April 2015
The 11th Release of OpenStack, Kilo, Debuts
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 30th of April 2015 10:01:49 PM Filed under
The 11th release of OpenStack is available for download today, and the event is being billed as "a turning point" for the open source project with contributions from nearly 1,500 developers and 169 organizations worldwide. Indeed, it's only been a few short years since there was early media coverage of the cloud computing platform.
Also a death: Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) End of Life reached on April 30, 2015
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Plasma 5.4 Plans and Plasma 5.3 for Fedora
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 30th of April 2015 09:36:38 PM Filed under
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Plasma 5.4 Kicked Off
Plasma 5.4 is scheduled for August, it’ll be a great addition to Kubuntu 15.10.
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Plasma 5.3 for Fedora
Plasma 5.3, new feature release of KDE workspace, has been released on Tuesday and you can get it now on Fedora.
Plasma 5.3 brings new features, improvements and almost 400 bug fixes for basically all of its components ranging from power management to various applets.
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KDE 5_15.04 for Slackware-current: back to work
An update to my KDE 5 packages was overdue. Ever since the “big upgrade” in Slackware-current a week ago on 21 April 2015, there have been some stability issues in the Plasma 5 desktop. The instability was caused by the version bumps of various libraries that the KDE software is depending on – you can not dynamically link to a software library that’s no longer there because it has been replaced with a library bearing a new version number. I felt I had to recompile everything just to be sure there was no hidden “breakage” left, and so I took the opportunity to wait for the newest Plasna release and present you wilth all-new packages.
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µQseven COM aims Allwinner A31 SoC at industrial apps
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Thursday 30th of April 2015 08:44:36 PM Filed under

Theobroma’s Allwinner A31 based µQseven COM offers a re-engineered Linux/Android BSP, and adds a security module, SATA, GbE, CAN, eMMC, a USB hub, and more.
Austrian engineering design firm Theobroma Systems has begun selling a “A31 µQ7″ module that expands upon the quad-core, Cortex-A7 Allwinner A31 system-on-chip using a half-size µQseven form-factor. The 70 x 40mm module supports Linux and Android, and offers optional -20 to 70ºC extended temperature support.
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What's what in Debian Jessie
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Thursday 30th of April 2015 08:30:42 PM Filed under
Debian is arguably the most important Linux distribution. From it springs such popular Linux distributions as Mint and Ubuntu. Outside Linux's inner circles, it's not that well known because it's purely a community operating system. There is no company behind it, as there is with Red Hat and CentOS, Fedora, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Without fanfare, Debian is more than just the foundation for other better known Linux distros, it is a powerful desktop and server Linux in its own right.
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Taking Ubuntu’s Monkey for a Ride
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Thursday 30th of April 2015 07:56:37 PM Filed under

That seems to be the response from desktop users and reviewers of Ubuntu’s latest and greatest, 15.04 or Vivid Vervet. The server and cloud crowd are all abuzz, tearing this baby down to see what it can do. But for the desktop folks — not so much. About all you read is that the new desktop is mainly cosmetic changes: that Unity’s color scheme is now purple, which isn’t quite true — to my eyes, there’s some orange in there too — and that a few things have been moved back to where they used to be. Other than that, everyone complains that this vervet is nothing more than lipstick on a unicorn, as Utopic Unicorn was Ubuntu’s last release.
What this means, of course, is absolutely nothing. The folks at Ubuntu have made it clear that this is mostly a server/cloud release, so it’s not surprising that it offers desktop users little reason to upgrade. Besides, except for those few users who insist on living on the bleeding edge, most desktop users should be using 14.04, Trusty Tahr, anyway, because it’ll be supported until 2019, and our vervet friend will only see support through January.
