41280165
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Thinkcloud writes:
The Krita Foundation has been created to support the development of Krita, especially by searching funding to sponsor actual development work, or by organizing creative, open content projects.
41102631
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Thinkcloud writes:
It will run on many more systems, including Linux systems.
40702815
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Thinkcloud writes:
Businesses and organizations are putting data in Amazon's EC2 S3 storage service at an incredible rate. As of the end of 2011, there were 762 billion objects in Amazon S3. That leads to the comparison with Microsoft’s lead in PC software in the 1990s.
40501389
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Thinkcloud writes:
“We’re excited to offer our enterprise customers the only comprehensive, open on-premise PaaS offering ready for enterprise deployment today with OpenShift Enterprise," said Ashesh Badani, Red Hat's general manager, Cloud Business Unit and OpenShift,, “this product offers our customers further freedom and choice in the cloud with the backing of Red Hat’s full stack and open source leadership.”
40381191
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Thinkcloud writes:
Cinnarch is a new project coupling Linux Mint's Cinnamon desktop with the popular Arch Linux. Featured as default in Cinnarch are Linux 3.6.6 and applications such as Shotwell, Chromium, Pidgin, Brasero, Cheese, and Totem.
40169685
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Thinkcloud writes:
Even though the operating system hasn't arrived in a version for smartphones and tablets just yet, it is available as a prototype module that you can run on Windows, Mac or Linux computers. The initial Firefox OS phones are expected to arrive in 2013, and it's been reported that Alcatel and ZTE are the first manufacturers on board.
40003029
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Thinkcloud writes:
We have Chef, Puppet, Nagios, Zenoss, Spacewalk, and many, many others, why bother with maintaining your own list? The answer is simple, and, like Master Foo’s 10,000 lines, goes back to the Unix nature of Linux. If the first reason to keep a plain text list of servers, normally in /etc/servers, is for shell scripts then the second is that it is the best way to keep the other systems in check
39790073
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Thinkcloud writes:
Spacewalk is the open source component of Red Hat’s Network Satellite. The Fedora to Red Hat’s RHEL server, it works perfectly with RHEL clone CentOS.
39633347
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Thinkcloud writes:
I returned from an extended absence to find that during the five months I was gone, my beloved Nagios, Puppet, and Webmin had been replacedI can not help but wonder if my preference for the command line marks me as the expert I aspire to be, or a relic.
38587645
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Thinkcloud writes:
A brand new open source hardware platform created by the University of Bonn's Team NimbRo performs many specialized functions and can even play soccer. Team NimbRo started with the open-source software that Robotis released for DARwIn-OP. It now offers its own Linux-based open source robot platform that supports ball perception, walking, kicking, and getting-up motions.
38386465
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Thinkcloud writes:
It was an interesting look at an alternative concept for building a Linux system. I now have a downloadable virtual appliance that weighs in at right around 27MB, zipped. I am also considering using this system for other servers, at least for testing.
37817493
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Thinkcloud writes:
Patrick's on his fifth release candidate for Pete's sake. His steganographical message in the latest changelog said, "Really, this time it is not a drill! Everything is in place and ready to release at this point."
36512939
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Thinkcloud writes:
Chef uses the analogy of cookbooks and recipes to provide a hierarchy of configuration scripts. One of the other fundamentals of Chef is that you should be able to download and deploy one of their field tested recipes without needing to know exactly what it is doing, we just need to know that it gives the intended result.
35948861
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Thinkcloud writes:
Changes include the removal of legacy symlinks to removable disk devices, systemd improvements to autofs and rsync, and some fixes to Plymouth, the new splash screen in 12.2.
35409311
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Thinkcloud writes:
A look at the world of digital cartography that includes tools and apps like OpenStreetMap, TileMill, and HTMAPL. Also a quick look at the commerce that dominates the world of digital cartography.
