today's leftovers
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Linus Is Looking Forward To Merging KDBUS, But Not Convinced By Performance
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New Logitech Mouse & Sony Motion/Navigation Controller Support In Linux 4.2
Jiri Kosina of SUSE has sent in the HID driver updates for the Linux 4.2 kernel and with it comes new device support.
First up, the Logitech M560 mouse is now supported with Linux 4.2. The Logitech M560 is a ~$25 wireless mouse that has a "comfort design", Windows 8 edge menu button, thumb buttons, a hyper fast scroll wheel, and a reported eighteen month battery life.
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Linux Kernel 4.1 Released, This Is What’s New
A brand new version of the Linux Kernel — the heartbeat of the modern world (if we you want us to be poetic about it) — has been released.
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Understanding The Stabilized, High-Performance SD-Bus Of Systemd 221
With today's release of systemd 221 besides enabling KDBUS support being compiled in unconditionally, it also stabilizes the new SD-BUS.
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Container Coalition Seeks Common Standard Creation
Docker and CoreOS on Monday announced the formation of a coalition of 21 industry leaders to create the Open Container Project, a nonprofit organization seeking minimal common standards for software containers for cloud storage.
The two companies made the announcement on the opening day of Dockercon, a two-day conference covering all aspects of the Docker ecosystem.
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BTRFS Status June 2015
The version of btrfs-tools in Debian/Jessie is incapable of creating a filesystem that can be mounted by the kernel in Debian/Wheezy. If you want to use a BTRFS filesystem on Jessie and Wheezy (which isn’t uncommon with removable devices) the only options are to use the Wheezy version of mkfs.btrfs or to use a Jessie kernel on Wheezy. I recently got bitten by this issue when I created a BTRFS filesystem on a removable device with a lot of important data (which is why I wanted metadata duplication and checksums) and had to read it on a server running Wheezy. Fortunately KVM in Wheezy works really well so I created a virtual machine to read the disk. Setting up a new KVM isn’t that difficult, but it’s not something I want to do while a client is anxiously waiting for their data.
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The Open Container Project
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Standards are coming for containers
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‘Container’ Software Is at Center of DockerCon
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Software Containers Are Bringing the Tech Giants Together
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Inside the Open Container Project: Docker sings kumbaya
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Open Container Standards Unite Business Rivals
The Linux Foundation was among those today announcing a new project formed "to establish common standards for software containers." Companies like Red Hat, Docker, Microsoft, Google, Cisco, and VMware have joined together to create the Open Contain Project "to enable users and companies to continue to innovate and develop container-based solutions, with confidence that their pre-existing development efforts will be protected and without industry fragmentation."
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Docker Rivals Join Together in Open Container Effort
To be clear though, the point of the OCP is not to standardize Docker, but rather to standardize the baseline for containers. Polvi explained that with an open standard, there can be multiple implementations of the standard. So for CoreOS, it means the company will continue to work on its Rocket container technology, while Docker will continue to work on the Docker container technology.
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Industry Leaders Unite to Create Project for Open Container Standards
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Linux Foundation Invests $452,000 in Open-Source Security Projects
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Reproducible Builds get funded by the Core Infrastructure Initiative
The Core Infrastructure Initiative announced today that they will support two Debian Developers, Holger Levsen and Jérémy Bobbio, with $200,000 to advance their Debian work in reproducible builds and to collaborate more closely with other distributions such as Fedora, Ubuntu, OpenWrt to benefit from this effort.
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Core Infrastructure Initiative funds three new open-source projects
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Libinput 0.18 Has Improved Touchpad Handling
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PRIME, Mode-Setting Driver Improvements Yield Better USB Graphics Support
David Airlie has been adding output master support to the xf86-video-modesetting generic DDX as well as reverse PRIME support and other changes to benefit USB display adapters.
The recent mode-setting driver work by Airlie allows for having USB devices attached, such as the DisplayLink USB adapters, while benefiting from GLAMOR acceleration on the host GPU using this X.Org DDX compatible with any DRM/KMS driver. The GLAMOR support is contingent upon OpenGL / OpenGL ES acceleration being available.
