Raspberry Pi launches new PIXEL desktop environment

Raspberry Pi Launches New PIXEL User Interface For Desktops

Raspberry Pi Adds Beautiful "Pixel" Desktop Environment To Raspbian Linux Distro

Meet Pixel, a gorgeous, much-needed visual overhaul for Raspberry Pi's main distro

Raspberry Pi's most popular operating system gets a visual overhaul

The New Raspberry Pi OS Is Here, And It Looks Great

Raspberry Pi gets its own official desktop environment: PIXEL

50 Great Raspberry Pi Projects In Latest Mag Pi Magazine

Raspberry Pi gets VNC remote access bundle with Raspbian

Raspbian PIXEL offers major UX overhaul for Raspberry Pi owners

Raspberry Pi Pixel: Desktop Operating System Environment Built on Debian

Raspberry Pi Gets 'More Visually Appealing' Pixel Desktop OS

Raspberry Pi operating system gets a visual upgrade with the launch of PIXEL

Trainline creates open source platform to help developers deploy apps and environments in AWS

The Trainline, the independent rail ticket retailer, has created an open sourced standardised way for its developers to deploy and manage individual applications and environments in Amazon Web Services' public cloud. The company has 150 staff in its development area, who focus on improving user experience, and in order to ensure that its underlying infrastructure wasn't a constraint on time to market, the firm recently migrated all of its development, staging, UAT and production environments from a legacy private data centre to Amazon's public cloud.

Trainline creates open source platform to let developers test apps in AWS

Linux Unable To Boot Lenovo Yoga 900 & 900; Is Microsoft At Fault?

The popular device developer Lenovo has verified the claims that Lenovo Yoga 900 and 900s unable to boot Linux OS but only Microsoft Windows 10. The new Lenovo convertible laptop, Lenovo Yoga 900 and 900s, would reject and decline any attempt to install Linux operating system, making users turn their heads to Microsoft as the suspect for this issue. [...] This issue about the OS started when an identity of BaronHK posted on Reddit about installing Linux on the latest Lenovo Yoga book in which BaronHK encountered being blocked by a locked solid state drive (SSD) which Linux cannot define itself, and come up to link the issue to Microsoft.

How Ubuntu 16.10 Beta 2 Performance Compares To Some Other Linux Distros

The final Ubuntu 16.10 Beta for "Yakkety Yak" was released this week and we found its performance doesn't differ much from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (with the exception of the newer graphics stack) while here are some results comparing it to other modern Linux distributions. Tested for this quick, one-page-article comparison were Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS, Ubuntu 16.10 Beta 2, Clear Linux 10660, Fedora 24, openSUSE Tumbleweed 20160927, and the Arch-based Antergos 16.9-Rolling release.

Qt 3D WIP branches

New Qt 3D Functionality Is Being Worked On

Sean Harmer of KDAB is organizing work around some upcoming "major Qt 3D features" for the open-source toolkit. It's not known if the next round of Qt 3D features will be ready for the Qt 5.9 tool-kit release, but KDAB is looking to have these new branches for feature work with continuous integration coverage.

Cross-compiling WebKit2GTK+ for ARM

Of course, I know for a fact that many people use local recipes to cross-compile WebKit2GTK+ for ARM (or simply build in the target machine, which usually takes a looong time), but those are usually ad-hoc things and hard to reproduce environments locally (or at least hard for me) and, even worse, often bound to downstream projects, so I thought it would be nice to try to have something tested with upstream WebKit2GTK+ and publish it on trac.webkit.org,

Should we drop Vala?

Is it Vala development a waste of time? Is Vala suitable for long term support libraries?

SUSECON 2016: Where Technology Reigns Supreme [Ed: “Article Sponsor: SUSE”]

openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the Weeks 2016/39

Free software activities in September 2016

Linux Kernel 4.7.6 Is Out with MIPS and OCFS2 Improvements, Updated Drivers

Today, September 30, 2016, renowned Linux kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman announced the release of the sixth maintenance update to the latest stable Linux 4.7 kernel series. Linux kernel 4.7.6 comes only five days after the release of the previous maintenance version, Linux kernel 4.7.5, and, according to the appended shortlog and the diff from the last update, it changes a total of 76 files, with 539 insertions and 455 deletions. In summary, it updates multiple drivers, adds improvements to various filesystems and hardware architectures, and improves the networking stack.

Linux Kernel 4.4.23 LTS Has ARM and MIPS Improvements, Updated Filesystems, More

Immediately after announcing the release of Linux kernel 4.7.6, Greg Kroah-Hartman proudly informed the community about the general availability of the Linux 4.4.23 LTS kernel. The Linux 4.4 kernel is a long-term supported branch, the latest and most advanced one, used in many stable and reliable GNU/Linux operating systems, including Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) and Alpine Linux 3.4. Therefore, it is imperative for it to receive regular updates that bring fixes to the most important issues, as well as other general improvements.

From NFS to LizardFS

If you’ve been following me for a while, you’ll know that we started our data servers out using NFS on ext4 mirrored over DRBD, hit some load problems, switched to btrfs, hit load problems again, tried a hacky workaround, ran into problems, dropped DRBD for glusterfs, had a major disaster, switched back to NFS on ext4 mirrored over DRBD, hit more load problems, and finally dropped DRBD for ZFS.

IBM's Ginni Rometty Tells Bankers Not To Rest On Their Digital Laurels

BUS1, The Successor To KDBUS, Formally Unveiled -- Aiming For Mainline Linux Kernel

BUS1 has been in development as an in-kernel IPC mechanism building off the failed KDBUS project. An "RFC" will soon be sent out to Linux kernel developers about BUS1 and the subject will be discussed at next month's Kernel Summit. David Herrmann, one of the BUS1 developers, presented at this week's systemd.conf conference about the new capability-based IPC for Linux. He talked about how BUS1 is superior to KDBUS, how BUS1 is similar to Android's Binder, Chrome's Mojo, Solaris' Doors, and other common IPC implementations.

A New Wireless Daemon Is In Development To Potentially Replace wpa_supplicant

In addition to the BUS1 presentation, also exciting from the systemd.conf 2016 conference is a thorough walkthrough of a new wireless daemon for Linux being developed by Intel's Open-Source Technology Center. Intel has been developing a new wireless daemon for Linux to potentially replace wpa_supplicant. This new daemon isn't yet public but the code repositories for it will be opened up in the next few weeks. This new daemon has improvements around persistency, WiFi management, reduced abstractions for different operating systems and legacy interfaces, and changes to operation. This daemon is designed to be very lightweight and work well for embedded Linux use-cases especially, including IoT applications.