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LXer Feature: 05-Oct-2014
The LXer Weekly Roundup for your reading pleasure. Enjoy!
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Shellshock: Better 'bash' patches now available: The patches are ready. Now it's up to you to put them into place as quickly as possible.
Ubuntu 14.10 Fans, Prepare for "It's a Boring Release" Comments: Canonical made a very good release back in April. Ubuntu 14.04 LTS was very well received and it integrated many features. It was very different from Ubuntu 13.10, so it was spared the "boring" rhetoric. On the other hand, Ubuntu 14.10 will not bring any important visible changes to the operating system and it will be very difficult to set it apart from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition Now In Beta For Linux, Finally: It took longer than we ever hoped, but Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition is finally in opt-in beta for Linux. Time to re-live a classic natively on Linux.
Launching the Ford-Mozilla Open Web Fellows Program, a Global Initiative to Recruit the Heroes of the Open Internet: Today we are joining together to launch the Ford-Mozilla Open Web Fellows program, a landmark initiative to create a worldwide community of leaders who will advance and protect the free and open Web.
Apache Storm is ready for prime time: Storm, a real-time framework for dealing with Big Data, has become an Apache top level project.
elementary OS: Don't Hate Me Because I'm Beautiful: elementary OS is a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu, and using solely this description users should not be impressed. Something else is happening with this operating system, something that is not fully understood.
Oracle will 'kill MySQL' and steal its users? Ha ha, haha, ha. Seriously, we won't – Oracle exec: If you think Oracle's only goal when it gained control of MySQL was to undermine it, Oracle has a message for you: Get over it. Speaking at the annual OpenWorld conference in San Francisco on Monday, Oracle chief corporate architect Edward Screven said there was never any question of the database giant mothballing MySQL.
Windows 10 doesn't matter to the future of Linux: In today's open source roundup: Windows 10 is not relevant to Linux. Plus: Borderlands 2 available for Linux, and does OpenOffice really still matter?
Google reportedly tried to buy Cyanogen: A report from The Information (subscription required) claims that Google tried to buy Cyanogen, Inc, the maker of the custom Android ROM CyanogenMod. According to the report, Cyanogen's chief executive told shareholders that Sundar Pichai, the head of Chrome and Android at Google, met with the company and "expressed interest in acquiring the firm." The report says Cyanogen Inc. declined the offer, saying that it was still growing.
Android Candy: Goodbye RDP, Hello Chrome Remote Desktop!: Controlling a remote computer is something you're all familiar with. Whether that means RDP to your corporate Windows Server (we don't judge), Apple Remote Desktop (which is really VNC) to your OS X machine or VNC/X11/etc. into your GUI Linux machine, it's always a pain in the rear.
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