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The standout feature is the 12.3-inch IPS display which has a 2K resolution (2736×1824) and 3:2 aspect ratio. I’ve never used Ubuntu (or any OS, for that matter) on HiDPI so I’m blissfully unaware to the current state of things!

mimipenguin: A tool to dump the login password from the current linux user

A tool to dump the login password from the current linux desktop user. Adapted from the idea behind the popular Windows tool mimikatz.

Thunderbird’s Future Home

The investigations on Thunderbird’s future home have concluded. The Mozilla Foundation has agreed to serve as the legal and fiscal home for the Thunderbird project, but Thunderbird will migrate off Mozilla Corporation infrastructure, separating the operational aspects of the project.

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Apricity OS

Like all good things, Apricity OS must come to an end. It has been our privilege to develop the operating system, and to be a part of a community as great as our own. But unfortunately, we no longer have time for its required upkeep.

Google’s “Fuchsia” smartphone OS dumps Linux, has a wild new UI | Ars Technica

Unlike Android and Chrome OS, Fuchsia is not based on Linux—it uses a new, Google-developed microkernel called “Magenta.”

CasterSoundboard: A soundboard for hot-keying and playing back sounds. (For podcasting)

Transitioning to LINUX Unplugged, wrapping up this Sub.

We’ve had a secret skunk-works project all long, and after years of careful crafting, organic sourcing, small batch thinking, and industrialized scaling potential, we are ready to unveil the next big thing in subreddits

TING

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Canonical starts IPO path | ZDNet

Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth reveals the reason for recent changes with the powerhouse Ubuntu Linux company were to prepare it for an IPO.

Where we failed, and I feel responsible for miscalculating effectively, was our push into personal computing: phones, tablets, PCs.

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Galago Pro – First Hands On

Take advantage of ports like USB-C with Thunderbolt, Ethernet, HDMI, and Mini DisplayPort… with an SD card slot for good measure. No dongles necessary!

System76 Blog — GNOME!

Home sweet GNOME. It’s been a while but we’re excited to be back. We’ve been playing with our new toy the last few weeks. Our Slack channels were fiery fast but the geek debates have subsided. We’ve now gathered our thoughts and laid out our plan.

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Mac’s Exodus of 2017 | LAS 451

chris — Sun, 08 Jan 2017 20:39:41 +0000

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PREDICTIONS!!

Chris’ Predictions:
Big year for media production on Linux. Linux is damn near perfect for audio podcasting already.
Microsoft makes a deal with Canonical to run a product on Ubuntu blessed Kernel
A great year for Elementary OS / Solus – For different reasons, that appeal to a large and not yet discovered base.
Plasma Desktop’s best year in ages. They’ve hit a stride and the Neon project is showing everyone the results as fast as they can ship it.
Gnome will likely be the biggest receiver of Macs exodus.
Dell expands its Linux line to the point that I start taking them seriously as a Linux vendor.
Valve pulls back on Steam Machines for 2017, doubles down on Steam Link.
Valve Brings early VR to Linux.
By the end of 2017, OSS File Sync is mostly a finished discussion.
Noah’s Predictions:
IOT pisses me off more than in any year past
USB3 available on every laptop sold
A fall in macbook purchases
Chris mispronounces a project name
JB Moves to a internet based server arch
Intensive application such as audio/video avail on linux via cloud
Linux based self driving car as a service

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Smart Watch RUNS LINUX

Here’s the sad thing; on my laptop, I still am running the bloated, legacy X11 display server. I had to because I was involved in maintaining an X11 desktop environment. But Asteroid OS is 100% Wayland only. And it works like a charm:

Desktop App Pick

FSlint – Duplicate file finder for linux

FSlint is a utility to find and clean various forms of lint on a filesystem.
I.E. unwanted or problematic cruft in your files or file names.
For example, one form of lint it finds is duplicate files.
It has both GUI and command line modes.
For more info please see the FAQ.

Thunderbird

Thunderbird replicates the new look and feel of Mozilla Firefox in an effort to provide a similar user experience across all Mozilla software desktop or mobile and all platforms.
Tabbed email lets you load emails in separate tabs so you can quickly jump between them. Tabs appear on the top of the menu bar providing a powerful visual experience and allowing the toolbars to be much more contextual.
Tabbed email lets you keep multiple emails open for easy reference. Double-clicking or hitting Enter on a mail message will open that message in a new tab.
When quitting Thunderbird, visible tabs will be saved and will be restored when you open Thunderbird the next time. There is also a Tab menu on the Tab toolbar to help you switch between tabs.

