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Christmas lights, nerd style: 22,000 remotely controlled lights, connected to the internet via Linux

Unknown 0 Christmas, Linux, News 10:12 AM

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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What do you get if you combine Christmas, jury-rigged electronics, 22,000 lights, over a dozen inflatables, webcams, and custom server software running on a Linux server? Alek Komarnitsky’s controllable Christmas lights, of course! Every year, Alek — who is one of the world wide web’s most infamous OGs — lights up his house with 22,000 lights and over a dozen inflatables, and then lets strangers on the internet control them all via a gaudy (but completely W3C-compliant) website. Why? To raise money for research into celiac disease, which his kids were diagnosed with a few years ago.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Starting at 6pm Eastern Time (4pm Mountain Time), you can hit up Alek Komarnitsky’s website and control his Christmas lights and inflatables in real time. New this year is the ability to send text messages to Santa’s Workshop — a festively illuminated office where Alek sits and works while wearing a Santa hat. There are three webcams that allow you to see your handiwork in real-time. Alek maintains that the rapidly blinking lights, which consume around 70 amps at full load, <em>entertains</em> the neighbors rather than annoys them. In an interview with Slashdot, Alek says that most of the lights are standard, cheap incandescent bulbs rather than LEDs, because he buys most of the lights at garage sales or when they’re heavily discounted. He also notes that, because he only runs the lights in December, it would take a long time for the increased LED efficiency to pay off.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Via: <a href="http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/173410-christmas-nerd-style-play-with-22000-remotely-controlled-lights-watch-the-results-in-real-time">ExtremeTech</a></span></i></div>

Christmas lights, nerd style: 22,000 remotely controlled lights, connected to the internet via Linux

What do you get if you combine Christmas, jury-rigged electronics, 22,000 lights, over a dozen inflatables, webcams, and custom server sof...

