January 2017
Android Leftovers
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Tuesday 31st of January 2017 11:35:56 PM Filed under
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Razer just bought Android phone startup Nextbit
Green-and-black game hardware maker Razer announced today that it's acquired Nextbit, a California-based startup responsible for the "Robin" (pictured) Android-powered smartphone.
This is a notable purchase for Razer, which in recent years has snapped up both THX and Ouya as it launched first an Android-powered micro-console and then its own VR headset.
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This Android Phone Is the Perfect Samsung Note 7 Replacement
The good: Long battery life, Good camera with a wide range of controls, Easy to grip without a case
The bad: Includes excessive apps, Not water and dust resistant, No virtual assistant at launch
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How to add custom ringtones to your Android phone
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Everything we hope to see in the Android Wear 2.0 update
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Google Paid Out $3 Million to Bug Researchers in 2016; Nearly $1 Million for Android
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Sorry, Nexus 6 and Nexus 9 owners won't get the next Android update
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Most free Android VPNs leak data and many don’t even use encryption, says study [Ed: Why people must never rely on proprietary software whose underlying behaviour cannot be ascertained w/o reverse-engineered]
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How to replace Shield Android TV remote batteries
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Android Nougat S7 Edge UPDATE - Samsung users struggle, as Android 7.1.2 hits Google Pixel
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Meet the $114,725 Ubuntu server with eight Nvidia Tesla P100 GPUs
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Tuesday 31st of January 2017 10:01:57 PM Filed under

The Ibex Pro is one supercharged machine that will probably hurt your electric bill.
System76's fastest Ibex Pro with Ubuntu Server 16.10 packs some crazy horsepower with Intel's latest 22-core Xeon E5 v4 chips and eight Nvidia Tesla P100 graphics processors.
It's got the same number of GPUs as Nvidia's superfast DGX-1, which is being used for deep learning. System76 is targeting the Ibex Pro -- which is a rack server -- at the same market as the DGX-1. The server has fewer, but newer, CPUs, compared to the DGX-1.
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OPNsense 17.1 Released, Based On FreeBSD 11
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Tuesday 31st of January 2017 09:58:45 PMOPNsense 17.1 is now available as the newest release of this network-focused FreeBSD-based operating system forked from pfSense.
It's now been two years since the first official release of OPNsense and to celebrate they have out a big update. OPNsense 17.1 re-bases to using FreeBSD 11.0, there's now a SSH remote installer, new language support, more hardening features used from HardenedBSD, new plugins, integrated authentication via PAM, and many other improvements. Some of the new plug-ins include FTP Proxy, Tinc VPN, and Let's Encrypt support.
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Open source GIS in Italian public administration
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Tuesday 31st of January 2017 09:49:04 PM Filed under
The Italian Association for Free Software Geographic Information Systems (GFOSS.it) is conducting a survey to collect information about the use of this kind of software in Italy’s public sector. The results will be made public at the GFOSS.it meeting, in Genoa from 8 to 11 February.
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Austria set to increase its use of open source
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Tuesday 31st of January 2017 09:47:32 PM Filed under
Public administrations in Austria need to increase their use of free and open source software, the government of Austria says in its Digital Strategy. The strategy proposes to ‘push’ (forcierung) open source by public administrations. This is intended to accelerate its uptake, explains Federal Chancellery for Digitalisation.
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Security News
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Tuesday 31st of January 2017 04:27:54 PM Filed under
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You're taking the p... Linux encryption app Cryptkeeper has universal password: 'p'
Linux encryption app Cryptkeeper has a bug that causes it to use a single-letter universal decryption password: "p".
The flawed version is in Debian 9 (Stretch), currently in testing, but not in Debian 8 (Jessie). The bug appears to be a result of a bad interaction with the encfs encrypted filesystem's command line interface: Cryptkeeper invokes encfs and attempts to enter paranoia mode with a simulated 'p' keypress – instead, it sets passwords for folders to just that letter.
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Reproducible Builds: week 92 in Stretch cycle
John Gilmore wrote an interesting mail about how Cygnus.com worked on reproducible builds in the early 1990s. (It's eye opening to see how the dealt with basically the very same problems we're dealing with today, how they solved them and then to realize that most of this has been forgotten and bit-rotted in the last 20 years. How will we prevent history repeating it)self here?)
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MongoDB ransom attacks continue to plague administrators
Earlier this month, Salted Hash reported on a surge in attacks against publicly accessible MongoDB installations.
Since January 3, the day of that first report, the number of victims has climbed from about 200 databases to more than 40,000. In addition to MongoDB, those responsible for the attacks have started targeting Elasticsearch and CouchDB.
No matter the platform being targeted, the message to the victim is the same; send a small Bitcoin payment to the listed address, or forever lose access to your files.
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OSS Leftovers
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Tuesday 31st of January 2017 04:27:05 PM Filed under
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Be the open source supply chain
I would bet that whoever is best at managing and influencing the open source supply chain will be best positioned to create the most innovative products. In this article, I’ll explain why you should be a supply chain influencer, and how your organization can be an active participant in your supply chain.