Spotlight

Commercial DAW VST Plugins on Linux

Unleash your creativity with this collection of inspiring, contemporary DSP effects. Compatible with all major DAW’s, your signature sound is no longer limited to a single host.
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Canonical Clarifies Ubuntu Phone State: Nothing Really Until Snap-Based Image Ready

Pat shares that the Click-based Ubuntu Phone images are indeed on the way out, there will be no new Ubuntu Phone models until there is a “Snap image”, and they don’t plan to do an OTA-15 feature release. Canonical doesn’t plan to land any new features to the current stable PPA, but they will be providing security updates for important components.

Is Ubuntu Touch Dead?

Endless introduces Linux mini desktop PCs for American market

For the past few years Endless Computers has been making inexpensive Linux-based computers designed for use in emerging markets. Last summer the company also started working with PC makers to load its Endless OS software on some computers.
Now Endless is launching its first products designed specifically for the United States.
The Endless Mission One and Mission Mini are small, low power computers that sell for $249 or less. They should both be available for pre-order starting January 16th.
Home | Endless Computers

KDE Neon Now Available as Docker Image

I’m announcing a beta of KDE neon on Docker. Docker containers are a lightweight way to create a virtual system running on top of your normal Linux install but with its own filesystem and other rules to stop it getting in the way of your OS. They are insanely popular now for server deployment but I think they work just as well for checking out desktop and other UI setups.
To give it a try first setup docker as you would for your distro. For Ubuntu distros that means running:

NVidia New ShieldTV

Nvidia’s Shield set-top streaming device got an update at this year’s CES, and it was a big one: The new hardware is 40 percent smaller than the original, with a new Android 7.0 Nougat-based operating system and a redesigned UI that groups games together and just generally organizes things a bit more logically. It also handles 4K HDR content streaming, and boasts the most sources available for such content of any set-top streaming device currently available.

Pornhub 2016 – Linux up by 3%

When it comes to porn, we usually ask if you’re more into ass or tits, though the increasingly more important question when it comes to porn consumption is Apple or Android? And Pornhub never misses a chance to report on the different behavior between different OS users. So looking back at 2016, we (of course) dug into the difference in traffic and tastes by operating systems. Let’s start with desktop. While Windows continues to dominate when it comes to which operating system users count on to watch Pornhub (about 80% of desktop users), Mac OS and Linux are on the rise, with Mac OS up 8% in traffic share and Linux up an impressive 14%.

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Mail Bag

Name: frodo wiz
Subject: Solus Feedback
Message: I tried this out a few times throughout this year and was happy with it until i found out it will never support ZFS. solus os has some bells and whistles as far as steam goes. except for data integrity. simple question for Ike: Do you expect me to amass 500 gig of games over a cell phone connection and trust that data wont get bit rot with any other file system than ZFS? wanna re-download 10 of them over cell connection? i didn’t think so. ike has done a great job with solus os but it falls short if it leaves out ZFS. kinda like building a car by hand and equipping it with bicycle tires. you can still drive it on some roads maybe, under some circumstances. handicapped

ive been entrusting my data to a 2 TB ZFS mirror for 2 years now and i cringe thinking about anything else.when you dont have the time or resources, you use the best.

if solus had zfs, it would be a no-brainer, especially for a game machine.

Name: Jason
Subject: Getting into a Linux Career
Message:

I have been listening to several of the shows that Jupiter Broadcasting has, and religiously tune in to LAS and Linux Unplugged every week. You guys are doing a great job!

Would studying with Linux Academy and getting my RHCA and RHCE be enough to get into a job making a decent wage? I know there is the Catch 22 of certs are worthless without experience. However, but if I am correct, RHCA and RHCE are performance based exams. Wouldn’t that be enough to get your foot in the door?

I have taken several Linux, Windows and Cisco courses back in 2005, 2006, however I know a lot has changed since then.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for everything you guys do at Jupiter Broadcasting and I want to wish you all a belated Happy New Year!

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Long Term Disappointment | LINUX Unplugged 142

chris — Tue, 26 Apr 2016 20:16:06 +0000

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This week LTS has a new meaning as we reflect on a couple of weeks with Ubuntu 16.04 & why we’re dumping it.

