mintCast 160: Is Microsoft Lagging?

• Cinnamon 1.8 gets released. (cinnamon.linuxmint.com)
• International Space Station switches from Windows to Linux, for improved reliability . (extremetech.com)
• Open Compute to open source high-end network switches. (zdnet.com)
• Ubuntu To Get Its Own Package Format, App Installer. (phoronix.com)
• Desktop Support for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS & 11.10 Officially Ends. (omgubuntu.co.uk)
• Google’s cloud dumps custom Linux, switches to Debian. (theregister.co.uk)
• Josh Boyer of Red Hat compares the Fedora and Ubuntu kernels. (jwboyer.livejournal.com)
• Half Life 2 is now available on Steam for Linux. (phoronix.com)
• Valve’s Gabe Newell To Keynote LinuxCon 2013. (phoronix.com)

• Microsoft is lagging behind Linux in performance. (tgdaily.com)
• “I Contribute to the Windows Kernel. We Are Slower Than Other Operating Systems. Here Is Why.” (blog.zorinaq.com)

• Morten Juhl-Johansen Zőlde-Fejér tells us, “I am a heavy podcast user, but a few of them stand out. I did an article on this kind of casts worthy of support. (writtenandread.net)
• Also from Morten, “As for your mention of Newsbeuter, I did an introduction to using it for podcatching.” (http://writtenandread.net/newsbeuter/)

• Michael sends us this tip, “I couldn’t help feeling sorry for you when you mentioned the “tree” command this week. You said that it beats navigating the directory hierarchy and typing “ls”, “cd ..” etc. Maybe you’ve not heard of the “find” command? Surely you have! But if you had, you wouldn’t be doing that! find lets you specify a shell pattern to match against file names at any level in the directory hierarchy.” (linux.die.net)

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