July 2014
GSA CIO calls for open source to be considered first
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 31st of July 2014 09:08:20 PM Filed under
Open source and open data solutions now should receive top consideration at the General Services Administration.
Sonny Hashmi, the GSA chief information officer, said Thursday during an online chat with Federal News Radio that he recently signed out a memo requiring agency software developers to look at open source before they consider traditional commercial solutions.
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Mitro Releases a New Free & Open Source Password Manager
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 31st of July 2014 09:05:03 PM Filed under

Today, Twitter acquired a password manager startup called Mitro. As part of the deal, Mitro will be releasing the source to its client and server code under the GPL.
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Marvell lifts curtain on popular NAS SoCs
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Thursday 31st of July 2014 08:55:46 PM Filed under

[Updated 12:00PM] — Marvell has posted detailed datasheets on its previously opaque Armada 370 and XP SoCs, used in Linux-based NAS systems from Buffalo, Netgear, and Synology.
Until now, datasheets and other details about the ARM-based Armada 370 and Armada XP system-on-chips have been available only under NDA to Marvell customers and partners. During the past month, however, the chipmaker released detailed datasheets on the SoCs, with no restriction or registration required. Both functional and hardware spec datasheets were released, each of which is more like a manual than a typical datasheet.
We were tipped to the Marvell Armada 370 and XP datasheet releases by embedded Linux development and training specialist Free Electrons. (The company is well known here for its regular contributions of videos and slide decks from shows like the Embedded Linux Conference, released under a Creative Commons license.)
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A Week in Techrights
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 31st of July 2014 08:23:24 PM Filed under
- New Optimism in the Age of Doubt Over Software Patents
- Ruling Against ‘Abstract’ Software Patents is Already Derailing Patent Attacks on Linux and Free Software
- Microsoft-Linked Codenomicon and Bluebox in the Business of Smearing FOSS/Linux/Android
- Former Microsoft Engineer Working on Windows BitLocker Confirms Government Asks Microsoft for Back Doors
- Is Microsoft Being Raided Not Just for Anti-Competitive Reasons but for Bribes and Back Doors?
- Links 31/7/2014: Zorin OS Educational 9, Android Nearing 90% Share
- Links 30/7/2014: Chris Beard as CEO of Mozilla
- Links 28/7/2014: New Linux RC, Plasma 5 Live in Kubuntu
- Links 27/7/2014: KDE 4.14 Beta 3, KDE 4.14 Beta 3 Released
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Leftovers: Software
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 31st of July 2014 08:12:25 PM Filed under
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today's howtos
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 31st of July 2014 08:12:12 PM Filed under
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Leftovers: Gaming
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 31st of July 2014 08:12:05 PM Filed under
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Linux will not become a gaming platform, it already is one
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Thursday 31st of July 2014 07:31:41 PM Filed under

The true measure of any great gaming platform is not the number of games available. Nor is it the need to have the same games as other competing platforms (the Playstation 4 doesn't need Mario games to be considered successful). And it really isn't even about how many total games are sold, though that certainly helps.
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Odroid-W Joins Growing Ranks of Raspberry Pi Clones and Extensions
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 31st of July 2014 05:28:29 PM Filed under

Time was, if you had a hankering for a nice Raspberry Pi, you had but one choice: the Raspberry Pi Model B. You plunked down your $35, and like millions of other Pi-heads, you liked it. Then came the stripped-down $25 Model A, followed this year by the Raspberry Pi Compute Module. Now they've got this gussied up Raspberry Pi Model B+ with four USB ports and a backward-compatible 40-pin expansion connector. What's the world coming to?
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MySQL 5.6.20 Officially Released
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Thursday 31st of July 2014 03:34:41 PM Filed under

As usual, any new version of MySQL brings lots of improvements, and the current build is also quite large. Users will find that numerous changes have been made and some of them are quite interesting.
“The linked OpenSSL library for the MySQL 5.6 Commercial Server has been updated from version 1.0.1g to version 1.0.1h. Versions of OpenSSL prior to and including 1.0.1g are reported to be vulnerable to CVE-2014-0224. This change does not affect the Oracle-produced MySQL Community build of MySQL Server 5.6, which uses the yaSSL library instead,” notes the changelog.
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Five weeks after angering much of the CentOS Linux developer community by unveiling controversial changes to the no-cost CentOS operating system, Red Hat has unveiled alternatives for affected users that give them several options for using existing Red Hat products.
But for many users of CentOS Linux, the Red Hat options won’t solve the huge problems that were created for them when Red Hat announced Dec. 8 that CentOS would no longer include a stable version with a long, steady future. Instead, CentOS will now only be offered as a free CentOS Stream operating system which will be a rolling release with frequent updates, essentially turning it into a beta OS that is no longer suitable for reliable production workloads. For users who have deployed CentOS throughout the internet, data centers, corporate and business uses and more, this is a potentially major blow.
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The Demise of Chromium as Free Software
| José Antonio Rey: New times, new solutions
Just as humans change, the Ubuntu community is also changing. People interact in different ways. Platforms that did not exist before are now available, and the community changes as the humans in it change as well.
When we started the Local Communities project several years ago, we did it with the sole purpose of celebrating Ubuntu. The ways in which we celebrated included release parties, conferences, and gatherings in IRC. However, we have lately seen a decline in the momentum we had with regards to participation in this project. We have not done a review of the project since its inception, and inevitably, the Community Council believes that it is time to do a deep dive at how we can regain that momentum and continue getting together to celebrate Ubuntu.
As such, we are putting together the Local Communities Research Committee, an independent entity overseen by the Community Council, which will help us understand the behavior of Local Community teams, how to better adapt to their needs, and to create a model that is suitable for the world we are living in today.
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