We pick up the mood with some exclusive LinuxFest Northwest clips, projects updates & another clip that was never meant to air.

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Firefox 46 Released, Finally Brings GTK3 Integration – OMG! Ubuntu!

Among the changes to ship in Firefox 46:

GTK3 integration on Linux
Security improvements of the Just In Time (JIT) compiler
Improved decoding of unencrypted H.264 & AAC media
Better WebRTC performance
Responsive web mode dev feature now easier to access

Firefox and Thunderbird: A Fork in the Road

Firefox and Thunderbird have reached a fork in the road: it’s now the right time for them to part ways on both a technical and organizational level.

Magic happens with the Ubuntu tablet

The second the Ubuntu Tablet connects to the wireless mouse, it switches over to desktop mode. That’s when the real “magic” happens. All of a sudden I’m working on a tablet that is in full multitasking mode. Windows act like windows…in the traditional sense

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LFNW 2016 The Stuff You Didn’t See in LAS

Speakers from all areas of tech, and talks covering the full gamut of experience, from newbie to guru.

Clips from our crazy Saturday

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Instability we have seen on multiple machines
Why we are not using 16.04 anymore.

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Thunderclouds around Thunderbird | LINUX Unplugged 122

chris — Tue, 08 Dec 2015 20:27:53 +0000

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Mozilla wants to spin off Thunderbird & launch an iOS ad blocker that only works with Safari. Is there a master plan at work, or has the Mozilla foundation lost their way? Our virtual LUG debates.

Then our best solutions for syncing your Podcasts from your mobile to your Linux desktop & SpiderOak ditches Google.

Plus we review the new CrossOver 15 & discuss how this Linux desktop app works like no other. What nice features it offers over PlayOnLinux & standard WINE, why it’s not quite like other commercial software for Linux & more!

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“Yeah, we ditched Google.”

For the past five years, we had been using Google Analytics for monitoring our web traffic. Innocent enough decision, right? Then we asked ourselves, “are we contributing to the mass surveillance of the web by using a feature-rich, yet free service that tracks web visitors?” Sadly. we didn’t like the answer to that question. “Yes, by using Google Analytics, we are furthering the erosion of privacy on the web.”

Follow Up / Catch Up

Looking for Solution to Sync Podcasts Between Android and Linux Desktop

TING

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What’s Happening with Thunderbird and Mozilla?

Ideas for the integration of Thunderbird with LibreOffice

Concrete ideas of further integration of LibreOffice and Thunderbird

Changes in LibreOffice:

Access to multiple Thunderbird address books (tdf#57873).

Changes/extensions for Thunderbird:

Provide a theme for Thunderbird to make look and feel more similar to LibreOffice.
Thunderbird currently does not provide a preview of documents (except for .txt and .html). A preview of ODF (and all other supported file types) could be possible via the integration of LibreOffice Kit into Thunderbird. This could be a joint Thunderbird & LibreOffice project for GSOC 2016.
Possibility to use LibreOffice Writer as email editor in Thunderbird.
Enable Contact Notes to supports complex formatting and pictures. Notes for a Contact in an Address Book could use LibreOffice Writer/Kit. Notes could be saved in OpenDocument format

Libreoffice Does Not Want Thunderbird

One of the reasons behind the success of the LibreOffice project is the

sharp focus on a single application, which is not going to change

anytime soon. We are already working on the Android and the Cloud

versions of LibreOffice, and this is more than enough – in term of

global effort – for a community based project. So, please avoid any

speculation based on rumors, as they might be intentionally created by

our competitors.

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Firefox OS Comes to an End.. Where is Mozilla going?

Goodbye most popular desktop email client, Thunderbird. Hello IOS ad blocker. Uh, okay. https://t.co/L4Vbp3Dxqd https://t.co/7nxGBdofEx

— Alan Pope (@popey) December 8, 2015

Mozilla Will Stop Developing And Selling Firefox OS Smartphones | TechCrunch

Farewell Firefox OS smartphones. Mozilla today announced an end to its smartphone experiment, and said that it would stop developing and selling Firefox OS smartphones. It will continue to experiment on how it might work on other connected devices and Internet of Things networks.