Top Linux distros to keep on in 2014

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Every year, around December, people like to come up with their predictions for what they believe will happen in the technology world in the year to come. This is like that, only focused on what I feel are the 10 most interesting distributions of Linux (desktop or mobile) to watch in 2014.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The desktop Linux space is filled with examples of new Linux Distros appearing out of nowhere, as if by magic, and capturing significant market share. A great example is the first release of Ubuntu, back in 2004, which caused a dramatic shift in the entire Linux ecosystem.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This is one reason why I think it is worth keeping an eye on<a href="http://elementaryos.org/" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">elementary OS</a>. This relative newcomer to the scene has already catapulted to the Distrowatch top 10 and shows no signs of slowing down. With its focus on gorgeous design and a new release scheduled for April 2014, I could easily see this distro becoming a “Top 5” consumer distro in the next year or two.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Up until now, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Touch" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Ubuntu Touch</a> (the mobile-focused version of Ubuntu) has been available purely for developers and pro users looking to <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/review-ubuntu-touch-nexus-7-almost-awesome" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">test out the new platform</a>. That's all set to change in 2014 with actual, shipping hardware. You, I and everyone else will be able to order their own Ubuntu-powered cellphone within the year.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Will it be a smash hit, quickly rivaling many of the other dominant mobile OS players? Will it fall flat on its face and fail to ship enough units to even register as a blip on the radar? Or, perhaps more reasonably, will the results fall somewhere in the middle? Regardless of the outcome, Ubuntu Touch is going to be an interesting one to watch.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The world of Linux Distros can be a chaotic and crazy place, especially lately. Changed user interface over here, controversy over there. The net result is a lot of Linux users leaving their current distro and looking for greener pastures.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">One of the big exceptions to this is openSUSE – which continues to be one of the most steady, consistent forces in the Linux world. In a Linux world that seems to be in constant flux, that dependability is...refreshing. Do I expect any of this to change in 2014? Not a chance. But I do anticipate that openSUSE will see a boost in users as people seek a safe harbor in the various “display server” and “desktop environment” wars.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I considered not including Google's ChromeOS on this list, as it bears very little resemblance to a “traditional Linux Distro.” However, Linux it is. And, with the marketing muscle it has behind it, there can be no doubt about the traction it has gained this year.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://lubuntu.net/" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Lubuntu</a> – which is, in essence, Ubuntu with the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_(user_interface)" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Unity</a>environment ripped out in favor of the lightweight <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LXDE" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">LXDE</a> – has already experienced a pretty substantial boost in popularity, thanks in large part to many long-time Ubuntu users looking to escape from (what they feel is) the bloated slowness of the Unity desktop environment.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Lubuntu seems to now have hit a critical mass, gaining attention from non-Ubuntu users as well for its speed and low-memory footprint. I expect to see this distro’s user-base grow steadily throughout 2014. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Remember Maemo or Moblin? <a href="http://merproject.org/" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Mer </a>is the sort of spiritual successor to those ill-fated mobile Linux distributions. Mer is being used as a base distro for the <a href="http://plasma-active.org/" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">KDE Plasma Active</a>team’s mobile system. Will we see hardware shipping with Mer and Plasma Active preloaded in 2014? I truly don't know.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The pessimist in me says no way, although the optimist says it's a possibility. But even if we don't see shipping hardware, the technology being produced here is truly interesting and, in my opinion, hugely important for one critical reason - it approaches things very differently than the other mobile systems (such as Android, Ubuntu Touch or FirefoxOS). That alone makes it worth keeping tabs on. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.linuxmint.com/" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Linux Mint</a> is an interesting beast. It initially appeared on the scene as a version of Ubuntu with some added codecs and drivers. It then quickly earned a (much-deserved) reputation for excellent visual design and has, over the last few years, built up a sizable user base – catapulting it to the No. 1 spot on the DistroWatch list.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This popularity has caused the system to splinter into a variety of flavors and versions, which is both interesting and confusing. My prediction is that Linux Mint will become a single version of a single distro (re-focusing its message) in 2014, or it will see a significant drop in popularity. Regardless of what its talented team does, I will be watching closely. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I truly don't know. Call it intuition. Maybe it's the alignment of the stars. Perhaps some unusual solar flare activity or something in the air. Let's just say “I've got a hunch” that, during 2014, Arch is going to be worth watching.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"The Year Of The Linux Desktop" has become a bit of a running joke at this point, but I'm going to make a similar declaration and say that 2014 will be "The Year Of Everyone Having Their Own Linux Distro." At this point, the tools for building your own Linux distribution (such as <a href="http://susestudio.com/" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Suse Studio</a>) are so mature and easy to use that, in many cases, the best Linux Distro for you to use is the one you whip up for yourself based on an existing distro.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Call it an appliance. Call it a re-spin. Either way, the ability to make your own system (and provide it to others who may share your needs) is going to get pretty big in 2014. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Let's take stock. Valve, one of the most important video game developers and publishers in the business, is now making Linux games. Its Steam store is running on Linux. It’s a member of the Linux Foundation. And it’s even built its own Linux Distro – <a href="http://store.steampowered.com/livingroom/SteamOS/" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">SteamOS</a> – that will power multiple game consoles shipping in 2014.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If successful in the market, and there's little reason to think they won't be at least moderately successful at this point, this could have a huge impact on the Linux gaming scene. The largest we've ever seen. You know Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo (and just about everyone else) will be watching very closely what Valve does with SteamOS in 2014. </span></div>
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<i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Via : <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/slideshow/detail/132493/10-Linux-distros-to-keep-an-eye-on-in-2014?source=cwfb#slide12" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Computerworld</a></span></i></div>
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5 top Linux and open source stories in 2013

