Episode 98: News With A Little Mint 12

• Mathematical Software (both are Linux versions!) (Scilab) (Octave)

• Linux Mint 12 KDE RC released! (blog.linuxmint.com)

• Raspberry Pi released to manufacturing, available in weeks. (raspberrypi.org)

• Tizen project releases code, SDK preview – no longer vaporware. (phoronix.com)

• Corel introduces AfterShot Pro for Linux, Mac and Windows. (engadget.com)

• PulseAudio ported to Android. (phoronix.com) (arunraghavan.net)

• More reasons to dislike Microsoft:
• Microsoft Lobbying helps to swing UK Government on Open-Standards policy. (computerweekly.com)
• Microsoft uses UEFI to lock down ARM devices. (softwarefreedom.org)
• Microsoft is now being paid royalties on 70% of all US Android smartphone sales. (arstechnica.com)

• Linux Mint 12 Cinnamon. (cinnamon.linuxmint.com)

• DebEx-Mint 12 KDE. (forums.linuxmint.com)

• Dead Cyborg. (deadcyborg.com)

• Livrelux mintCast Review. (livrelux.com)

• Cinnamon… again. (cinnamon.linuxmint.com)

• KDE UserBase. (userbase.kde.org)

• On your KDE desktop, you can use krunner for more than just searching or launching applications. It can be used as a calculator, you can run bash commands directly in the krunner window, you can launch web pages and web shortcuts, you can control power management, use it as a unit converter, and other functions. Press alt + F2 to get started.
  (userbase.kde.org)

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