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CrossOver 15 Review

CrossOver 15 Released

Linux Improvements:

CrossOver now uses PulseAudio for sound if it is available on
the system.
CrossOver has a completely redone User Interface on
Linux.
- Application Support:
Quicken 2016 now runs in CrossOver.
- General Improvements:
Wine 1.8 brings thousands of updates to CrossOver’s core
compatibility with Windows applications.
Dual screen Linux setups will run Microsoft Office
better than before.
CodeWeavers Blogs – Jana Schmid – Having Ourselves a Merry Little Release | CodeWeavers

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Linux in Mint Condition | LAS 394

chris — Sun, 06 Dec 2015 09:14:13 +0000

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Linux Mint 17.3 proves you can based a Linux desktop on a stable core (Ubuntu 14.04) & still deliver an innovative and polished desktop. We take back some of our concerns about Linux Mint & discuss the areas where they are pushing user experience forward.

Plus Mozilla plans to dump Thunderbird, the big release that completely ignores Windows & more!

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New features in Linux Mint 17.3 Cinnamon

Linux Mint 17.3 is a long term support release which will be supported until 2019. It comes with updated software and brings refinements and many new features to make your desktop experience more comfortable to use.

Linux Mint 17.3 available for download.

Simplify Command-Line Package Management with APT instead of apt-get

APT, the Advanced Package Tool from the Debian project, is for managing packages by using a lot of separate tools to accomplish various tasks. In the past, users needed to know multiple command structures like apt-get, apt-cache, apt-config, and many more to utilize the full feature-set of APT.

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Race Cars Runs LINUX!

Sent in by: Nathan S.

Hi guys, I found a cool project run by castrol edge. They are racing two cars on a race track with the drivers wearing virtual reality helmets. Cameras and sensors on the cars feed information into an Ubuntu laptop inside the car and generate the VR display. Thanks for producing the great content that gets me through a 300 mile a week bus commute to school.

Desktop App Pick

Free Astronomical Observatory Software

Alexander Wolf has had the great pleasure of announcing the immediate availability for download of the first maintenance release of Stellarium 0.14, the best free and open-source astronomical observatory software.

According to the internal release notes, which we’ve attached at the end of the article for reference, Stellarium 0.14.1 is mostly a bugfix update that resolves some of the issues reported by users since the previous release of the software, Stellarium 0.14.

Stellarium

Weekly Spotlight

$276.00 worth of Raspberry Pi / Arduino

Humble Books Bundle: Learn Raspberry Pi and Arduino

Treat yourself to Raspberry Pi (and Arduino too)! Have an appetite for making? Satisfy your craving with these Make: books and magazines while serving up support for Maker Ed too!

Pay what you want for Make: Raspberry Pi and AVR Projects, MintDuino: Building an Arduino-compatible Breadboard Microcontroller, Make: Getting Started with Adafruit Trinket, Make: Getting Started with Adafruit FLORA, Make: Making Simple Robots, and Make: Arduino Bots and Gadgets.

Pay more than the average price to also receive Make: A Raspberry Pi-Controlled Robot; MAKE 38: High-Tech DIY; MAKE 36: Boards and Microcontrollers; Make: The Maker’s Manual; Make: JavaScript Robotics; Make: Getting Started with Sensors; Make: Getting Started with Arduino, 3rd Edition; Make: Getting Started with Raspberry Pi, 2nd Edition; and Make: AVR Programming.

Pay $15 or more for all of that plus Making Things Talk and Make: Sensors.

Plus, everyone who buys the bundle receives $10 off a print and $5 off a digital Make: Magazine subscription

Choose the price. Together, these books cost up to $276. Here at Humble Bundle, though, you choose the price!

Read them anywhere. These books are available in PDF, ePUB, and MOBI formats, meaning you can read them anywhere at anytime. Instructions and a list of recommended reading programs can be found here.

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LAS Jacket Returns!

LAS Jacket Returns! | US

Celebrate your new year with Linux on your mind and on your body!

LAS Jacket in the EU!

We are excited to offer this LAS zip up hooded jacket that will ship from the
EU!

— NEWS —

Mozilla Wants To Split Off Its Thunderbird Email/Chat Client, Says Mitchell Baker Memo

“I believe Thunderbird should would thrive best by separating itself from reliance on Mozilla development systems and in some cases, Mozilla technology,” Baker wrote in her open memo, posted on Mozilla’s public governance forum. “The current setting isn’t stable, and we should start actively looking into how we can transition in an orderly way to a future where Thunderbird and Firefox are un-coupled.”

Mozilla’s conundrum: What to do about Thunderbird?

