Those GNU/Linux PCs don’t disappear just because they don’t hit StatCounter’s sites.
Containers are a very promising and exciting technology that solve a class of problems for which we haven’t had great tools in the past. In particular, web-scale applications that are very large and very demand-driven are in a great position to take advantage of containers. This class of applications is well-suited for being constructed with a set of very small services, called microservices, that are self-healing and self-scaling.
After announcing the release of Linux kernel 4.0.2 and Linux kernel 3.19.7, Greg Kroah-Hartman was happy to announce a new maintenance version of the LTS (Long Term Support) Linux kernel 3.14, which means that all users of 3.14 kernel series must upgrade immediately.
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the new maintenance version of LTS (Long Term Support) Linux kernel 3.14. The new Linux kernel 3.14.41 LTS has fixed issues in the ARM, ARM64, PowerPC, Xtensa, x86, c6x, MIPS, Unicore, and SPARC architectures.
My first experience with systemd could not have been worse. Suddenly, after upgrading KDE from Debian unstable, my monitor could not display at its highest resolution. Booting displayed errors because I was not using GNOME. Even worse, I had to search for how to turn off my computer, and even then could only do so from the root account. All this seemed a high price to pay for an init replacement, but I reserved judgment until I knew enough to develop an informed opinion.
3.14 is now available in Debian unstable and Ubuntu wily. As usual, for older releases you can just grab the deb and install it, it works on all supported Debian and Ubuntu releases.
Just as SFLphone, Ring is also fully standard compliant and inter-operable with existing communication infrastructure such as most enterprise SIP phones and accounts.
Version numbers for the current man-pages release had been getting uncomfortably high, so that I'd been thinking about bumping to a new major version for a while, and now that the Linux kernel has just done that, it seems an opportune moment do likewise. So, here we have it: man-pages-4.00, my 166th man-pages release.
Another few weeks have passed, and another release of Wine has been released. It has the usual assortment of bug fixes and a few new features.
A new action adventure game is heading our way in the form of HUSH. The game is inspired by childish nightmares and fears, which sounds pretty fun if they do it right.
They confirmed in a recent announcement on their greenlight page that Linux will be officially supported. It's nice to see a developer on Greenlight who not only lists Linux as a platform, but actually makes an announcement stating it. Makes me feel like they are invested in it, unlike other projects that list Linux as a platform and drop out on supporting it.
You might not remember, but we had the Publisher of Two Worlds II confirm to us multiple times that Two Worlds II would come to Linux, and then things got confusing, but now one of the actual developers has confirmed it will happen.
They are part of a series as Star Trek Judgement Rites takes place right after Star Trek 25th Anniversary. Apparently a mission in Judgement Rites is a direct sequel to the final mission in the 25th Anniversary game too.
Vertiginous Golf is an unlikely mix of minigolf and a narrative that has just come out of Early Access and is making its début on Steam for Linux.
Valve has recently gone through a major PR debacle after the company announced that it's implementing paid mods for games and Skyrim in particular. Their decision was short-lived, and it was retracted, but they have managed to incur the rage of the community. Independent developers are now working on a new game launcher that will make Steam obsolete.
The highly anticipated GOG Galaxy client has arrived for Windows & Mac in beta form, but sadly not for Linux yet.
It took longer than we liked, but Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth now has the winter update. You can now play with your Mac & Windows friends again.
More GOG news today folks! Fantasy General is new to GOG and comes with a Linux version, so for the fans of classic games here's another to check out.
Another survival game, but is it one I can actually get into? It’s another Early Access game, and I’ve taken a look. As usual I'm pulling no punches here, and I'm being brutally honest.
The 2015 Edition of the GNOME Asia Summit that is taking place in Depok, Indonesia started today.
GNOME Asia Summit 2015 promises several days of learning, community building and fun.
Linux distributions can be separated into various categories based on use case and the intended target group. Server, education, games and multimedia are some of the most popular categories of Linux distros.
For security conscious users, however, there's a growing niche of distros aimed at protecting your privacy. These distros help ensure you don't leave a digital footprint as you go about navigating the web.
