omgubuntu.co.uk August 14, 2013 by Joey-Elijah Sneddon Canonical’s Ubuntu Edge campaign has raised more money than any other project on IndieGoGo or Kickstarter – the two post popular crowd-funding platforms. Source: OSS
Month: August 2013
Open source tools worth bookmarking
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opensource.com August 14, 2013 by Nicole C. Engard One of my favorite workshops to give is the one that introduces librarians and their staff to open source software. After defining open source to them and debunking all the FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt) out there, I focus my talk on a list of open source tools…
Nvidia Shield OS is open source
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decryptedtech.com August 12, 2013 by Damir Brodjanac Nvidia Shield console is an interesting gaming system that supports all Android games, but also users can play all PC titles via streaming from the computer system, provided they are equipped with appropriate Nvidia graphic cards. Source: OSS
Flashback: "I’m Doing a (Free) Operating System (Just a Hobby)" – Linus Torvalds
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Twenty-two years ago today, a Finnish student by the name of Linus Torvalds sent an email that is now one of the iconic communications of the Internet era. In it, he told the comp.os.inix newsgroup – a newsgroup for all those using minix (from mini-Unix), a Unix-like computer operating system based on a microkernel architecture…
MongoDB Exorcises File Fragmentation Demons
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This article shares with the development community the analysis that was performed at FireScope as it relates to the use of “usePowerOf2Sizes” and details how to enable this feature. It also covers both size and performance implications of this new capability. In sharing our analysis we hope that others may realize the same benefits that…