August 2015
OpenBSD Is Getting Its Own Native Hypervisor
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Monday 31st of August 2015 08:14:09 PM Filed under
The OpenBSD Foundation has been funding work on a project to provide OpenBSD with its own, native hypervisor.
The hypervisor's VMM is so far able to launch a kernel and ask for a root file-system, but beyond that, it's been laying most of the hypervisor foundation up to this point.
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The Death of Ubuntu's Software Center
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Monday 31st of August 2015 08:07:12 PM Filed under
Over the past few weeks, the fate of Ubuntu's Software Center has received a lot of press. There have been ample ravings about how the Software Center is about to vanish from the face of the Earth. In reality, it's not going anywhere yet. What is changing, however, will be the ability to submit new applications or updates to existing applications. In this article, I'll explain what this means and where things will likely go from here.
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Exclusive Interview: Michael Miller of SUSE Talks About Transition and Contributing to Open Source
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Monday 31st of August 2015 07:57:21 PM Filed under

SUSE is one of the Linux trinity -- which comprises Red Hat, SUSE, and Canonical. SUSE is also one of the leading contributors to many open source projects, including the kernel itself. However, the company went through challenging times as it was acquired by one company after another. It seems that things have stabilized with the Micro Focus acquisition, so I sat down with Michael Miller, SUSE’s Vice President of Global Alliances & Marketing at LinuxCon and talked about topics ranging from acquisition to future plans.
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Leftovers: Software
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Monday 31st of August 2015 07:20:03 PM Filed under
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Kodi 15.2 RC Addresses Important Android Issues, Adds Better Xbox Controller Support
It looks like the Kodi developers can't stop implementing new features and fixing annoying bugs in the best open-source and cross-platform media server software ever created, Kodi (formerly XBMC Media Center).
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Mail-in-a-Box: An Open Source Mail Server Solution
Mail-in-a-Box is a free, Open Source, mail server solution developed by Joshua Tauberer. Using Mail-in-a-Box, anyone can easily turn a fresh cloud system into a Mail server in few hours. It can host mail for multiple users and multiple domain names. Mail-in-a-Box is based on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 64-bit and includes automatic DNS configuration, spam filtering, greylisting, backups to Amazon S3, static website hosting, and easy SSL certificate installation.
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FF Multi Converter Review - Converting Video, Audio, Image and Doc Files with One Tool
As the name suggests, FF Multi Converter is an application that can be used to convert files from one format to another. The interesting thing about it is that it covers a wide array of file types, including video, audio, and documents.
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NetworkManager 1.0.6 Exposes Metered Connections, Configures WoL
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FFmpeg Adds VA-API HEVC/H.265 Hardware Acceleration Support
Last year Intel developers added HEVC decode support to VA-API followed a few months later by HEVC encode support to this Video Acceleration API used by the Intel open-source driver on Linux.
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Systemd Introduces Its Own "su" Like Command
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Systemd version 225 available
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Git 2.5.1 Brings Fixes And Changes
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GStreamer 1.6 Is Chugging Along, Nearing Release
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Vivaldi Web Browser Now Offers a Visual Tab Cycler, Better Privacy Control
On August 27, the developers of the Vivaldi project have announced the release and immediate availability for download of a new snapshot for the cross-platform web browser, Vivaldi 1.0.257.3.
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Wine-Staging 1.7.50 Continues Work On GTK3 Theming Engine
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today's leftovers
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Monday 31st of August 2015 07:18:31 PM Filed under
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Google Container Engine is The Product Version of Kubernetes and It’s Now Live
Still up in the air (if you’ll pardon the metaphor) is the matter of whether a preferred public platform for container deployment will emerge, out of the melee that is today’s market. Wednesday, Google took its next step in its bid to produce “the” container ecosystem, lifting the “beta” tag from its Google Container Engine service.
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The Increasing Rate Of Linux News; Only 39% Of Site Traffic Is From Linux Desktops
Based on the operating system when Phoronix readers are viewing the site, 39% are from Linux, 32% from Windows, 16% from Android, 6% from OS X, and 5% from iOS.
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Linux 4.2 Released Improving Cryptography Options
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GNU Linux-libre Kernel 4.2 Officially Released with AMDGPU Support, More
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Working with the kernel keyring
The Linux kernel keyring is effectively a mechanism to allow shoving blobs of data into the kernel and then setting access controls on them.