The status of the 4MLinux 12.0 series has been changed to STABLE. Major modifications in the core of the system, which now includes the GNU C Library 2.21. Additionally, PAE support has been enabled in the Linux kernel. The most important new applications are: Asunder (CD-ripping program), aTunes (audio player), and Chrome (web browser). The net browsing software available in 4MLinux has been significantly improved (see: the 4MLinux Blog).
It's time for more standards in the open source Linux containers world. So says Red Hat (RHT), which has published a call for developers of containerization platforms, such as Docker, to adopt a standardized approach to building, packaging and distributing container-based apps.
Enterprises are under pressure to deliver new applications fast; however, many factors, including rigid proprietary stacks, inflexible licensing agreements, and cultural silos in IT can prevent enterprises from achieving the agility they need to stay competitive. Enterprises are increasingly implementing DevOps methodologies, and technologies that complement them, to break down siloed communications between development and operations teams and accelerate application development and delivery. As DevOps adoption increases, so does the demand for technologies that complement DevOps methodologies and enable high productivity of developers and operations teams working closely together.
In a potpourri of stories today, Red Hat's Lennart Poettering spoke to an audience at CoreOS Fest on how systemd can help with containers. Bruce Byfield is "learning to live with systemd." Fedora developer Christian Schaller shared some of the response he's received to "What are we still missing for you to switch to Fedora Workstation?" Also, Linux Mint 17.2 "Rafaela" is "planned for the end of June."
Quite a few people did bring up that our Optimus support wasn’t great. Luckily I know Bastien Nocera is working on something there based on work by Dave Arlie, so hopefully this is one we can check off soon.
So a couple of weeks ago I mentioned the work robyduck and the Fedora websites team have been putting in on the new websites for Fedora, primarily, spins.fedoraproject.org and labs.fedoraproject.org.
As this concern was raised in several places already, I would like to announce that the RPM Fusion free repository is published since few days for Fedora 22.
At this time, only the free section is available, but it's also there for armhfp at the same time as i686 and x86_64. (no aarch64 but that's can be a secondary step if I manage to have a builder).
In the last few years, Red Hat’s portfolio of products and future directions have greatly expanded. No longer just a producer of a Linux distribution, Red Hat is pursuing revenue sources in application middleware, both IaaS and PaaS pieces of the cloud, and containers. They also have engineers working on a multitude of open source solutions that enhance these basic products, adding flesh to the framework they set up. But where does the Fedora Community fit into this expanded roster of technologies? The Fedora Product has been very focused on “A Linux Distro” for a number of years but the Fedora Community is very broad and multi-talented. I’m hoping that Denise’s talk will provide an entrypoint for Fedora Contributors to start talking about what new directions they can take the Project in that would align with Red Hat’s needs. There’s a number of difficulties to work out (for instance, how does Fedora keep its identity while at the same time doing more work on these things that have traditionally been “Upstream Projects”) but we can’t even begin to solve those problems until we understand where our partner in this endeavour wants to go.
So, following the Jessie release, and after a quick approval by the release team for the 4.12 transition, we've uploaded Xfce 4.12 to sid and have asked the RT to schedule the relevant binNMUs for the libxfce4util and xfce4-panel reverse dependencies.
Debian published Jessie last month. Big congratulations to the release team and all the contributors; quality is again at the rendez-vous!
Now that Ubuntu Online Summit (UOS) event for Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) came to an end, Canonical's developers have just published the first snapshots, or daily builds as they call them, for the upcoming operating system.
Ubuntu's race to beat Windows 10 to smartphone-PC convergence has a massive potential roadblock ahead of it: The adaptable interface depends on the Unity 8 desktop with the Mir display server, new and untested technologies.
Unity 8 and Mir are currently used on Ubuntu phones, but Unity 8 is far from ready for desktop PCs. Ubuntu developers are currently discussing getting Unity 8 ready to be the default desktop as part of the Ubuntu Online Summit.
So, you've just installed the recently released Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet) operating system, and you're interested in changing the default look (wallpaper and icons) with some awesome ones.
