Install and Run Visual Studio Code on Ubuntu Linux 15.04

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July 21, 2015

Visual Studio Code is a Microsoft product, available free for Windows, Linux and Mac OS. It is an awesome source code and text editor application; currently in Public Preview. It lets your easily write and navigate through your code, build and develop both cloud and web applications using this editor. It offers cool features like code debugging, embedded Git control, and IntelliSense (Intelligent completion of the code). Read more at LinuxPitstop

Here Comes Huawei: 100M Smartphones Expected to Ship in 2015

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ZDNet

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July 21, 2015

Surprisingly, it may not be be juggernaut Xiaomi to first crack 100 million smartphone shipments for a China-based company. Huawei is on the move.

Capital One Out to Display its Geekdom with Open Source DevOps Dashboard

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The Linux Foundation

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July 21, 2015

At OSCON today, Capital One will be unveiling Hygieia, a comprehensive DevOps dashboard that its agile teams developed, as its first open source product.

It’s designed to be a configurable dashboard to provide real-time status of the entire delivery pipeline, according to George Brady, executive vice president of technology.

Capital One has embraced agile development and has more than 1,000 agile teams in an IT work force of more than 10,000.

Foundation Launches to Unify Open-Source Cloud Efforts

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eWeek

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July 21, 2015

Google’s Kubernetes joins a host of vendors and projects as part of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, a new Linux Foundation-backed effort.

Dell’s Latest Flash Storage Aims for Low Cost With TLC 3D NAND Technology

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ZDNet

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July 21, 2015

The SC4020 tries for the mantle of lowest cost-per-gigabyte for flash arrays at $1.66 per GB for all flash and 58 cents for hybrids.

Google Releases Kubernetes 1.0: Container Management Will Never be the Same

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ZDNet

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July 21, 2015

Google’s open source container deployment and management tool is ready for general use in production environments.

Read more at ZDNet News

GTK+ 3.17.5 Brings Mir Improvements

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Phoronix

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July 21, 2015

GTK+ 3.17.5 has been released today as the newest version of the toolkit to coincide with GNOME 3.18 in just a few more months…

How to Install WordPress With Nginx, MariaDB and HHVM in Ubuntu 15.04

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Falko Timme

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July 21, 2015

HHVM (Hip Hop Virtual Machine) is a just-in-time compiler developed by Facebook to run applications that are written in PHP and Hack language. HHVM is faster than the traditional PHP engine from ZEND and is used by Facebook to serve billions of web requests per day. This tutorial describes the steps to install WordPress with Nginx, MariaDB and HHVM on Ubuntu 15.04 Server.

Running Ceph Inside Docker

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OpenSource.com

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July 21, 2015

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Ceph is a fully open source distributed object store, network block device, and file system designed for reliability, performance, and scalability from terabytes to exabytes. Ceph utilizes a novel placement algorithm (CRUSH), active storage nodes, and peer-to-peer gossip protocols to avoid the scalability and reliability problems associated with centralized controllers and lookup tables. Ceph is part of a tremendous and growing ecosystem where it is integrated in virtualization platforms (Proxmox), Cloud platforms (OpenStack, CloudStack, OpenNebula), containers (Docker), and big data (Hadoop, as a meted server for HDFS).

10 Top-Notch Community Tools

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OpenSource.com

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July 21, 2015

Open community, gardeners and food co-op

Welcome folks, to my latest Six Degrees column!

Now, I wanted to mix it up a little bit for this one. In previous columns, I have written pieces about trends and patterns in communities and open source. This one is instead designed to provide some practical recommendations of tools you can use today as you build strong and empowered communities.