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June 2015

Red Hat and Fedora

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Tuesday 30th of June 2015 11:21:45 PM Filed under
Red Hat
  • Red Hat Gluster, Ceph storage roadmaps laid out at Red Hat Summit

    During the Red Hat Summit last week, the vendor provided roadmaps for its Ceph and Gluster storage software products including unified management technology and expanded protocol support for Ceph.

    Red Hat demonstrated the new unified capabilities that will allow users to install, manage and monitor Red Hat's Gluster and Ceph storage. Additional capabilities targeted next year for Red Hat Ceph Storage include support for iSCSI and NFS and improved multi-site capabilities, according to Neil Levine, a Red Hat director of product management.

  • Red Hat – Software Partnership Shakes Up Mobile Software Market
  • The open organization on main street
  • Analysts Evaluation on Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT)
  • Red Hat Inc (NYSE:RHT) a Buy: Oppenheimer

    According to Wall Street, Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT) is expected to report earnings per share for the current fiscal quarter of $0.29. This is the consensus mean estimate based on the individual covering sell-side analysts’ reported numbers. The company last reported earnings for the period ending on 2015-05-31 of $0.31.

  • Call for applications for Fedora Diversity Advisor (A Volunteer Position)

    Fedora is a big community that includes contributors and users from many different countries, each with their own experiences and historical backgrounds that contribute to a diverse mix of cultural, educational, and behavioral norms. To continuously create and foster an inclusive environment in the Fedora community, it’s important to respond to the needs of existing contributors and users, and welcome new contributors and users from diverse backgrounds.

  • Post Filtering

    In order to prevent users from being overwhelmed by a fire hose of notifications from the hubs they’re subscribed to and from all the other apps connected to Fedora Hubs, we decided to design a filtering system.

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Btrfs In Linux 4.2 Brings Quota Updates, Many Fixes

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Tuesday 30th of June 2015 10:08:16 PM Filed under
Linux

Adding to the already lengthy list of new features for Linux 4.2 is the Btrfs file-system updates that were sent in today by Facebook's Chris Mason.

The Btrfs file-system update for Linux 4.2 includes sub-volume quota updates, sysfs improvements, device management improvements, and various other changes. In total around 1,700 lines of Btrfs code were touched for this merge window.

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Also: XFS Will Get DAX Support In The Linux 4.2 Kernel

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Linux Mint 17.2 "Rafaela" MATE Officially Released - Screenshot Tour

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Tuesday 30th of June 2015 09:55:37 PM Filed under
GNU
Linux
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Will Red Hat Enter the Security Market?

Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Tuesday 30th of June 2015 09:10:54 PM Filed under
Red Hat
Security

Security is key part of the open source Linux operating system that Red Hat delivers to its customers. Yet despite the fact that security is baked into the operating system, Red Hat doesn't currently have a separate security offering.

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6 things technical leaders should consider around open-source software

Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Tuesday 30th of June 2015 09:06:25 PM Filed under
OSS

Many organisations have a wide array of open-source applications and code in use today – whether it be at the infrastructure and application layers, or in development frameworks and GitHub repositories.

However, the applications developer and infrastructure teams come under increasing pressure as organisations rush to develop new services for customers, comply with growing amounts of industry regulation, or simply strive to meet the needs of the information generation.

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OpenMandriva 2014.2 and openSUSE 42

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Tuesday 30th of June 2015 09:02:15 PM Filed under
-s

Today in Linux news Kate Lebedeff announced the release of OpenMandriva Lx 2014.2, a major update to 2014.1 released September 2014 and the first to support UEFI. In other news, Douglas DeMaio announced openSUSE 42, the next release of the gecko emblazoned Linux due in November. Elsewhere, Jack Germain reviewed Makulu 9 Aero and Alap Naik Desai reported Friday Microsoft hinted at a Linux OS at Microsoft Ignite in Chicago last month.

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Linux as a lifestyle

Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Tuesday 30th of June 2015 08:59:00 PM Filed under
Linux

I'm not going to lie to you, my transformation was not easy. It was a slow and painful process. But after I finished it, it felt like nothing before. Thanks to my stubbornness, I was able to truly embrace open source in my life. I gave some minor contributions to some of the worldly-known open source projects like Reddit and the Tor Project. I'm constantly writing about my open source experience on my blog. I started contributing to Opensource.com and to free software magazine written in Serbian language. I even became a guest blogger to a couple of blogs related to open source and IT in general.

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Plasma 5.3.2 Fixes Your Shutdown Scripts

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Tuesday 30th of June 2015 08:43:54 PM Filed under
KDE

Tuesday, 30 June 2015. Today KDE releases a bugfix update to Plasma 5, versioned 5.3.2. Plasma 5.3 was released in April with many feature refinements and new modules to complete the desktop experience.

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More KDE:

  • KStars GSoC 2015 Project

    This year marks my first year as a Google Summer of Code (GSoC) mentor, and it has been an exciting experience thus far. I have been a KStars developer for the last 12 years and it is amazing what KStars has accomplished in all those years.

  • Interview with Livio Fania

    Krita is by far the most complete digital painting tool developed on Linux.

  • GSoC Midterm Update
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StackEngine's Boyd Hemphill: How Docker is Changing DevOps

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Tuesday 30th of June 2015 08:21:15 PM Filed under
Linux
Server

“Docker is Linux containers for mere mortals,” Boyd Hemphill is fond of saying. The Director of Evangelism at container application management startup StackEngine organizes Docker Austin meetups, DevOps Days Austin and Container Days events. He has recently given a number of Docker 101 workshops around the country aimed at introducing DevOps professionals to the business advantages of embracing containers and the disposable development environments that they enable.

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The Problem With Putting All the World’s Code in GitHub

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Tuesday 30th of June 2015 07:51:09 PM Filed under
OSS

The ancient Library of Alexandria may have been the largest collection of human knowledge in its time, and scholars still mourn its destruction. The risk of so devastating a loss diminished somewhat with the advent of the printing press and further still with the rise of the Internet. Yet centralized repositories of specialized information remain, as does the threat of a catastrophic loss.

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