Linuxers July 2013

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Views solicited for a story idea!
by Priyanka Sarkar 23 Jul '13

23 Jul '13

Dear All, Would really appreciate if you share your views/opinion on a story we are planning to come up with in our forthcoming edition. ''What steps/measures should be taken by the open source community to attract new talent in the FOSS world?' We believe that your insights in the open source terrain will be enlightening to our readers and for anyone who wishes to take a plunge in the FOSS world. Regards, Priyanka

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[Jobs] Software Developer at HashCube
by Deepan Chakravarthy 18 Jul '13

18 Jul '13

Hi, This is to inform you of openings in HashCube for Software Developers. The details of the Company and Job are mentioned below along with the link to Apply for the position. If you're an awesome coder interested in developing kick-ass games for millions of users, get in touch! *The Company* * * HashCube is a social gaming company based out of Bangalore, with presence on Facebook and now expanding to Mobile. Our games have been played by over 2 million users over the years on Facebook with our flagship title, Sudoku Quest, being the #1 Sudoku game on Facebook and now aiming to be #1 Sudoku app on Mobile. We are porting our other Facebook games to the Mobile platform and will launch more classic casual games on Mobile. The aim is to be the #1 Casual gaming company. *What we look for* * * - Portfolio of self started projects - Passion for puzzles - Familiarity with Linux - Knowledge about webservers, mysql, shell scripts, version control systems (git prefered) - Experience with web technologies like PHP, Python, RoR, JavaScript, CSS - Be a Quick learner - You should make HashCube the primary focus of your life * * *What we offer* * * - Work on interesting problems that affect millions of users - Exposure to technical challenges as well as the business challenges of a startup - Best salary in the industry - Attractive stock options - Table Tennis at office To make your application stand out please include - source code or links to source code of projects you have worked on - link to your websites, blogs *Apply at * http://hashcube.com/careers.php

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] [ilugd] [Ilugc] Off-topic: Bitcoin's Potential for Social Change
by Ashwin Dixit 15 Jul '13

15 Jul '13

Hello folks, I wrote a humorous article called "How to kill Bitcoin: A guide for governments". Please mod it up on Slashdot, if you enjoy it! http://slashdot.org/submission/2801565/how-to-kill-bitcoin-a-guide-for-gove… Cheers, - Ashwin. -- ================================================= Subvert the dominant paradigm. Repeat as desired. http://ownlifeful.net/ <http://ownlifeful.com/>

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Ubuntu 13.10 replacing X.org with Mir
by Siji Sunny 12 Jul '13

12 Jul '13

Some of the recent announcement by Ubuntu clearly mentioned that their latest release 13.10 will replace X-window server (X.org) with their own Mir-Display Manager. I strongly feel this is going to make a big impact in the Linux Community/Developers. Even-though the license is GPL, I think they are planning to reach the Eco-system that Android and Apple is having. In some of the blog entires Ubuntu has mentioned that Unity 7 will run atop of XMir, an implementation of X that provides a compatibility layer that allows software, desktop environments, peripherals and multi-monitor setups designed for X to continue to work as expected. But am not sure about how feasible it is .Looking forward to hear your inputs. About Mir - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mir/ PS: Kubuntu has announced that they are not planing to switch to Mir. Below the comments made by Jonathan Riddell of Kubunut- "A few months ago Canonical announced their new graphics system for Ubuntu, Mir. It's a shame the Linux desktop market hasn't taken off as we all hoped at the turn of the millennium and they feel the need to follow a more Apple or Android style of approach making an OS which works in isolation rather than as part of a community development method. Here at Kubuntu we still want to work as part of the community development, taking the fine software from KDE and other upstream projects and putting it on computers worldwide. So when Ubuntu desktop gets switched to Mir we won't be following. We'll be staying with X on the images for our 13.10 release now in development and the 14.04 LTS release next year. After that we hope to switch to Wayland which is what KDE and every other Linux distro hopes to do." -- Siji Sunny

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Linuxers July 2013