March 2016
RaspEX Linux for Raspberry Pi 3 Gets Kodi Media Center, Bluetooth Support
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 31st of March 2016 11:58:35 PM Filed under
The RaspEX Linux distribution for Raspberry Pi 3 single-board computers has been updated today, March 31, 2016, by developer Arne Exton, bringing support for various hardware components on the new Raspberry Pi board.
RaspEX Build 160331 arrives today as a free upgrade for existing users, and includes the Kodi media center software, Wicd network manager, Mozilla Firefox web browser, VNC4Server VNC connection manager, Samba file sharing tool, PulseAudio sound server, and Bluetooth support.
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Red Hat Financial News
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 31st of March 2016 11:55:07 PM Filed under
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Free RHEL for Developers
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 31st of March 2016 11:54:03 PM Filed under
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Red Hat program programme: no-cost RHEL developer subs
This catalogue of resources now includes access to Red Hat Enterprise Linux Developer Suite as well as the Red Hat JBoss Middleware portfolio, both available via no-cost developer subscriptions.
With this suite, developers have access to development tools and in addition to the latest version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server.
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Red Hat will give away its Linux distro for free to developers
Two years after making its JBoss suite of middleware tools free for non-production use, Red Hat Inc. is introducing the ability to download its flagship Linux distribution under the same terms. The move should make it much more straightforward for developers to take advantage of the platform, which has until now been fairly tricky to access without a paid support subscription even though it’s open-source.
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Red Hat Expands Red Hat Developer Program with No-Cost Red Hat Enterprise Linux Developer Subscription
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Developer Suite now available through no-cost developer subscription, helping to streamline the creation of traditional and cloud-native enterprise applications
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Ubuntu-Based Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition Laptop Launches in Europe
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 31st of March 2016 11:41:48 PM Filed under


We reported earlier this month that Dell launched its highly anticipated XPS 13 Developer Edition laptop in US, as well as the worldwide launch of the Dell Precision line of Ubuntu-based workstations.
And today, March 31, 2016, Dell is happy to announce that the XPS 13 Developer Edition laptop, which also ships with the Ubuntu Linux operating system pre-installed, is available in countries around Europe too, including United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden.
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World’s First Ubuntu-Powered Tablet Up for Pre-Order
Canonical’s open source software finally gets into the mobile devices officially. After being babbling about the mobile experience for years, they finally get to field their Ubuntu US in a tablet device, which has now started entered the pre-order phase.
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MJ Technology’s Ubuntu tablet hits Indiegogo for $230 and up
Canonical and BQ may have partnered to create the first Ubuntu tablet to ship with support for both mobile and desktop user interfaces. But if you’re looking for something a bit more powerful than the BQ Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Edition tablet which recently went up for pre-order, a startup called MJ Technology thinks it has the answer.
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Top 5 lightweight Linux distros for older PCs
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 31st of March 2016 09:55:39 PM Filed under

The strange thing about PCs is that as they get older, even though they appear to be working fine, they can eventually become unusably slow. Successive operating systems take up more and more resources until your PC grinds to a halt.
You don’t need to throw your computer away and upgrade to get access to the latest software, though; a lightweight Linux-based operating system will let you have the latest web browser and office software, while running smooth as silk in as little as 256MB RAM. Here's our pick of the best lightweight Linux distros for older computers - and best of all, they're all free.
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Leftovers: Gaming
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 31st of March 2016 09:29:12 PM Filed under
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Don't Starve: Shipwrecked Expansion sails out of Early Access, Linux supported
Don't Starve: Shipwrecked Expansion is a pretty big expansion to the really great survival game Don't Starve. It is now fully available and features Linux support.
I haven't had a chance to look at it yet myself, but the reviews are suggesting it's amazing.
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1993 Space Machine, a game originally meant for the Amiga is coming to Linux
1993 Space Machine a game that was originally supposed to be on Amiga, but never released is out for other platforms. The developer has confirmed it's on its way to Linux.
It doesn't just look retro, it really is retro. The game was built in 1993 and has been released in 2016. Now this right here is a proper classic game.
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Hyper Light Drifter Classic Action RPG Now Available on Steam for Linux
The anticipated Hyper Light Drifter role-playing game that was first spotted on Kickstarter two and a half years ago, has been finally released today on Steam.
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Hyper Light Drifter released, some thoughts
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Unreal Engine 4.11 Released With Better Performance & Greater Visuals
Epic Games is ending out the month by releasing the newest version of UE4, Unreal Engine 4.11.
