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News28 new results for Linux
 
Is Valve's Linux gamble over Windows 8 a shot in the dark?
ZDNet
Newell believes that the roadblock keeping gamers away from adopting Linux as their operating system of choice is a lack of games for the platform, so his company plans to bring a selection of titles -- including the popular Left 4 Dead 2 -- in an attempt to lure ...
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ZDNet
SUSE Linux powers 147456-core German supercomputer
Ars Technica
The Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences recently celebrated its 50th anniversary by launching the SuperMUC, the world's fourth most powerful supercomputer. The system, which was built by IBM and runs SUSE Linux ...
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From Windows to Linux In No Time
OStatic (blog)
There are countless users of Microsoft's Windows operating system who become Linux users each year--an important part of the engine that drives the popularity of Linux. In some cases, these migrating users want to escape the malware storm that afflicts the ...
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Is Windows 8 Really a 'Catastrophe' for Content Creators?
TIME
It's not the first time for Newell, who allegedly took umbrage with Windows 8 while visiting with Linux community buff Michael Larabel, who wrote "[Newell's] level of Linux interest and commitment was incredible while his negativity for Windows 8 and the future ...
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TIME
Nokia Cancels Plans for Another Linux-Based Platform
Gotta Be Mobile
With Meltemi, Nokia hopes to remedy that by introducing a Linux-based platform for its entry level phones, which would retail at around $100-$200 unlocked. Nokia had never formally announced Meltemi or its plans for that platform so it's unclear how ...
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Gotta Be Mobile
Windows 8 fear and uncertainty kicks in
CNET
Newell's company is now moving Steam to Linux. Thus the comment, "we're trying to make sure that Linux thrives" from Newell (in the same story linked above) before his Windows 8 critique. You could almost mistake all of the fuss for the fall presidential ...
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Windows 8: A coming catastrophe?
GlobalPost (blog)
"…we're trying to make sure that Linux thrives. Our perception is that one of the big problems holding Linux back is the absence of games. " Newell said. "…we're going to continue working with the Linux distribution guys, shipping Steam, shipping our games, ...
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Valve Software
CNET
... which makes games such as Half-Life and created the Steam gaming platform for Windows and Apple's OS X. Newell's company is now moving Steam to Linux. Thus the comment, "we're trying to make sure that Linux thrives" from Newell (in the same …
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Microsoft Targets Linux Server in Amdocs IP Deal
Redmondmag.com
Few details associated with the deal were described, although Microsoft's announcement indicated that Amdocs will pay an undisclosed amount to take a license from Microsoft covering "Amdoc's use of Linux-based servers in its data centers." The Linux ...
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Microsoft ex-employee -- Windows 8 is a "catastrophe"
Computerworld (blog)
"Listening to Gabe Newell talk about Linux for hours made me wonder whether he was a former ex-Microsoft employee (where he actually did work in his pre-Valve days in the 90's) or the director of the Linux Foundation. His level of Linux interest and ...
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'We asked firms if they were looking at Windows 8, most laughed'
Register
The penguin crowd were also unimpressed with Oracle's latest attempt to try to woo Linux-lovers. Having failed to persuade folks that its Unbreakable Linux was better than Red Hat Linux, Oracle turned to CentOS. The firm is claiming that it will turn a CentOS ...
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Reuters: Nokia Abandons Meltemi Linux Feature Phone Initiative
PhoneNews.com
Nokia's Meltemi Linux feature phone initiative was originally meant to serve two purposes: replace the internal Nokia OS and Series 40 platform with a new platform that would allow for extremely low-cost phones with key features found on current ...
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WinInfo Short Takes: July 27, 2012
Windows IT Pro
Newell is so nervous that Xbox LIVE will kill Steam that he's even porting Steam to Linux so he can sop up all 7 users over there too. And you know what? That is a story. It's just not the one you read this week. The one you read was also a story. But it was a ...
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Windows IT Pro
Valve CEO calls Windows 8 "catastrophe," explains push toward Steam on Linux
Video Game Writers
While Newell didn't go into detail, he did emphasize that Windows 8 has been Valve's primary reason for pushing hard into the Linux market. The former Microsoft employee is doing everything possible to ensure that the 2000+ library of games on Steam will ...
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Video Game Writers
Windows 8 is a 'catastrophe,' says Valve founder and former Microsoft employee ...
