http://linux.slashdot.org/News for nerds, stuff that mattersen-usCopyright 1997-2013, Dice. All Rights Reserved. Slashdot is a Dice Holdings, Inc. serviceMon, 20 May 2013 16:39:09 GMTMon, 20 May 2013 16:39:09 GMT2hourly11970-01-01T00:00:00Zhelp@slashdot.orgTechnologyDice2013-05-20T16:39:09Zen-usCopyright 1997-2013, Dice. All Rights Reserved. Slashdot is a Dice Holdings, Inc. servicehttp://a.fsdn.com/sd/topics/topicslashdot.gifhttp://linux.slashdot.org/http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~3/qTFNBszZuRE/story01.htmx_IamSpartacus_x writes "Jolla, the Finnish company that continued Nokia's work on the MeeGo mobile platform, announced details of its first smartphone on Monday. Availability for the Jolla device is expected by year end and can be pre-ordered now; the phone will be priced at no more than &euro;399 (US $512.26). The Jolla hardware looks similar to that of Nokia's Lumia, with a clean, button-less front face that houses the 4.5-inch touchcscreen. The phone will use a dual-core processor and support 4G LTE in some regions. Internal storage tops out at 16 GB, but can be expanded via microSD card. The phone also includes an 8 megapixel rear camera with auto focus. The phone is also 'Android app compliant' which, in a move similar to that of BlackBerry, can help with available apps at launch."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Jolla+Announces+First+Meego+Phone+Available+By+End+2013%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F10Q8gjY"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Flinux.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F20%2F1345232%2Fjolla-announces-first-meego-phone-available-by-end-2013%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/05/20/1345232/jolla-announces-first-meego-phone-available-by-end-2013?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/05/20/1345232/jolla-announces-first-meego-phone-available-by-end-2013?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647392/s/2c2a8262/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664337322/u/49/f/647392/c/35028/s/2c2a8262/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664337322/u/49/f/647392/c/35028/s/2c2a8262/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664337322/u/49/f/647392/c/35028/s/2c2a8262/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/qTFNBszZuRE" height="1" width="1"/>Mon, 20 May 2013 16:30:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647392/s/2c2a8262/l/0Llinux0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C20A0C13452320Cjolla0Eannounces0Efirst0Emeego0Ephone0Eavailable0Eby0Eend0E20A130Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmsamzenpuscellphones2013-05-20T16:30:00Z1free-callslinux1,1,1,0,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647392/s/2c2a8262/l/0Llinux0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C20A0C13452320Cjolla0Eannounces0Efirst0Emeego0Ephone0Eavailable0Eby0Eend0E20A130Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~3/Vj2o2j_uMJk/story01.htmFreshly Exhumed writes "Forked from Mandriva Linux back in 2010, Mageia Linux has hit a new release milestone. Trish at the Mageia blog announces: 'All grown up and ready to go dancing: Mageia 3's out! We still can't believe how much fun it is to make Mageia together, and we've been doing it for two and a half years. For people who can't wait, get it here; release notes are here. To upgrade from Mageia 2, see here.'" Adds reader hduff: "It offers cutting edge and stable versions of your favorite applications and desktop environments as well as a version of the STEAM gaming software."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Mageia+3+Released%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F10Hs0p2"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Flinux.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F20%2F0542202%2Fmageia-3-released%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/05/20/0542202/mageia-3-released?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/05/20/0542202/mageia-3-released?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647392/s/2c26508a/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665201099/u/49/f/647392/c/35028/s/2c26508a/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665201099/u/49/f/647392/c/35028/s/2c26508a/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165665201099/u/49/f/647392/c/35028/s/2c26508a/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/Vj2o2j_uMJk" height="1" width="1"/>Mon, 20 May 2013 09:00:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647392/s/2c26508a/l/0Llinux0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C20A0C0A54220A20Cmageia0E30Ereleased0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmtimothymandriva2013-05-20T09:00:00Z1linux-mandrake-back-to-the-futurelinux1,1,0,0,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647392/s/2c26508a/l/0Llinux0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C20A0C0A54220A20Cmageia0E30Ereleased0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~3/rdAL8ILPeUg/story01.htmNew submitter Anand Radhakrishnan writes "The release candidate for the much-anticipated Linux Mint 15 'Olivia' is available for user testing. Its many new features include Cinnamon Control center, an improved login manager with HTML 5 support, a driver manager, and a lot of under-the-hood improvements. 'A new tool called MintSources, aka "Software Sources," was developed from scratch with derivative distributions in mind (primarily Linux Mint, but also LMDE, Netrunner and Snow Linux). It replaces software-properties-gtk and is perfectly adapted to managing software sources in Linux Mint. From the main screen you can easily enable or disable optional components and gain access to backports, unstable packages and source code.' This release with Cinnamon looks really tempting."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Linux+Mint+15+'Olivia'+Release+Candidate+Is+Out%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F12hJYRl"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Flinux.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F17%2F2115257%2Flinux-mint-15-olivia-release-candidate-is-out%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/05/17/2115257/linux-mint-15-olivia-release-candidate-is-out?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/05/17/2115257/linux-mint-15-olivia-release-candidate-is-out?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647392/s/2c132a12/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664078552/u/49/f/647392/c/35028/s/2c132a12/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664078552/u/49/f/647392/c/35028/s/2c132a12/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664078552/u/49/f/647392/c/35028/s/2c132a12/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/rdAL8ILPeUg" height="1" width="1"/>Fri, 17 May 2013 22:07:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647392/s/2c132a12/l/0Llinux0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C170C21152570Clinux0Emint0E150Eolivia0Erelease0Ecandidate0Eis0Eout0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmSoulskillos2013-05-17T22:07:00Z1onward-and-upwardlinux1,1,0,0,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647392/s/2c132a12/l/0Llinux0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C170C21152570Clinux0Emint0E150Eolivia0Erelease0Ecandidate0Eis0Eout0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~3/qGHOcbvbA0o/story01.htmLinus Torvalds, Jon 'maddog' Hall, and many other names closely associated with Linux are also closely associated with beer. (Ed. note: I have personally watched them associate with beer, and may have even joined them.) It comes as no surprise, therefore, when Linux advocate and LinuxAutomation.org founder Kurt Forsberg talks about using Linux to control his beer brewing. Kurt is a strong believer in Linux Automation who talks about home thermostats, sprinklers, and many other application, "anything you can automate..." but, he adds, "we spend all our time brewing beer so we haven't explored many of those yet." He says this with a big smile, of course. And if you want to keep up with Linux Automation on Faceboook, go ahead; like everyone + dog they have a Facebook page.