IBM to buy Red Hat for $34B in cash and debt, taking a bigger leap into hybrid cloud “After rumors flew around this weekend, IBM today confirmed that it would acquire open source, cloud software business Red Hat for $190 per share in cash, working out to a total value of $34 billion. IBM said…
READ MOREUbuntu now fits on your phone “Room for your content Your phone is more immersive, the screen is less cluttered, and you flow naturally from app to app with edge magic. The phone becomes a full PC and thin client when docked. Ubuntu delivers a magical phone that is faster to run, faster to use…
READ MORECommodore Amiga returns with powerful Mini desktop PC “The Commodore Amiga 500 computer deserves its place in gadget folklore, but now the brand is back seeking to capture its former glories with a well-specced Mac mini rival Late last year Commodore pulled a major surprise by re-launching the iconic C64 with all new, modern innards….
READ MORENVIDIA joins Linux Foundation “It’s a big day for open source fans now that NVIDIA, the last member of the “big three” chip makers with AMD and Intel, has signed on with the Linux foundation. The company has previously kept the system at arms length, with users relying on reverse-engineering to get things working nicely…
READ MORE£22 Raspberry Pi computer sells out within hours of launch “The pint-sized PC, which aims to reacquaint British children with computer programming, the £22 Raspberry Pi, sells out on day one. The Raspberry Pi PC, which went on sale on Wednesday for a paltry £22, has sold out within hours of its launch. The bare-bones…
READ MORENeed a Job? Learn Linux “The Linux Foundation today posted their first ever Linux Jobs Report, created in conjunction with tech job site Dice.com. The report examines the current demand for Linux talent, and identifies a few interesting trends. Of the 2,300 survey respondents, eight in ten said that hiring Linux talent is a priority…
READ MORENext-gen boot spec could forever lock Linux off Windows 8 “Windows 8’s super-fast boot times come from the UEFI spec that,when used in secure mode, prevents users from loading operating systems and drivers Windows 8 PCs will boot super fast in part because of the next-generation booting specification known as Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI)….
READ MOREUbuntu 11.10 ‘Oneiric Ocelot’ now available to download “In case you haven’t been keeping an eye on the countdown, we thought we’d remind you that Ubuntu 11.10 — otherwise known as Oneiric Ocelot — is now available to download (completely free of charge, of course). That brings with it an updated version of the Unity…
READ MOREHappy 20th Birthday, Linux: 10 Cool Devices That Embrace You “The Linux operating system is not just for nerds. Even though you may not realize it, chances are you probably have a version of Linux running right under your nose. It’s found its way into a multitude of devices, both large and small. Today, Sept….
READ MORE10 things Linux did for us “1. 150 million Android devices that have been activated to date? All running on an OS built on the Linux operating system kernel. 2. At the last count, nine out of 10 Hollywood animation studios ran on Linux servers. 3. Facebook, Yahoo, Twitter, Amazon and eBay are all built…
READ MOREUbuntu Fans: Humble Bundle Games Are Now Available In The Software Center “If you’ve been living under a rock for the last couple of years, you might be excused for not knowing about this Humble Bundle thing. As a long-time Linux user, the Humble Bundles have always been of interest to me, and I’ve always…
READ MORELinux kernel 3.3 released with merged Android code and more “The latest refresh of the Linux kernel, 3.3, is now available, and the second release of 2012 brings with it the long-awaited merging of code from Google’s little side project. While that is particularly interesting to developers looking to boot Android or run apps on…
READ MORENeed to Know – Raspberry Pi “The Raspberry Pi project wants to get people fiddling around with the basic components behind computers again – and it’s proving to be a hit, with stocks selling out within hours of it going on sale. Want to get your geek on with some home-schooling? Here’s what you get…
READ MOREUbuntu’s full desktop OS coming to multi-core Android devices “What the Atrix 4G first promised, it looks like the folks at Canonical may deliver. Think back to CES 2011, when Motorola showed us a future where our phone was the only computing device we would need — only to leave us wanting when its webtop…
READ MORELinux kernel hits version 3.2 “Linux kernel 3.2 is finally here. As per usual, it packs a number of improvements — most them under the hood. Perhaps most exciting are some power-saving features related to graphics drivers, which should help get those battery life issues under control in Ubuntu 12.04. Other improvements include better (and…
READ MOREUbuntu coming to tablets, phones, cars and smart TVs by 2014 “We’ve already seen Ubuntu running on tablets and smartphones, but not in any official capacity. Rumors had it that Canonical would be making a serious push into the tablet space in early 2011, but that effort never materialized, or at least was never acknowledged….
READ MORELinux kernel hits 3.1, adds support for NFC and Wiimotes “In May Linux finally saw the release of kernel version 3.0, an evolutionary update to the popular open-source platform that was nearly 15 years in the making. Today, version 3.1 is making its debut, once again primarily offering small tweaks like better support for Intel’s…
READ MOREDennis Ritchie, Creator of Unix and C, Dies at 70 “One of the most influential figures in the history of computing, Dennis Ritchie, has passed away at the age of 70 after a long illness. Ritchie is credited with creating the programming language C, one of the most widely used and influential languages today. He…
READ MORETermkit http://acko.net/blog/on-termkit really interested me for a new way of looking at something that has barely had any change. Granted the Microsoft powershell adds features and colours and let’s you administer more, but essentially you are still typing blindly hoping the commands you type and the files you work on are the correct ones. I…
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