Amazon's preliminary Christmas sales information is in and Linux-powered gear was a holiday-season winner.
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Chromebooks had a very good year, according to retailer Amazon.com and industry analysts. And that's bad news for Microsoft.
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While Red Hat is often lauded for its ability to support open source software and retain loyal subscribers to its support contracts, the company has also established itself as a strong leader and open source community booster. In 2014, Red Hat's focus is going to shift much more in the direction of cloud computing, as it pursues numerous OpenStack-focused initiatives.
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Just as 2013 was beginning, I wrote a post called "Should Microsoft Embrace Both Android and Firefox OS?" The gist of the post was that Microsoft's entries into a couple of important product categories--including smartphones and tablets--have included many missteps and its best advice may be to embrace open source mobile technology, especially Android.
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Some of the members of the Debian Technical Committee are starting to post their conclusions regarding which init system the distribution should use in the future. In particular, Ian Jackson has come out in favor of upstart: "Firstly, unlike the systemd maintainers, I think portability to non-Linux systems is important.
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Besides publishing their Haswell hardware documentation, coming out of Intel's Open-Source Technology Center today is the latest Intel 3.0 X.Org driver development release...
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The Korean electronics giant's low-power DDR4 memory chips, due to ship in 2014, will help lift a key performance bottleneck in today's mobile devices. Samsung says the new chips are faster and use less power, too. [Read more] ...
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The rise of the low-cost, single-board computer, a la Raspberry Pi, as well as the continued growth of Google's Linux-based Android mobile operating system are evident in this year's 10 most popular stories on Linux.com.
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LibreOffice, one of the fieriest competitors of Microsoft Office is now available on Google Chromebooks (or anything that runs the Chrome browser) and Apple's iPad.
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As an extra holiday present for Linux and open-source fans, Intel has quietly released a large batch of new programming documentation that covers their latest-generation Haswell graphics cores. The new "programmer's reference manuals" cover the 2013 Haswell HD Graphics, Iris Graphics, and Iris Pro Graphics. This massive batch of documentation...
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