mintCast 165 – FLOSS System Admin

• Linux Mint 15 KDE and Xfce RCs are now available for download (blog.linuxmint.com KDE) (blog.linuxmint.com Xfce)
• Linux Mint 16 will be codenamed “Petra” (blog.linuxmint.com)
• 8-Way Desktop Comparison On Ubuntu 13.10 Linux (phoronix.com) (openbenchmarking.org)
• South Tyrol government to standardise on LibreOffice (h-online.com)
• Munich to hand out Lubuntu CDs in effort to migrate users away from XP (omgubuntu.co.uk)
• Linux continues to rule supercomputers (zdnet.com)
• PC-BSD decides to drop i386, focus on on 64bit architecture (freebsdnews.net)
• Sony’s PlayStation 4 Is Running Modified FreeBSD 9 (phoronix.com)

• Jason recommends OpenFire. Openfire is a real time collaboration (RTC) server licensed under the Open Source Apache License. It uses the only widely adopted open protocol for instant messaging, XMPP (also called Jabber). Openfire is incredibly easy to setup and administer, but offers rock-solid security and performance.
  (igniterealtime.org)

• Here’s how you can automatically shut down the terminal after a period of inactivity in Linux Mint 15 (thanks to Jim Lynch at ITWorld). (itworld.com)

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