Canonical has just signed its first deal to supply a smartphone with its mobile operating system, Canonical Chief Executive Mark Shuttleworth revealed in an interview here at the LeWeb conference. Source: Tech
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Quake Live won't support Linux
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Today in Open Source: No Linux support for Quake Live. Plus: Pear OS 8 review, and Mark Shuttleworth apologizes for Tea Party remarks No Linux Support for Quake Live Despite advances being made in Linux gaming by Valve, id Software won’t be supporting Linux in Quake Live. Source: Tech
Pear is a Linux-based Os X alternative
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Pear OS is a Linux-based operating system that strives to combine an Apple OS X experience with the open source philosophy of GNU/Linux. Source: Tech
Ubuntu Pushes Open Cloud Platforms
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It doesn’t have the same kind of high-profile marketing machine as Red Hat, for example, but Ubuntu is the OS that’s driving many evolutionary cloud projects, including OpenStack. Source: Tech
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
FSF launches fundraising program for Replicant, the fully free Android-based mobile OS
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BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA — Thursday, July 25, 2013 — The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today launched a fundraising initiative for Replicant (http://replicant.us), a fully free Android distribution and the first mobile operating system (OS) to run without relying on proprietary system code. Replicant’s small volunteer developer team is focused on improving their OS, while also…