Unreal Engine 4.11 delivers a wide variety of performance improvements, greater parallelism thanks to threading improvements. new realistic hair shading, realistic eye shading, improved skin shading, realistic cloth shading, capsule shadows, particle depth of field, improved hierarchical LOD, support for LLVM Clang 3.7 on Linux, and a ton of other improvements.
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There Is A Steam Linux Game Where Nouveau On Kepler Is Outperforming NVIDIA's Blob
With yesterday's Nouveau Kepler vs. Maxwell Performance On Linux 4.6 + Mesa 11.3-dev benchmarks, a number of Phoronix readers expressed their surprise how well the GeForce 600/700 "Kepler" series hardware was performing on the open-source Nouveau driver once manually re-clocking these graphics cards. It's certainly much better than the GTX 900 series performance on Nouveau as the Maxwell GPUs don't have any re-clocking support on Nouveau at all. I'm working on some fresh Nouveau vs. NVIDIA Kepler tests and for one Steam Linux game, this reverse-engineered NVIDIA open-source driver is able to beat out the "binary blob" from NVIDIA.
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CodeWeavers Announces CrossOver 15.1.0 for Linux and Mac, Based on Wine 1.8.1
CrossOver developer CodeWeavers has just informed us via an email announcement about the immediate availability of CrossOver 15.1.0 graphical interface for Wine, for both GNU/Linux and Mac OS X platforms.
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CrossOver 15.1 Released For Linux & OS X Users
CodeWeavers this morning announced the release of CrossOver 15.1 as the latest version of their software to allow Windows programs to run on Linux and OS X. CrossOver 15.1 is now powered by Wine 1.8.1.
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Abot — How To Make Your Own Digital Assistant With This Free And Open Source Tool
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 31st of March 2016 09:11:54 PM Filed under
Ever wished to create your own digital assistant that talks back to you and completes your day-to-day tasks? Now it’s easier than ever with an open source tool Abot that’s written in Go programming language. Know more about it here and start coding one for you.
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Phoronix on Graphics
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 31st of March 2016 09:07:33 PM Filed under
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Wayland Protocol Extensions Are Being Talked About A Lot This Week
If you are looking for some Wayland drama, check out the most commented on mailing list thread this week: collaboration on standard Wayland protocol extensions.
Drew DeVault who has been developing the Sway Wayland compositor as a drop-in replacement to X11's i3 window manager, started this mailing list thread in trying to foster more collaboration over Wayland protocol extensions between the different desktop environments / compositors.
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More Of OpenGL ES 3.2 Is Getting Finished Up Within Mesa
It seems we're currently pacing at a rate where almost each day there is new OpenGL 4.x or OpenGL ES 3.2 activity reaching Mesa Git master.
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GLVND GLX Extension Lands In X.Org Server
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More Interesting Slides From GDC 2016 Are Now Online
The interesting slides from this month's Game Developers Conference (GDC) are now available online.
GDC'16 happened a few weeks back and while there's been the video recordings of some of the sessions to surface online, more of the presentation slides are now available for those not having the time to sit through an entire video presentation.
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Nominees For The 2016 X.Org Board Elections
Following a two week delay to the schedule, the list of nominees for the X.Org 2016 Board of Directors elections was published this morning.
The nominees include Bryce Harrington, Alex Deucher, Egbert Eich, Keith Packard, and Lucas Stach. These five individuals are competing for four board seats with the terms ending for Alex Deucher, Matt Dew, Egbert Eich, and Keith Packard.
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Linux now has 2,000 games on Steam, big milestone
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 31st of March 2016 08:52:24 PM Filed under
I have double checked this, and it seems to be accurate. Linux now has 2,000 games on Steam, and that's a pretty healthy milestone.
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MJ Technology’s Ubuntu tablet hits Indiegogo for $230 and up
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Thursday 31st of March 2016 08:01:28 PM Filed under
Canonical and BQ may have partnered to create the first Ubuntu tablet to ship with support for both mobile and desktop user interfaces. But if you’re looking for something a bit more powerful than the BQ Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Edition tablet which recently went up for pre-order, a startup called MJ Technology thinks it has the answer.
Earlier this year MJ Technology announced plans to launch a crowdfunding campaign for a 10 inch tablet with an Intel Atom Cherry Trail processor and Ubuntu software. While the campaign is launching a little later than expected, it’s now live at Indiegogo, and the developer hopes to ship the first tablets in August, assuming the campaign raises at least $200,000.
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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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