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Today in Techrights
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 30th of April 2015 07:47:49 PM Filed under
- Microsoft Embracing, Extending, Extinguishing the Linux-centric Arduino and Raspberry Pi, Making Them Windows Devices
- Microsoft Uses Ubuntu to Demonstrate and Promote Microsoft Lock-in
- The EPO’s Tyrant, Benoît Battistelli, is Probably on His Way Out, Threatens to Resign
- Windows Recipes for Disaster (Met Police and Fukushima)
- ‘Visual Studio Code’: Not News, Not Free, Not Open Source
- Links 30/4/2015: Debian GNU/Hurd 2015, Microsoft Copies Ubuntu
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Ubuntu Ditches Upstart
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Thursday 30th of April 2015 07:47:10 PM Filed under
Ubuntu is not the first distro to use systemd. Debian (Ubuntu's daddy) recently made the switch too. Other distros have experienced bugs as a result of the switch. For instance, service managers, which configure the boot config files, must be changed to work with the new init system.
Ubuntu cleverly sidestepped this problem by keeping its old init config file formats in place alongside the new format used by systemd. The version of systemd used in Ubuntu can read both. So old tools that work with the Upstart config settings still work.
systemd does provide a boost in boot performance over Upstart, but some members of the community are concerned that the way systemd handles messages to services will reduce performance and even open the door to denial-of-service attacks.
Clearly, Canonical must have a lot of faith in systemd to abandon Upstart (its own project) in its favor. As time passes, we will see whether this was a wise decision.
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The Companies That Support Linux: Fox Technologies
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Thursday 30th of April 2015 07:35:11 PM Filed under
Linux has long been regarded as a stable and secure platform for enterprise applications. And the recent explosion of container technology presents yet another way for developers to build securely on top of Linux, says Mark Lambiase, CTO of Fox Technologies, Inc.
The Linux container model “will provide for the opportunity to separate and segment applications from a shared OS model, which can provide both security and performance/configuration advantages,” Lambiase said.
Fox Technologies, which helps companies manage and maintain Unix and Linux systems with its BoKS ServerControl application, is contributing to such growth and innovation in the Linux ecosystem, in part, by becoming new corporate members of the Linux Foundation. (See the full announcement.)
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As Moore's Law Turns 50, Processor Market Keeps On Innovating
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Thursday 30th of April 2015 07:21:53 PM Filed under
The bottom line, according to TI is that the 66AK2L06 can do almost everything FPGAs can do in data acquisition, but can do it in a way that is cheaper, faster, and more power efficient. The SoC is also claimed to be easier to work with than using FPGAs.
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Simplicity Linux 15.4 Is Based on LXPup and Is Ready for Download
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Thursday 30th of April 2015 07:10:35 PM Filed under
Simplicity Linux, a Linux distribution based on LXPup and that uses the LXDE desktop, has been upgraded to version 15.4 and is now available for download and testing.
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| EasyOS Dunfell-series 4.2EasyOS was created in 2017, derived from Quirky Linux, which in turn was derived from Puppy Linux in 2013. Easy is built in woofQ, which takes as input binary packages from any distribution, and uses them on top of the unique EasyOS infrastructure.
Throughout 2020, the official release for x86_64 PCs was the Buster-series, built with Debian 10.x Buster DEBs.
EasyOS has also been built with packages compiled from source, using a fork of OpenEmbedded (OE). Currently, the Dunfell release of OE has been used, to compile two sets of binary packages, for x86_64 and aarch64.
The latter have been used to build EasyOS for the Raspberry Pi4, and first official release, 2.6.1, was in January 2021.
The page that you are reading now has the release notes for EasyOS Dunfell-series on x86_64 PCs, also debuting in 2021.
Ongoing development is now focused on the x86_64 Dunfell-series. The last version in the x86_64 Buster-series is 2.6.2, on June 29, 2021, and that is likely to be the end of that series. Releases for the Pi4 Dunfell-series are still planned but very intermittent.
The version number is for EasyOS itself, independent of the target hardware; that is, the infrastructure, support-glue, system scripts and system management and configuration applications.
The latest version is becoming mature, though Easy is an experimental distribution and some parts are under development and are still considered as beta-quality. However, you will find this distro to be a very pleasant surprise, or so we hope.
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