Aaron Seigo, one of the KDE’s lead developers, and a leader of the Spark free-software Linux tablet development effort, has reveled more about the Spark, including, alas, that the Spark won’t be available until May 2012. Seigo explains, “We have a lot of pieces to coordinate, and not just technical issues like the OS image [...]
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Spark, free-software Linux tablet, to ship in May
February 2nd, 2012 · No Comments
Tags: Business · Development · Infrastructure · Linux · Open Source · Operating System · Tablet
Spark: The first free-software, Linux tablet is on its way
February 1st, 2012 · No Comments
Open-source software and Linux, thanks to Android, is well represented on tablets. But, if you didn’t want to deal with proprietary firmware and software, you were out of luck… until now. Aaron Seigo, one of the KDE’s lead developers, and his team are just about ready to roll-out the first tablet based entirely on Linux [...]
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Mint’s Cinnamon: The Future of the Linux Desktop? (Review)
January 31st, 2012 · No Comments
Over the last few years, we’ve seen radical changes to the Linux desktop. Some, despite initial opposition, such as the KDE 4.x re-start, took a while to gain favor, but eventually became popular. Others, such as GNOME 3.x have alienated many users and first Ubuntu’s Unity and now it’s Head-Up Display (HUD) have not been [...]
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IBM to close down Symphony, its OpenOffice fork
January 30th, 2012 · No Comments
In a brief note, Ed Brill, an IBM product line manager, announced that IBM has likely seen its last release of Symphony, its OpenOffice fork. Later, in the blog’s discussion thread, Eric Otchet, Symphony’s product manager, seemingly confirmed that this was the end of the road for Symphony when he wrote about Apache OpenOffice the [...]
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Linux users cautiously optimistic about Ubuntu’s Head-Up Display desktop
January 26th, 2012 · No Comments
When Ubuntu announced that it was going to switch to Unity for its primary Linux desktop, some users were outraged by Ubuntu’s shift to a new interface. Many turned to Linux Mint in place of Ubuntu. So, when Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth announced that Ubuntu would be moving from Unity to Head-Up Display (HUD), I [...]
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