today's leftovers
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Should you remove Adobe Flash from Linux?
Adobe Flash has been in the news a lot lately, and not for any positive reasons. Flash has been roundly criticized in the media for various security flaws. This has led some folks to call for the removal of Flash from people's computers, but is it practical to remove Flash from your Linux system?
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Tracking the Docker PaaS Debate
Now that Docker containers are all the rage among developers basically there are three ways to deploy them in or out of the cloud: on a physical server, on a virtual machine or in a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment. In the latter case, a debate has begun over what type of PaaS might be required to efficiently run those containers.
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AMD’s GPU performance under Linux can be boosted by renaming certain executables
For most of the past decade, the idea of gaming under Linux was a contradiction in terms. Apart from a handful of dedicated titles or ports, the only option that gamers had was to either dual-boot into Windows or deal with the Wine emulator. Valve’s decision to pursue the Linux gaming market and develop its own Linux-based operating system has changed that, with a vast array of indie titles (and a handful of AAA’s) now available on the OS. Unfortunately, it looks as though AMD’s driver team hasn’t quite caught up with the times.
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NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 980 Ti Is Running Strong Under Linux
I finally received my GTX 980 Ti review sample from NVIDIA this week and it's in the midst of running lots of interesting tests, along with putting out a large Linux graphics card comparison for 4K gaming, OpenCL, performance-per-Watt/efficiency, etc. Many interesting tests are coming in the days ahead!
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A short overview of touchpad devices
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MSI Radeon R7 370 GAMING 4G
The latest graphics card we've been testing the past few weeks under Linux is the MSI Radeon R7 370 GAMING 4G. This mid-range graphics card is equipped with a very quiet heatsink fan and will work on both the latest open and closed-source AMD Linux graphics drivers. Of interest to many Linux enthusiasts who are concerned about noise is that with MSI's ZERO FROZR feature, the fans will stop completely while the system is idling or just engaging in light gaming or multimedia tasks.
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Intel's Haswell Iris Graphics vs. Broadwell Iris Pro
This past weekend I posted an open-source Linux graphics driver comparison with an A10-7870K Godavari vs. i7-4790K Haswell vs. i7-5775C Broadwell. Beyond the already-published discrete AMD/NVIDIA GPU results to see how Intel's socketed Broadwell with Iris Pro 6200 Graphics stack up, there were also requests from readers for seeing some Haswell Iris results.
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GNOME's GTK+ 3.16.6 Brings Partial Aspect Ratio Support for Mac OS X
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GTK+ 3.17.5 Brings Mir Improvements
GTK+ 3.17.5 has been released today as the newest version of the toolkit to coincide with GNOME 3.18 in just a few more months.
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Kodi Media Centre Version 15.0 Released (video)
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Kodi 15.0 media center is now available
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Kodi 15.0 "Isengard" Open-Source Media Center Has Been Officially Released
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BackBox Linux 4.3 released!
The BackBox Team is pleased to announce the updated release of BackBox Linux, the version 4.3!
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Pisi Linux 1.2 Screencast and Screenshots
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SUSE Launches Partner Program Support for 64-Bit ARM Processors
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Running Ceph inside Docker
Ceph is a fully open source distributed object store, network block device, and file system designed for reliability, performance, and scalability from terabytes to exabytes. Ceph utilizes a novel placement algorithm (CRUSH), active storage nodes, and peer-to-peer gossip protocols to avoid the scalability and reliability problems associated with centralized controllers and lookup tables. Ceph is part of a tremendous and growing ecosystem where it is integrated in virtualization platforms (Proxmox), Cloud platforms (OpenStack, CloudStack, OpenNebula), containers (Docker), and big data (Hadoop, as a meted server for HDFS).
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Red Hat Inc (NYSE:RHT)’s CEO & President James Whitehurst Unloaded 10,495 Shares
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Form 4 RED HAT INC For: Jul 16 Filed by: BEGLEY CHARLENE T
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Reproducible builds: week 12 in Stretch cycle
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Performance tuning of lintian, take 2
The other day, I wrote about our recent performance tuning in lintian. Among other things, we reduced the memory usage by ~33%. The effect was also reproducible on libreoffice (4.2.5-1 plus its 170-ish binaries, arch amd64), which started at ~515 MB and was reduced to ~342 MB. So this is pretty great in its own right…
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While Thunderbird 31.8 Is The Latest Version Available, Canonical Has Updated The Version In The Default Repos With Version 31.8.0
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Uget 2.0 (Download Manager) Is Now Available For All The Supported Ubuntu Systems Via PPA
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Vision-based ADAS Speeds up in Smallest R-Car Kit
Renesas Electronics has announced the smallest development kit in R-Car history—the ADAS Starter Kit. Designed to both simplify and speed ADAS applications, the kit is based on Renesas’ high-end R-CAR H2 System on Chip. It provides enhanced computer vision performance with OpenCV and high-performances graphics power with OpenGLES.
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EuroBSDCon 2015 Registration Is Open
Registration for this year's European BSDs conference is now open at registration.eurobsdcon.org, open up until right before the conference starts but early bird discounts end on August 31st (midnight CEST).
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US Air Force lab: robots, open source, and virtual reality
The Graphics and Visualization (GVIS) lab at NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio specializes in creating scientific visualizations and virtual reality programs for scientists at Glenn and beyond. I am thrilled to be a member of the small army of interns in the GVIS lab. So are Carolyn Holthouse, Joe Porter, and Jason Boccuti, interns from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and Wright Brothers Institute's Discovery Lab who are working remotely at NASA Glenn. Their project involves robots, open source software, and virtual reality. I caught up with Carolyn, Jason, and Joe to talk about their project.
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Open Source Indicators and Asymmetric Advantage in Security Planning
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Open-sourced Technology Levels the Playing Field Between Tech Giants and Startups
The contest between proprietary technology and open source has been ongoing for a decade.Today, some of the most premium technology is open-sourced and free. Even Google's highly prized Borg software is becoming open-sourced.
After Google bowed to the pressure to make Borg an open source technology it’s safe to say open source is winning the tussle. In fact, the lines are expected to keep on blurring irrevocably as previous proprietary firms keep pouring their resources into the development of open source. Open source communities spread across the globe are producing the kind of technologies businesses require to remain competitive in a century that is so data rich that is making most tech giants to simply embrace open source.
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This is what Brazil’s startup ecosystem looks like: An open source guide (INFOGRAPHIC)
Here, you can see Brazil’s exciting startup scene with our data aggregated map and open source spreadsheet, which provides information on startups, investors, events, and more. With your help, this spreadsheet will encompass a real insider’s perspective of Brazil’s startup ecosystem.
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