The first and last Release Candidate of ROSA Desktop 2012 was announced last week. This means, of course, that the stable edition will be hitting a download mirror near you very soon, likely before Xmas.
Read more »Limerick migrates to Zentyal’s open source email solution
The city of Limerick, located in mid-west Ireland and, which at a population of about 110,000, is that country’s third largest city, has chosen Zentyal to migrate to an open source email solution.
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ROSA Desktop 2012 GNOME alpha
The GNOME 3 edition is a community edition, not officially supported by ROSA Laboratory, though the same developers working on the officially-supported desktop editions are also responsible for this community edition.
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Samba 4.0 has been released
The Samba development team has just announced the release of Samba 4.0. Samba is a Free Softwareimplementation of SMB/CIFS protocols, which makes it possible for any system running Samba to function as a file, print and authentication server suite for Microsoft Windows and UNIX-like clients.
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Crowdfunding Piwik 2.0
If you run a website, it is what you use when you do not want to use Google Analytics or any other third party solution.
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You can now buy a custom APC case
Remember the Android PC (APC) mini mother board from VIA Technologies Inc? At the time it was released, it’s form-factor, known as Neo-ITX, did not fit any available computer case.
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Krita Sketch released
Krita Sketch, a version of Krita for touch interfaces, has been released. Krita is a cross-platform sketching and painting application for the K Desktop Environment (KDE)
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Linux Mint 14 Cinnamon review
Aside from the DNS issue (slow Internet access), another thing I observed when applying updates is shown in the image below. Note that these unauthenticated packages are not third-party updates, but core software available in the default repository. To me, that’s a major security concern.
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Mageia 3, what’s on tap?
If you would like to take it for a spin, there is a 3.6 GB installer DVD image for fresh installations and upgrades, installation-only and Live CD and Live DVD images for KDE and GNOME 3, and free and non-free Network installer images.
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Semplice 3.0.0 preview
Semplice’s graphical interface is powered by Openbox, and is touted as needing less than 400 MB to boot the live system. Its development is led by Eugenio “g7″ Paolantonio (from Italy).
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Ubuntu for smartphones: Will this penguin fly?
I don’t know, but the most important trend indicator at this stage does not look good: The Operators and OEMs page on the project’s site does not list any OEMs, not one. That tells you how much OEM-clout (OEM-convincing power) Canonical has, or does not have.
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Will the market place be kind to Pebble?
Rather, it’s main purpose is as a control and informational device, kinda like a modern-day remote control, aside from also being a traditional, but cooler wrist watch. I said “cooler,” because Pebble is a thing of beauty, both from a geek’s and end-user’s standpoint.
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SolusOS 2 alpha 6 preview
SolusOS is a desktop distribution based on Debian. It is co-founded by a couple of guys who were involved with Linux Mint Debian Edition.
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Upgrading Fedora 17 to 18 with FedUp is elegant, but …
With Fedora 18, the recommended upgrade tool is called FedUp (FEDora UPgrade). It is, by design, a lot more elegant than what it replaced, but how well or error-free it works is another matter.
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ROSA Desktop Fresh 2012 review
I’ve been running ROSA Desktop Fresh 2012 beta 1 on a test system since it was released on October 20 2012. When the stable edition was made available for download, I didn’t need to reinstall, just updated the system. This review is based on that system, with screen shots from it and a couple of test installations in a virtual environment.
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