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Linux+is+an+Obvious+Choice+for+Automating+the+Beer-Brewing+Process+(Video)%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F11HNauC"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Flinux.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F16%2F1727256%2Flinux-is-an-obvious-choice-for-automating-the-beer-brewing-process-video%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/05/16/1727256/linux-is-an-obvious-choice-for-automating-the-beer-brewing-process-video?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/05/16/1727256/linux-is-an-obvious-choice-for-automating-the-beer-brewing-process-video?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647392/s/2c050f3f/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664036023/u/49/f/647392/c/35028/s/2c050f3f/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664036023/u/49/f/647392/c/35028/s/2c050f3f/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664036023/u/49/f/647392/c/35028/s/2c050f3f/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/qGHOcbvbA0o" height="1" width="1"/>Thu, 16 May 2013 18:25:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647392/s/2c050f3f/l/0Llinux0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C160C17272560Clinux0Eis0Ean0Eobvious0Echoice0Efor0Eautomating0Ethe0Ebeer0Ebrewing0Eprocess0Evideo0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmRoblimobeer2013-05-16T18:25:00Zbeer-beer-beer-for-my-loyal-men-and-women!linux0,0,0,0,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647392/s/2c050f3f/l/0Llinux0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C160C17272560Clinux0Eis0Ean0Eobvious0Echoice0Efor0Eautomating0Ethe0Ebeer0Ebrewing0Eprocess0Evideo0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~3/zxK-JUB_byY/story01.htmhypnosec writes "Linus Torvalds has released the Linux 3.10-rc1 kernel marking the closure of the 3.10 merge window. The Linux 3.10-rc1 is the second biggest rc release in years and the closure of the merge windows means that the features expected out of the Linux 3.9 successor are chalked out. "So this is the biggest -rc1 in the last several years (perhaps ever) at least as far as counting commits go," Linus notes in the release announcement."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Linux+3.10+Merge+Windows+Closes%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FYQUVN9"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Flinux.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F13%2F1421249%2Flinux-310-merge-windows-closes%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/05/13/1421249/linux-310-merge-windows-closes?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/05/13/1421249/linux-310-merge-windows-closes?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647392/s/2bdc4b64/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664015681/u/49/f/647392/c/35028/s/2bdc4b64/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664015681/u/49/f/647392/c/35028/s/2bdc4b64/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664015681/u/49/f/647392/c/35028/s/2bdc4b64/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/zxK-JUB_byY" height="1" width="1"/>Mon, 13 May 2013 16:09:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647392/s/2bdc4b64/l/0Llinux0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C130C14212490Clinux0E310A0Emerge0Ewindows0Ecloses0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmsamzenpusos2013-05-13T16:09:00Z2finishing-it-uplinux2,2,1,0,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647392/s/2bdc4b64/l/0Llinux0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C130C14212490Clinux0E310A0Emerge0Ewindows0Ecloses0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~3/7z2Sf--SJPU/story01.htmNew submitter mha writes "In a response that truly seems to be from a core Microsoft developer, we are told about why Windows kernel development continues to fall further and further behind that of the Linux kernel. He says, 'The cause of the problem is social. There's almost none of the improvement for its own sake, for the sake of glory, that you see in the Linux world. ... There's no formal or informal program of systemic performance improvement. We started caring about security because pre-SP3 Windows XP was an existential threat to the business. Our low performance is not an existential threat to the business. See, component owners are generally openly hostile to outside patches: if you're a dev, accepting an outside patch makes your lead angry (due to the need to maintain this patch and to justify in in shiproom the unplanned design change), makes test angry (because test is on the hook for making sure the change doesn't break anything, and you just made work for them), and PM is angry (due to the schedule implications of code churn). There's just no incentive to accept changes from outside your own team. You can always find a reason to say "no," and you have very little incentive to say "yes."'"<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Microsoft+Developer+Explains+Why+Windows+Kernel+Development+Falls+Behind%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FYMOnim"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftech.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F11%2F1430259%2Fmicrosoft-developer-explains-why-windows-kernel-development-falls-behind%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/05/11/1430259/microsoft-developer-explains-why-windows-kernel-development-falls-behind?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/05/11/1430259/microsoft-developer-explains-why-windows-kernel-development-falls-behind?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647392/s/2bda383c/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664103902/u/49/f/647392/c/35028/s/2bda383c/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664103902/u/49/f/647392/c/35028/s/2bda383c/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664103902/u/49/f/647392/c/35028/s/2bda383c/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/7z2Sf--SJPU" height="1" width="1"/>Sat, 11 May 2013 16:41:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647392/s/2bda383c/l/0Ltech0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C110C1430A2590Cmicrosoft0Edeveloper0Eexplains0Ewhy0Ewindows0Ekernel0Edevelopment0Efalls0Ebehind0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmSoulskillwindows2013-05-11T16:41:00Z314gotta-be-the-shoestechnology314,305,198,148,62,42,33http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647392/s/2bda383c/l/0Ltech0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C110C1430A2590Cmicrosoft0Edeveloper0Eexplains0Ewhy0Ewindows0Ekernel0Edevelopment0Efalls0Ebehind0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~3/FEY_4mhCE1s/story01.htm"CrunchBang Linux is a Debian based distro with the Openbox window manager on top of it. So it is Debian under the hood with Openbox on the surface," says distro supporter Larry Cafiero. A glance through the #! (CrunchBang) forums showed an exceptionally fast response rate to problems posted there, so even if you haven't heard of #! (it's not in the DistroWatch Top 10), it has a strong and dedicated user community -- which is one of the major keys to success for any open source project. In order to learn more about #! Linux (and to share what he learned), Timothy Lord pointed his camcorder at Larry during LinuxFest Northwest and made this video record of their conversation.