Baker, who says she uses Thunderbird to organize vast parts of her life, now believes that the email client will thrive best if it does not rely on Mozilla for development resources and, in some cases, on Mozilla technology. “The current setting isn’t stable, and we should start actively looking into how we can transition in an orderly way to a future where Thunderbird and Firefox are un-coupled,” she wrote in Mozilla’s public governance forum on Monday.

Mozilla ends the advertisements in Firefox new tab tiles

Apple’s Swift programming language is now open source

As promised earlier in the year, Apple’s Swift team has now posted source code for the Swift compiler and standard library functions and objects.

MATRIX – The World’s First Smart Home App Ecosystem by AdMobilize —Kickstarter

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On the Verge of Convergence | LINUX Unplugged 84

chris — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 17:44:58 +0000

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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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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

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

LinuxFest Northwest 2015

Bellingham, WA • April 25th & 26th

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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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Linux Look-Back | LINUX Unplugged 50

chris — Tue, 22 Jul 2014 09:19:06 +0000

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We look back at five years of Linux memories, and reminisce about the bad old days of the Linux desktop.

Then the exciting future for PC-BSD, and it’s new unique desktop.

Plus our favorite ways to track performance, desktop Linux app containers that are already here and shipping and much more!

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Lifehacker Pack For Linux 2014: Our List Of The Essential Linux Apps

FU:

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On encapsulated linux applications

Hi I wonder why you haven’t talk much about linuxportable apps, is really great for users that dont want to deal with dependencies and distros and such. Even the Portable Linux Games is awesome since games are non standard linux installs (usually a gnome or kde app will make more sense than a game that has no connection with the DE).

Portable Games for Linux

Please let me know what u think, and who has used before?

AppImageKit

Using AppImageKit you can package applications as AppImages that run on common Linux-based operating systems, such as Ubuntu, Fedora, debian and derivatives.

The AppImage format has the following properties:

The AppImage is an ISO9660 file
The contents of the ISO9660 file can be compressed with zf
In the first 32k of the ISO9660 file, an ELF executable is embedded
which mounts the AppImage, executes the application from the
mounted AppImage, and afterwards unmounts the AppImage again
The ISO9660 file contains an AppDir as per the ROX AppDir specification
The AppDir contains one desktop file as per the freedesktop.org specification

For an AppImage to run on most systems, the following conditions need to be met: 1. The AppImage needs to include all libraries and other dependencies that are not part of all of the base systems that the AppImage is intended to run on 2. The binaries contained in the AppImage need to be compiled on a system not newer than the oldest base system that the AppImage is intended to run on 3. The AppImage should actually be tested on the base systems that it is intended to run on

Retro

5 Years ago: July 2009

Official Google Blog: Introducing the Google Chrome OS

We designed Google Chrome for people who live on the web — searching for information, checking email, catching up on the news, shopping or just staying in touch with friends. However, the operating systems that browsers run on were designed in an era where there was no web. So today, we’re announcing a new project that’s a natural extension of Google Chrome — the Google Chrome Operating System. It’s our attempt to re-think what operating systems should be.

openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 4

https://www.muylinux.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/os112m2-gnome.png
https://www.muylinux.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/os112m2-kde-desktop.png

Sabayon 4.2

review – https://wolf911.us/wgo/?p=190
https://techexposures.com/2009/07/sabayon-4-2-gnome-linux-review-and-screenshots/
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/Sabayon_Linux_4.2G_Compiz.png
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/Sabayon_Linux_4.2G_Compiz_Fusion_Desktop_Wall.png

CrunchBang Linux 9.04.01

RELEASE NOTES: https://crunchbanglinux.org/wiki/release-notes/9.04.01
https://crunchbanglinux.org/wiki/screenshots/9.04.01

PC-BSD 7.1.1

The PC-BSD developers have announced the release of version 7.1.1, the Galileo Edition of their open source operating system. Version 7.1.1 is a maintenance release and includes several bug fixes and improvements.
https://www.pcmech.com/article/pc-bsd-711-quick-review/
https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/pc-bsd.html

Slackware Linux 13.0 RC1

Release Announcement: https://www.slackware.com/announce/13.0.php
https://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/2009/12/17/review-slackware-13-0/

Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, released its Launchpad source code

under a free software license. (announcement)

Amazon fails in its irony detection and deletes George Orwell’s 1984 (and Animal Farm) from users’ Kindle e-book readers. (New York Times coverage)

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