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OpenCL 1.1 Turns Five, Open-Source CL Adoption Still Disappointing
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OpenGL 4.3's Arrays-of-Arrays Getting Back On Track For Mesa
Back in 2013 Timothy Arceri sought crowd-funding to work on another OpenGL extension for Mesa: GL_ARB_arrays_of_arrays. While progress was made on this OpenGL 4.3 extension, the "AoA" support has yet to be merged to mainline but progress is being made.
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ILO Gallium3D Continues Marching To Its Own Beat
While it doesn't have the backing of Intel Corp, the ILO Gallium3D driver continues to advance on its own for bringing HD/Iris Graphics to Gallium3D as an alternative open-source driver to the i965 Mesa DRI driver.
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NV50 Global Performance Counters For Nouveau
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Atomic Mode-Setting Support For Wayland's Weston
Daniel Stone at Collabora has been working on atomic mode-setting support for Wayland's Weston compositor.
One of the primary benefits of the DRM driver supporting atomic mode-setting is that it can allow a full mode-set operation to be tested prior to actually being committed to ensure it can be properly handled by the driver and display hardware. For end-users, this is meant to yield less problems and ideally avoid any display flickering. Atomic mode-setting support has been ongoing within the Linux kernel's DRM drivers for a while now, though more patches still have yet to be mainlined. Daniel has been leading the charge to let Weston make use of the atomic mode-setting interfaces to the Linux kernel.
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Work On Wayland's "Libweston" Is Being Revived
Last year work started on making libweston and now that work is being picked back up on making the Weston code-base useful to other Wayland compositors.
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Mesa 10.5.8 Has A Few Nouveau & Intel Fixes
For those still living on the Mesa 10.5 release train rather than the latest Mesa 10.6 stable or even Git, there's the 10.5.8 update out this weekend.
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CRYENGINE 3.8.1 Adds Official OpenGL & Linux Support
Today is already a good day, you can now add CRYENGINE to the official list of game engines that support Linux, so here's to hoping more games can come over.
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Screen Capture Made Easy with these Dedicated Tools
"A picture is worth a thousand words", a phrase which emerged in the USA in the early part of the 20th century, refers to the notion that a single still image can present as much information as a large amount of descriptive text. Essentially, pictures convey information more effectively and efficiently than words can.
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Teemip – A Free and Open Source IP Managment Tool
Today we present to you a great tool that will help you to good manage the IP address.
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Plenty Of Free And Open Source Tools To Monitor Your Server
Dedicated server monitoring tools have largely replaced the need to manually parse log files except for the most esoteric of issues. This however raises another issue — selecting one that has the right combination of features, usability and performance. Fortunately, many free options exist if you’re willing to learn their ins and outs.
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Another huge leap for GTG
You can see that I am staying on the path of nice, simplistic and easy-to-use design features which re-build GTG into a modern feature of GNOME. Moreover, I will introduce some of the latest additions to the Gtk library: the popovers. Thanks to these, we are able to arrange efficiently all the buttons and options within the relatively small-sized editor window. This will be great once we merge this with the master since it will be a major unifying aspect between the browser and editor.
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Let’s contribute GNOME: Fixing bugs – session three
This time, we were only four: Mario, Fabian, Briggette and me. Mario was trying to install jhbuild build gtk+ requieres packages like sysdeps, flex, anthy and many others.
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Debian Live Rescue needs some love
You may have noticed that Jessie no longer includes the useful rescue flavour of live image, formerly included in Wheezy and earlier releases, and neither will Stretch unless you take action. This is my second public call for help this year to revive it. So if you care about rescue, here’s how you can help:
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Ubuntu 15.10 Updates Packages To GNOME 3.16, Ports More Software To Python 3
This past week the Ubuntu 15.10 desktop updated many of their GNOME packages to the GNOME 3.16.x series. There's also been other improvements on the desktop front.
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Canonical Introduces "Fan" For Container-To-Container Networking
Mark Shuttleworth this morning announced Fan: their solution to container-to-container networking.