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Debian+%2B+Openbox+%3D+CrunchBang+Linux+(Video)%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F10dQCts"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Flinux.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F09%2F175211%2Fdebian--openbox--crunchbang-linux-video%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/05/09/175211/debian--openbox--crunchbang-linux-video?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/05/09/175211/debian--openbox--crunchbang-linux-video?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647392/s/2bb7bab8/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664306801/u/49/f/647392/c/35028/s/2bb7bab8/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664306801/u/49/f/647392/c/35028/s/2bb7bab8/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664306801/u/49/f/647392/c/35028/s/2bb7bab8/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/FEY_4mhCE1s" height="1" width="1"/>Thu, 09 May 2013 19:04:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647392/s/2bb7bab8/l/0Llinux0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C0A90C1752110Cdebian0E0Eopenbox0E0Ecrunchbang0Elinux0Evideo0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmRoblimodebian2013-05-09T19:04:00Z3a-derivitive-distro-that-sounds-fun-and-usefullinux3,3,0,0,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647392/s/2bb7bab8/l/0Llinux0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C0A90C1752110Cdebian0E0Eopenbox0E0Ecrunchbang0Elinux0Evideo0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~3/CbJ19PqDKHQ/story01.htmAn anonymous reader writes "While complementing Debian APT/DPKG, Canonical is now developing their own package format. The new package format has promised highlights of having no dependencies between applications, each package would install to its own directory, root support wouldn't always be required, and overall a more self-contained and easier approach for developers than it stands now for Debian/Ubuntu packages. The primary users of the new packaging system would be those distributing applications built on the Ubuntu Touch/Phone SDK. The initial proof-of-concept package management system is written in Python and uses JSON representation." This quote from the post by Canonical's Colin Watson bears repeating: "We'll continue to use dpkg and apt for building the Ubuntu operating system, syncing with Debian, and so on."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Ubuntu+Developing+Its+Own+Package+Format%2C+Installer%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F1709AId"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F08%2F2038243%2Fubuntu-developing-its-own-package-format-installer%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/05/08/2038243/ubuntu-developing-its-own-package-format-installer?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/05/08/2038243/ubuntu-developing-its-own-package-format-installer?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647392/s/2bae71e6/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165663766203/u/49/f/647392/c/35028/s/2bae71e6/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165663766203/u/49/f/647392/c/35028/s/2bae71e6/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165663766203/u/49/f/647392/c/35028/s/2bae71e6/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/CbJ19PqDKHQ" height="1" width="1"/>Wed, 08 May 2013 21:40:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647392/s/2bae71e6/l/0Lnews0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C0A80C20A382430Cubuntu0Edeveloping0Eits0Eown0Epackage0Eformat0Einstaller0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmSoulskillubuntu2013-05-08T21:40:00Z17anything-they-can-do-we-can-do-betternews17,17,12,9,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647392/s/2bae71e6/l/0Lnews0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C0A80C20A382430Cubuntu0Edeveloping0Eits0Eown0Epackage0Eformat0Einstaller0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~3/n8NAjhoDCVU/story01.htmAn anonymous reader writes "Right on the heels of Debian's 7.0 ('Wheezy') release, the Aptosid team is proud to announce the immediate availability of the 2013-01 release. Aptosid is a rolling release built on top of Debian's most modern branch Sid, providing the most up-to-date kernel available with patches and stabilization not yet seen in mainline, along with many patched Debian packages, all while maintaining 100% compatibility with upstream Debian (unlike other distros based on Debian). If you think Debian Stable is too old to be useful, give Atposid a spin!"<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=On+the+Heels+of+Wheezy%2C+Aptosid+Releases+2013-01%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F126Bo9n"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Flinux.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F06%2F0111241%2Fon-the-heels-of-wheezy-aptosid-releases-2013-01%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/05/06/0111241/on-the-heels-of-wheezy-aptosid-releases-2013-01?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/05/06/0111241/on-the-heels-of-wheezy-aptosid-releases-2013-01?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647392/s/2b8c8858/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/164876734233/u/49/f/647392/c/35028/s/2b8c8858/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/164876734233/u/49/f/647392/c/35028/s/2b8c8858/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/164876734233/u/49/f/647392/c/35028/s/2b8c8858/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/n8NAjhoDCVU" height="1" width="1"/>Mon, 06 May 2013 01:56:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647392/s/2b8c8858/l/0Llinux0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C0A60C0A1112410Con0Ethe0Eheels0Eof0Ewheezy0Eaptosid0Ereleases0E20A130E0A10Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmtimothydebian2013-05-06T01:56:00Zdifferent-drummer-to-similar-tunelinux0,0,0,0,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647392/s/2b8c8858/l/0Llinux0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C0A60C0A1112410Con0Ethe0Eheels0Eof0Ewheezy0Eaptosid0Ereleases0E20A130E0A10Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~3/EnwQSEMpEEU/story01.htmalancronin writes "Valve have released Portal for Linux through the Steam platform. If you have a copy of the Windows version you will automatically have a copy of it for Linux in your account. There are also rumors of Portal 2 coming soon."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Portal+Now+Available+On+Linux%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F13aKkvQ"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Flinux.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F05%2F1840224%2Fportal-now-available-on-linux%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/05/05/1840224/portal-now-available-on-linux?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/05/05/1840224/portal-now-available-on-linux?