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Ubuntu Touch OTA-5 Update Detailed

Now that the latest update for Ubuntu Touch has a firm launch date, the developers have also released a complete changelog for the upcoming release.

Ubuntu Touch OTA-5 is the new update that will be made available, on July 20, for users with Ubuntu phones. Unlike another OSes, like Android for example, which inform users … (read more)

FreeBSD Developers Arguing Over Their New Code of Conduct

The latest drama in the FreeBSD world are over differing views with the project’s new code of conduct…

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Jolla Finds A Device Partner In India

Recently there was the news about Jolla splitting up and focusing on Sailfish OS licensing. Yesterday it’s been announced that they’ve landed a device partner in India for expanding their presence in that booming region for mobile users…

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Solus OS Gets a Refreshed Filysystem and Is Moving Closer to a Stable Release

The Solus operating system has just received another boost of improvements and developers have pushed another stable version out the door. The new daily build should be very interesting, especially with the new system layout.

The developers had a couple of difficult days with Solus OS, and they have now released a new daily build with an impressive changelog. Some new packages have been added, and lots of smaller modifications have been made. From the looks of it, they are … (read more)

QEMU 2.4-rc1 Brings More Fixes

A new release candidate came out yesterday for QEMU 2.4, the next release of this important piece to open-source Linux virtualization. With QEMU 2.4 comes several new features…

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Kubuntu’s Jonathan Riddell Says Ubuntu Policy Is Still Lacking

Kubuntu’s Jonathan Riddell talked about the recent changes to the licensing procedures on the Ubuntu project, and he said that there are still some important problems that have been left unresolved.

Canonical announced a couple of days ago that the company had made some changes to its policies in order to comply with GPL, but voices in the community are saying that it’s not enough and that more effort needs to be made. Kubuntu’s Jonathan Riddell talked about the remaining i… (read more)

How to Monitor CentOS and Ubuntu Servers With Pandora FMS

Pandora FMS (Pandora Flexible Monitoring System) is a flexible and highly scalable monitoring software for networks, servers, applications and virtual environments. In this tutorial I will show you how to install Pandora FMS Server on Centos 7 and how to add a monitoring agent on Ubuntu 15.04.

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This Week in Linux News: Core Infrastructure Initiative Completes First Survey, Microsoft’s Azure Cloud Offers Limited Linux Support, and More

This week in Linux news, The Linux Foundation’s Core Infrastructure Initiative completes its first survey, Microsoft’s Azure cloud offers limited Linux support, and more! Catch up on the latest Linux headlines with this week’s digest. 

Screen Shot 2015-07-16 at 9.55.44 AM1) The Linux Foundation Core Infrastructure Initiative finishes its first survey of the Linux toolset.

Linux Foundation Serves Up a Tasty Dish of BUGS– The Register

2) Microsoft’s Azure cloud offers support for Linux, but not for complex issues.

Microsoft Adds Limited Support for Linux On Azure Cloud– Silicon Angle

3) System76 stops bundling flash with Firefox due to “security and irrelevance.”

One Ubuntu PC Maker is Kicking Adobe Flash Off its Linux Systems– PC World

4) The enterprise is ready for Linux on ARM servers, says SUSE.

SUSE to Deliver SUSE Linux for ARM Servers– ZDNet

5) Ubuntu-based Linux Mint distro delivers improvements with new release.

Linux Mint 17.2 Offers Desktop Familiarity and Responds to User Wants– Ars Technica

Google Embraces Rival OpenStack Cloud Technology

NEWS ANALYSIS: Although Google has its own cloud technology, it also sees value in OpenStack, and so the company is joining the OpenStack Foundation as a corporate sponsor.

Read more at eWeek

CloudRouter 2.0 Hits Beta with Open Daylight Lithium and Fedora 22

The idea of using software alone to create a router is one that multiple vendors and projects are engaged in, among them the open-source CloudRouter project, which hit its 2.0 beta milestone this week.

Jay Turner, CloudRouter Project Lead and Senior Director of DevOps at IIX, told Enterprise Networking Planet that CloudRouter 2 is based on the Fedora 22 Linux distribution. Fedora is a community distribution of Linux that is backed by Enterprise Linux vendor Red Hat. Fedora 22 was first released in May of this year.