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Systemd's latest conquest: the 'su' command
In what appears to be a relentless march to absorb more and more of a Linux/UNIX system, systemd, touted as an init system, has now incorporated the su command.
This command su is used within a shell to obtain root status for performing administrative tasks on a Linux/UNIX system. It is not a full root login.
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Linux 4.2 released
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Samsung's Exynos DRM Driver Will Go Atomic In Linux 4.3
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Container Myths Debunked at OpenStack Silicon Valley
Alex Polvi, CEO of CoreOS, has heard a lot of different myths about what containers can't do and in a session at OpenStack Silicon Valley event on August 26. So he set out to debunk them.
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A Linux Driver Is In Development For The Corsair Vengeance K90
The Corsair Vengeance K90 is a gaming keyboard featuring Cherry MX Red mechanical key switches and a whole lot of other extra functionality suited for gamers and tailored for MMO and RTS titles. A open-source Linux driver is in the works for properly handling this high-end keyboard.
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Architecting Containers Part 1: Why Understanding User Space vs. Kernel Space Matters
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The History of Containers
Given the recent massive spike in interest in Linux Containers, you could be forgiven for wondering, “Why now?”. It has been argued that the increasingly prevalent cloud computing model more closely resembles hosting providers than traditional enterprise IT, and that containers are a perfect match for this model.
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Concerning Containers' Connections: on Docker Networking
Containers can be considered the third wave in service provision after physical boxes (the first wave) and virtual machines (the second wave). Instead of working with complete servers (hardware or virtual), you have virtual operating systems, which are far more lightweight. Instead of carrying around complete environments, you just move applications, with their configuration, from one server to another, where it will consume its resources, without any virtual layers. Shipping over projects from development to operations also is simplified—another boon. Of course, you'll face new and different challenges, as with any technology, but the possible risks and problems don't seem to be insurmountable, and the final rewards appear to be great.
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GNU/Linux container internals aka Cgroups and Namespaces
In this post, I will shed some light on the GNU/Linux container internals. Basically, what is underlying technology driving that. Here we go, without much ado...
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Finding Slowdowns In Linux's Suspend/Resume Process
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AMDGPU SI Machine Schedule For LLVM Showing Much Promise
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NVIDIA reveals GPUs for blade servers, Linux desktop support
NVIDIA is pitching GRID as a hardware offering tuned to the needs of graphically-demanding desktop virtualisation (VDI) workloads. If that sounds a bit exotic, consider environments like the resources industry, where on-site engineers need CAD and modelling tools, but miners are loathe to deploy desktops in the remote sites where stuff gets dug out of the ground. VDI works a treat in such spots.
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AMD's open source Fury disappointing
AMD's open source drivers for its Fury platform have proved rather disappointing.
According to Phoronix, open-source AMD driver code for supporting the Radeon R9 Fury graphics cards is to be merged into the coming Linux 4.3 kernel.
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Linux Power Efficiency Of Skylake, Broadwell, Haswell & Kaveri Compared
Last week from the new Intel Core i5 6600K "Skylake" processor I posted the initial Linux CPU benchmarks as well as results for the new HD Graphics 530 graphics processor with Intel's open-source Linux graphics driver stack. In this article are some complementary data points for this Core i5 Skylake CPU compared to Haswell and Broadwell processors as well as a AMD A10-7870K Godavari APU.
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Scientific Linux 6.7 Screenshot Tour
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Kubuntu 15.10 Beta 1 Screenshot Tour
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Integration process for openSUSE Tumbleweed, Leap explained
The SUSE office in Nuremberg, Germany, had a special presentation given by Dominique Leuenberger, last week about the interconnecting points of the openSUSE project.
Specifically, Leuenberger covered the integration process of Tumbleweed and Leap and explained the difference between the two.
“Leap is trying to find the balance between how much SLE (SUSE Linux Enterprise) and how much Tumbleweed,” he said.
