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12.20.16

Links 20/12/2016: OpenSDS Project Grows, OpenSSH 7.4 is Out

Posted in News Roundup at 9:18 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

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… weak dependencies shown in transaction summary, more intuitive help usage invoking and others. Repoquery plugin has been moved into DNF itself.

Initial analysis session

Wheee, another addition.

I’m thrilled to announce that Jeremy Cline has joined the Fedora Engineering team, effective today. Like our other recent immigrant, Randy Barlow, Jeremy was previously a member of Red Hat’s Pulp team.

Fedora @ LISA 2016 Wrap-Up

When Do Drive-By Documentation …

12.16.16

Links 16/12/2016: New Linux Mint Releases

Posted in News Roundup at 8:00 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

… as a hindrance to some, which led to the rise of NoSQL. With CrateDB, there is a distributed SQL query engine as well as columnar field caches that help to provide improved speed.

CMS

German firms unveil DeGov eGovernment platform

German ICT service providers are pooling their work on public administration portals, leveraging open source software. The companies unveiled DeGov, a portal solution built on Drupal 8, at the ‘Drupal in der öffentlichen Verwaltung’ …

12.13.16

Links 13/12/2016: CoreOS Container Linux, CentOS Linux 7

Posted in News Roundup at 6:03 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

… The offering integrates with Google Cloud services, including Google Cloud PubSub, Google Big Query, and Google Cloud Big Table.

The new offering brings Red Hat’s container platform as a managed service offering to enterprise customers who want to build, launch, and manage applications on OpenShift Dedicated with Google Cloud Platform as their underlying cloud infrastructure.

CentOS Linux 7 (1611) Released, It’s Derived From Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3

Today, December …

12.10.16

Links 10/12/2016: KDE neon User LTS Edition, AsteroidOS in Headlines Again

Posted in News Roundup at 6:15 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

… various feature improvements, and some plane work too.

ARB_transform_feedback_overflow_query In The Pipe For Intel Mesa

While Intel’s at OpenGL 4.5 compliance in Mesa with their open-source graphics driver, there remain a number of modern extensions that aren’t currently mandated by an OpenGL version number, among them is ARB_transform_feedback_overflow_query.

Applications

Instructionals/Technical

Managing data with Groovy: Lookups and …

11.27.16

Links 27/11/2016: Linux 4.8.11, Linux 4.4.35, and Distrowatch Rankings

Posted in News Roundup at 4:08 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

… support that was ported over from the FreeBSD code-base.

This EFI runtime ABI support allows for querying and setting the time, scanning EFI BIOS variables, and more. This code was ported from FreeBSD but with various changes for DragonFlyBSD’s different kernel interfaces.

FSF/FSFE/GNU/SFLC

Tear the wrapping paper off the 2016 Ethical Tech Giving Guide

Electronics are popular gifts for the holidays, but people often overlook the restrictions that manufacturers slip …

11.24.16

Links 24/11/2016: OpenBSD Foundation Helped by Smartisan, US Vote Recounts

Posted in News Roundup at 11:23 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

… of the issues surrounding the support and development of the JavaScript ecosystem, the well-known jQuery Foundation and the Dojo Foundation have decided to join forces and fuse into the JS Foundation, a project backed by the Linux Foundation (if only I had a cent for every time someone says “Foundation”!).

Math in V8 Is Broken; How Do We Fix It?

JavaScript has become increasingly more popular, especially with the introduction of Node.js, which has allowed full-stack JavaScript …

11.20.16

Links 20/11/2016: Linux Bug Fixes, GNUnet of Autonomous Things

Posted in News Roundup at 8:14 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

… hosting services.

GitHub is the home of many popular open source projects like Ruby on Rails, jQuery, Docker, Go and many others.

The way people (usually) contribute to an open source project on GitHub is using pull requests. A pull request is basically a patch which includes more information and allows members to discuss it on the website.

This tutorial will guide you through the whole process to generate a pull request for a project.

The code I’m still ashamed of

The …

11.16.16

Links 16/11/2016: X.Org Server 1.19, Firefox 50

Posted in News Roundup at 8:27 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

… privileges in two different ways. But, how are they different? Here, I’ll try to answer this query.

Before telling you the difference, let me tell you the meaning of a root user. The root user in a Linux system has the maximum permissions and he/she can do anything to the systems. Apart from letting a normal user install/delete some package, root user permissions also act as an extra security layer.

Games

Warsow down, FOSS Sauerbraten fork and maybe an unkown project? …

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