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Linux Mint 15 KDE hands-on: A stumble on UEFI Boot
by Peter Reutemann 24 Jul '13

24 Jul '13

"Mint 15 KDE is released, and looks good as usual — but it doesn't install on my UEFI boot systems. So, what's new in this release? Check the What's New document for complete details, but here are a few of the highlights: - There is of course the updated Linux kernel, 3.8.0, and the latest KDE Software Collection 4.10, which together form the backbone of this system. - The new MDM (greeter/login manager) is included, which brings along HTML5 capability. - The new Mint Software Sources and Mint Software Manager utilities. - Finally, of course, lots of upstream packages have been updated — although I am disappointed to see that digiKam is still only 3.1.0 when a number of other distributions already have 3.2.0. I assume/hope/pray that this will be picked up in one of the early Mint updates." -- source: http://www.zdnet.com/linux-mint-15-kde-hands-on-a-stumble-on-uefi-boot-7000… Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174

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The Rise of Linux In In-Vehicle Infotainment
by Peter Reutemann 24 Jul '13

24 Jul '13

"The 2014 Toyota Lexus IS reportedly will be the second major automobile to offer in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) systems based on Linux, following last year's introduction of the Debian-based Cadillac User Experience (CUE) IVI system, which now appears in Cadillac's XTS and SRX models. Cadillac's CUE IVI implementation was developed by GENIVI Alliance members MontaVista and Bosch and uses similar code, but is not listed as GENIVI compliant. Meanwhile, ABI Research projects that Linux will grow to 20 percent IVI market share by 2018, behind Microsoft and market leader QNX." -- source: http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/07/24/2014203 Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174

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Apache OpenOffice 4.0 Released With Major New Features
by Peter Reutemann 24 Jul '13

24 Jul '13

"Still the most popular open source office suite, Apache OpenOffice 4 has been released, with many new enhancements and a new sidebar, based on IBM Symphony's implementation but with many improvements. The code still has comments in German but as long as real new features keep coming and can be shared with other office suites no one is complaining." -- source: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/07/23/1643204 Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174

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Samsung Ramps Up Linux Hiring, Development Efforts
by Peter Reutemann 22 Jul '13

22 Jul '13

"Samsung Electronics has dramatically ramped up their Linux hiring and development efforts in the past three years and they are still on track for hiring another 20,000 Linux and open-source developers." -- source: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTQxNjg Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174

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WLUG meeting tonight
by Peter Reutemann 21 Jul '13

21 Jul '13

Hi There is a WLUG meeting tonight: Rene will be talking about temperature logging using a Raspberry Pi (and Arduino). Meeting URL: http://www.wlug.org.nz/event_calendar/view/735/meeting Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174

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PDF shuffler
by Peter Reutemann 16 Jul '13

16 Jul '13

Just came across a funky GUI tool for modifying PDFs (e.g., extracting, deleting, cropping, rotating pages): PDF shuffler Found it here (scroll down a bit): http://askubuntu.com/questions/221962/how-can-i-extract-a-page-range-a-part… You can install it on Ubuntu like this: sudo apt-get install pdfshuffler Project homepage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfshuffler/ Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174

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WLUG meeting next Monday
by Peter Reutemann 16 Jul '13

16 Jul '13

Hi everyone There is a WLUG meeting next Monday. Rene will be talking about temperature logging using a Raspberry Pi (and Arduino). Meeting URL: http://www.wlug.org.nz/event_calendar/view/735/meeting Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174

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X successor Wayland 1.2 arrives
by Peter Reutemann 16 Jul '13

16 Jul '13

"A stable programming interface for display servers and colour management support are two of the major new features in the now available versions 1.2 of Wayland and Weston. The developers say that the stable server API allows a Wayland 1.2 compositor such as Weston to work with more recent versions of Wayland; in their release email, they mention that having a stable API became necessary because external Wayland compositors are beginning to appear. The protocol for Wayland clients was declared stable in version 1.0." -- source: http://h-online.com/-1917457 Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174

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Linux Mint 15 Xfce edition released with Whisker Menu
by Peter Reutemann 16 Jul '13

16 Jul '13

"The Linux Mint team has released the Xfce edition of Linux Mint 15, code-named "Olivia". The release includes the Whisker Menu as a replacement for Xfce's native application launcher. Whisker is inspired by KDE's Kickoff menu, but also takes design cues from the Mint menu application included in the Cinnamon edition of the distribution." -- source: http://h-online.com/-1917699 Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174

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Maintenance of Apache web server 2.0 discontinued
by Peter Reutemann 16 Jul '13

16 Jul '13

"With the recent release of Apache web server version 2.0.65, the Apache project has discontinued the maintenance of the 2.0 version branch. The developers have urged users to migrate to current version series 2.2 or 2.4 editions as soon as possible; version 2.4 was released in February 2012." -- source: http://h-online.com/-1917444 Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174

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