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Windows 8 Features With Linux Antecedents
Posted: February 10th, 2012, 8:38pm CET by timothy
Tags: gui
itwbennett writes "As details about new features in Windows 8 started to be discussed in the Building 8 blog and bandied about in Linux/Windows forums, Linux users were quick to chime in with a hearty 'Linux had that first' — even for things that were just a natural evolution, like native support for USB 3.0. So ask not 'did Linux have this first', but 'does Windows 8 do it better?'" -
Nouveau Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Achieves OpenCL Support
Posted: February 7th, 2012, 6:33pm CET by timothy
Tags: graphics
An anonymous reader writes "The Nouveau driver project that's been writing an open-source NVIDIA graphics driver via reverse-engineering has moved forward in their support. The Nouveau driver now has OpenCL acceleration support to do GPGPU computing on the open-source community driver for several generations of GeForce GPUs."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Red Hat Appoints Robyn Bergeron First Female Fedora Project Leader
Posted: February 7th, 2012, 5:10pm CET by timothy
Tags: linuxbusiness
darthcamaro writes "Red Hat is changing the leadership at the Fedora Project. Jared Smith is out after having been the Fedora Project Leader since June of 2010. In is Robyn Bergeron — who will be the first female leader of the open source project's history. Bergeron is well known in the community as she has most recently been the Fedora Program Manager."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Canonical Pulls Kubuntu Personnel Funding
Posted: February 7th, 2012, 11:15am CET by Unknown Lamer
Tags: business
LinuxScribe writes "An announcement on the Kubuntu-devel mailing list tells the sad story: Canonical is pulling funding for in-house developers to work on the KDE-based Kubuntu flavor. Canonical now seems committed to its single vision of a GNOME-based Unity as a desktop and other Ubuntu flavors will now have to rely on community support and some infrastructure from Canonical."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Details Emerge About Spark Linux-Based Tablet
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 11:27am CET by samzenpus
MojoKid writes "There's a new tablet in town called the Spark. The Linux-driven tablet, based on the Zenithink C71 and KDE was unveiled by developer Aaron Seigo recently. The tablet will be available for pre-order this week and will start shipping worldwide in May. In terms of specifications, the 7-inch (800x480) multi-touch slate will run a 1GHz AMLogic ARM processor and Mali-400 GPU, sport 512MB of RAM, 4GB of internal storage (with a microSD slot for expandability), 802/11b/g WiFi, a pair of USB ports, a front-facing 1.3MP webcam, and an audio jack. The UI of choice is Plasma Active and there will apparently be a content store where developers can peddle their wares and users can snag software."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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What's the Damage? Measuring fsck Under XFS and Ext4 On Big Storage
Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 6:40pm CET by timothy
Tags: storage
An anonymous reader writes "Enterprise Storage Forum's long-awaited Linux file system Fsck testing is finally complete. Find out just how bad the Linux file system scaling problem really is."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Linux Game Publishing CEO Resigns
Posted: February 1st, 2012, 6:00pm CET by Unknown Lamer
Tags: linux
An anonymous reader writes "The CEO of the once fledging Linux Game Publishing, Michael Simms, has announced his resignation. Simms attributes his resignation from the Linux game porting company he founded more than a decade ago to being burned out and having little success as of late in his work." In his place, Clive Crouse will be taking the helm.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Greg KH Leaves SUSE For Linux Foundation
Posted: February 1st, 2012, 3:35pm CET by Unknown Lamer
Tags: novell
New submitter udas writes "Greg Kroah-Hartman, maintainer of the Linux kernel's stable branch, has left his job with SUSE Linux. He is now a fellow at the Linux Foundation. 'There were no direct conflicts working for SUSE, as the people there understand how important the individual developer, and their voice, is in the Linux community,' Kroah-Hartman told Ars this week in an e-mail interview. 'But, working in a vendor-neutral environment like the Linux Foundation allows me to spend a larger amount of time interacting with other companies and vendors, as well as helping Linux out in environments that were not necessarily the focus of my previous employer.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Why Linux Vendors Need To Sell More Than Linux
Posted: January 31st, 2012, 11:59pm CET by Soulskill
Tags: business
jfruh writes "Mandriva, a venerable Linux distro, is on the verge of shutting down. One of its main problems is that it never grew into more than just an OS vendor. The big players in the commercial Linux space — Red Hat, SuSE, Canonical — all built Linux into their larger computing visions. Is there any room in the marketplace for just a straight-up Linux distro anymore?"Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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New Spark Tablet To Come Loaded With KDE's Active Plasma Interface
Posted: January 29th, 2012, 3:23pm CET by timothy
Tags: handheld
mpol writes "KDE's Plasma Active introduced last Saturday its own 7" tablet. According to Aaron J. Seigo, 'It's the first tablet computer that comes with Plasma Active pre-installed.' The Spark, with its 7" screen, is built around a Cortex A9 with a Mali-400-gpu, 512MB RAM and an SD-card slot. It will have a 800x480 screen resolution and will cost around 200 Euro. It is actually a rebrand of the Zenithink ZT-180 C71, which comes with Android by default. On a personal note, Aaron J. Seigo will no longer be sponsored by Qt Development Frameworks to work on Qt and KDE. He will, however, stay involved with KDE and Free Software, he says."Read more of this story at Slashdot.