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New LibreOffice 5.0.1, and VLC 2.2.1 / tigervnc 1.5.0 rebuilds for slackware-current
After slackware-current was treated to a massive update last weekend, it could be expected that some 3rd-party software packages needed to be recompiled – especially due to linkage to gnutls but also icu4c libraries. One by one I am working on the big or complex packages in my own SlackBuild repository, and below you will find the harvest of the week gone by. Note that I am also working on a new KDE Plasma 5 set of packages which is unfortunately quite challenging due to migration of many applications from kdelibs 4 to frameworks 5… lots of compatibility issues to resolve before packages start compiling again. I would have liked to have them ready for release before the end of august but I am afraid that I may not succeed.
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Joining Red Hat
September the 1st will be my Day 1 at Red Hat. After being around the GNOME community for 6 years...
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Fedora Linux Moves Ahead With Effectively Demoting 32-bit x86 Support
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Report from the MicroDebconf Brasília 2015
This was an event organized due to a coincidental meeting of a few DD’s in the city of Brasilia on May 31st 2015. What a good thing when we can mix vacations, friends and Debian
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Rescuing a Windows 10 failed install using GParted Live on CD
Using GParted live .iso - itself based on Debian Live - allowed me to resize the System partition from 100MiB to 200MiB by moving the Windows partition but Windows became unbootable.
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A Word of Caution About LLVM/Clang 3.8 SVN On Ubuntu
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Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf Beta 1 Released
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Building Mesa 11.0 With OpenGL 4.1 On Ubuntu Linux
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Ubuntu Developer Proposes "Non-Windowing Display Server" For Wayland
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Ubuntu Touch OTA-7 Update Will Bring A Lot Of Bug-Fixes
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Food processing panel-PCs boast IP69K ingress protection
Adlink’s latest 15-, 17-, and 19-inch resistive touchscreen panel-PCs for food processing run Linux on a dual-core Atom, and offer IP69K ingress protection.
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today's howtos
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Monday 31st of August 2015 07:11:30 PM Filed under
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You Can Now Install The Unity Game Engine On Your Ubuntu System
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How to access your Android phone's hidden "Testing" menu
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Running a Private Docker Registry on EC2
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Tufte in R
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How To Install LibreOffice 5.0.1 On Fedora, CentOS, OpenSUSE, Mageia And OpenMandriva Systems
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How To Install LibreOffice 5.0.1 on Ubuntu 15.04 And Ubuntu 14.04 via PPA
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How To Install LibreOffice 5.0.1 On Ubuntu, Debian And Derivatives
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Leftovers: Gaming
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Monday 31st of August 2015 07:10:22 PM Filed under
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SteamOS Brewmaster 2.32 Brings AMD Catalyst 15.7 and Nvidia 352.30
Valve released a new update for SteamOS Brewmaster branch of the operating system, bringing the version number up to 2.32. It's an important release since it brings all the latest drivers for AMD and Nvidia.
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Last Chance to Get DG2: Defense Grid 2 with 75% Discount on Linux
DG2: Defense Grid 2 is one of the best tower defense games ever made and it can be purchased right now with a 75% discount that is about to expire in just a few hours.
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The Best And Worst Of Linux Gaming
Gaming for a long time was the Achilles heel of Linux with at best amateurish home brew games. In the past there have been some good games written natively for Linux but the trouble is that some people have confused the Tux logo with being a good character for a game in the same way that Mario is overused by Nintendo.
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5 best open source board games to play online
I have always had a fascination with board games, in part because they are a device of social interaction, they challenge the mind and, most importantly, they are great fun to play. In my misspent youth, myself and a group of friends gathered together to escape the horrors of the classroom, and indulge in a little escapism. The time provided an outlet for tension and rivalry. Board games help teach diplomacy, how to make and break alliances, bring families and friends together, and learn valuable lessons.
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BlazeRush Is A Fantastic Combat Racer On Linux, It’s Actually Hilarious
After the utter disgrace that MadOut was, I was in the market for something new to play and I already owned BlazeRush from a sale. I mentioned the release of BlazeRush, but never actually got around to trying it—until now.
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The Bug Butcher, A Fun Early Access 2D Shoot Em Up
With all the big titles coming to Linux, it is easy to miss the smaller ones. You do not always want to invest hours of your life building an empire or engaging in epic quests. Sometimes you just want to blast some alien bugs for a few minutes while your coffee is brewing. The game I am looking into today lets you do exactly that.
