Linux Top 5: Heads Up for the Linux Desktop LinuxPlanet: It's beginning to look a whole lot like 2012 will be the year of the Linux Desktop on the Linux Planet. Well, if not the year, then at least this past week, which saw tremendous activity on desktop efforts new and old. (Feb 1, 2012)
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Google is killing Free Software Swfblag: Google is the greatest danger to the Free Software movement at the current time. Feb 2, 2012
Oracle Staking Claim in Open-Source 'R' Language (Feb 9, 2012, 11:01 UTC) (64 reads)
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(feedback) CFO World: "Oracle is hoping to carve out a prominent place in the world of "R," the open-source statistical modeling language with roots in academia but an increasingly high profile in enterprise IT shops."
Ubuntu sound theme design (Feb 9, 2012, 06:00 UTC) (1025 reads)
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(feedback) Canonical: If you’re as keen as we are that the Ubuntu sound theme is on brand, now is your chance! We are calling for pitches for the Ubuntu sound theme!
mutter 3.3.5 Released (Feb 8, 2012, 22:00 UTC) (1667 reads)
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(feedback) Mutter: Mutter is a window and compositing manager that displays and manages your desktop via OpenGL.
Fedora 17 Is Still Trying For Btrfs By Default (Feb 8, 2012, 20:00 UTC) (1893 reads)
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(feedback) Phoronix: The Fedora / Red Hat developers working on the Beefy Miracle are tentatively moving ahead with their plan to use Btrfs as the default Linux file-system for Fedora 17 and beyond.
RIP Compiz (Feb 8, 2012, 19:00 UTC) (3316 reads)
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(feedback) TechRepublic: The Compiz desktop compositor, which looks all but dead now that Fedora is dropping it from its upcoming release
Sabayon Linux 8 Released (Feb 8, 2012, 15:09 UTC) (1853 reads)
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(feedback) Linux User & Developer: "Popular Gentoo derivative Sabayon Linux has just announced the immediate availability of Sabayon 8."
Introducing Comice OS 4: Mac-Looking Linux (Feb 8, 2012, 12:01 UTC) (3566 reads)
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(feedback) Softpedia: "It looks like David Tavares, the developer of Pear OS, prepares these days a revamped version of his Linux operating system, under the name of Comice OS."
7 Best Free Alternative Git Clients (Feb 8, 2012, 11:04 UTC) (2227 reads)
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(feedback) LinuxLinks: "Git is one of a number of open source revision control systems available for Linux. Other popular tools in this field include Subversion, Bazaar, Mercurial, Monotone, CVS, and SVN."
Controlling Liquor Loss with Linux (Feb 8, 2012, 09:03 UTC) (1839 reads)
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(feedback) Open Source Matters: "Few people know that inside this dark little bar, Linux servers and some open source-based scripts are keeping an eye on liquor and its link to the bottom line."
SUSE hits the big 2-0 (Feb 7, 2012, 21:00 UTC) (1800 reads)
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(feedback) ITWorld: While Linux itself celebrated its twentieth anniversary in high style last year, 2012 will be the year of the lizard, as SUSE Linux steps up to celebrate two decades as the world's oldest commercial Linux entity.
Creating a vDSO: the Colonel's Other Chicken (Feb 7, 2012, 19:00 UTC) (1313 reads)
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(feedback) LinuxJournal: A vDSO (virtual dynamic shared object) is an alternative to the somewhat cycle-expensive system call interface that the GNU/Linux kernel provides.
Canonical aligns Kubuntu as community flavor (Feb 7, 2012, 14:03 UTC) (1907 reads)
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(feedback) IT World: "Canonical appears to be streamlining its focus on the desktop by cutting funding for Kubuntu work after the release of the upcoming 12.04 releases this April."
Apple gets kicked in the teeth by German patent lawsuit decisions (Feb 7, 2012, 13:01 UTC) (3765 reads)
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(feedback) Linux and Open Source: "After its world-wide anti-Android patent lawsuit witch-hunt, could Apple having much of its iPhone line and iPads being banned for sale in Germany due to a patent violation happen to a nicer company?"
4 Best Free Linux Script Writing Tools (Feb 7, 2012, 05:01 UTC) (11870 reads)
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(feedback) LinuxLinks: "Unfortunately, there is currently a miserly selection of mature, open source script writing software available for Linux."
Linux File System Fsck Testing -- The Results Are In (Feb 7, 2012, 01:03 UTC) (3935 reads)
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(feedback) EnterpriseStorageForum: "It has been a while since we started the fsck project to test fsck (file system check) times on Linux file systems. After an extended delay, the Linux File System fsck testing results can now be presented."
Firefox 11 Gets SPDY (Feb 6, 2012, 23:00 UTC) (3840 reads)
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(feedback) Datamation: Google's speed-enhancing SPDY protocol lands in upcoming version of Mozilla's open source browser.
Piracy and the value of freedom (Feb 6, 2012, 22:04 UTC) (2012 reads)
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(feedback) Linux User & Developer: "If I were a victim of actual piracy while sailing the seas, I would probably consider the word’s rampant misuse in technology circles as massively insulting."