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The following Linux-based operating systems have been announced last week: Chrome OS Linux 1.8.1017. In other news: The openSUSE Project announced the official release schedule for the upcoming openSUSE 12.2 operating system; Spain’s Extremadura administration announced that they will move 40,000 PCs to Debian Linux; the KDE Project announced the release of KDE Software Compilation [...] As I noted earlier in the week, my recent blog posts have been slowly leading up to something, and here’s what that something is: The first tablet computer that comes with Plasma Active pre-installed. It’s name is “Spark”, in recognition of it being the start to an even bigger flame. It sports an open Linux [...] Last week we talked about how to design covers for books – eBooks, soft cover books and hard cover books. If you’ve written a book, or are thinking of writing one, odds are good that you’ve already spent some time thinking (or worrying) about what the covers of your book should look like. But how [...] Cloud infrastructure was always meant to be based on open standards, and organisations that choose to buy capacity from public clouds that only support one standard are creating problems for themselves in the future, according to Ubuntu creator Canonical. “All the world’s biggest clouds are built on open source technology,” said Canonical’s vice president Chris [...] Almost two years have gone by since we released Wesnoth 1.8. To thank you for more than 5 million downloads via sourceforge.net, we now proudly present Wesnoth 1.10. You can look at the (translated) release notes to get an idea about what has changed since 1.8. For those who just want to play, the new [...] Timothee Bessett, the id Software developer that was responsible for porting many of id Software’s popular games like Doom 3 and Quake 4 to Linux, has resigned from the popular game company. On his blog Timothee Bessett (also known as “TTimo”) just had a brief statement posted yesterday regarding his resignation from id Software. “I [...] HP announced a roadmap for its Linux-based WebOS operating system, which will be released under an open source Apache 2.0 license in September. HP also released an Apache-licensed version 2.0 of its Enyo Javascript development framework for WebOS, adding cross-platform app development across Android, iOS, and desktop browsers. HP announced in early December that it [...] Sure, Linux is great for big organizations like Google, Facebook, and others, but what about small business? Take a look at PrintedArt. Founded in 2010, PrintedArt is an online shop that sells limited-editions of fine art photography. It now has three full-time and three part-time employees and eight sales representatives. According to President and CEO [...] 3079 is a futuristic and open-world first-person role playing game for Linux. The game is a mix of Minecraft and Fallout style gameplay. Minecraft because of its blocky graphics and art and Fallout because of its open ended sandbox style exlporation based gameplay. All areas, buildings, items, quests and characters are randomly generated. This game is still under active development, so lots [...] Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 249 for the week January 16 – 22, 2012. == Links to UWN == * Wiki page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue249 == In This Issue == * Vacant Developer Membership Board seat: Call for nominations * Java packages in Partner archive to be removed on 2012-02-16 * New Forum Council Members [...] Dear Ubuntu Community, During UDS-P, it was brought to the attention of the Community Council that blogs being syndicated to Planet Ubuntu included former Ubuntu Member blogs. In order to update the what Planet Ubuntu aggregates to the public, the Community Council, with the help of Alan Bell, compared the Planet Ubuntu Blog list with [...] This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Reviews: Let’s talk tiny – Tiny Core Linux 4.2 News: Mandriva and Pardus status update, Fedora packages, Gentoo zero-day packaging, Bodhi’s Bloathi, ZevenOS overview Questions and answers: Clang went the compiler Released last week: Toorox 01.2012 Upcoming releases: openSUSE 12.2 roadmap New additions:…. Read more at DistroWatch The CIO of Spanish autonomous region Extremadura says it is planning to move the administration’s 40,000 desktop systems to a Debian distribution. According to a report on the European Commission’s “Joinup”, CIO Teodomiro Cayetano López says that the project is “really advanced” and deployment will begin in the spring and be completed around the end [...] What a difference a week makes. It was just the other day that Linux bloggers were celebrating the news from researcher Net Applications that desktop Linux had surged in popularity in recent months. Now, the mood in the blogosphere has plummeted once again as a result of the latest developments on the Windows 8 front. [...] David Mandala of Canonical talked last week at Linux.Conf.Au 2012 about the history of Ubuntu Linux supporting the ARM architecture, what’s coming up for Ubuntu ARM in the 12.04 LTS release, and even what’s expected from Ubuntu on ARM as far out as 2015. In terms of ARM support under Ubuntu 12.04 LTS “Precise Pangolin”, [...] The following Linux-based operating systems have been announced last week: Ubuntu Secured Remix 11.10. In other news: Canonical promises your own private Ubuntu Cloud in only 5 days. Softpedia Linux Blog news includes articles about Wine 1.3.37, DEFT Linux 7 RC1, R.I.P 13.7, ArtistX 1.2, LibreOffice 3.4.5, LibreOffice 3.5.0 Beta 3, Frugalware 1.6 RC1, SQLite [...] If your publishing progress has been keeping step with this series, you’ve now not only got the text of book all ready to go, but you’ve decided on how you’re going to bring it to market (POD, Google eBooks, or whatever) as well. So your next set of tasks revolves around this question: what would [...] Desurium is the official name for the open sourced Desura client which is now officially open sourced as of today. The source code is available under the GPL V3. Black Duck Software, which focuses on management, governance and analytics for open source software deployments, is out with its “Rookies of the Year” list, naming the top 20 open source projects initiated last year. We’ve kept an eye on this report in past instances, and it usually surfaces several diamond-in-the-rough projects that you may not [...] More and more companies have turned to the Web to transact business. And, of course, if you are going to sell on the Web, the right shopping cart can mean the difference between red and black ink. When shopping for your own ecommerce shopping cart software the most important aspect to consider is how well [...] | |||||
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