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647392/s/2b8aa8c2/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/164876812113/u/49/f/647392/c/35028/s/2b8aa8c2/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/164876812113/u/49/f/647392/c/35028/s/2b8aa8c2/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/164876812113/u/49/f/647392/c/35028/s/2b8aa8c2/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/EnwQSEMpEEU" height="1" width="1"/>Sun, 05 May 2013 18:44:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647392/s/2b8aa8c2/l/0Llinux0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C0A50C1840A2240Cportal0Enow0Eavailable0Eon0Elinux0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmtimothygames2013-05-05T18:44:00Z1this-may-be-your-thinglinux1,1,1,1,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647392/s/2b8aa8c2/l/0Llinux0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C0A50C1840A2240Cportal0Enow0Eavailable0Eon0Elinux0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~3/wAX0Uc8To64/story01.htmFirst time accepted submitter anarcat writes "After two years since the last Debian release (6.0, nicknamed "squeeze"), the Debian release team has finally published Debian 7.0 (nicknamed "Wheezy"). A newly created blog has details on the release, which features multi-arch support (e.g. you can now install packages for both i386 and amd64 on the same install), improvements to multimedia support (no need for third party repositories!) and improved security through hardening flags. Debian 7.0 also ships with the controversial Gnome 3 release, and the release notes explicitly mention how to revert to the more familiar 'Gnome classic' interface. Finally, we can also mention the improved support for virtualization infrastructure with pre-built images available for Amazon EC2, Windows Azure and Google Compute Engine. Debian 7.0 also ships with the OpenStack suite and the Xen Cloud Platform. More details on the improvements can be found in the release notes and the Debian wiki." An anonymous reader points out (from the announcement) that "[t]he installation process has been greatly improved: Debian can now be installed using software speech, above all by visually impaired people who do not use a Braille device. Thanks to the combined efforts of a huge number of translators, the installation system is available in 73 languages, and more than a dozen of them are available for speech synthesis too. In addition, for the first time, Debian supports installation and booting using UEFI for new 64-bit PCs (amd64), although there is no support for Secure Boot yet."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Debian+7.0+(%22Wheezy%22)+Released%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FYwYNCy"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Flinux.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F05%2F0342214%2Fdebian-70-wheezy-released%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/05/05/0342214/debian-70-wheezy-released?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/05/05/0342214/debian-70-wheezy-released?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647392/s/2b884b5b/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/164876805796/u/49/f/647392/c/35028/s/2b884b5b/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/164876805796/u/49/f/647392/c/35028/s/2b884b5b/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/164876805796/u/49/f/647392/c/35028/s/2b884b5b/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/wAX0Uc8To64" height="1" width="1"/>Sun, 05 May 2013 12:30:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647392/s/2b884b5b/l/0Llinux0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C0A50C0A3422140Cdebian0E70A0Ewheezy0Ereleased0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmtimothydebian2013-05-05T12:30:00Z1seven-does-sound-fairly-primelinux1,1,0,0,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647392/s/2b884b5b/l/0Llinux0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C0A50C0A3422140Cdebian0E70A0Ewheezy0Ereleased0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~3/L001FvtxAOM/story01.htmFirst time accepted submitter PAjamian writes "Maintainers of the Anaconda installer in Fedora have taken it upon themselves to show passwords in plaintext on the screen as they are entered into the installer. Following on the now recanted statements of security expert Bruce Schneier, Anaconda maintainers have decided that it is not a security risk to show passwords on your screen in the latest Alpha release of Fedora 19. Members of the Fedora community on the Fedora devel mailing list are showing great concern over this change in established security protocols." Note: the change was first reported in the linked thread by Dan Mashal.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Fedora+19+To+Stop+Masking+Passwords%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F17Dz5gq"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fit.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F04%2F1248242%2Ffedora-19-to-stop-masking-passwords%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://it.slashdot.org/story/13/05/04/1248242/fedora-19-to-stop-masking-passwords?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://it.slashdot.org/story/13/05/04/1248242/fedora-19-to-stop-masking-passwords?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647392/s/2b819cdc/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/164876612180/u/49/f/647392/c/35028/s/2b819cdc/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/164876612180/u/49/f/647392/c/35028/s/2b819cdc/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/164876612180/u/49/f/647392/c/35028/s/2b819cdc/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/L001FvtxAOM" height="1" width="1"/>Sat, 04 May 2013 13:24:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647392/s/2b819cdc/l/0Lit0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C0A40C12482420Cfedora0E190Eto0Estop0Emasking0Epasswords0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmtimothysecurity2013-05-04T13:24:00Z182dot-dot-dot-dotit182,180,132,110,19,9,9http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647392/s/2b819cdc/l/0Lit0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C0A40C12482420Cfedora0E190Eto0Estop0Emasking0Epasswords0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~3/GRAzJ62WEn4/story01.htmhypnosec writes with word that the OpenWRT team a few days ago released the final version of the project's newest iteration, version 12.09 (codenamed "Attitude Adjustment"). "The final version doesn't support Linux 2.4, because of which the distribution wouldn't run on old router models, for example the Linksys WRT54G models, which have 16MB of RAM and CPUs clocked at 200MHz. The distribution is now based on Linux 3.3 and there is good news for the Raspberry Pi fans as the distribution now supports the credit card-sized computer, along with Ramips routers."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=New+OpenWRT+Drops+Support+For+Linux+2.4%2C+Low-Mem+Devices%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FZTzQQ8"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Flinux.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F04%2F30%2F1323259%2Fnew-openwrt-drops-support-for-linux-24-low-mem-devices%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/04/30/1323259/new-openwrt-drops-support-for-linux-24-low-mem-devices?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/04/30/1323259/new-openwrt-drops-support-for-linux-24-low-mem-devices?