Linux Today - Infrastructure

OSTATIC: Through its Charity Teach First, Google will be distributing the diminutive Raspberry Pi to UK schools as well as train teachers about it.

Softpedia: Tiny Core Linux 4.5.4 is a minor maintenance and bug fix release, bringing a couple of updated packages and tools. Tiny Core is one of the smallest Linux distros out there, weighing in at just 10 MB, but still providing a full graphical environment.

Phoronix: While for the most part the Catalyst driver performance for the Radeon HD 7950 graphics card was close between Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, there were some OpenGL performance differences.

Guillermo Garron: Arch Linux is driven by the KISS principle, and it is elegantly simple. That is one of the reasons I like it, I really like minimalism philosophy if that can be applied to software, and not only to arts.

LinuxBSDos: With KLook, you view audio, video, text and image (png and jpg) files from the same application window. It is like a fusion of Totem and your favorite image viewer but with a few more features.

Softpedia: Distributable as ARM and ARMhf (hard-float) editions, the development team offers for download prebuilt images of Fedora 17 Beta ARM for the Beagleboard XM, Trimslice, QEMU and iMX based hardware platforms.

OSTATIC: In the unique Webmaker effort that combines the strengths of tools, projects, and community Mozilla is looking move millions of people from just using the web to actually making it.

 OStatic: Bring up the term open source to many people, and they'll immediately think of community-driven software projects

Pinehead: Changing the partition size for a root partition or any other partition is just a little bit different when you're working in the cloud.

 ITWorld: As SUSE redefines itself post-acquisition, building a new cloud solution is at their top of their priority list.

The Street: Wall Street has two reasons to hate open-source software. One makes sense, one makes none.

SourceForge: Daisync 3.0.0 is just released. New major feature is that it enable administrator or user to find file backup by name more quickly than command 'find'.

Linux User & Developer: VIA has announced a new ARM-based SoC board for $49 that seems to be aimed directly at the Raspberry Pi market.

Ostatic: If you're under the impression that you must have Photoshop to be a top-notch photo editor, think again. The open source applications that are available are beyond robust.

Muktware: Mandriva clarifies that there will be active collaboration between the two teams. For their server product, Mandriva will collaborate with the Mageia community.

HowtoForge: This tutorial shows how you can set up an Ubuntu Studio 12.04 desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops.

The Var Guy: Gamers are not exactly the first group that comes to mind when one thinks of Linux users.

ComputerWorld: Over the past few months there have been no fewer than three tiny, cheap Linux PCs making headlines, and now there's a fourth to add to the list.

EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet: Co-founder of networking startup Big Switch Networks explains what his company is doing with software defined networking (SDN) and open source makes working their offering more interoperable and easy to integrate.

Scribbles and Snaps: Many professional photo processing applications support soft proofing, and digiKam is no exception.

Softpedia: Bit.Trip.Runner, an independent retro platformer game created by Gaijin Games, has been made available for purchase on the Ubuntu Software Center.

Linux User & Developer: The next version of Linux Mint will be with us soon, find out why 13 is going to be the lucky number for the worlds most popular Linux distribution.

ServerWatch: Rackspace CTO John Engates explained that server hardware isn't a differentiator for his company, even as they seek to support the Facebook-led Open Compute initiative.

 HowToForge: This tutorial covers image-based backups using Partimage from a live desktop environment.

Open Source Insider: The US Army and associated federal agencies are said to be testing prototype virtual world technologies in a secure open source environment.

Asia News Network: The Ministry of Commerce (MOC) said in a statement on its website Sunday that to win the approval, Google shall fulfil obligation to keep its open-source Android model on a free and open basis.

Equinox-Project.org: EDE (Equinox Desktop Environment) is a desktop for UNIX-like operating systems. Main features of EDE are speed and responsiveness, low resource usage and familiar look and feel.

IT Wire: Mandriva SA, the French company that used to control development of the Mandriva GNU/Linux distribution, has become something of a joke.

LinuxLinks: To provide an insight into the software that is available, we have compiled a list of 10 high quality Linux issue tracking systems. We have chosen software of varying complexity, with some applications concentrating on being as simple to set up and configure as possible.

The Whir: In addition to reducing its work with OpenStack, NASA also said it will cease its developmental involvement with cloud infrastructure solution Nebula.

Toolbox.com: When it comes to computing, especially operating systems, the trend seems to reducing the amount of control the end users have over their operating system environments [stares hard at garden gnomes].

LinuxBSDos.com: One tool that has seen very little or no change over the past several releases in Ubuntu Desktop is the installation program. So it is somewhat surprising that some users are having problems dual-booting Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04 using a tutorial written for Ubuntu 11.04.

InfoWorld: A number of software entrepreneurs chose to base their business models on this fear. They selected the GPL for their software projects, not to promote some vision of digital liberty, but rather to exploit the fears of corporate legal advisers about the GPL.

IT World: Just days after the Mandriva community started its own plans for the next release of the French Linux distribution, its commercial sponsor has formally announced that the community will take the lead on all Mandriva Linux development moving forward.

Really Linux: The desktop is not going to disappear suddenly because there is a movement to include mobile devices.

EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet: The OpenFlow open source protocol for software defined networking (SDN) took a big step forward today with the approval of the OpenFlow 1.3.0 specification.

The VAR Guy: Will Google  Android encounter multiple forks in the road?

Softpedia: The new release of GNOME Tweak Tool also fixes some nasty bugs like the support for the user-theme shell extension, which now requires pygobject >= 3.2.1, and a missing schemas issue.

IT World: Geek TV star uses Ubuntu 12.04 download as example of legal BitTorrent use.

Unixmen: I want to ask all people that write on public view to stop using Ubuntu Defaults and show to their readers that there are more choices.