while GNOME 3.12 – released Wednesday – still isn't the infinitely customisable experience of GNOME 2.x, not only has the GNOME Shell progressed by leaps and bounds but it now makes for a stable, productive desktop environment.

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