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647392/s/2b59bbd2/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/164876481479/u/49/f/647392/c/35028/s/2b59bbd2/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/164876481479/u/49/f/647392/c/35028/s/2b59bbd2/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/164876481479/u/49/f/647392/c/35028/s/2b59bbd2/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/GRAzJ62WEn4" height="1" width="1"/>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:07:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647392/s/2b59bbd2/l/0Llinux0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A40C30A0C13232590Cnew0Eopenwrt0Edrops0Esupport0Efor0Elinux0E240Elow0Emem0Edevices0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmtimothyos2013-04-30T14:07:00Z1don't-throw-tomatoeslinux1,1,0,0,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647392/s/2b59bbd2/l/0Llinux0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A40C30A0C13232590Cnew0Eopenwrt0Edrops0Esupport0Efor0Elinux0E240Elow0Emem0Edevices0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~3/XZQClt0bPdE/story01.htmjrepin writes "The government of Spain's autonomous region of Extremadura has begun the switch to open source of it desktop PCs. The government expects the majority of its 40,000 PCs to be migrated this year, the region's CIO Theodomir Cayetano announced on 18 April. Extremadura estimates that the move to open source will help save 30 million euro per year. Extremadura in 2012 completed the inventory of all the software applications and computers used by its civil servants. It also tailored a Linux distribution, Sysgobex, to meet the majority of requirements of government tasks. It has already migrated to open source some 150 PCs at several ministries, including those for Development, Culture and Employment."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Spain's+Extremadura+Starts+Move+To+GNU%2FLinux%2C+Open+Source%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F14LkOQI"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Flinux.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F04%2F29%2F2247235%2Fspains-extremadura-starts-move-to-gnulinux-open-source%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/04/29/2247235/spains-extremadura-starts-move-to-gnulinux-open-source?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/04/29/2247235/spains-extremadura-starts-move-to-gnulinux-open-source?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647392/s/2b545bdc/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/164876512159/u/49/f/647392/c/35028/s/2b545bdc/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/164876512159/u/49/f/647392/c/35028/s/2b545bdc/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/164876512159/u/49/f/647392/c/35028/s/2b545bdc/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/XZQClt0bPdE" height="1" width="1"/>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 04:05:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647392/s/2b545bdc/l/0Llinux0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A40C290C22472350Cspains0Eextremadura0Estarts0Emove0Eto0Egnulinux0Eopen0Esource0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmUnknown Lamereu2013-04-30T04:05:00Zbetter-living-through-free-softwarelinux0,0,0,0,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647392/s/2b545bdc/l/0Llinux0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A40C290C22472350Cspains0Eextremadura0Estarts0Emove0Eto0Egnulinux0Eopen0Esource0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~3/77ITmHejSFs/story01.htmhypnosec writes "After a week's delay Linux 3.9 has finally been made available by Linus Torvalds. Last week Torvalds released the rc8 stating that he wasn't 'comfy' releasing the final version yet and that 'another week won't hurt.' Torvalds noted in this week's announcement that last week had been very quiet as there were not many commits and the ones which were there were 'really tiny' so he went ahead with the release of Linux 3.9."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Linux+3.9+Released%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F187oWto"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Flinux.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F04%2F29%2F0348211%2Flinux-39-released%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/04/29/0348211/linux-39-released?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/04/29/0348211/linux-39-released?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647392/s/2b4d6fb6/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/164016490891/u/49/f/647392/c/35028/s/2b4d6fb6/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/164016490891/u/49/f/647392/c/35028/s/2b4d6fb6/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/164016490891/u/49/f/647392/c/35028/s/2b4d6fb6/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/77ITmHejSFs" height="1" width="1"/>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 12:11:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647392/s/2b4d6fb6/l/0Llinux0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A40C290C0A3482110Clinux0E390Ereleased0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmsamzenpuslinux2013-04-29T12:11:00Z2check-it-outlinux2,2,0,0,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647392/s/2b4d6fb6/l/0Llinux0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A40C290C0A3482110Clinux0E390Ereleased0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~3/CQxHIlMO2vM/story01.htmjrepin writes "KDE's integrated development environment KDevelop has just reached version 4.5. 'In this new version you will find brand new integration for Unit Tests, so that you can easily run and debug them while working on your projects. Furthermore, you'll find an iteration of our New Class wizard, many changes regarding polishing the UI in different places, better support for C++11 features and some other things you'll find along the way.'"<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=KDevelop+4.5+Released%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F10IPIYQ"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdevelopers.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F04%2F27%2F1546221%2Fkdevelop-45-released%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/04/27/1546221/kdevelop-45-released?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/04/27/1546221/kdevelop-45-released?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647392/s/2b3ef621/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/164016454232/u/49/f/647392/c/35028/s/2b3ef621/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/164016454232/u/49/f/647392/c/35028/s/2b3ef621/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/164016454232/u/49/f/647392/c/35028/s/2b3ef621/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/CQxHIlMO2vM" height="1" width="1"/>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 16:43:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647392/s/2b3ef621/l/0Ldevelopers0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A40C270C15462210Ckdevelop0E450Ereleased0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmSoulskillkde2013-04-27T16:43:00Znew-and-shinydevelopers0,0,0,0,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647392/s/2b3ef621/l/0Ldevelopers0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A40C270C15462210Ckdevelop0E450Ereleased0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~3/s5aB5TCa1a8/story01.htmAn anonymous reader writes "Btrfs is the next-gen filesystem for Linux, likely to replace ext3 and ext4 in coming years. Btrfs offers many compelling new features and development proceeds apace, but many users still aren't sure whether it's 'ready enough' to entrust their data to. Anchor, a webhosting company, reports on trying it out, with mixed feelings. Their opinion: worth a look-in for most systems, but too risky for frontline production servers. The writeup includes a few nasty caveats that will bite you on serious deployments."