Dell XPS 13 laptop: The Ubuntu developer edition arrives
Do you want a serious—I mean
serious—developer laptop? Then Dell and Ubuntu have the system for you
in the Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition.
Forrester: open source project explosion driving a "golden era" in app dev
The explosion in open source projects in the
HTML, mobile, cloud and big data spaces such as Android, jQuery,
PhoneGap, Sencha, Hadoop and Cordova are driving a new model and a
golden age of "app" development, Forrester Research says.
Splashtop introduces remote Ubuntu to Android and iPhone
Want to run an Ubuntu Linux game or check on
your Ubuntu server remotely from your Android or Apple smartphone or
tablet? Splashtop's Streamer for Linux software is for you
Fedora Linux 18 beta finally released
The latest version of Fedora has just moved
to beta and it includes the GNOME 2.x fork MATE desktop as well as the
GNOME 3.x desktop.
With Google readying its own Nexus Chromebook, will it marry Chrome OS to Android?
A report from Taiwan states that Google is
working on its own house-brand Nexus Chromebook with a touch screen.
This, in turn, suggests that it might run a mixture of Android and
Chrome OS.
GNOME: Can this Linux desktop be saved?
After taking a design path that sent many of
its users running to other desktops, GNOME seems to be giving its users
what they want: a GNOME 2.x style desktop. But, is it too late? Will
GNOME fans come back?
Linux Foundation UEFI Secure Boot key for Windows 8 PCs delays explained
Thanks to Microsoft, the Linux Foundation's
program for booting Linux easily on Windows 8 PCs protected with Secure
Boot is still stuck in neutral.
Linux Foundation support for booting Linux on Windows 8 PCs delayed
Thanks to Microsoft's implementation of
secure boot, installing Linux on Windows 8 PCs is tricky. Unfortunately,
the Linux Foundation's plan to address this problem has been stalled.
Samba 4 now planned for release on Dec 11
The first open source Active Directory
server with SMB3 support, now due in mid December, is ideal for business
desktop and storage needs. Samba 4 was a big beneficiary of antitrust
orders forcing Microsoft to open up key protocols.
Verizon gets out of the Android and BlackBerry app business
Ever wonder why the phone carriers spent so
much time on their own software apps and stores? So did Verizon, and,
after due consideration, they're dropping out of the Android and
BlackBerry app business.