Network World
He goes on to say, "We're trying to make sure that Linux thrives. Our perception is that one of the big problems holding Linux back is the absence of games. I think that a lot of people — in their thinking about platforms — don't realize how critical games are as ...
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Network World
Cloud Computing: Microsoft Extracts Royalties from Linux User
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Ahead of making a clean sweep of the Android device makers, Microsoft this week changed tack and nailed Dublin-based Amdocs Software Systems Ltd, the software contracting side of giant Amdoc Ltd, which supplies billing and CRM widgetry to big telecom ...
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SYS-CON Media (press release)
Gabe Newell Predicts: "Windows 8 is a Catastrophe"
Gamespy.com
... to find Valve boss Gabe Newell throwing fightin' words at Microsoft, but yesterday Venture Beat reported on the PC gaming godfather openly calling Windows 8 "a catastrophe" and implied that he's positioning Steam for a big gamer migration to Linux.
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Gamespy.com
Blizzard does not appear to be thrilled about Windows 8 either
Ubergizmo
Yesterday we reported that according to Valve's boss, Gabe Newell, the reason behind Valve's efforts at pushing out a Steam for Linux platform is because he thinks that Windows 8 is a "catastrophe". We've yet to see how Windows 8 will sit with the masses ...
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Use The SysRq Key To Fix Any Linux Freeze-Up
Lifehacker Australia
Linux: No system is immune to hangs and freeze-ups, and that includes even the most austere Linux desktop. What sets Linux apart is a key that can call out to the core kernel to un-freeze your desktkop, kill memory-hogging services and cause a clean restart.
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Can open source save HP?
InfoWorld (blog)
The company contributes to the Debian Gnu/Linux distribution and has hired several people after who were leaders of the Debian Project, including the redoubtable Bdale Garbee. HP also participates in many smaller projects and invests plenty of effort in ...
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Nokia Ditching New Mobile Software Platform Meltemi: Sources
Mobile & Apps
The new linux-based software would've competed with Google's Android platform, and replaced Nokia's own Series 40 software, which is still receiving upgrades and new features, but lacks the robust capabilities that modern smartphones (the fastest growing ...
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Mobile & Apps
Valve's Gabe Newell talks about the future of digital commerce and PC gaming
GameDynamo
Hence Valve's interest in Linux as a platform; its openness and free availability make it the perfect choice for Steam, should Windows 8 bork things up in the way Newell worries it might. Newell also talked about post-touch (completely new input methods for ...
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GameDynamo
Valve Chief Opens Floodgates of Criticism Against Windows 8
TechNewsWorld
"Until now, interoperability was the death knell for the open source OS, but with more work, data and processes moving to the Web -- and vested pushes from Google, with their Linux-based Chrome OS and related devices -- workers and consumers are ...
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Knytt Underground announced for PC, PS3, Vita
Shacknews
NightSky developer Nicklas 'Nifflas' Nygren is bringing his celebrated platformer series Knytt to PlayStation 3 and Vita with Knytt Underground, a new entry also headed to PC, Mac and Linux. Knytt, in short, is a series of 2D platformers with tight controls and a ...
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Shacknews
Meet Linux Viruses
LXer (press release)
There exists a conventional wisdom that Linux viruses are non-existent entities. For most Linux users this might be surprising that Linux viruses do exist! Though not in wild, and they are so less in number (when compared to counterpart OSs) that they can be ...
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Knytt goes Underground, emerges on PS3, Vita, and more this year
Joystiq
This new game is bringing the Knytt series to consoles for the first time since the homebrew DS port of Knytt Stories, with official plans to release Underground on PS3 and Vita this year, along with Windows, Mac, and Linux versions. Nifflas is developing the ...
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Red Hat's Top 4 Priorities for 2013: Cloud, Virtualization, And…
The VAR Guy
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) is built into the company's Linux platform. RHEV is based on KVM (kernel-based virtual machine), an open source hypervisor. CEO Jim Whitehurst has previously predicted that RHEV will leapfrog VMware, much in ...
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Valve dismisses Windows 8
TechEye
Valve, which recently started adapting its software so that it can run on Linux, has said it is doing so because it thinks that Windows 8 will be a disaster. Gabe Newell, the co-founder and managing director of Valve, the videogame development and online ...
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TechEye

