Tech Review Linux: Friday, February 3, 2012

Mint's Cinnamon: The Future of the Linux Desktop? (Review)

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/mints-cinnamon-the-future-of-the-linux-desktop-review/10246?alertspromo=&tag=nl.rSINGLE

• GNOME 2.c style desktop
• on top of GNOME 3.x
• Mint 12
• some bugs

Droid Razr Maxx: a slim smartphone with a super battery (review)

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/gadgetreviews/droid-razr-maxx-a-slim-smartphone-with-a-super-battery-review/28800?tag=nl.e539

• 21 hours of talk time
• 3,300 mAh battery
• 1,780 cell in predecessor
• 4G LTE connection for 15 hours

Are the days of hands-off Internet policies numbered?

http://gcn.com/articles/2012/02/01/internet-governance-world-conference-changes.aspx?s=gcndaily_020212

• International Telecommunications Regulations (1988)
• World Conference on International Telecommunications
• late December 2012
• Dubai

Do candles hold the cure for touch-screen smudges?

http://gcn.com/articles/2012/02/01/candles-soot-solve-smudges-on-touch-screens.aspx?s=gcndaily_020212

• perfect barrier to both water and oil
• polymer residue around soot to hold in place

BlackBerry 7 OS gets FIPS 140-2 certification

http://gcn.com/articles/2012/02/01/rim-blackberry-7-fips-140-2-certification.aspx?s=gcndaily_020212

• Research in Motion
• Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) for cryptographic modules
• DoD
• Android 2.2 OS
• FIPS 140-2
• Models
• Bold
• Torch
• Curve
• Common Criteria EAL4+ certification
• last year
• international standard

Red Hat Extends Linux Support

http://www.serverwatch.com/server-news/red-hat-extends-linux-support.html

• Extended Lifecycle Support (ELS)
• 10 years
• RHEL 5.8
• Extended Update Support (EUS)

Red Hat developer explains open source color calibration hardware

• color management 
• weak area for Linux desktop
• Richard Hughes
• GNOME Color Manager in 2
• open source colorimeter
• hardware device
• color calibration
• Linux-campatible device
• ColorHug
• Open source hardware
• open drivers
• open firmware
• published on Gitorious
• other olorimeters
• proprietary code
• must reverse engineer to use with Linux

http://www.hughski.com/

• main site

http://www.hughski.com/buy.html

• to buy
• £48 (pre-order)
• £60 

Sick of Ubuntu's bad breath? Suck on a Linux Mint instead

• jump from GNOME 2 to GNOME shell or Unity
• Mark Shuttleworth
• HUD (Head Up Display)
• Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
• MATE
• a fork of GNOME 2
• Cinnamon Desktop
• fork of GNOME shell
• Mutter
• GNOME 3
• hybrid desktop
• Holes
• lack finishing ploish
• ships with proprietary multimedia codecs
• USA-Japan Edition

GCC 4.7 Moves Along Into Stage 4

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?px=MTA1MDI&page=news_item

• better Google Go support
• experimental transactional memory support in C
• ARM Cortex-A7 processor support

On switching to Arch Linux

http://mikethecoder.com/post/16562751962/on-switching-to-arch-linux

• nothing work out of box
• must follow instructions
• not instructions
• Google!

The first 5 things you should do with Miro

http://www.getmiro.com/using-miro/

• Pull all music and videos together in one place
• Add favorite video and music websites
• Share across computers
• Sync phone or tablet
• Buy a song or app

http://linuxaria.com/recensioni/miro-internet-tv-internet-tv-for-ubuntu-desktop?lang=en

• internet video
• full-screen show