Ubuntu to ditch X-Windows for Mir.
In a move that should not surprise anyone, Ubuntu is going to be switching from using the X Windows display system, to a new graphics system that would scale from Phone->Tablet->Desktop. This new...
View ArticleUbuntu 13.04 is released!
Ubuntu 13.04 has been officially released today. I’ve been testing it on and off for a while with many of the Beta releases. I’ve not had any issues with it, in fact, I’ve had less issues with 13.04...
View ArticleCentOS kernel update
It looks like that nasty kernel issue in the 2.6 kernel that is in the latest CentOS release has been addressed. 2.6.32-358.6.2.el6.x86_64 has been released and is available via a yum update command. I...
View ArticleRed Hat Enterprise Linux roadmap
Looking at this article from LWN.net, it appears the default filesystem for RHEL 7 will be XFS. XFS was the default filesystem from Silcon Graphics Irix Unix from back in the day, and I believe one of...
View ArticleHappy Birthday Debian Linux
It’s the 20th birthday for Debian Linux today. I wonder if Ian Murdock had any idea how popular and influential his distro would be after all these years. Without it we may not have Ubuntu and...
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