When the first Ubuntu phone launched, it was only available via limited-time “flash sales.” If you missed them, rejoice! You can now purchase an Ubuntu phone like you would any other product—if you live in the European Union, at least.
The phone in question here is the BQ Aquarius E4.5 Ubuntu Edition. It’s now available for purchase on BQ’s website for €169.90, or about $181 US. This is the same price the phone was offered in via flash sales, but those are done. Want an Ubuntu phone and live in the EU? You can get one for less than two hundred euros.
The Mate desktop started as GNOME 2 fork back in 2011, when the Linux systems adopted GNOME 3. Today, MATE is available by default on Fedora, Arch Linux, Linux Mint and BSD (and forks of this systems).
Not long ago, Mark Shuttleworth has announced that the development of Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf has been officially started. Today, Canonical has just published the first Ubuntu 15.10 Daily Builds, which do not bring too many changes to the Ubuntu 15.04 (yet).
Recently, the Linux Mint developers have announced that a RC version of Linux Mint 17.2 will be released in June 2015 and will include important new features, updates and bug-fixes. Among others, a newer kernel will be added, the code base will switched most likely to Ubuntu 14.10 and Cinnamon 2.6 and Mate 1.10 will be available on the Cinnamon and Mate flavors.
Tucked away in a small office on a side street in the historic industrial zone of West Oakland, something magical is happening.
Google has announced the schedule for Google I/O 2015, its developer conference scheduled to take place later this month.
It's always a little concerning when a battery management app needs access to your location and contacts. According to Bloomberg, Google's poised to ease that anxiety by improving control over what apps can access in Android. According to its sources, an update to the operating system -- possibly coming ant Google's I/O event this month -- would allow users to switch off access to things individually, similar to how app management in Facebook works. Features like those described were discovered in Android, hidden, as far back as 2013. If you're using one of Android's most famous forks, you've had them since 2011. Google eventually removed the hidden controls, perhaps to prevent incomplete tools from interfering with apps not primed for the change, but now it seems they're ready for prime time. How will your torch cope without knowing all your friends' names, and where you are? We'll just have to wait and see.
Google Inc. is planning to give its mobile users more control over what information applications can access, people familiar with the matter said.
Starting with Glu's Terminator Genisys: Revolution mobile game, you can now pre-register for apps from the Play store.
Wearables are slowly but surely making their way into our daily lives, but one very critical aspect—health—is already helping to bring them mainstream. It’s something that every person is conscious of on a daily basis, and wearable device makers—as evidenced by the countless fitness trackers on the market—want to make it easier to stay on top of exercise, diet, and more. But another aspect of our health, chronic illness, is also big opportunity for wearables to make a difference—and they already are.
Android has ousted iOS to wrest the numero uno spot for the favored platform, beating the latter both in terms of ad revenue and traffic.
The tide has turned in Android's favor thanks to the global increase in demand for Android-based devices as opposed to iOS ones. The volume of consumers deploying Android is working to its advantage as reports reveal that "the Android ecosystem has started to overtake the one surrounding the iPhone."
OpenStack is backed by an involved community of developers, as well as leading vendors including HP, IBM, Intel, RedHat, Rackspace and AT&T. The project’s website features a portal with links to user groups around the world.
EMC is one of the biggest technology companies in the world and has its fingers in a lot of pies, offering everything from storage and cloud solutions to anti-hacker defences.
EMC's move to make its ViPR software-defined storage platform open source (as Project CoprHD) appears a bold one, but I can't help thinking it looks like the giant from Hopkinton, MA, has been been subject to forces too strong to resist.
Despite the fact that the Mozilla developers have neglected Thunderbird lately, they are now working at bringing major improvements to their email client, Thunderbird 38 (currently beta). Among others, support for the Yahoo! Messenger chat protocol will be implemented, a new feature for filtering both archived emails and sent emails will be added.
Tech giant Google is throwing down the cloud Relevant Products/Services gauntlet. The company is making the same database that powers Google Search, Gmail and Google Analytics available to the masses via its Google Cloud Platform.
Fortnum & Mason has opted for the Spree open-source e-commerce platform to underpin its new website.