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Leon Anavi’s Open Source News Vlog
All of us at the FOSS Force office have become big fans of this new open source news blog from Leon Anavi and can’t wait until the next edition comes out in February. Don’t worry Leon, your English is fine. Keep ’em coming.
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Announcing the Google Code-in 2016 Winners!
Drum roll please! We are very proud to announce the 2016 Google Code-in (GCI) Grand Prize Winners and Finalists. Each year we see the number of student participants increase, and 2016 was no exception: 1,340 students from 62 countries completed an impressive 6,418 tasks. Winners and Finalists were chosen by the 17 open source organizations and are listed alphabetically below.
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LinuxCon, CloudOpen, and ContainerCon Come to China for the First Time in 2017
The Linux Foundation, a non-profit organization promoting the adoption of the latest Linux and Open Source technologies to the enterprise industry, is announcing the upcoming schedule for LinuxCon, CloudOpen, and ContainerCon conferences.
Taking in place for the first time in China, between June 19-20, 2017, the LinuxCon, ContainerCon and CloudOpen events will be held at the China National Convention Center in Beijing, where it is expected that thousands of attendees will share their knowledge, collaborate on new technologies, and learn about the latest Open Source and GNU/Linux technologies, including cloud, containers, microservices, and networking.
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5 new guides for working with OpenStack
OpenStack experience continues to be among the most in-demand skills in the tech world, with more and more organizations seeking to build and manage their own open source clouds. But OpenStack is a huge domain of knowledge, containing dozen of individual projects that are being actively developed at a rapid pace. Just keeping your skills up to date can be a challenge.
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C++ Support Added To GCC's libcc1, Benefiting GDB
Another late feature addition to GCC 7 is C++ support for libcc1.
Libcc1 is the GCC cc1 plugin for the GDB debugger. With the latest GCC SVN/Git code tonight is now C++ support to complement the C interfaces.
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Android Leftovers
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Tuesday 31st of January 2017 04:25:00 PM Filed under
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New Android betas are now available on Google’s Pixel phones
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Android 7.1.2 available via Android Beta Program today for Pixel, Nexus devices
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Google launches Android 7.1.2 beta for Pixel and Nexus devices [Update]
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Deloitte Counted 120 Million Used Smartphones Were Sold in 2016 (growth of 50% vs 2015) - Understanding the second-hand handset market
About 7.5 % of all smartphone sales last year were used smartphone, second-hand smartphones. Deloitte counts the market at 120 million units in 2016, up from 80 million the year before. While the total new smartphone sales were essentially flat for year 2016 vs 2015 (we'll know in a few weeks when the final numbers are out, could be up or down about one percent) there WAS growth in actual purchases of smartphones last year, vs 2015. That was driven by the used-phone market. The second-hand smartphone market grew by 50% compared to year 2015. Deloitte counted 80 million total second-hand smartphone sales in 2015 and now 120 million in 2016 (ie 50% growth year-on-year). Seeking Alpha has the article relating to Deloitte's count. If the global new sales smartphone market was exactly flat, at about 1.5 Billion smartphones sold last year, then the used market helped nudge the total market to an annual growth rate of 2.5%. And 120 million handset sales per year is nothing to sneeze at. Its more than total digital camera sales (and every used smartphone has a camera) and its about the same number as total desktop PC sales (this year 2017, used smartphone sales will be greater than total new desktop PC sales). And obviously, every smartphone, even if used, can do Facebook and Google and go to Amazon to do some e-commerce.
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Red Hat News
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Tuesday 31st of January 2017 04:23:43 PM Filed under
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Developing open leaders
For many people, that requires a profound mindset shift in how to think about leaders. Yet in some ways, it's what we all intuitively know about how organizations really work. As Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst has pointed out, in any organization, you have the thermometers—people who reflect the organizational "temperature" and sentiment and direction—and then you have the thermostats—people who set those things for the organization.
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Monash University gets multi-petabyte computing boost from Red Hat, Dell EMC
Monash University has implemented a multi-petabyte deployment at its eResearch Centre, giving the Melbourne-based advanced computing facility the capacity to store and manage massive workloads of data.
The university implemented a software-defined solution that uses Red Hat Ceph Storage on Dell EMC PowerEdge R630 and R730xd rack servers that it expects will accelerate application performance, simplify systems management, and address the university's growing data storage requirements.
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Red Hat, Inc. (RHT) Downgraded by Vetr Inc.
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Games for GNU/Linux
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Tuesday 31st of January 2017 04:22:22 PM Filed under
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Disgaea 2 PC released, with same day Linux support
The PC port of the much-beloved tactical RPG is out on Steam, dood. Get ready to fight countless enemies in order to return the world back to normal.
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The Exiled to be released into Early Access on February 23rd
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X-COM: UFO Defense is free on Humble Store, can be used in the OpenXcom open source engine
X-COM: UFO Defense is a true classic. I played it originally on Amiga for days on end and it has a fully functional open source engine from the community named 'OpenXcom'. The game is free right now on Humble Store, so go grab it.
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Thaumistry: In Charm's Way, a new text adventure from Bob Bates is on Kickstarter
It seems it will support Linux too, as it's plainly listed in the description.
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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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