today's leftovers
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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff: 'The new Microsoft is actually the old Microsoft'
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has made it clear he's no longer a fan of the "new" Microsoft under CEO Satya Nadella.
Speaking at the Code Conference on Monday, Benioff talked about the short-lived bromance between the two companies and how it all ended up falling apart in just two years.
In particular, Benioff pointed to a meeting that took place between him and Microsoft's cloud boss, Scott Guthrie, that really killed the trust he had placed in the company.
The story goes that Benioff took a meeting with Guthrie after Microsoft chairman John Thompson, a friend of his, connected the two last year. He believed the meeting was intended to share more about Salesforce's business in hopes of possibly becoming an Azure cloud customer one day. But that wasn't Microsoft's real goal, according to Benioff.
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Linux hardware support, Creative Commons translation, and more open source news
While many hardware enthusiasts get excited by the announcement and release of shiny new hardware products, those who are dedicated desktop Linux users have learned to temper their excitement with the reality that when devices lack proper drivers and adequate documentation, it'll take a while before they are made useful. The 2016 MacBook Pro seems to be no different. An early adopter reported that several devices: the built-in keyboard and mouse, as well as the SSD, don't work at all right now for him under Linux. While support may eventually come, it won't be immediate.
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2016 MacBook Pro can't run Linux
There is a subset of the Linux community that likes running Linux on Apple hardware. Strange as it may sound, these users enjoy the virtues of Linux and the elegance of Apple’s computers. Unfortunately, it looks like the 2016 MacBook Pro is not currently compatible with Linux.
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Don’t Leave Software Testers Out of DevOps
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Tilling the Brownfield: Bumps on the Road to the Container Dream
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The overengineering of ALSA userland
This is a bit of an interesting corner case of a rant. I have not written this when I came up with it, because I came up with it many years ago when I actively worked on multimedia software, but I have only given it in person to a few people before, because at the time it would have gained too much unwanted attention by random people, the same kind of people who might have threatened me for removing XMMS out of Gentoo so many years ago. I have, though, spoken about this with at least one of the people working on PulseAudio at the time, and I have repeated this at the office a few times, while the topic came up.
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Intel SDK OpenCL 2016 R3 Brings OpenCL 2.1 & SPIR-V To Linux
Intel's SDK for OpenCL Applications 2016 Release 3 was quietly made available earlier this month and it offers some interesting Linux changes.
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Radeon Open Compute 1.3 Platform Brings Polaris & Other Features
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Phoronix Test Suite 6.8 M2 Brings FlameGrapher, Other Improvements
The second development milestone/test release of the upcoming Phoronix Test Suite 6.8-Tana is now available for your cross-platform, open-source benchmarking needs.
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CMake support in Qt Creator (and elsewhere?)
Kitware released CMake version 3.7 on Friday night. There is one feature mentioned at the very bottom of the feature list that makes this a really exciting release for people writing tools that integrate with CMake: The server-mode.
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Qt Creator Gets Excited For CMake Server-Mode
With last week's CMake 3.7 release one of the less-advertised features is the build system's server-mode functionality, which is sure to excited integrated development environments (IDEs).
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Lyon GNOME Bug day #1
Last Friday, both a GNOME bug day and a bank holiday, a few of us got together to squash some bugs, and discuss GNOME and GNOME technologies.
Guillaume, a new comer in our group, tested the captive portal support for NetworkManager and GNOME in Gentoo, and added instructions on how to enable it to their Wiki. He also tested a gateway related configuration problem, the patch for which I merged after a code review. Near the end of the session, he also rebuilt WebKitGTK+ to test why Google Docs was not working for him anymore in Web. And nobody believed that he could build it that quickly. Looks like opinions based on past experiences are quite hard to change.
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Solus Linux Distribution Review
Between Ubuntu, Fedora and OpenSUSE, you have a choice of well-supported distributions with lots of up-to-date software and commercial backing, as well as a choice of almost any desktop environment like GNOME, Unity or KDE.
There are many others, however. Linux Mint brings the stability of Ubuntu with a more familiar desktop for ex-Windows users, while Elementary OS gives a more simplified, streamlined desktop which may fare well with ex-Mac users.
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Springdale Linux 7.3 RC released
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Black Lab Linux 8.0 released
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Open Build Service in Debian needs YOU!
openSUSE distributions’ build system is based on a generic framework named Open Build Service (OBS), I have been using these tools in my work environment, and I have to say, as Debian developer, that it is a great tool. In the current blog post I plan for you to learn the very basics of such tool and provide you with a tutorial to get, at least, a Debian package building.
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Freexian’s report about Debian Long Term Support, October 2016
Like each month, here comes a report about the work of paid contributors to Debian LTS.
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Monthly News – November 2016
The latest XApps and the new MATE 1.16 desktop environment were pushed towards the Linux Mint 18.1 “Serena” and LMDE 2 “Betsy” repositories.
We just finished addressing some issues with MDM, and we’re currently working on a few compatibility issues which affect the Cinnamon screensaver in LMDE and in Slackware before announcing the official release of Cinnamon 3.2.
We were expecting Cinnamon 3.2 to be out at the end of October and this probably will push the release of Linux Mint 18.1 into the month of December.
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Top 20 Best Tizen Apps for October 2016
Last month was a very busy month for the Tizen store as lots more games / apps have started being released on the Tizen platform. A recent boost to the ecosystem has been the launch of the world’s first 4G Tizen smartphone, the Samsung Z2, which has helped drive more Tizen apps to the store.
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Game: SEA Conflict: Naval Artillery for Samsung Z1, Z2 and Z3
Taking the role of a Coast Guard Ship, you will fight the Chinese, protecting South East Asia Sea. They will send various ships and you will need to be precise because of the winds, strong or light, you will need to aim correctly with the right amount of power.
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