Blogs13 new results for Linux
 
[Phoronix] Btrfs Filesystem In Linux 3.6 Kernel Has Big Changes
The Btrfs file-system update for the Linux 3.6 kernel is "a large btrfs update" with new features introduced to this next-generation file-system. Chris Mason sent in the Btrfs Linux 3.6 pull request on Thursday as part of two branches due to the ...
Phoronix
Piling on: More reasons why the Linux desktop doesn't shine in ...
By Marco Fioretti
Marco Fioretti adds his thoughts on why Linux desktops have such a hard time catching on in business. Here are some of the biggest roadblocks that he.
on TechRepublic
Tech Tools: Freebee Friday: Linux for All
By Brian Nadel
Why pay cash money for a notebook or desktop operating system and basic apps when you can get it all for free from Ubuntu? In the Bantu languages of Africa, the word Ubuntu encompasses a philosophy of worldview and relationships...
Tech Tools
Awstats or log server analizer | Linux | PHP | Software Architecture ...
We cant a system that captures the different daily information of awstats or the server log and gives a report in an email with the keywords entered by dominion.
Freelancer.com - New Projects
Best Linux Setup To Transition Windows Users | ThunderFeeds
Windows 8 Is A 'Catastrophe' According To Gabe Newell - Valve Hedging With Steam On Linux · Forbes Business (Yesterday) - Valve's Gabe Newell says that Windows 8 is a 'catastrophe' and that developing their games... Google Adds TV ...
ThunderFeeds
OpenGeo – OpenGeo Suite 3.0-beta1 for Linux
By Rolando Peñate
Following the recent release of OpenGeo Suite 3.0-beta1, we received a few requests for Linux packages and we're happy to announce that those are now available for download, with a few caveats. As with all our beta releases, use these at ...
OpenGeo
Python TCP socket performance tweak on Linux | About me and the ...
By Simon Pirschel
Short. sockopt TCP_NODELAY=1 increases performance big time if you're doing lots of small packets with socket.IPPROTO_TCP. Long. Over at abusix I started a project using IMAP. For connecting an IMAP server in Python there is basically ...
About me and the things I do
Microconference Topics Announced – Linux Plumbers Conference ...
By glikely
The LPC Program Committee is pleased to announce the following list of topics for our microconferences. As you can see we have a wide range of issues to tackle and this year's Linux Plumbers Conference is shaping up to be a great event.
Linux Plumbers Conference 2012
Senior C++/Linux Ultra Low Latency Expert | Selby Jennings ...
By jennings
My client is a rapidly expanding multi-asset proprietary trading firm, with a small yet successful team of traders/technologists in London and New York. The team been successfully trading the US equity markets for approximately four years and ...
Selby Jennings : Recruitment...
Simple Linux Desktop Environment is is best for you | Xynth
By ruben17
Plain and simple - case closed. You shouldn't be application the desktop that I acquaint you works best. You shouldn't be application the desktop that Linus.
Xynth
The Linux Geeks » 07/26 Edubuntu 12.10-alpha3
By TLG
Edubuntu is a partner project of Ubuntu Linux, a distribution suitable for classroom use. The aim is that an educator with limited technical knowledge and skill will be able to set up a computer lab, or establish an on-line learning environment, ...
The Linux Geeks
stoddart (stoddart)'s status on Friday, 27-Jul-12 07:57:42 UTC ...
By stoddart
stoddart (stoddart)'s status on Friday, 27-Jul-12 07:57:42 UTC. stoddart Linux , John Doe. Leonard is the Ubuntu user. If I were a writer on #TBBT I'd have Sheldon using either FreeBSD or Slackware. about a minute ago from web at United ...
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Linux Administrator - Ruby On Rails - Javascript - Passenger ...
Hello All, We are looking for a very good Linux Administrator, Ruby On Rails Javascript Expert. For the right person months there will be long term work, we have lost our dev to our current site and things on it need to be sorted out initially.
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Web4 new results for Linux
 
[Phoronix] Intel Releases 12.07 Linux Graphics Package
Intel has released their 12.07 Linux graphics driver package. Like usual, the Intel Linux graphics package isn't some new software component release, but rather ...
www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTE0NTY
Valve Software Launches Linux Blog, Confirms Work On Steam ...
New submitter oakgrove writes "Valve Software confirmed today in a new blog devoted specifically to Steam on Linux (called Steam'd Penguins) that for more ...
games.slashdot.org/.../valve-software-launches-linux-blog-con...
Distribution Release: Linux Mint 13 "Xfce" (DistroWatch.com News)
News and feature lists of Linux and BSD distributions.
distrowatch.com/7346
Prominent Linux growth at Valve | Steam for Linux
In the time of Loki Software (1999-2001) the Linux market was, unfortunately, still not in the same shape as today and the company was forced to close in 2001.
steamforlinux.com/?q=en/node/65


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