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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Linux has long ruled some areas of computing such as </span>supercomputing<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">. But in 2013, Linux and the open source method of developing software started to quietly dominate all aspects of computing, from </span><a href="http://www.zdnet.com/2014-the-year-of-the-linux-car-7000014091/" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #005399; cursor: pointer; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">cars</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"> to the cloud, and end-user computing, thanks in part to Android and Chrome OS.</span></span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1. Open source software methodology goes everywhere</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's rare for developers these days not to use or create open source software. Even Microsoft is putting more energy into its open source efforts, such as Node.js, a tool/framework that uses JavaScript as its scripting engine. After all, Microsoft even helps build Linux these days.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2. The rise of the Chromebook</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You can argue how popular Google's Linux-powered Chromebooks really are, but here are a few more facts showing that Chromebooks are quickly gaining users.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dell, the last major OEM to not have a Chromebook, is releasing its first Chromebook in early 2014. Consumer electronics giant LG will also be releasing a new form factor for Chrome OS: theChromebase. This is an all-in-one (AIO) PC that combines Chrome with a 21.5-inch display with 1,920 x 1,080 full HD resolution.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3. SteamOS: Mainstream Linux gaming arrives</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nothing underlines this shift in desktops more than Valve, a major PC gaming company, releasing SteamOS. This is a Debian-based Linux that's expressively designed for Linux PC gaming.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Like those other companies that have invested in Linux and open source software, Valve isn't doing this because they have warm, fuzzy feeling about Linux. No, Valve has released its own desktop Linux, and Steam Machines, dedicated Linux gaming consoles, because, "Windows 8 is a catastrophe for everyone in the PC space," according to Valve's billionaire chief executive Gabe Newell <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/valve-ceo-why-linux-is-the-future-of-gaming-7000020735" style="border: 0px; color: #005399; cursor: pointer; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">earlier this year</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As far as Valve is concerned, Linux is the future of computing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">4. Clouds: Linux everywhere</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You can argue over the rise of Linux on the desktop, but no one can argue about how influential Linux is in clouds. With the exception of Microsoft's Azure, all major cloud software platforms — including <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/amazon-ec2-cloud-is-made-up-of-almost-half-a-million-linux-servers/10620" style="border: 0px; color: #005399; cursor: pointer; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Amazon's EC2 cloud</a>, Google Compute Engine, and the various OpenStack implementations — are all based on Linux and open source software. For that matter, due to popular demand, you can also run Ubuntu, CentOS, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES), and openSUSE on Azure.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">5. Android rules mobile</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />Away from the desktop, Linux, in the form of Android, already rules end-user computing. Android has a comfortable lead on smartphones over Apple iOS. And by the middle of this year, share in <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/idc-data-shows-android-also-rules-the-tablet-market-7000023899" style="border: 0px; color: #005399; cursor: pointer; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Android tablets blew past Apple's iPad line</a>. The number one mobile operating system is now Android. The only real question is who will be in third place behind Android and iOS<br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Via: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/5-top-linux-and-open-source-stories-in-2013-7000024621/">ZDNet</a></span></div>
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5 top Linux and open source stories in 2013

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Ubuntu Touch: Next OS or Another Skin?

