July 2012
Could this be the year of the Linux desktop?
Submitted by srlinuxx on Tuesday 31st of July 2012 09:27:31 PM Filed under

extremetech.com: In the 21 years or so since its inception, Linux has gained some amazing enthusiast street cred, but failed time and again to enter the mainstream. This year, however, may afford it an opportunity it’s never had before: to gain the momentum necessary to join the big boys in the operating system world.
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GNU founder Stallman calls DRM’d Steam for Linux games "unethical"
Submitted by srlinuxx on Tuesday 31st of July 2012 11:23:16 AM Filed under
arstechnica.com: The prospect of the open source operating system attracting a rich ecosystem of proprietary DRM-encumbered computer games raises questions for Richard Stallman, who issued a statement outlining what he views as the positive and negative consequences of this development.
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Linux Desktops Dominate at Black Hat
Submitted by srlinuxx on Tuesday 31st of July 2012 11:13:30 AM Filed under
internetnews.com: There are some people that don't believe the Linux Desktop is relevant. I'm not one of them and apparently neither are hordes of security professionals that were at the recent Black Hat security conference.
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Debian Project News - July 29th
Submitted by srlinuxx on Tuesday 31st of July 2012 11:11:46 AM Filed under
debian.org: Welcome to this year's fifteenth issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community.
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PCLinuxOS: A surprise addition to our family computers
Submitted by srlinuxx on Tuesday 31st of July 2012 09:58:12 AM Filed under
karimlalani.blogspot: We have 5 computers in our household. My mom and my wife use Kubuntu on their computers, while my dad and I have ArchLinux/KDE. I figured it was time to give another more beginner friendly Linux distribution a try.
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DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 467
Submitted by srlinuxx on Tuesday 31st of July 2012 03:40:51 AM Filed under
This week in DistroWatch Weekly:
- Book review: Ubuntu Made Easy
- News: Debian 8.0 "Jessie", OpenBSD on Secure Boot; DragonFly BSD live options; Fedora "Rawhide" status; Oracle Linux overview, interview with Mageia's Claire Robinson
- Questions and Answers: Changing desktop background from command line
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Open source won
Submitted by srlinuxx on Tuesday 31st of July 2012 03:39:04 AM Filed under
- Open source won
- Free open-source software: My take on its inexorable rise
- Linux Foundation Adds Antelink, Calxeda and Reaktor as New Members
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Valve, Linux and the Windows 8 'Catastrophe'
Submitted by srlinuxx on Tuesday 31st of July 2012 03:36:55 AM Filed under

- Valve, Linux and the Windows 8 'Catastrophe'
- Fresh eyes on Linux
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Red Hat and Canonical 'traitors'
Submitted by srlinuxx on Tuesday 31st of July 2012 03:32:59 AM Filed under

- Red Hat and Canonical 'traitors' to open source for working with Microsoft
- Installing Linux on Windows 8 PCs: No easy answers
- Red Hat, Canonical accused of being traitors to the open sauce cause
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GNOME implodes - again
Submitted by srlinuxx on Tuesday 31st of July 2012 03:29:58 AM Filed under
- GNOME implodes - again
- GNOME’s Future: Open Source Desktop Interface In Doubt?
- Is GNOME “Staring into the abyss?”
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| Red Hat Hires a Blind Software Engineer to Improve Accessibility on Linux Desktop
Accessibility on a Linux desktop is not one of the strongest points to highlight. However, GNOME, one of the best desktop environments, has managed to do better comparatively (I think).
In a blog post by Christian Fredrik Schaller (Director for Desktop/Graphics, Red Hat), he mentions that they are making serious efforts to improve accessibility.
Starting with Red Hat hiring Lukas Tyrychtr, who is a blind software engineer to lead the effort in improving Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Fedora Workstation in terms of accessibility.
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