mintCast 189 – Useful Utilities

• MATE Desktop Environment Will Be Available in Ubuntu 14.04– Ubuntu 14.04 will, for the first time, allow users to install the MATE desktop environment straight from the Ubuntu Software Centre. (omgubuntu.co.uk)

• Red Hat Officially Joins Forces with the CentOS Project – …now CentOS project leaders and Red Hat have announced they are joining forces to build a new CentOS, “capable of driving forward development and adoption of next-generation open source technologies.” The news is good for fans of the CentOS platform. (ostatic.com)

• Fedora 21 to be nameless – What follows in the footsteps of Heisenbug, Spherical Cow and Beefy Miracle? Apparently the answer is ‘null’ as is nothing. Fedora Linux 21 could well have no funky new name as its past predecessors have all had, thanks to a recent vote by the Fedora board to move away from the existing naming practices. (eweek.com)

• Roku gets sucked into TVs – It was inevitable: Roku, which shipped its 5 millionth streaming media player last year, is now having its Linux-based STB technology embedded directly within Smart TVs. (linuxgizmos.com)

• Jolla Review: Some rough edges, but this Linux SmartPhone shows promise – Extended review of the recently release Jolla Smartphone with SailfishOSh (forbes.com)

• Dropbox outage sparked by buggy server upgrade – A planned server maintenance job went awry because of a “subtle bug” in an upgrade script – but users’ files were never at risk, the company says. (cnet.com)

• I Love Leonard Cohen by Robin Grey (Jamendo.com)

• Yesterday’s Conversation by Angus Wallace (Jamendo.com)

• The Red Stone by Ground & Leaves (Jamendo.com)

• Linux in the Ham Shack at Hamvention 2014 Indiegogo campaign. (indiegogo.com)

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