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Btrfs+Is+Getting+There%2C+But+Not+Quite+Ready+For+Production%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F12MP3n6"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Flinux.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F04%2F26%2F1231213%2Fbtrfs-is-getting-there-but-not-quite-ready-for-production%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/04/26/1231213/btrfs-is-getting-there-but-not-quite-ready-for-production?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/04/26/1231213/btrfs-is-getting-there-but-not-quite-ready-for-production?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647392/s/2b35daec/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/164016402940/u/49/f/647392/c/35028/s/2b35daec/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/164016402940/u/49/f/647392/c/35028/s/2b35daec/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/164016402940/u/49/f/647392/c/35028/s/2b35daec/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/s5aB5TCa1a8" height="1" width="1"/>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 14:07:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647392/s/2b35daec/l/0Llinux0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A40C260C12312130Cbtrfs0Eis0Egetting0Ethere0Ebut0Enot0Equite0Eready0Efor0Eproduction0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmtimothystorage2013-04-26T14:07:00Z9delicious-on-popcrnfslinux9,8,6,3,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647392/s/2b35daec/l/0Llinux0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A40C260C12312130Cbtrfs0Eis0Egetting0Ethere0Ebut0Enot0Equite0Eready0Efor0Eproduction0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~3/-4zRlAvPijg/story01.htmBarence writes "Ubuntu has shelved the idea of moving to rolling releases, and will continue to release a new version every six months. Earlier this year, Ubuntu developers discussed the idea of moving to rolling releases, with new features added to the OS as and when they were ready. However, In an interview with PC Pro, Canonical CEO Jane Silber said the developers had taken a 'cold, hard look at our long-standing practices' and decided to stay with twice-yearly releases. It has, however, cut support on non-LTS releases from 18 to nine months." Today, the Ubuntu team have released the latest iteration of Ubuntu, 13.04 ("Raring Ringtail"), along with variants like Kubuntu 13.04.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Ubuntu+Releases+13.04%2C+Sticks+To+6-Month+Release+Rhythm%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F11UhY4Q"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Flinux.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F04%2F25%2F130246%2Fubuntu-releases-1304-sticks-to-6-month-release-rhythm%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/04/25/130246/ubuntu-releases-1304-sticks-to-6-month-release-rhythm?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/04/25/130246/ubuntu-releases-1304-sticks-to-6-month-release-rhythm?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647392/s/2b2aa0a6/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/164016388530/u/49/f/647392/c/35028/s/2b2aa0a6/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/164016388530/u/49/f/647392/c/35028/s/2b2aa0a6/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/164016388530/u/49/f/647392/c/35028/s/2b2aa0a6/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/-4zRlAvPijg" height="1" width="1"/>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:48:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647392/s/2b2aa0a6/l/0Llinux0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A40C250C130A2460Cubuntu0Ereleases0E130A40Esticks0Eto0E60Emonth0Erelease0Erhythm0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmtimothylinuxbusiness2013-04-25T14:48:00Z'cause-that's-how-they-roll-or-rather-don'tlinux0,0,0,0,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647392/s/2b2aa0a6/l/0Llinux0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A40C250C130A2460Cubuntu0Ereleases0E130A40Esticks0Eto0E60Emonth0Erelease0Erhythm0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~3/7ImOcKzi_7s/story01.htmhypnosec writes "Following delays due to UEFI, the alpha version of Fedora 19 'Schr&#246;dinger's Cat' has been released. The alpha version brings with it all the features of Fedora 19, including the updated desktop options &ndash; GNOME 3.8, KDE Plasma 4.10 and MATE 1.6. Other new features include Developer's Assistant &ndash; a tool that would allow developers to code easily with ready templates, samples and more; OpenShift Origin &ndash; through which users will be able to deploy their own Platform-as-a-Service infrastructure; Ruby 2.0.0; Scratch; Syslinux &ndash; provides for simplified booting of Fedora; systemd Resource Control &ndash; which allows for modification of service settings without requiring a reboot; and Checkpoint &amp; Restore. Downloads and release notes available at the Fedora Project site."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Fedora+19+Alpha+Released%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FXVMiy1"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Flinux.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F04%2F24%2F0327248%2Ffedora-19-alpha-released%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/04/24/0327248/fedora-19-alpha-released?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/04/24/0327248/fedora-19-alpha-released?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647392/s/2b193866/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/164016313883/u/49/f/647392/c/35028/s/2b193866/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/164016313883/u/49/f/647392/c/35028/s/2b193866/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/164016313883/u/49/f/647392/c/35028/s/2b193866/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/7ImOcKzi_7s" height="1" width="1"/>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 07:34:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647392/s/2b193866/l/0Llinux0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A40C240C0A3272480Cfedora0E190Ealpha0Ereleased0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmSoulskillopensource2013-04-24T07:34:00Zcode-names-with-umlautslinux0,0,0,0,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647392/s/2b193866/l/0Llinux0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A40C240C0A3272480Cfedora0E190Ealpha0Ereleased0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~3/X8YL9U1sWpQ/story01.htmDeviceGuru tipped us to the release of the latest single board computer from Beagle Board. It's been two years since the previous BeagleBone was released, and today they've released the BeagleBone Black (including full hardware schematics) at a price competitive with the Raspberry Pi ($10 more, but it comes with a power brick). Powered by a Cortex-A8, it has 512M of DDR3 RAM, 2G of onboard eMMC, two blocks of 46 I/O pins, a pair of 32-bit DSPs, the usual USB host/client ports, Ethernet, and micro-HDMI (a much requested feature). Support is provided for &#197;ngstrom GNU/Linux, Ubuntu, and Android out of the box. Linux Gizmos reports where some of the cost savings came from: "According to BeagleBoard.org cofounder Jason Kridner, interviewed in a Linux.com report today, cost savings also came from removing the default serial port as well as USB-to-serial and USB-to-JTAG interfaces, and including a cheaper single-purpose USB cable. (Three serial interfaces are available via the expansion headers.) In addition, the power expansion header for battery and backlight has been removed."