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Company Of Heroes 2 Is Coming To Linux Today
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Company of Heroes 2 Launches For Linux, Currently On Sale For $10
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A Company of Heroes 2 Linux Test Profile
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Company of Heroes 2 Is The Latest Linux Game Showcasing AMD's Performance Wreck With Catalyst
When trying out the game myself on an Ubuntu 15.04 box with the Catalyst 15.7 driver, this game was just the latest showing what bad shape the Catalyst Linux driver is in for OpenGL gaming... Like with the Shadow of Mordor Linux port, even when launching the game from Steam on Linux with the AMD Catalyst driver loaded, there is immediately a warning:
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Feral Interactive Appears To Be Stepping Up Its AMD Linux Game
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Arma 3 Linux Beta Due Out Very Soon, But Will It Last?
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Experimental Unity Editor Now Available For Linux
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Game Developer Who Ported To Linux: "I Don't Think It Was Worthwhile"
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Obsidian on what’s next for Pillars of Eternity: 'We own something now'
But even outside of the stresses of developing for operating systems as native to PCs as Linux, the team faced some interesting challenges in bringing their vision for a golden age role-playing game to life.
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Leftovers: GNOME Software
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Monday 31st of August 2015 07:07:10 PM Filed under
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Keyboard Shortcuts
Many of you have asked for help with keyboard shortcuts in Builder. It was always something we wanted to do, but I was humbly waiting for upstream to get that into the toolkit so we would get it for “free”.
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GNOME To Start Using Codenames
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GNOME's Web Browser Enables AdBlock & Do-Not-Track By Default
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Android Leftovers
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Monday 31st of August 2015 07:01:56 PM Filed under
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The History Of Android
Android becomes a giant brand in communication industry. Android, Inc. was established in Palo Alto, California. There were 4 persons in October 2003 who had the idea to develop this smart phone. Andy Rubin, Rich Miner, Chris White, and Nick Sears developed the idea said by Rubin,
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Which Android phone Will Take The Crown For The Best Smartphone Of 2015?
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The Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 is like the Android iPad Air you always wanted
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Student faces prison for creating Android malware
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How to get thousands of Android apps for FREE: Amazon Underground offers paid-for games without any in-app purchases
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Can the new BlackBerry Android slider change the game?
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Qualcomm Steps Up To Fight Android Malware And App Privacy Violations
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IFA 2015 preview: Android Wear takes over Berlin
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Android 6.0 Marshmallow vs. Android 5.0 Lollipop – Top Improvements and Features
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Android Wear smartwatches come to the iPhone
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Google Play Upgrade Leaks Android Pay Hint
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Cheap Airfare Finder Hopper Hits Android, Now Books Tickets With Just A Few Taps
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Android M Update Ruled Out For LG G2?
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No Android M Update For Samsung Galaxy S5?
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Best new Android widgets (August 2015) #3
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Your (Next) Android Wear Watch Will Connect To The iPhone
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Leftovers: OSS
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Monday 31st of August 2015 06:57:10 PM Filed under
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Instantly Recognizable, Stephen Hawking’s Voice Is Now Open-Source
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Open-source typeface “Hack” brings design to source code
The days of coders being shackled to Monaco or Courier New ends now. At SourceFoundry.org this week, programmer Chris Simpkins debuted the 2.0 version of Hack, an open-source typeface designed specifically for use in source code.
Hack is characterized by a large x-height, wide aperture, and low contrast design in order to be "highly legible" at common coding text sizes. Its "sweet spot runs in the 8px-12px range on modern desktop and laptop monitors," Simpkins writes on GitHub. "Combine it with an HD monitor and you can comfortably work at 6 or 7px sizes." As seen in the image above, there's a heavier semi-bold weight in the regular font, and strategic serifs eliminate large gaps on each side of narrow characters. As Simpkins notes on the SourceFoundry site, this helps to distinguish glyphs like the lowercase l and number 1 at small text sizes.
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‘Freedom Penguin’ Takes Flight, Distro Count & More…
Before we get rolling on the last FOSS Force item before the weekend, I’d like to welcome Hunter Banks to the FOSS Force team. Hunter is part of the FOSS-forward Banks family of Los Angeles — dad Phillip is a computer consultant and a long-time Southern California Linux Expo volunteer (along with brother Phillip Jr.), and sister Keila has been in both the FOSS and mainstream media on girls-in-tech issues — and he’s writing a Linux/FOSS gaming column.
