"The latest version of the open source widget toolkit adds support for
Wayland 1.0, support for touch interfaces, and better text rendering
and theming."
-- source: http://h-online.com/-1831722
Cheers, Peter
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Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
"The E17 Enlightenment project has released a new version of its
Terminology terminal emulator. With Terminology 0.3 comes several
fancy features, including the ability to preview video files, images,
and PDF files from within the terminal. There's new escape sequences,
inline video playback, and other features to this terminal emulator
that's only built on EFL and libc."
-- source: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/03/27/1217241
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
"Hispalinux, which represents Spanish Open Source developers and
users, has filed a complaint against Microsoft with the European
Commission. 14 pages of grief cited Windows 8 as an 'obstruction
mechanism' calling UEFI Secure Boot a 'de facto technological jail for
computer booting systems... making Microsoft's Windows platform less
neutral than ever.' On March 6 of 2012 the Commission fined Microsoft
561 million Euros for failing to offer users a choice of web browser,
and there was also a 2004 ruling which found the company had abused
its market position by tying Windows Media Player to Windows itself.
Relations appear to remain more tense towards Windows in Europe, so
there may be some hope of making UEFI more Linux-friendly. UEFI has
been implicated in the death of Samsung laptops running Linux."
-- source: http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/13/03/26/2226246/spanish-open-source-gro…
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
"Homebrew Coder Pate has released a DOS Emulator for the Raspberry Pi.
Originally released for the Nintendo DS and Android, the emulator
currently can emulate a CPU: 80486 processor, including the protected
mode features (for running DOS4GW games) but without virtual memory
support. The emulation runs at a speed around that of a 20MHz 80486
(which equals a 40MHz 80386) machine. It has support for Super VGA
graphics, Soundblaster 2.0, Memory, USB keyboard and mouse. Perfect
for playing old classics such as Doom, Duke Nukem 3D and Theme Park."
-- source: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/03/26/1256210/dos-emulation-arrives-for-t…
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Google Alerts <googlealerts-noreply(a)google.com>
Date: 27 March 2013 07:52
Subject: Google Alert - linux
To: mikencolleen(a)gmail.com
Live Twitter Q&A Thursday with Adapteva CEO on the $99 Linux Supercomputer
Linux.com (blog)
Back in October Adapteva wrapped up a successful Kickstarter campaign to
build a Raspberry Pi-inspired $99 Linux supercomputer. Next month the
company expects the first Parallela boards to be in production -- just in
time to show off at The Linux ...
<http://www.linux.com/news/featured-blogs/200-libby-clark/711034-live-twitte…>
"The recently released version 3.0 of OpenELEC, the minimalist media
centre Linux distribution, supports more hardware. Based on XBMC 12.1,
it now includes images for the Raspberry Pi and Arctic MC001
computers"
-- source: http://h-online.com/-1829751
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
"An incorrect bracket in the program code of NetBSD causes systems to
generate weak cryptographic keys. OpenSSH server keys are particularly
affected"
-- source: http://h-online.com/-1829336
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
The Waikato Linux Users Group have a meeting in one week from today:
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!Special General Meeting
A draft of the revised charter will be tabled, this will reduce the quorum to the smaller of 5 members or 50% of the general membership, and reduce the size of the committee to 4.
Meet up at the university: MS4.G.02 (http://www.waikato.ac.nz/contacts/map?MS4)
Time: 7:30pm onwards
"Jeff Mitchell writes on his blog about what almost became 'The Great
KDE Disaster Of 2013.' It all started as simple update of the root git
server and ended up with a corrupt git repository automatically
mirrored to every mirror and deleting every copy of most KDE
repositories. It ends by discussing what the problem is with git
--mirror and how you can avoid similar problems in the future."
-- source: http://it.slashdot.org/story/13/03/24/1252237/too-perfect-a-mirror
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
