December 2013
2014 in Tux Machines
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Tuesday 31st of December 2013 05:38:11 PM Filed under
OUR FIRST couple of months at Tux Machines were pleasurable and we hope that readers found the links we've shared valuable. We even posted links while on vacation, i.e. away from home.
Migration of the site to Drupal 7 (and another server) has been planned for over a month now and it did not happen over Christmas because if things go wrong, not much help will be at hand. We have already tested a prototype of the site and it will need to be upgraded, integrated, etc. Whether we can retain the existing theme (compatibility changes between major releases of Drupal) remains to be seen, but the format of the site will definitely stay the same.
Happy new year to all our readers, whom we very much value. This site is a public service. █
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2013 REVIEWED – FROM A LINUX USER’S POINT OF VIEW
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Tuesday 31st of December 2013 05:30:04 PM Filed under
2013 was one of the most dramatic years of my life-time. The Edward Snowden revelations made this year the most remarkable year in the history. As a Gnu/Linux user (where privacy and control of data is prime objective) this year was quite promising as Gnu/Linux rose as the dominant player in the consumer space.
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Shuttleworth: Ubuntu Linux on track for full convergence before Microsoft
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Tuesday 31st of December 2013 05:23:51 PM Filed under

Microsoft is widely expected to converge its operating systems across desktops, mobile phones and tablets. However, according to Mark Shuttleworth, Ubuntu Linux is on track to achieve full convergence first.
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What Happened In Desktop Linux In 2013? Not Much
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Tuesday 31st of December 2013 05:20:01 PM Filed under
Much like the overall IT industry, the Linux community shifted its focus to mobile and cloud computing.
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Linux dominates Amazon's Christmas tablet sales
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Tuesday 31st of December 2013 05:14:12 PM Filed under
While I'm happy to see Android doing so well, I'd really like to see other Linux-based products topping the charts too. Perhaps an Ubuntu based tablet or phone might also be a good option for consumers. I'd very much prefer that customers had another choice besides just Android, iOS or Microsoft Windows based products.
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Leftovers: Applications
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Tuesday 31st of December 2013 04:04:47 PM Filed under

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Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Tuesday 31st of December 2013 04:03:40 PM Filed under
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Leftovers: Games
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Tuesday 31st of December 2013 04:03:00 PM Filed under

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Intel Releases A Boatload Of Haswell Documentation
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Monday 30th of December 2013 10:34:53 PM Filed under
As an extra holiday present for Linux and open-source fans, Intel has quietly released a large batch of new programming documentation that covers their latest-generation Haswell graphics cores. The new "programmer's reference manuals" cover the 2013 Haswell HD Graphics, Iris Graphics, and Iris Pro Graphics. This massive batch of documentation is spread across twelve volumes and does document their hardware registers.
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Chromebooks' success punches Microsoft in the gut
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Monday 30th of December 2013 10:34:10 PM Filed under

Chromebooks had a very good year, according to retailer Amazon.com and industry analysts.
And that's bad news for Microsoft.
The pared-down laptops powered by Google's browser-based Chrome OS have surfaced this year as a threat to "Wintel," the Microsoft-Intel oligarchy that has dominated the personal-computer space for decades with Windows machines.
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| Red Hat Hires a Blind Software Engineer to Improve Accessibility on Linux Desktop
Accessibility on a Linux desktop is not one of the strongest points to highlight. However, GNOME, one of the best desktop environments, has managed to do better comparatively (I think).
In a blog post by Christian Fredrik Schaller (Director for Desktop/Graphics, Red Hat), he mentions that they are making serious efforts to improve accessibility.
Starting with Red Hat hiring Lukas Tyrychtr, who is a blind software engineer to lead the effort in improving Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Fedora Workstation in terms of accessibility.
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