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Kickin’ Back at Texas Linux Fest
It’s the one show I am most certain to make in a year’s time. The Texas Linux Fest (TLF). The only one I’ve missed was held in San Antonio, and being in the worst part of both chemo and radiation therapy, I wasn’t in the mood to travel across the street that year, not to mention to take a two hour drive each way.
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Midori 0.5.11 Browser Adds Client Side Decoration Support
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Google to hit pause on Flash ads in Chrome on September 1
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Google to Freeze and Pause Some Auto-Play Content in Chrome
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Using SQL techniques in NoSQL is OK, right? WRONG
Now that we have CQL for Cassandra and N1QL for Couchbase, it seems the power of SQL is being opened for NoSQL database developers.
There is, however, a real danger that developers who see these SQL-like languages as an implementation of SQL are in for a world of pain as they try to leverage their SQL skills on a NoSQL database.
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Go and back the Mycroft Kickstarter campaign
Mycroft is an Open Source, Open Hardware, Open APIs product that you talk to and it provides information and services. It is a wonderful example of open innovation at work.
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GDB 7.10 Released: Better Python Scripting, DTrace USDT Probes & More
Version 7.10 of the GNU Debugger (GDB) has been released with various new features and updates to existing functionality.
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HSA Accelerator Support Should Be Usable For GCC 6
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Doing open source due diligence [Ed: as usual, courtesy of lawyers who try to attract business]
Open source software diligence requires advanced planning, proper procedures and timely disclosures of information. It often is not a quick or simple process, but the time spent prior to or during diligence is an important step in identifying and remedying open source issues before they become major post-closing problems for both parties.
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Linux Foundation security badge, Raspberry Pi success, White House tool, and more
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Report: No progress in German eGovernment usage
The majority of Germans are not aware of the existence of many of the available eGovernment services, according to a report by Initiative D21. This Berlin-based think tank published its sixth ‘eGovernment Monitor’ in July, showing that the use of eGovernment services in Germany lags far behind that in Switzerland, Austria and Sweden.
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Tenda Technology Inc.® Announces Open Source Tomato Compatibility for Wireless AC Routers
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Lime Microsystems and ZyXEL Partner to Deliver Open Source Solutions for Next Generation Wireless Mobile Networks
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Lime, ZyXel partner on open source for mobile networks
Lime Microsystems, a supplier of field programmable RF Transceiver (FPRF) ICs, and ZyXel, a specialist in broadband networking technologies, will collaborate in developing open source implementations for wireless mobile networks. The companies said that the collaboration between them is an important milestone in the adoption of open source ideology by major corporations. They believe that this collaboration will lead to a more diverse, creative and cooperative way of developing technology and that this will result in greater interoperability and scalability in the deployment of wireless mobile networks.
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Intel's open-source fabric scalable to any-sized data centre
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Open source processor flaunts remarkable power efficiency
Although the GPGPU is in an early and relatively crude stage, it is another piece of an emerging open-source hardware platform, said Karu Sankaralingam, an associate professor of computer science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Sankaralingam led the team that designed the Many-core Integrated Accelerator of Wisconsin (MIAOW).
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GPU enters open-source realm
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Open Source GPU Debuts
The first general-purpose graphics processor (GPGPU) now available as open-source RTL was unveiled at the Hot Chips event here. In a separate talk, another academic described an integrated open source processor with a core that’s more power efficient than a similar block from ARM.
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Jemalloc 4.0 Brings Space & Speed Optimizations
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| Red Hat Hires a Blind Software Engineer to Improve Accessibility on Linux Desktop
Accessibility on a Linux desktop is not one of the strongest points to highlight. However, GNOME, one of the best desktop environments, has managed to do better comparatively (I think).
In a blog post by Christian Fredrik Schaller (Director for Desktop/Graphics, Red Hat), he mentions that they are making serious efforts to improve accessibility.
Starting with Red Hat hiring Lukas Tyrychtr, who is a blind software engineer to lead the effort in improving Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Fedora Workstation in terms of accessibility.
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