Tag Archives: Raspberry Pi
mintCast 230 – Linux Mint 17.2 KDE & Xfce
Introduction:
- Rob’s Xfce woes…XFCE window borders missing! (keheliya.blogspot.com)
News:
- Putting Lipstick on a Penguin – Ken Starks (fossforce.com)
- More Surprises for Windows 10 Users – Christine Hall (fossforce.com)
- Privacy Badger 1.0 – New Ways to Stop Sneaky Trackers (lwn.net) (eff.org)
- LibreOffice 5.0 stands out from the office suite crowd
(documentfoundation.org)
mintCast 228 – Linux Mint 17.2
Introduction:
- Why I code and don’t get paid for it (opensource.com)
- Raspberry Pi Jams (raspberrypi.org)
News:
- Latest Windows 10 Build Has Some Cool Linux Features (softpedia.com)
- Ubuntu MATE Announces A Partnership With A PC Hardware Vendor (phoronix.com) (ubuntu-mate.org)
- Canonical and Lenovo to Start Shipping Ubuntu-Powered Laptops in India (ubuntu.com) (softpedia.com)
- Why Ubuntu plans to replace traditional Linux packages with something better (pcworld.com) (ubuntu.com) (softpedia.com)
mintCast 183 – Python, Twitter, and Pi
News:
- Low-end laptops:The rise of the Chromebook– Some people are still in denial about the rise of the Linux operating system with the Chrome Web browser interface, Chrome OS, and its hardware: the Chromebooks. The experts say, however, it’s the one segment of the PC market that’s growing while everything else shrinks. (zdnet.com)
- Slackware Linux 14.1 – Yes, it is that time again! After well over a year of planning, development, and testing, the Slackware Linux Project is proud to announce the latest stable release of the longest running distribution of the Linux operating system. (distrowatch.com) (slackware.com)
- Canonical “abused trademark law” to target a site critical of Ubuntu privacy – “Fix Ubuntu” site accused of trademark violation, asked to change domain name. According to Micah Lee, Canonical sent him an e-mail this morning asking him to stop using the Ubuntu logo and also to stop using the word “Ubuntu” in his domain name. Lee reprinted the entire e-mail in a blog post. (arstechnica.com) (muktware.com) (markshuttleworth.com) (softpedia.com)
- The future of Linux: Evolving everywhere – Mark Shuttleworth’s recent closure of Ubuntu Linux bug No. 1 (“Microsoft has a majority market share”) placed a meaningful, if somewhat controversial, exclamation point on how far Linux has come since Linus Torvalds rolled out the first version of the OS in 1991 as a pet project. But where from here? (itworld.com)
- Linux Voice – A new Free Software and Linux magazine that gives profits back to the community – from an all-star team of ace Linux journalists. Linux Lifestyle originally shared: OK folks here it is. We’re launching a crowd funding campaign to create a new Linux magazine that puts the community first. That means we’ll donate half of our profits back to the community. There’s loads more details on the campaign page. (linuxvoice.com) (indiegogo.com)
- Humble Store Opens with 24-Hour Debut Sale – First there was the Humble Bundle, and it was good. Then came the Humble Weekly Sale, and it was pretty cool too. Now it’s time for the next step in the Humble evolution: The Humble Store, where games go on sale and proceeds go to charity. (escapistmagazine.com) (humblebundle.com)
mintCast 179 – A Pi in the Cloud
News:
- Cinnamon 2.0 is out! Cinnamon 2.0 was released October 10. It will be in Linux Mint 16 “Petra” which is planned for the end of November, and then ported to LMDE and Linux Mint 13 “Maya” LTS. (blog.linuxmint.com) (segfault.linuxmint.com) (muktware.com) (softpedia.com)
- Ubuntu vs Linux Mint: Distrowatch Ratings Don’t Matter, Dude! Is Distrowatch in fact an indicator of something extremely important…that people are looking for alternatives to Ubuntu? (muktware.com)
- Would Linux survive if Ubuntu died? Ubuntu is one of the best known and widely used Linux distributions. What would happen if it suddenly died? Would Linux survive? (fossforce.com) (itworld.com)
- Updated Debian 7: 7.2 released. The Debian project is pleased to announce the second update of its stable distribution Debian 7 (codename “wheezy”). (debian.org)
- NHS tears out its Oracle Spine in favour of open source. The UK government’s quest to get public services to use more open source technologies seems to be taking hold, judging by the revamp of the NHS’s very large Spine service. (theregister.co.uk) (hscic.gov.uk PDF ~2MB)
mintCast 162: Linux Mint 15 & Texas Linux Fest
News:
- Mint 15: Today’s best Linux desktop (Review) SJVN gives it the full thumbs-up. (zdnet.com)
- How Mighty Mint became one of the most popular Linux distros (techradar.com)
- Raspberry Pi’s Raspbian Improves Its Performance (phoronix.com)
- How I Created My Own Personal Cloud Using BitTorrent Sync, Owncloud, and Raspberry Pi (blog.bittorrent.com)