Unknown 0 Linux, Mobile, News, Ubuntu Touch 11:43 AM

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwLUxBRSRXrxURoJanL32FH_gr2O8AFWB8M7avVFzI_wDJ7CmxxWfYLrrwPIwjL3JdEat7pXg1ECnhcoTHC_BdPIuJXBQxy8hEVz-8pUnsuIPLZfv5VR2RJIOm-Qiws6WGU1HavzsrjUvV/s1600/UbuntuTouch_newskin-238x129.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwLUxBRSRXrxURoJanL32FH_gr2O8AFWB8M7avVFzI_wDJ7CmxxWfYLrrwPIwjL3JdEat7pXg1ECnhcoTHC_BdPIuJXBQxy8hEVz-8pUnsuIPLZfv5VR2RJIOm-Qiws6WGU1HavzsrjUvV/s1600/UbuntuTouch_newskin-238x129.jpg" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Ubuntu Touch</i></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">Since the dawn of Android tablets, and really ever since the HTC HD2, developers have been looking for ways to bring Ubuntu to the mobile space. It seems like every new device gets a thread devoted to showing users how to load Ubuntu. More often than not, that implementation requires you to boot Android and then utilize <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chroot" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">chroot</em></a> in order to run a Ubuntu instance, but that doesn’t change the fact you’re still running Android.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="color: red;">Don't Miss</span> </b>: <a href="http://www.itrumors.net/2013/12/iphone-forced-google-to-start-over-with.html" itemprop="url" style="opacity: 0.75; text-decoration: none;">iPhone forced Google to start over with Android?</a></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">So when news of Ubuntu Touch coming to the Galaxy Nexus, Nexus 4, Nexus 7 and Nexus 10 reached the interwebz, a collective shout of “Yippee!” erupted from the ranks. Then earlier this week Canonical, the creators of Ubuntu, teased us with a video showing Ubuntu Touch in all its glory on a tablet.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/h384z7Ph0gU?rel=0" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="560"></iframe></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">On Thursday, Canonical released instructions for installing the Developer Preview on the Nexus devices, and the XDA thread erupted with discussion around it. Then as people began to install the Developer Preview on their devices, one thing became very clear: While a lot of the data being shown in the video looked real, it all exists in the Developer Preview as dummy data. It’s not functional, and is not intended for the user as was displayed. No, this is very clearly an alpha and not intended for the normal user or as a daily-driver. It even is clear that Android is very much part of Ubuntu Touch, even down to a stripped down version of CM10.1 as the base, and chroot is still the process used to run Ubuntu, albeit in a much nicer (and cleaner) boot process.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">On Friday they <a href="http://www.xda-developers.com/android/porting-ubuntu-touch-is-as-simple-as-building-cm/" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Porting Ubuntu Touch is as Simple as Building CM">released the porting instructions</a> and another suspicion was confirmed: If your device is in the CM10.1 device tree and can run CM10.1, you too can port Ubuntu Touch to your device relatively easily. And in Friday’s hangout that the Ubuntu Development team hosted they discussed the following key points (props to XDA Senior Member KMyers for not only joining the hangout, but also typing up the results):</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Question : Is Ubuntu Touch stable enough for a Daily Driver?</b></em><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Answer : No, most of the core “Applications” are non-functional . There is also no support for 3G Data</em></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Question : What Devices can Ubuntu Touch Be Ported to?</b></em><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Answer : As the Ubuntu Touch Preview is simply running in a Cyanogenmod10.1 chroot, theoretically you can port Ubuntu Touch to any device that Cyanogemod 10.1 Supports. Development happened on ICS and eventually moved to JB. Keep in mind that performance may vary. Instructions to port Ubuntu Touch can be found at <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/Porting" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/Porting</a></em></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Question : Since this is running in a Cyanogenmod chroot, can it run Native Android Apps?</b></em><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Answer : No – The Cyanogenmod Fork has been stripped of the Dalvik VM and all other components necessary to run Android Applications. There is a likely possibility that someone will develop a “bluestacks” like emulator to allow android applications to run, but this will most likely not come from the Ubuntu team. </em></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Question : Is dual booting possible?</b></em><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Answer : Yes, thanks to the effort of the people at XDA-Developers, Dual Booting is possible. With this said, this is not something that the Ubuntu Team has any intentions of officially supporting. While Ubuntu seems to encourage community efforts, they stress that they do not want this to become a feature that the end user will expect to see officially supported. (I bet you all wish you got the 32 GB Nexus 7 or Nexus 10 rather then the 16 GB)</em></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Question : Is the Ubuntu Touch UI using X11 or Wayland?</b></em><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Answer : None of the Above. Ubuntu Touch is using the same Display Manager that is in use by Android, Display Flinger.</em></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Question : What Kernel is in Use?</b></em><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Answer : A modified Android Kernel is in use</em></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></b></em><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Question : What about CDMA support?