Discovering the New Gnome Gnome starts to reinvent itself, cautiously
Dec 28, 2012The last few years have been troubled for the Gnome Project. Once a premier desktop environment for Linux, it has seen its market share diminish amid user dissatisfaction over Gnome 3 and accusations that the project was ignoring users. Yet, over the last six months, something important has been happening: Slowly and quietly, the members of Gnome have started trying to turn the situation around.
more »Red Hat to Participate in Data-as-a-Service Initiative
Dec 21, 2012Red Hat Inc. joins a European Union initiative working to create LEADS (Large-scale Elastic Architecture for Data-as-a-Service) for mining and analyzing web data.
more »Doghouse: Industry Report The software industry and developing countries
Dec 19, 2012A recent report highlights some advantages as well challenges for implementing free software in developing countries.
more »Tech Tools
Dec 19, 2012- Red Hat Releases RHEL 6.4 beta and Enterprise Virtualization 3.1
- Amazon Announces Redshift Data Warehouse Service
- Ceph on SUSE
- XtreemFS 1.4
MariaDB Creators Launch Non-Profit Foundation
Dec 08, 2012New organization will oversee interoperability and standards for the popular open source database.
more »Kernel News Zack’s Kernel News
Nov 26, 2012Chronicler Zack Brown reports on the latest news, views, dilemmas, and developments within the Linux kernel community.
more »Perl: Google Drive Scanning and storing books on Google Drive
Nov 26, 2012Armed with a Chinese guillotine and a scanner with an automatic document feeder, Mike Schilli gives his books some special treatment, courtesy of Google Drive, which offers 5GB of storage space – room enough to start an online PDF collection.
more »Linux News
Nov 26, 2012- Linux Foundation reports Secure Boot solution
- Ubuntu 12.10
- Plasma Active 3
- Android OS Tops
- Linaro Enterprise
- Group formed for ARM architecture
- Android installed on 3 of 4 smartphones
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