The first and last Release Candidate of ROSA Desktop 2012 was announced last week. This means, of course, that the stable edition will be hitting a download mirror near you very soon, likely before Xmas.
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Limerick migrates to Zentyal’s open source email solution
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The city of Limerick, located in mid-west Ireland and, which at a population of about 110,000, is that country’s third largest city, has chosen Zentyal to migrate to an open source email solution.
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ROSA Desktop 2012 GNOME alpha
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The GNOME 3 edition is a community edition, not officially supported by ROSA Laboratory, though the same developers working on the officially-supported desktop editions are also responsible for this community edition.
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Samba 4.0 has been released
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The Samba development team has just announced the release of Samba 4.0. Samba is a Free Softwareimplementation of SMB/CIFS protocols, which makes it possible for any system running Samba to function as a file, print and authentication server suite for Microsoft Windows and UNIX-like clients.
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Crowdfunding Piwik 2.0
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If you run a website, it is what you use when you do not want to use Google Analytics or any other third party solution.
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You can now buy a custom APC case
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Remember the Android PC (APC) mini mother board from VIA Technologies Inc? At the time it was released, it’s form-factor, known as Neo-ITX, did not fit any available computer case.
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Krita Sketch released
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Krita Sketch, a version of Krita for touch interfaces, has been released. Krita is a cross-platform sketching and painting application for the K Desktop Environment (KDE)
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Linux Mint 14 Cinnamon review
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Aside from the DNS issue (slow Internet access), another thing I observed when applying updates is shown in the image below. Note that these unauthenticated packages are not third-party updates, but core software available in the default repository. To me, that’s a major security concern.
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Mageia 3, what’s on tap?
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If you would like to take it for a spin, there is a 3.6 GB installer DVD image for fresh installations and upgrades, installation-only and Live CD and Live DVD images for KDE and GNOME 3, and free and non-free Network installer images.
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Semplice 3.0.0 preview
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Semplice’s graphical interface is powered by Openbox, and is touted as needing less than 400 MB to boot the live system. Its development is led by Eugenio “g7″ Paolantonio (from Italy).
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Ubuntu for smartphones: Will this penguin fly?
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I don’t know, but the most important trend indicator at this stage does not look good: The Operators and OEMs page on the project’s site does not list any OEMs, not one. That tells you how much OEM-clout (OEM-convincing power) Canonical has, or does not have.
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Will the market place be kind to Pebble?
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Rather, it’s main purpose is as a control and informational device, kinda like a modern-day remote control, aside from also being a traditional, but cooler wrist watch. I said “cooler,” because Pebble is a thing of beauty, both from a geek’s and end-user’s standpoint.
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SolusOS 2 alpha 6 preview
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SolusOS is a desktop distribution based on Debian. It is co-founded by a couple of guys who were involved with Linux Mint Debian Edition.
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Upgrading Fedora 17 to 18 with FedUp is elegant, but …
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With Fedora 18, the recommended upgrade tool is called FedUp (FEDora UPgrade). It is, by design, a lot more elegant than what it replaced, but how well or error-free it works is another matter.
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ROSA Desktop Fresh 2012 review
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I’ve been running ROSA Desktop Fresh 2012 beta 1 on a test system since it was released on October 20 2012. When the stable edition was made available for download, I didn’t need to reinstall, just updated the system. This review is based on that system, with screen shots from it and a couple of test installations in a virtual environment.
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