Four smartphone OSes that hope to find room next to Android and iOS were on display at Mobile World Congress, but the most exciting were Ubuntu Phone and Sailfish OS. Apple and Google have further tightened their grip on the smartphone OS market; they had a market share of 96.1 percent last year, up from…
Day: March 4, 2015
"Can I borrow your phone?" Hands-on with Mark Shuttleworth's Ubuntu phone
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BARCELONA, Spain-At the Canonical booth at Mobile World Congress, I had a chance meeting with Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical and spiritual leader of Ubuntu. I was actually at the booth to try out the new Ubuntu Edition of the Meizu MX4, a mid- to high-end smartphone, but all of the untethered devices had run…
Ubuntu: 2515-2: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities regression
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Software Description: – linux-lts-trusty: Linux hardware enablement kernel from Trusty Details: USN-2515-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel. There was an unrelated regression in the use of the virtual counter on arm64 architectures. Source: Tech
The Seven Habits Of Open Source
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I am a technology journalist with over two decades of press experience. Primarily I work as a news analysis writer dedicated to a software application development ‘beat’; but, in a fluid media world, I am also an analyst, technology evangelist and content consultant. Source: Tech