</b></em><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Answer : Fear Not Sprint and Verizon users, it is being worked on. The Ubuntu Team said that the GSM Radio is the global standard and this was simply where they focused most of their attention as all of the developers had GSM devices. </em></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Question : Will Ubuntu be accepting merge requests for the Cyanogen10.1 sub system?</b></em><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Answer : Yes, this is encouraged.</em></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Question : Where is the Ubuntu chroot kept in relationship to Android?</b></em><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Answer : The Ubuntu filesystem and all applications are kept in /data/ubuntu . If you use adb to browse this, you will see a familiar filesystem layout that most Linux users are used to </em></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Question : What Works?</b></em><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Answer : As this is a Developer Build, dont expect much to work. The items that have been confirmed to work are;</em></div><ul style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 10px 60px;"><li style="background-image: url(http://cdn.www.xda-developers.com/wp-content/themes/XDA2/images/p-con-li.png); background-position: 0% 1px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px 2px 13px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Touchscreen</em></li><li style="background-image: url(http://cdn.www.xda-developers.com/wp-content/themes/XDA2/images/p-con-li.png); background-position: 0% 1px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px 2px 13px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></em><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Sound (over speakers)</em></li><li style="background-image: url(http://cdn.www.xda-developers.com/wp-content/themes/XDA2/images/p-con-li.png); background-position: 0% 1px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px 2px 13px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></em><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Display</em></li><li style="background-image: url(http://cdn.www.xda-developers.com/wp-content/themes/XDA2/images/p-con-li.png); background-position: 0% 1px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px 2px 13px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></em><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Internet Browser</em></li><li style="background-image: url(http://cdn.www.xda-developers.com/wp-content/themes/XDA2/images/p-con-li.png); background-position: 0% 1px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px 2px 13px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></em><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">WiFi (No WPS)</em></li><li style="background-image: url(http://cdn.www.xda-developers.com/wp-content/themes/XDA2/images/p-con-li.png); background-position: 0% 1px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px 2px 13px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></em><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Camera (Front and Back)</em></li><li style="background-image: url(http://cdn.www.xda-developers.com/wp-content/themes/XDA2/images/p-con-li.png); background-position: 0% 1px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px 2px 13px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></em><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Video Player</em></li><li style="background-image: url(http://cdn.www.xda-developers.com/wp-content/themes/XDA2/images/p-con-li.png); background-position: 0% 1px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px 2px 13px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></em><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">ADB</em></li><li style="background-image: url(http://cdn.www.xda-developers.com/wp-content/themes/XDA2/images/p-con-li.png); background-position: 0% 1px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px 2px 13px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></em><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Screen Brightness Controls</em></li><li style="background-image: url(http://cdn.www.xda-developers.com/wp-content/themes/XDA2/images/p-con-li.png); background-position: 0% 1px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px 2px 13px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></em><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Automatic Brightness</em></li><li style="background-image: url(http://cdn.www.xda-developers.com/wp-content/themes/XDA2/images/p-con-li.png); background-position: 0% 1px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px 2px 13px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></em><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Speech Driven HUD (Yes, it works)</em></li><li style="background-image: url(http://cdn.www.xda-developers.com/wp-content/themes/XDA2/images/p-con-li.png); background-position: 0% 1px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px 2px 13px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></em><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">GSM Voice (No APN Settings)</em></li><li style="background-image: url(http://cdn.www.xda-developers.com/wp-content/themes/XDA2/images/p-con-li.png); background-position: 0% 1px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px 2px 13px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></em><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The SideStage Seems to be working</em></li></ul><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Question : What Does Not Work?