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=BeagleBone+Black+Released+With+1GHz+Cortex-A8+For+Only+%2445%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FZFYrYx"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fhardware.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F04%2F23%2F0233244%2Fbeaglebone-black-released-with-1ghz-cortex-a8-for-only-45%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/13/04/23/0233244/beaglebone-black-released-with-1ghz-cortex-a8-for-only-45?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/13/04/23/0233244/beaglebone-black-released-with-1ghz-cortex-a8-for-only-45?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647392/s/2b1010fa/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/164016302022/u/49/f/647392/c/35028/s/2b1010fa/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/164016302022/u/49/f/647392/c/35028/s/2b1010fa/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/164016302022/u/49/f/647392/c/35028/s/2b1010fa/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/X8YL9U1sWpQ" height="1" width="1"/>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 12:05:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647392/s/2b1010fa/l/0Lhardware0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A40C230C0A2332440Cbeaglebone0Eblack0Ereleased0Ewith0E1ghz0Ecortex0Ea80Efor0Eonly0E450Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmUnknown Lamerandroid2013-04-23T12:05:00Z2waiting-for-eoma-68hardware2,2,1,1,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647392/s/2b1010fa/l/0Lhardware0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A40C230C0A2332440Cbeaglebone0Eblack0Ereleased0Ewith0E1ghz0Ecortex0Ea80Efor0Eonly0E450Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~3/7Ti-WwOwYqo/story01.htmWhen you call your business Penguin Computer &amp; Telephone Solutions, it's obvious that Linux is your favorite operating system. Company owner Frank Sflanga, Jr. happily works on Windows, Mac and whatever else you want or have around, but he is a Linux person at heart; in fact, he's a founder and leading member of The Southwest Florida GNU/Linux Users Group. But the point of this interview, which some will want to label an ad (although it's not), is to show how Frank started his one-man consulting business and made it successful so that other Slashdot readers can follow in his footsteps and become self-employed -- if they are so inclined. You might want to note that most of Frank's clients were not familiar with Linux when he first started working with them, and most are not particularly interested in software licensing matters as long as Frank keeps their stuff working. You might also want to note that Ft. Myers, FL, where Frank is located, is not exactly famous as a hotbed of leading-edge technology, which means that even if you live someplace similar, where business owners ask "What's a Linux?" you might be able to make a decent living running a Linux-based IT consulting business.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Building+a+Small+IT+Consulting+Business+Based+on+Linux+(Video)%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FZEp28c"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fit.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F04%2F22%2F1743251%2Fbuilding-a-small-it-consulting-business-based-on-linux-video%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://it.slashdot.org/story/13/04/22/1743251/building-a-small-it-consulting-business-based-on-linux-video?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://it.slashdot.org/story/13/04/22/1743251/building-a-small-it-consulting-business-based-on-linux-video?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647392/s/2b07b679/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/164016253291/u/49/f/647392/c/35028/s/2b07b679/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/164016253291/u/49/f/647392/c/35028/s/2b07b679/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/164016253291/u/49/f/647392/c/35028/s/2b07b679/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/7Ti-WwOwYqo" height="1" width="1"/>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 19:04:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647392/s/2b07b679/l/0Lit0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A40C220C17432510Cbuilding0Ea0Esmall0Eit0Econsulting0Ebusiness0Ebased0Eon0Elinux0Evideo0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmRoblimolinuxbusiness2013-04-22T19:04:00Z11they-love-you-as-long-as-everything-worksit11,11,8,7,2,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647392/s/2b07b679/l/0Lit0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A40C220C17432510Cbuilding0Ea0Esmall0Eit0Econsulting0Ebusiness0Ebased0Eon0Elinux0Evideo0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~3/EmWVF446_9s/story01.htmAn anonymous reader writes with a link to a recent post on Red Hat senior interaction designer M&#225;ir&#237;n Duffy's blog with an illuminating look at Red Hat's design process, and how things like graphic elements, widget behavior, and bootup time are taken into account. It starts: "So I have this thing on my desk at Red Hat that basically defines a simple design process. (Yes, it also uses the word 'ideate' and yes, it sounds funny but it is a real word apparently!) While the mailing list thread on the topic at this point is high-volume and a bit chaotic, there is a lot of useful information and suggestions in there that I think could be pulled into a design process and sorted out. So I took 3 hours (yes, 3 hours) this morning to wade through the thread and attempt to do this."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Improving+the+Fedora+Boot+Experience%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FZGPWYY"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Flinux.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F04%2F21%2F0336212%2Fimproving-the-fedora-boot-experience%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/04/21/0336212/improving-the-fedora-boot-experience?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/04/21/0336212/improving-the-fedora-boot-experience?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647392/s/2af8fc0b/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/164016212540/u/49/f/647392/c/35028/s/2af8fc0b/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/164016212540/u/49/f/647392/c/35028/s/2af8fc0b/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/164016212540/u/49/f/647392/c/35028/s/2af8fc0b/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/EmWVF446_9s" height="1" width="1"/>Sun, 21 Apr 2013 09:22:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647392/s/2af8fc0b/l/0Llinux0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A40C210C0A3362120Cimproving0Ethe0Efedora0Eboot0Eexperience0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmtimothygui2013-04-21T09:22:00Z1sir-the-cats-have-three-non-overlapping-ideaslinux1,1,0,0,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647392/s/2af8fc0b/l/0Llinux0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A40C210C0A3362120Cimproving0Ethe0Efedora0Eboot0Eexperience0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~3/22LTnF2keJs/story01.htmArs Technica reviewer Lee Hutchinson says that Dell's Ubuntu-loaded 13" Ultrabook (the product of "Project Sputnik") is "functional," "polished," and (for a Linux laptop) remarkably unremarkable. "It just works," he says. Hutchinson points out that this is a sadly low bar, but nonetheless gives Dell great credit for surpassing it. He finds the Ultrabook's keyboard to be spongy, but has praise for most elements of the hardware itself, right down to (not everyone's favorite) the glossy screen.