Headed up by customer experience director Zia Zareem-Slade, former head of digital at Selfridges, the 300-year-old retailer has revamped its digital presence with a multichannel site based on responsive design targeted at the mobile era.
Open source webmail client Roundcube has begun an Indiegogo campaign to raise funding for what it calls Roundcube ‘Next’. With Roundcube Next, they plan to use new web technologies to bring Roundcube up to date, the process will involve porting existing over to the new project and even rewriting code.
Gnubik Version 2.4.2 has been released.
Gnubik is a 3D single player game which displays an interactive cube similar to the well known Rubik Cube.
The ‘R’ tool is used in different disciplines such as retail, financial services, health research, weather modelling, astronomy, psychology, and social sciences.
Open Source tools for data science domains such as data mining, analytics and big data, previously used in the Information Technology (IT) industry, are increasingly becoming important for governments across the world, said Graham Williams, a data scientist at Togaware and the Australia Taxation office.
“VisibleTesla” an open source app created by Joe Pasqua helps ‘Tesla Model S’ owners to record the status of their vehicle’s systems along with scheduling automated commands.
Let’s take a look at the notion that the big data revolution was some kind of “overnight sensation” that magically appeared with no warning. In reality, the big data revolution began more than a decade ago. It was ignited by search companies like Google and Yahoo, whose business models required new frameworks and techniques for processing huge amounts of data very rapidly.
A little less than a week ago, Dr. Hong Sheng Chiong took the TEDxAuckland stage with a blow to the audience. An eye doctor born and raised in Borneo, medically trained in Ireland, and now practicing in Gisborne Hospital, New Zealand. One of the first speaker to receive a overwhelming response from the two thousand strong audience. He concluded his speech with “Ending preventable blindness is my fight, what’s yours?” and deservedly received the first standing ovation in two years.
On June 1st, the Dutch 'Leer- en Expertisepunt Open Overheid' (Open Government Learning and Expertise Centre) will organise a learning session on Open Data for Dutch provinces. The meeting is aimed at people working in the provinces who want to know more about open data.
The Toilet Map Vienna was the first Open Data application of the City of Vienna in May 2011, which the public toilets by means of augmented reality app Wikitude makes the smartphone visible. Although in this app the directly engage in extension benefits of open data was easily recognizable, there was in consequence also often criticized by the Open Data community: the data provider would often publish only "uncritical" records, as in about locations of dog feces Ackerl donor instead budget data ( whereby the latter by the increasing availability of budget data on https://www.offenerhaushalt.at/ has at least been significantly improved at the community level).
Those of you who visited the Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven, the Netherlands in October 2014 might still remember a very interesting collaboration called Keyshapes. A combination of three intriguing projects by the Belgian Unfold, the American Jesse Howard (USA) and the Dutch Kirschner 3D projects, this exposition in a nutshell was seeking to reinterpret manufacturing. All three projects sought to revolutionize design and creation by asking themselves how manufacturing can make our surroundings more environmentally friendly and how design itself can be reinterpreted.
Dog carts are common but clunky. These little carts, attached to disabled dogs via straps and webbing, are often expensive and rarely cool. Now, however, you can get your disabled dog some sweet open-source wheels for the price of a quick 3D print and some rubber.
Legitimacy is a different question to legality. The government is undoubtedly legal under the current rotten system, but its legitimacy is a different question entirely. Legitimacy lies on the popular consent of the governed. With an extreme government supported by only 23% of the population, actively planning to inflict actual harm on many more than 23% of the population, there are legitimate philosophical questions to be asked about the right of the government to rule. With so many, particularly but not exclusively young people, now reading sources like this one and not being enthralled by the mainstream media, today’s protest is but a start.
State propaganda and corporate media are wasting no time in promoting their candidate for leader of the pretend opposition: Chuka Umunna. He ticks absolutely all the right boxes. Private school educated, son of a High Court judge (which did not hold back his career to become a multi-millionaire lawyer) and entirely London based. Umunna has only ever moved out of the M25 on an aeroplane.
Large corporations such as Amazon, Ebay, Google, Facebook and LinkedIn are as much data science companies as they are leaders of specific domains.