</b></em><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Answer : As this is a developer build, dont expect things to work properly, here are a few things that are not working</em></div><ul style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 10px 60px;"><li style="background-image: url(http://cdn.www.xda-developers.com/wp-content/themes/XDA2/images/p-con-li.png); background-position: 0% 1px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px 2px 13px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">3G/4G Data</em></li><li style="background-image: url(http://cdn.www.xda-developers.com/wp-content/themes/XDA2/images/p-con-li.png); background-position: 0% 1px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px 2px 13px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></em><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Audio Out via Headphones</em></li><li style="background-image: url(http://cdn.www.xda-developers.com/wp-content/themes/XDA2/images/p-con-li.png); background-position: 0% 1px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px 2px 13px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></em><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">HDMI</em></li><li style="background-image: url(http://cdn.www.xda-developers.com/wp-content/themes/XDA2/images/p-con-li.png); background-position: 0% 1px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px 2px 13px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></em><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Bluetooth</em></li><li style="background-image: url(http://cdn.www.xda-developers.com/wp-content/themes/XDA2/images/p-con-li.png); background-position: 0% 1px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px 2px 13px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></em><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Most Applications and Menus</em></li><li style="background-image: url(http://cdn.www.xda-developers.com/wp-content/themes/XDA2/images/p-con-li.png); background-position: 0% 1px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px 2px 13px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></em><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Charging Indicator</em></li><li style="background-image: url(http://cdn.www.xda-developers.com/wp-content/themes/XDA2/images/p-con-li.png); background-position: 0% 1px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px 2px 13px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></em><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Software Center (Note : You can install simple shell applications via apt-get install … once inside the chroot)</em></li><li style="background-image: url(http://cdn.www.xda-developers.com/wp-content/themes/XDA2/images/p-con-li.png); background-position: 0% 1px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px 2px 13px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></em><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Most applications are placeholders</em></li><li style="background-image: url(http://cdn.www.xda-developers.com/wp-content/themes/XDA2/images/p-con-li.png); background-position: 0% 1px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px 2px 13px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></em><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">MMS</em></li><li style="background-image: url(http://cdn.www.xda-developers.com/wp-content/themes/XDA2/images/p-con-li.png); background-position: 0% 1px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px 2px 13px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></em><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">CDMA Connections</em></li><li style="background-image: url(http://cdn.www.xda-developers.com/wp-content/themes/XDA2/images/p-con-li.png); background-position: 0% 1px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px 2px 13px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></em><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">SIM Storage</em></li><li style="background-image: url(http://cdn.www.xda-developers.com/wp-content/themes/XDA2/images/p-con-li.png); background-position: 0% 1px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px 2px 13px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></em><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Auto Rotation (Or any rotation for that matter)</em></li><li style="background-image: url(http://cdn.www.xda-developers.com/wp-content/themes/XDA2/images/p-con-li.png); background-position: 0% 1px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px 2px 13px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></em><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Random Crashes when swiping</em></li><li style="background-image: url(http://cdn.www.xda-developers.com/wp-content/themes/XDA2/images/p-con-li.png); background-position: 0% 1px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px 2px 13px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></em><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Notifications (All of them are placeholders)</em></li><li style="background-image: url(http://cdn.www.xda-developers.com/wp-content/themes/XDA2/images/p-con-li.png); background-position: 0% 1px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px 2px 13px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></em><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Most Applications that do function are web apps like m.gmail.com.</em></li><li style="background-image: url(http://cdn.www.xda-developers.com/wp-content/themes/XDA2/images/p-con-li.png); background-position: 0% 1px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px 2px 13px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></em><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">NFC</em></li></ul><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">The issue with the release is that the focus in the video was that these features were working and is what would be deployed. What is painfully obvious instead is that the video highlighting those features was just PR and nothing else. Virtually none of the features displayed in the video even work, even on devices like the Nexus lineup that are generally the easiest to develop for, and already fully work on CM10.1. In fact, the calendar app is just a PNG placeholder and does not even function.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">This doesn’t mean that we feel that there isn’t a future for this platform, but it does mean that there are definitely opportunities to improve. Here at XDA we publicly reach out and offer our services to the Ubuntu Touch project. We have more experience in the mobile development and mobile telephony space than most outfits, and have a lot to offer in what could be a tremendous collaboration. We look forward to seeing what such a collaboration would produce. // <a href="http://www.xda-developers.com/android/ubuntu-touch-next-generation-os-or-just-another-skin/">xda-developers</a></div>