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Ubuntu MATE Is Getting a Cool T-Shirt
The Ubuntu MATE project now has a hefty user base and that can only mean one thing; it's time to get some t-shirts going, and developer Martin Wimpress has already presented the model.
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Linux Mint 17.2 release candidates unleashed
On Wednesday, Clement Lefebvre, the guy in charge of the Mint project announced the availability of Linux Mint 17.2, if you’ve been keeping up with Linux Mint you’ll realise these point upgrades aren’t so small after all.
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Freescale launches 'smallest ever' dime-sized IoT processor
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Freescale releases Linux SoCs
Freescale has been showing off its two Linux-ready, 28nm i.MX7 SoCs.
Based around the Cortex-A7 cores and Cortex-M4 MCUs, the pair have lower power consumption than the predecessor the i.MX6.
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Rugged vehicle PC offers power protection, wireless options
Aaeon’s rugged, Linux-ready “Boxer” PC for vehicles offers a 4th Gen Core CPU, dual GbE and four 10/100 PoE LAN ports, mini-PCIe expansion, and a SIM slot.
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InHand Electronics Joins Freescale Technology Forum Keynote, Introduces Record-Breaking, Ultra-Compact Computer Board based on New Freescale SCM-i.MX6D
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Must Have Collaboration Apps for Android
Collaborating with co-workers used to be a real chore. Ever try to get everyone together in the same room at the right time? Or have to moderate a discussion to make sure everyone's ideas were being acknowledged? These are just two of the many ways collaborating with with co-workers used to be painful.
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Cross-Platform Android Development Toolkits: Kivy vs. PhoneGap
Although Ant builds have made Android development much easier, I've long been curious about the cross-platform phone development apps: you write a simple app in some common language, like HTML or Python, then run something that can turn it into apps on multiple mobile platforms, like Android, iOS, Blackberry, Windows phone, UbuntoOS, FirefoxOS or Tizen.
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Security advisories for Monday
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“EPIC” fail—how OPM hackers tapped the mother lode of espionage data
Government officials have been vague in their testimony about the data breaches—there was apparently more than one—at the Office of Personnel Management. But on Thursday, officials from OPM, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Department of the Interior revealed new information that indicates at least two separate systems were compromised by attackers within OPM's and Interior's networks.
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How encryption keys could be stolen by your lunch
Israel-based researchers said they’ve developed a cheaper and faster method to pull the encryption keys stored on a computer using an unlikely accomplice: pita bread.
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OS Security: Windows and Linux/UNIX
For those new to Linux/UNIX command line interfaces, there are lots of Internet sources that provide cheat sheets for the most common commands you'll need to navigate and perform actions. Here's another option we like because it's particularly handy.
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Why are there still so many website vulnerabilities?
The larger the site, the greater its functionality and visibility, and the more it uses third-party software, the more that the process of reducing inherent vulnerabilities in the site will be costly.
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Breach Defense Playbook: Open Source Intelligence
The Internet allows for information to be readily available at your fingertips. However, it also allows for the same information to be accessed by malicious threat actors who are targeting your organization with cyberattacks. The recent explosion of social media has only increased the information available, and with it the risks to your corporate data, intellectual property, and brand. Some organizations call the awareness of this risk “threat intelligence,” but we have found that organizations need to focus on more than just current threats. Organizations can leverage an emerging intelligence-gathering capability to determine data leakage, employee misbehavior, or negative brand exposure at a higher level than threat intelligence using Open Source Intelligence, or OSINT.
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Larry Ellison: Oracle's going to WAR against Amazon cloud prices
Oracle technology chief Larry Ellison is embarking on a journey Microsoft couldn’t complete: beating Amazon’s cloud services on price.
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Oracle Doubles Down on the Cloud, But How Open Is It?
Oracle was once critical of the cloud computing trend but it's now very clear that the company is hitching its cart to the cloud. As Reuters and many media outlets are covering, founder Larry Ellison has said that “we are prepared to compete with Amazon.com on price,” in announcing robust new cloud plans this week.
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