Global data science market is projected to be worth $320 billion by year 2020, says Graham Williams, data scientist at data processor company Togaware as well as the Australia Taxation Office.
The open source tools for data science domains such as data mining, analytics and big sata, previously used mostly by IT Industry, are increasingly becoming important for governments around the world, said Graham Williams, data scientist at Togaware and Australia Taxation Office. He was speaking at the three-day Workshop on "Data Mining and Analytics with R", organized by the International Centre for Free and Open Source Software (ICFOSS) at Technopark.
Non-disparagement clauses are one of the stupidest things any company can enact. In most cases, it's almost impossible to enforce them, no matter how artfully crafted. Most aren't. Most non-disparagement clauses found lying around the internet have been lazily copied and pasted from pre-existing bad ideas instituted by other companies.
The climate-change-as-new-world-order-conspiracy trope is going strong south of the equator, with the chairman of Australia’s Business Advisory Council claiming that climate science is filled with “dud predictions.” Maurice Newman, who previously served as chancellor of Macquarie University and headed up the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, expressed his views in an opinion piece (subscriber only) published Friday in The Australian.
Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström tried to convince MEPs that there are ways to keep the Investment-State Dispute Settlement in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment partnership deal (TTIP). But unimpressed lawmakers failed to greet it as a full-fledged reform.
BBC Worldwide has sent tens of thousands of takedown requests to Google this week, but not all reported links are as bad as they claim. In fact, the company is targeting the IMDb pages of several of its own shows, including Top Gear and The Game, as well as one of Dailymotion's homepages.
Simon and I have known each other for years, way back to 2002, when he gave one of the earliest Winston Awards to David Shayler, in recognition of his work towards trying to expose surveillance and protect privacy. That award ceremony, hosted by comedian and activist Mark Thomas, was one of the few bright points in that year for David and me — which included my nearly dying of meningitis in Paris and David’s voluntary return to the UK to “face the music”; face the inevitable arrest, trial and conviction for a breach of the Official Secrets Act that followed on from his disclosures about spy criminality.
Last week artist Davide Dormino unveiled his sculpture celebrating whistleblowers in Alexanderplatz, Berlin.
We recently wrote about some dangerous terms of service from a big prison messaging service, JPay, in which the company claimed to flat out own any content that anyone sent through its service. While the company itself did not appear to be doing stupid things to enforce this, this clause did allow prison guards to put one prisoner in solitary confinement after his sister posted a video he had sent via JPay to social media. The prison claimed it was doing so to protect JPay's intellectual property.
The most recent example being retiring Classic Maps. That’s a problem, because the current Maps mysteriously doesn’t show most of my saved (“starred”) places. Google has known about this since at least 2013. There are posts all over their forums about it going back to when what is now “regular” Google Maps was beta. Google employees even knew about it and did nothing. For someone that made heavy use of it, this was quite annoying.
As soon as my article about how NSA computers can now turn phone conversations into searchable text came out on Tuesday, people started asking me: What should I do if I don’t want them doing that to mine?
The solution, as it is to so many other outrageously invasive U.S. government tactics exposed by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, is, of course, Congressional legislation.
I kid, I kid.
No, the real solution is end-to-end encryption, preferably of the unbreakable kind.
And as luck would have it, you can have exactly that on your mobile phone, for the price of zero dollars and zero cents.z
In my view this, to date, includes the four wars — on drugs, terror, the internet, and whistleblowers. No doubt the number will continue to rise.
The Federal Communications Commission today denied the requests of five broadband industry trade groups that asked for an immediate halt to the reclassification of Internet service providers as common carriers subject to Title II regulation.
A new Hollywood commission report investigating the revenue sources of more than 600 supposedly infringing sites has controversially included file-hosting site Mega. The listing marks the second time in a matter of months that the cloud-storage service has been accused of online piracy via an industry-connected report. Yet again, the report's authors are refusing to comment.
An intriguing case dating back more than 3.5 years ended this week when two men went on criminal trial in Sweden. One was the former sysop of a 26,000 member private BitTorrent tracker. The other provided the site with web hosting and allegedly refused to take the site down when copyright holders asked.