By Eric Knorr I discovered Linux the way most people did, though word of mouth in the 1990s, when rumors spread of a free “hobbyist” OS designed to run on x86 PCs. For …read more Source:: OpenSource
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IDG Contributor Network: Do you use Linux as your main gaming OS?
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•By Jim Lynch Linux as your main gaming OS? Linux gaming has come a very long way from where it started, and Linux gamers have much to celebrate. But how many people use Linux …read more Source:: OpenSource
No Linux, no Docker, no cloud OS? Think again
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•By Serdar Yegulalp CoreOS and Joyent’s SmartOS/Triton have worked to redefine, in radically different ways, what an OS needs to be to run applications at scale in the cloud. Now another candidate is set …read more Source:: OpenSource
Against the odds, Canonical and Jolla trot out iOS, Android alternatives
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•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…
Fuzix, a New Unix 5 like OS for Zilog Z80 by Alan Cox
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•In a Google Plus post , Alan Cox, of linux kernel fame, announced a new Unix V like operating system for the ziloc z80 architecture. He’s been on a z80 kick the past couple of years, even getting into hardware board design. Source: Tech
Fedora 21 rolls three versions of Linux into one OS
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•The beta release for the latest version of Red Hat’s Fedora distribution splits the OS into cloud, server, and workstation versions Following hints earlier in the year , a beta of Red Hat Fedora Linux 21 has finally arrived in three incarnations: Cloud, Server, and Workstation. Fedora 21 also provides the first public glimpse of…
The Best (and Cheapest) Ways to Get Windows and Linux for Virtual Machines
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•You can install any modern Windows or Linux version, desktop or server, using Hyper-V in Windows 8.1. But you’ll need to bring your own license and software for the base OS. Here’s how to get that OS cheap or even free. Read more at Enterprise Open Source Toolkit Source: Linux
Crytek Adding Linux Support for CryEngine Bodes Well for Steam OS
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•Say what you will of Crytek’s first-person shooter Crysis series , or its gladiatorial hack-and-slash Ryse for Xbox One , the Frankfurt-based studio certainly knows its way around a dynamic volumetric light beam, parametric skeletal animation or real time soft particle system. Source: Tech
2013's malware trends reveal non-Windows systems face greater threats
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•Threats to Mac OS X, Linux and Android systems have increased over the past year as the malware landscape has evolved. Source: Tech
Adobe Flash Remote Code Execution Flaw Exploited In the Wild
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•An anonymous reader writes “Adobe has released an emergency patch for a critical vulnerability affecting Flash Player for Windows, Linux, and OS X, the exploitation of which can result in an attacker gaining remote control of the victims’ systems . Source: Tech