"Linux developer Matthew Garrett has released a version of his Shim
Secure Boot bootloader that allows any Linux distribution to be
launched on Secure Boot systems without the need to disable UEFI
Secure Boot. As Garrett's Shim binary has been signed by Microsoft,
the Secure Boot bootloader will be executed by almost any type of UEFI
firmware."
-- source: http://h-online.com/-1761089
Cheers, Peter
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Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
'Plan 9 developer Richard Miller has ported the open source Unix-like
operating system to the Raspberry Pi mini-computer. Plan 9, which was
originally developed primarily for research into distributed operating
systems by Bell Labs, is still being developed at Bell Labs (now a
subsidiary of Alcatel-Lucent) and a number of independent developers.
The operating system extends the classic "everything is a file"
philosophy of Unix to network objects without differentiating between
local and remote resources.'
-- source: http://h-online.com/-1761509
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
"Dell has launched its Ubuntu laptop for developers in the US. The
project, which was first announced in May, uses an XPS 13 Ultrabook as
the base for a customised Ubuntu 12.04 installation that is aimed at
application developers and systems administrators. Dell has worked
with Ubuntu sponsor Canonical and various hardware manufacturers to
provide support for the hardware, and the system ships with additional
features such as the sputnik command that allows developers to easily
replicate their development environment on other machines."
-- source: http://h-online.com/-1759350
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
"Mozilla has put together a demo which combines WebRTC with Firefox's
Social API. Over on Mozilla's Future Releases blog, Maire Reavy
writes, 'WebRTC is a powerful new tool that enables web app developers
to include real-time video calling and data sharing capabilities in
their products. While many of us are excited about WebRTC because it
will enable several cool gaming applications and improve the
performance and availability of video conferencing apps, WebRTC is
proving to be a great tool for social apps. Sometimes when you're
chatting with a friend, you just want to click on their name and see
and talk with them in real-time. Imagine being able to do that without
any glitches or hassles, and then while talking with them, easily
share almost anything on your computer or device: vacation photos,
memorable videos — or even just a link to a news story you thought
they might be interested in – simply by dragging the item into your
video chat window.'"
-- source: http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/12/02/214216/mozilla-combines-social-api-…
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
"Martin Gräßlin, a lead KDE developer, addresses some queries around a
topic bugging Gnome and Unity users — the fallback mode. In this post
he says that 'having the non-composited mode around allows us to do
things like turning compositing off when running games or heavy OpenGL
based applications such as Blender. So if you want to get some of the
now finally available games for Linux, KDE Plasma should be your
primary choice to enjoy the game. I have also heard of users switching
to KDE Plasma because we still provide non OpenGL based setups.'"
-- source: http://linux.slashdot.org/story/12/12/01/2351222/why-kde-plasma-makes-sense…
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 AGM is tongiht at MS4.G.02 Waikato University, 7.30pm, come along
chat, have some pizza, hear how the year has been for the club, and
prehaps run for the committee yourself.
"Cinnarch project lead developer Alex Filgueira has released an update
to his Linux distribution that includes a new default file manager and
LibreOffice installer and improves the live system's overall
stability. Cinnarch is a rolling release operating system based on
Arch Linux that features Linux Mint's Cinnamon as its default desktop
environment. The OS uses the LightDM login manager and Chromium, the
open source browser project run by Google, as its default web
browser."
-- source: http://h-online.com/-1755860
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
"New submitter medge_42 sends words that Linux Mint 14 has been
released. Check out their list of features and release notes to see
what's new. One version uses MATE 1.4, which includes some long-needed
bug fixes as well as functional bluetooth and mate-keyring, its own
character map, fast alt-tabbing, and improvements to Caja. The other
version uses Cinnamon 1.6, which contains a huge number of fixes and
new features including its own file browser, persistent workspaces and
a window quicklist to go with them, a notifications applet, an
improved sound applet, and alt-tab graphical improvements. MDM now
supports legacy GDM 2 themes and userlists, and has improved user
switching. Gedit 2.30 has replaced Gedit 3, and MintStick replaces
USB-ImageWriter."
-- source: http://linux.slashdot.org/story/12/11/21/0455245/linux-mint-14-is-out
What a shame that I don't have time at the moment to play around with it... :-(
Cheers, Peter
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Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
"The amusing 'but does it run Crysis?' question has a cousin: 'but
does it run Minecraft?' The makers of Raspberry Pi can now officially
say that yes, yes it does. Called Minecraft: Pi Edition, the latest
flavor of the popular game carries 'a revised feature set' and
'support for several programming languages,' so you can code directly
into Minecraft before or after you start playing. That means you can
build structures in the traditional Minecraft way, but you can also
break open the code and use a programming language to manipulate
things in the game world."
-- source: http://games.slashdot.org/story/12/11/24/2334209/minecraft-ported-to-the-ra…
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 Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced a new add-on – a camera
module that will enable the credit card sized computer to snap
pictures as well as record 1080p videos. Showcased by RS Components at
the Elecontrica 2012 in Germany [watch video here] the £16 (apprx)
module will be equipped with a 5MP sensor and will plug into the
otherwise unused CSI pins of the Pi. The camera module's board is
still in prototype stage and is expected to reach production sometime
soon. Liz Upton, Executive Director of the Foundation said in a blog
post, 'We've a (very) little way to go before we're able to send it
out to manufacture.' According to Upton, testing slots have been
booked in December to check on electromagnetic radiations from the
ribbon cable."
-- source: http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/11/23/195219/on-demo-a-25-1080p-camer…
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