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Ubuntu Touch and Android Dual Boot Released

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Linux Mint 16 "Petra" Xfce and KDE Released

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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTVGk6-k0a-PtvuIG5wkED09la2aSlPo1hApoa7Vbjgh2CpbvIn6JsubSfZKT4ci_QTZF0ZsdojABtenWSeVesiFjhH5FBAJZVchwMravZIckzbuX0ZM-A7g6tkh2ydHXbU56mm0JMpZz8/s1600/mint16-xfce.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTVGk6-k0a-PtvuIG5wkED09la2aSlPo1hApoa7Vbjgh2CpbvIn6JsubSfZKT4ci_QTZF0ZsdojABtenWSeVesiFjhH5FBAJZVchwMravZIckzbuX0ZM-A7g6tkh2ydHXbU56mm0JMpZz8/s320/mint16-xfce.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>Linux Mint 16</i></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="background-color: white; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 16 'Petra' Xfce. Xfce is a lightweight desktop environment which aims to be fast and low on system resources, while still being visually appealing and user friendly. This edition features all the improvements from the latest Linux Mint release on top of an Xfce 4.10 desktop." For additional information, screenshots and feature lists please visit the following links:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2530" style="background-color: white; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" target="_blank">KDE edition announcement</a><span style="background-color: white; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://www.linuxmint.com/rel_petra_kde_whatsnew.php" style="background-color: white; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" target="_blank">KDE edition what's new</a><span style="background-color: white; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2534" style="background-color: white; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" target="_blank">Xfce edition announcement</a><span style="background-color: white; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://www.linuxmint.com/rel_petra_xfce_whatsnew.php" style="background-color: white; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" target="_blank">Xfce edition what's new</a><span style="background-color: white; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">.</span></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="background-color: white; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b style="background-color: white; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><a href="http://www.linuxmint.com/download.php" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Download</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(<a href="http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/linuxmint.com/stable/16/sha256sum.txt" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">SHA256</a>):</b><br style="background-color: white; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Kde 32bit -<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/linuxmint/iso/stable/16/linuxmint-16-kde-dvd-32bit.iso" style="background-color: white; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" target="_blank">LinuxMint-16-kde-dvd-32bit.iso</a><span style="background-color: white; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> (</span><a href="http://torrents.linuxmint.com/torrents/linuxmint-16-kde-dvd-32bit.iso.torrent" style="background-color: white; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" target="_blank">torrent</a><span style="background-color: white; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">)</span><br style="background-color: white; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Kde 64bit - </span><a href="http://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/linuxmint/iso/stable/16/linuxmint-16-kde-dvd-64bit.iso" style="background-color: white; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">LinuxMint-16-kde-dvd-64bit.iso</a><span style="background-color: white; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(</span><a href="http://torrents.linuxmint.com/torrents/linuxmint-16-kde-dvd-64bit.iso.torrent" style="background-color: white; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">torrent</a><span style="background-color: white; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">)</span><br style="background-color: white; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Xfce 32bit - </span><a href="http://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/linuxmint/iso/stable/16/linuxmint-16-xfce-dvd-32bit.iso" style="background-color: white; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" target="_blank">LinuxMint-16-xfce-dvd-32bit.iso</a><span style="background-color: white; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> (</span><a href="http://torrents.linuxmint.com/torrents/linuxmint-16-xfce-dvd-32bit.iso.torrent" style="background-color: white; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" target="_blank">torrent</a><span style="background-color: white; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">)</span><br style="background-color: white; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Xfce 64bit - </span><a href="http://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/linuxmint/iso/stable/16/linuxmint-16-xfce-dvd-64bit.iso" style="background-color: white; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">LinuxMint-16-xfce-dvd-64bit.iso</a><span style="background-color: white; display: inline ! 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