mintCast 146: Fedora 18 The Spherical Cow

• [11:25] Linux Mint 15 will be named “Olivia” and should be available at the end of May 2013. (blog.linuxmint.com)

• [13:25] Steam and Gaming on Linux Mint. (blog.linuxmint.com)

• Valve ports Half-Life and Counter Strike to Linux. (geek.com)

• Even Steam on LMDE? (thanks mockturtl) (forums.linuxmint.com)

• [20:25] Clem previews the new LMDE installer. (blog.linuxmint.com)

• [20:40] Microsoft produces study that shows Munich would’ve saved more with Windows but won’t release it in its entirety. (itworld.com) (h-online.com)

• [31:08] Facebook’s open source for profit. (thanks Sid32 & the mintCast Reddit) (nytimes.com) (opencompute.org)

• [34:10] Ubuntu considers “huge” change that would end traditional release cycle. (arstechnica.com) (extremetech.com)

• Ubuntu not switching to rolling release model…yet. (omgubuntu.co.uk)

• [40:00] Is Fedora 18 Linux ‘The Worst Red Hat Distro Ever’? (internetnews.com)

• Fedora 18 Installation Guide. (docs.fedoraproject.org)

• Fedora 18 Release Notes. (docs.fedoraproject.org)

• Cinnamon proposed to replace Gnome Shell as default on Fedora 19. (linuxbsdos.com)

• [1:44:00] fedora – Freedom. Friends. Features. First. (fedoraproject.org)

• [1:44:23] Fedora Utils lets you install codecs and additional software that Fedora doesn’t want to ship, like MP3 codecs, Adobe Flash, Oracle Java etc. It can also fix problems, tweak and cleanup your system, show system information and much more with just few clicks. (satya164.github.com)

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