Well, done at last! After some time gathering opinions from readers and quite some more time testing each one of the contenders, I have finished my comparison of the best of the best in KDE distros.
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Samsung interested in Meego
Samsung interested in Meego, report says Samsung Electronics may be considering a purchase of the increasingly defunct smartphone operating system Meego as its own proprietary platform. That’s according to a report today from Mobiledia, which cites industry sources. A Samsung representative declined to comment to CNET. The platform chatter highlights the increasing dilemma that Android handset manufacturers face now that … Read More
Top 50 best Linux apps 2011
For everyone at Linux Format magazine and most of its readers, computers and Linux are a passion. Linux is perfect: its open source nature and excellent shell make it the ultimate hobbyist’s operating system. Fortunately, there’s a huge number of top-class applications available as well: market leading packages for professional and consumer level media creation, tools for developers, systems administrators … Read More
We won and we didn’t notice
a conversation with Jeremy Allison of Samba On a recent visit back to the UK, lead Samba developer Jeremy Allison met up with Richard Hillesley. Here, Richard Allison’s description of the history of his involvement with open source, Linux and Samba. Jeremy Allison is a steelworker’s son from Sheffield in South Yorkshire and a Samba developer who has lived in … Read More
Interview with Christoph Grab – First Results from the LHC Experiment and the Role of HPC
In this interview Christoph tells us what scientific questions the LHC experiments want to answer. He summarizes the most important results that have been presented at the two last largest conferences explaining what the specific contribution from Swiss researchers is. Full story
Toshiba Unveils The Thinnest Honeycomb Tablet Yet, The 7.7mm-thick AT200
Just like the rumor stated, Toshiba used IFA 2011 to announce its latest Android tablet and it’s just as tiny as it looked. The AT200 packs a 1.2GHz TI OMAP 4430 CPU, up to 64GB of memory, and most of the ports that made the Toshiba Thrive popular: micro-USB, microSD, and micro-HDMI. Toshiba claims that the battery is good for … Read More
Red Hat Seeks Wish List Items from Customers for RHEL 7
There are strong signs that Red Hat is approaching the next wave of its considerably successful business story. As CEO Jim Whitehurst has noted, virtualization is emerging as a big concern for the company going forward, as it increasingly squares off with VMware in that space. And recently, although his position is arguable, he contended that both the PC and … Read More
Linus Ditches KDE and Gnome (so what?)
Having made an earlier defection from KDE to Gnome, Linus Torvalds has now rejected both in favor of Xfce. It’s only natural that the actions of the creator of the Linux kernel would attract extra scrutiny, and I think that his decision is reflective of a wider disenchantment amongst long-term Linux users. So is this post a sky-is-falling complain-fest? Not … Read More
Linux spotted running on an iPad
Everybody loves introducing operating systems to where they don’t belong. Case in point? The countless Android iPhones, Android TouchPad and even the Android HTC HD2. Well, now we’ve got one more device to add to the list: an iPad running Linux. Some developers have managed to get the open source operating system running on Apple’s A4-equippsde iOS devices, which means … Read More
Red Hat’s biggest enemy? VMware
Summary: Guess who Red Hat, the Linux giant, thinks its biggest enemy will be by 2016? Let’s play a game. Who do you think Red Hat’s biggest enemy will be in a few years? Will it be Microsoft, Linux’s traditional enemy? Could SUSE, the number two business Linux distributor, make a try for the top? Might Ubuntu’s Canonical make its … Read More
A tour of the first-ever Linux Hall of Fame
s part of the 20th anniversary of Linux, the Linux Foundation put together its first ever Linux Hall of Fame exhibit. They showcased it at LinuxCon, held in Vancouver last week. The exhibit features signed items from the who’s-who of the Linux world like Linus Torvalds. The Linux Foundation’s Jennifer Cloer walked me through some of her favorite items. These … Read More
Could Big Data Be the Next Big Move for Red Hat?
Is Red Hat interested in joining the Big Data trend? One of the biggest trends in computing at enterprises and even small- and medium-sized businesses is Big Data crunching, using tools such as the open source Hadoop. Businesses want to slice and dice their analytics and databases in new ways, surfacing views of everything from customer behavior to support trends … Read More
Microsoft to help sell Hyper-V infused Linux distro in China
Microsoft and China Standard Software Co. Ltd. (CS2C), announced a deal through which CS2C’s Linux-based NeoKylin Linux Server distribution will be matched with Hyper-V Open Cloud architecture. The combined offering, which puts Microsoft in the unlikely business of selling Linux solutions, is aimed at developing cloud applications in China, and is expected to be deployed in the defense infrastructure, as … Read More
Lessons from LinuxCon North America 2011
Every conference, at least the good ones, has a theme to tease out and lessons to learn. LinuxCon North America 2011 was one of the best, and having the good fortune to be in Vancouver, BC last week for LinuxCon, I learned quite a bit. Now, I’m not just talking about technical stuff. There were plenty of great technical sessions … Read More
IBM’s Irving Wladawsky-Berger Talks Linux Then and Now
The second day of LinuxCon North America 2011 kicked off with a key figure to Linux’s success, Dr. Irving Wladawsky-Berger. Formerly responsible for IBM’s response to emerging technologies, Wladawsky-Berger talked about the disruptive force of Linux then and now, and IBM’s relationship with Linux through the years. Full story