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Ars+Reviewer+is+Happily+Bored+With+Dell's+Linux+Ultrabook%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F17AMRhL"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fhardware.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F04%2F20%2F1537204%2Fars-reviewer-is-happily-bored-with-dells-linux-ultrabook%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/13/04/20/1537204/ars-reviewer-is-happily-bored-with-dells-linux-ultrabook?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/13/04/20/1537204/ars-reviewer-is-happily-bored-with-dells-linux-ultrabook?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647392/s/2af4c333/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/164016190071/u/49/f/647392/c/35028/s/2af4c333/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/164016190071/u/49/f/647392/c/35028/s/2af4c333/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/164016190071/u/49/f/647392/c/35028/s/2af4c333/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/22LTnF2keJs" height="1" width="1"/>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 15:37:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647392/s/2af4c333/l/0Lhardware0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A40C20A0C153720A40Cars0Ereviewer0Eis0Ehappily0Ebored0Ewith0Edells0Elinux0Eultrabook0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmtimothyportables2013-04-20T15:37:00Z43best-way-to-be-boredhardware43,39,29,25,7,4,4http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647392/s/2af4c333/l/0Lhardware0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A40C20A0C153720A40Cars0Ereviewer0Eis0Ehappily0Ebored0Ewith0Edells0Elinux0Eultrabook0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~3/Hdj5n0AJwNY/story01.htmdarthcamaro writes "The JBoss Application Server is no more. Just like Red Hat killed Red Hat Linux in 2003 to make way for Fedora, the same is now happening with JBoss and the new WildFly project. 'There was of course the application server, there are a number of JBoss commercial products, there was the community site, etc., so when you asked someone "What is JBoss?" the answer was varied,' Jason Andersen, director, product line management, at Red Hat, explained. 'What we wanted to do was cement the idea that JBoss is a portfolio of middleware products and not just the application server.'"<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Red+Hat+'Fedora-izes'+JBoss+With+New+WildFly+Java+Application+Server%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F11pdJQ6"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Flinux.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F04%2F19%2F2222247%2Fred-hat-fedora-izes-jboss-with-new-wildfly-java-application-server%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/04/19/2222247/red-hat-fedora-izes-jboss-with-new-wildfly-java-application-server?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/04/19/2222247/red-hat-fedora-izes-jboss-with-new-wildfly-java-application-server?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647392/s/2aefbcca/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/164016182397/u/49/f/647392/c/35028/s/2aefbcca/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/164016182397/u/49/f/647392/c/35028/s/2aefbcca/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/164016182397/u/49/f/647392/c/35028/s/2aefbcca/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/Hdj5n0AJwNY" height="1" width="1"/>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 23:35:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647392/s/2aefbcca/l/0Llinux0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A40C190C22222470Cred0Ehat0Efedora0Eizes0Ejboss0Ewith0Enew0Ewildfly0Ejava0Eapplication0Eserver0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmtimothyjava2013-04-19T23:35:00Z40estrangeder-and-estrangederlinux40,37,26,17,5,1,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647392/s/2aefbcca/l/0Llinux0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A40C190C22222470Cred0Ehat0Efedora0Eizes0Ejboss0Ewith0Enew0Ewildfly0Ejava0Eapplication0Eserver0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~3/-tL8KLjjz4g/story01.htmAn anonymous reader writes "Google appears to be preparing the launch of a game center for Android with an unknown name. It looks like the new hub will sport a slew of features, including multiplayer support, in-game chat, lobbies, leaderboards, and achievements. The leaked information come to us courtesy of Android Police, which amusingly stumbled on the details by tearing apart the apk file for MyGlass, the Google Glass companion app that launched earlier this week. The feature list was hidden within, though it's not clear if this was done on purpose to build hype or entirely by accident." While on the topic of Google-branded Android hardware speculation, this wishlist at The Full Signal makes some feature-list pleas for the rumored Nexus 5.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Google+Leak+Hints+At+an+Android+Game+Center+With+Multiplayer+Support%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FZ1JdOE"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fgames.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F04%2F18%2F2028202%2Fgoogle-leak-hints-at-an-android-game-center-with-multiplayer-support%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://games.slashdot.org/story/13/04/18/2028202/google-leak-hints-at-an-android-game-center-with-multiplayer-support?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/13/04/18/2028202/google-leak-hints-at-an-android-game-center-with-multiplayer-support?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647392/s/2ae3179a/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/163644652956/u/49/f/647392/c/35028/s/2ae3179a/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/163644652956/u/49/f/647392/c/35028/s/2ae3179a/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/163644652956/u/49/f/647392/c/35028/s/2ae3179a/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/-tL8KLjjz4g" height="1" width="1"/>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 21:42:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647392/s/2ae3179a/l/0Lgames0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A40C180C20A2820A20Cgoogle0Eleak0Ehints0Eat0Ean0Eandroid0Egame0Ecenter0Ewith0Emultiplayer0Esupport0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmtimothyandroid2013-04-18T21:42:00Z3androids-are-everywheregames3,3,1,1,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647392/s/2ae3179a/l/0Lgames0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A40C180C20A2820A20Cgoogle0Eleak0Ehints0Eat0Ean0Eandroid0Egame0Ecenter0Ewith0Emultiplayer0Esupport0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htm