"Canonical has announced today that they intend to ship the Mir
Display Server by default in Ubuntu 13.10, rather than Ubuntu 14.04 as
originally planned. They moved ahead their Mir adoption since the code
is materializing and they want Mir/XMir widely tested prior to the
Ubuntu 14.04 Long-Term Support release. Mir in Ubuntu 13.10 will be
using the XMir X11 compatibility layer to run the Unity 7 desktop and
there will be fallback support for running an X.Org Server if the
graphics drivers don't support Mir."
-- source: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/06/27/1627241
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
"Kubuntu plans to avoid using Canonical's display server Mir and to
instead continue using an X server for KDE on versions 13.10 and 14.04
LTS, after which the plan is to switch to Wayland, according to a blog
post by Kubuntu developer Jonathan Riddell, formerly of Canonical."
-- source: http://h-online.com/-1897942
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
"The latest release of the live distribution introduces kernel
improvements, the experimental ability to boot on UEFI systems and a
new version of the A.D.R.I.A.N.E. system for visually impaired users."
-- source: http://h-online.com/-1901955
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
That might finally fix the overheating problems of my laptop...
"An AMD developer has published a patch series that significantly
improves support for the runtime power management features in the
Linux kernel's Radeon driver. The patches also include support for new
GPUs."
-- source: http://h-online.com/-1897996
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
"Blue Systems developer Àlex Fiestas has announced that the open
source KScreen management tool has seen its first stable release. With
version 1.0, the screen management utility is now considered by its
developers to be ready for general use and planning for the features
of KScreen 1.1 is already under way, according to Fiestas. KScreen is
designed to bring next generation screen management to the KDE
desktop."
-- source: http://h-online.com/-1895373
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
"This discovery comes nicely alongside the celebration of FreeBSD's
20th birthday, for all the UNIX nerds. The operating system powering
the PlayStation 4 is Orbis OS, which is a Sony spin of FreeBSD 9.0.
It's not a huge surprise FreeBSD is being used over Linux, in part due
to the more liberal licensing. The PlayStation 4 is x86-64 based now
rather than Cell-based, which makes it easier to use FreeBSD. BSDs in
general currently lack manufacturer supported full-feature AMD
graphics driver, which leads to the conclusion that Sony and AMD have
likely co-developed a discrete driver for the PS4. Some pictures of
the development kit boot loader (GRUB) have been published too."
-- source: http://games.slashdot.org/story/13/06/24/000250
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
Hi there
We have a WLUG meeting tonight!
We will be mainly working on the WLUG website (archived wiki, elgg
upgrade, CiviCRM).
To make this interesting to other members, work will be done on via
projector. You might learn a thing or two. :-)
When?
tonight, 7.30pm
Where?
University of Waikato, MS4.G.02
http://www.waikato.ac.nz/contacts/map/?MS4
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
Hey Free Software, Open Source Community
We would like to invite you and your members to submit a talk at
linux.conf.au
Australasia's premier Linux, Open Source & Free Software conference and the
biggest.
Thanking you Paul Del. LCA2014 Core Team
To Free Software & Open Source & Linux community,
We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers(proposals) for
linux.conf.au2014 in Perth.
Call for proposals closes: 6 July 2013
Do you have something to say about Free Software
Passionate about Open Source?
Linux on the forefront and frontier?
Perhaps something else that you are passionate about in Free & Open Source?
Got something to say?
We are now asking interested people to submit proposals for talks. This
year we are focusing on deep technical content, and the things that you
think are going to really matter in our future.
Check out our website for more information
http://linux.conf.au/cfp
Great Conference, Great Community.
The linux.conf.au 2014 Team
Email: papers-chair at lca2014.linux.org.au
website: http://linux.conf.au
twitter: https://twitter.com/linuxconfau
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/lca2014
identi.ca: http://identi.ca/linuxconfau
google+ https://plus.google.com/communities/100789999660988673438
Meetup http://www.meetup.com/linuxconfau
"The MariaDB blog is reporting a small change to the license covering
the man pages to MySQL. Until recently, the governing license was
GPLv2. Now the license reads, 'This software and related documentation
are provided under a license agreement containing restrictions on use
and disclosure and are protected by intellectual property laws. Except
as expressly permitted in your license agreement or allowed by law,
you may not use, copy, reproduce, translate, broadcast, modify,
license, transmit, distribute, exhibit, perform, publish, or display
any part, in any form, or by any means. Reverse engineering,
disassembly, or decompilation of this software, unless required by law
for interoperability, is prohibited.'"
-- source: http://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/06/18/2223247
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
Hi there
Unfortunately, CiviCRM couldn't be persuaded to send out automated
emails for registered events, hence a manual email again...
We will be mainly working on the WLUG website (archived wiki, elgg
upgrade, CiviCRM).
To make this interesting to other members, work will be done on via
projector. You might learn a thing or two. :-)
When?
Monday, June 24, 7.30pm
Where?
University of Waikato, MS4.G.02
http://www.waikato.ac.nz/contacts/map/?MS4
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
