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Nearly all of the X.Org/Wayland coverage from last week’s FOSDEM 2012 event is available on Phoronix. There’s one other Phoronix point to make from FOSDEM 2012… For those that don’t know, openSUSE is in the beer business. Yes, the Linux project does really sell openSUSE beer. In Brussels this last weekend I was first made [...] LAN parties offer the enjoyment of head to head gaming in a real-life social environment. In general, they are experiencing decline thanks to the convenience of Internet gaming, but Kenton Varda is a man who takes his LAN gaming very seriously. His LAN gaming house is a fascinating project, and best of all, Linux plays [...] Very few of the large, noncommercial distros are failing, observed blogger Robert Pogson. However, “from [Mandriva's] early days as Mandrake, the ‘insider club’ that paid to use Mandrake for ‘extras’ made the organization dependent on constant growth and the generosity of users. That is hard to sustain, and the cost of advertising and payroll are [...] The 3.0.20 and 3.2.5 stable kernel updates have been released. They are single-patch updates containing the fix to the ASPM-related problem that would significantly increase power consumption on some systems. This patch has been treated with some care: it seems to work, but nobody really knows if it might cause behavioral problems on some obscure [...] Jonathan Riddel recently announced that Canonical is stopping the funding of Kubuntu project. Jonathan wrote, “Today I bring the disappointing news that Canonical will no longer be funding my work on Kubuntu after 12.04. Canonical wants to treat Kubuntu in the same way as the other community flavors such as Edubuntu, Lubuntu, and Xubuntu, and [...] We’re publishing an initial version of the Ubuntu Business Desktop Remix today, based on Ubuntu 11.10. Deployment teams have long been modifying their Ubuntu installs to remove features like music players or games and add components that are a standard part of their business workflow. This remix takes the most common changes we’ve observed among [...] February 9th, 2012 Security Support for Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 terminated on February 6th ——————————————————————– One year after the release of Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 alias “Squeeze” and nearly three years after the release of Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 alias “Lenny” the security support for the old distribution (5.0 alias “Lenny”) came to an end a few days [...] More busy than busy bees, we’re once again here to announce the immediate availability of Sabayon 8 in all of its tier-1 flavours. If you really enjoyed Sabayon 7, this is just another step towards World domination. Letting bleeding edge and reliability to coexist is the most outstanding challenge our users, our team, is faced [...] LinuxDevices’ publisher, Ziff Davis Enterprise, has been acquired by a Californian company — as yet undisclosed, but rumored to be Foster City-based QuinStreet. Future plans for the site have not yet been announced … At this point, the future of LinuxDevices.comis uncertain. What we can say for sure is that it has been a pleasure [...] Today I bring the disappointing news that Canonical will no longer be funding my work on Kubuntu after 12.04. Canonical wants to treat Kubuntu in the same way as the other community flavors such as Edubuntu, Lubuntu, and Xubuntu, and support the projects with infrastructure. This is a big challenge to Kubuntu of course and [...] Softpedia is proud to introduce today, February 7th, a new Linux distribution, called Comice OS, which is actually a redesigned version of the Pear OS Linux. Remember Pear OS? It’s that Mac OS looking (see screenshots below) Ubuntu-based operating system introduced last year on our Linux section. Well, it looks like David Tavares, the developer [...] KDE is fast becoming the favorite of GNU/Linux users. At least that’s what I have been witnessing in my circle. I can’t say about others but I am currently running Gnome Shell 3 and KDE on my main machines. Gnome Shell 3 and KDE While Gnome Shell is on a development highway and we can [...] The following Linux-based operating systems have been announced last week: Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.4, Clonezilla Live 1.2.12-10, DEFT Linux 7, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Alpha 2 and Linux Mint 12 KDE. Softpedia Linux Blog news includes articles about Wine 1.4 RC2, Ubuntu 12.10 Developer Summit, KDE Telepathy 0.3, Spark, PS3 Media Server 1.50.1, Frugalware 1.6 RC2, OpenShot [...] Accompanying the release of Netrunner 64bit version, we released the 4.1 version for 32bit with the following changes compared to 4.0: – switched to Hybrid ISO – Kernel 3.0.0.15 – KDE 4.7.4 (latest stable) – Muon 1.2.95 – kde-gtk-config module for easy gtk2+gtk3 configuration under KDE – several bugfixes, including system freezes during automatic update [...] This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Reviews: I dream of Linux – Dreamlinux 5 News: Red Hat introduces 10-year support, Texstar takes leave of absence, Mint banks on Cinnamon Questions and answers: Revisiting Ubuntu market share numbers Released last week: Linux Mint 12 “KDE”, PCLinuxOS 2012.2, DEFT Linux 7…. Read more at DistroWatch Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 251 for the week January 30 – February 5, 2012. == Links to UWN == * Wiki page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue251 == In This Issue == * Precise Pangolin Alpha 2 Released! * Developer Week: Summaries Days 1-3 * The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Needs You! * Ubuntu 12.04 Development update [...] The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 12 KDE. Linux Mint 12 KDE New features at a glance: KDE 4.7.4 Hybrid ISO images Search engines Upstream components For a complete overview and to see screenshots of the new features, visit: “What’s new in Linux Mint 12 KDE“. Release notes: Moonlight Upstream [...] Welcome to this year’s third issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * Update for Debian 6.0: 6.0.4 released * Bits from the Release Team * Bits from the piuparts maintainers * Report from Debian Med sprint * Setting up a new school with Debian Edu/Squeeze * [...] The PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the February 2012 issue of the PCLinuxOS Magazine. The PCLinuxOS Magazine is a product of the PCLinuxOS community, published by volunteers from the community. The magazine is lead by Paul Arnote, Chief Editor, and Assistant Editor Meemaw. The PCLinuxOS Magazine is released under the [...] PCLinuxOS KDE and KDE-MiniME 2012.02 are now available for download. These are 32bit quarterly update isos which can also be installed on 64 bit computers. Release Date: 02-02-2012 KDE Full Version (pclinuxos-kde-2012.02.iso) Size: 690 MB Md5Sum: a226a2efb68f0cef4ae6dfe137f479ca Produced by: Texstar and Pinoc User Level: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced Release date: 02-02-2012 KDE Mini Version (pclinuxos-kde-minime-2012.02.iso) Size: [...] | |||||
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