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We get the scoop on how Ubuntu Touch plans to tackle Android’s market share & the challenges involved in moving some of our favorite desktop Linux apps to Ubuntu touch.

Plus what makes the perfect laptop for our crew, why the future of Btrfs looks very bright & an Ubuntu MATE Update.

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• Rugged NUC mini-PCs run Linux on Broadwell and Bay Trail · LinuxGizmos.com

• Microsoft is killing off the Internet Explorer brand | America’s Markets

Catch Up:

• BioShock Infinite Released For Linux, Thanks To Virtual Programming

• bioshock infinite is ready!!!!! : linux_gaming

• State of VoIP in Linux – Datamation

Like most people, I find myself using the same VoIP options everyone else is using. Thankfully, these days there are far more options available than what we might think. Today, I’ll look at these options and also explore up-and-coming alternatives as well.

TING

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• Episode 82 – Pre-show Goes in my Favorites EVER! Awesome!

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Here you can install everything needed to get developing apps and scopes for Ubuntu.

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Dell’s Linux PC sequel still “just works”—but it adds 4K screen and rough edges | Ars Technica

For $1,533 out of the gate or about $2,080 as tested, is the M3800 Developer Edition worth it?

Sure—if you want a fast, well-built, well-equipped 4K laptop preloaded with Ubuntu, with most of the potential edge-case configuration issues already taken care of, with an active set of developers working to ensure that the necessary repos are kept current, and with an actual, for-real OEM warranty and support.

The Good

• Ubuntu 14.04, factory-preconfigured to just work
• Barton George and the other Dell engineers worry about packages and drivers so you don’t have to
• High-quality build: no squeaks, no rattles, no shimmies
• 16GB of RAM, the potential for a large SSD, and a Haswell i7 CPU mean it’s got plenty of guts as a developer’s workstation
• Reasonable amount of upgradeability
• Display is bright, beautiful, and works with Ubuntu 14.04 (including the multitouch functionality)

The Bad

• Thunderbolt port doesn’t really work in Ubuntu
• Application-level 4k scaling issues are pretty much all over the place
• If all you’re after is Linux on a laptop, you can do it for cheaper than the M3800’s starting price
• I kind of hoped the Dell logo on the back would light up, but sadly it doesn’t

The Ugly

• Battery life with the Nvidia GPU enabled is far too short for a day’s worth of working

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The future of Linux storage | ZDNet

For instance, Chris Mason, a Facebook software engineer and one of the _Btrfs(pronounced Butter FS) maintainers, explained how Facebook uses this file system. Btrfs has many advantages as a file system such as the ability to handle both numerous small files and single files as large as 16 exabytes; baked in RAID; built-in file-system compression; and integrated multi-storage device support._

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Have Interface designers led us down a false path? Why is it when heavy lifting is needed our tools still fall short in 2014? Mike discusses the shortcomings of some of our favorite tools, who is on the right track, and what the real solution seems to be.

Plus some great feedback and Chris begins a new kind of challenge.

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• Thoughts on Node.js losing a LARGE community member

• Open Source Consulting in IT

• Lean is Mean-ingless

• Management & TDD

• How to Prevent Burn-out

• From Burnout to A little pocket change

Dev Hoopla: Do All Interface Tools Suck?

• Glade – A User Interface Designer

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• Xamarin.Forms – Build native UIs from a single, shared C# codebase. – Xamarin

Build native UIs for iOS, Android and Windows Phone
from a single, shared C# codebase.

• Category:tools -> qtcreator | Qt Wiki | Qt Project

Qt Creator is a cross-platform IDE (integrated development environment) tailored to the needs of Qt developers.

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What we’d like to see come out of Google I/O, and the real changes they need to make to boost Android development to the next level. We’ve got our list, and we’re checking it twice.

Plus is there such a thing as a VPS on the cheap? The real improvements Apple needs to make in iOS 7, your feedback and more!

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Dev World Hoopla

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  • What Google I/O should bring for Android hardware lovers | Internet & Media – CNET News

Google\’s hotly anticipated annual developer conference will kick off in just a couple days in San Francisco. And conference-goers and Android fans are excited about the possibility of new products the company may announce and/or give away.

• New Android Boss Finally Reveals Plans for World\’s Most Popular Mobile OS

So far Pichai, a 40-year old grad of the fabled Indian Institute of Technology and later Stanford, has kept his head down and refused all press. But as this week’s I/O event approached, he granted WIRED his first interview since taking over Android.

• WWDC Wish List

• iOS 7 Launch Likely In WWDC 2013 As Web Traffic From Devices Running Unannounced Apple OS Surge

TechCrunch reported Wednesday that Onswipe, a company that specializes in creating tablet-optimized HTML5 websites for its customers, has observed \”a significant bump\” in the number of visits to its partner sites — from both iPhones and iPads that apparently run on iOS 7

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• Ouya Update

• Ouya delays retail launch until June 25th to ensure it can meet demand | The Verge

Ouya has revealed it will delay the retail launch of its Android-based gaming console by three weeks until June 25th. In an interview with Ouya CEO Julie Uhrman.

• OUYA Closes $15 Million Round, Sets Up Microconsole Showdown – Forbes

OUYA, the most well-funded and heavily marketed of a number of approaches to TV-based microconsole gaming, has announced both a $15 million funding round and a three-week pushback on its June 4  retail launch date.

The round, led by Kleiner Perkins, features investment from graphics company NVIDIA (which is marketing its new mobile processors heavily on their console-like gaming performance, most obviously in their proof-of-concept Project Shield console, and which supplies the Tegra 3 mobile processor powering the OUYA), the Mayfield Fund, Shasta Ventures and Ocean Partners. This nearly doubles the $8.5 million funding the OUYA console raised in its July 2012 Kickstarter campaign. Kleiner Perkins\’ Bing Gordon, an EA veteran currently on the board of Zynga, will also join  the OUYA board.

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The CEO of System76 joins us to discuss the impact Ubuntu’s recent announcements on Linux, the community, and products built around Ubuntu.

Then we debate if Canonical leading Ubuntu down a path of collapse under the weight of a massive gamble on unproven, in-house technology, or are they about to make their grand contribution to the open source community?

Plus the good news for KDE & WebM users, we answer some Linux questions…

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