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

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July 17, 2015

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 AM 1) 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

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eWeek

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July 17, 2015

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.

CloudRouter 2.0 Hits Beta with Open Daylight Lithium and Fedora 22

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Enterprise Networking Planet

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July 17, 2015

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.

Read more at Enterprise Networking Planet.

Linus Torvalds Takes Fighter Jet Flights to Relax In Between Linux Kernel Pulls

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Softpedia

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July 17, 2015

You probably won’t believe this, but Linus Torvalds, father of the Linux kernel, has just posted three astonishing photos bragging about doing fighter jet flights to relax in between Linux kernel pulls.

In the new photo set (see them at the end of the article or by clicking the image on the right)posted on Google+, you will see Mr. Torvalds seating in the back of an awesome T-33 airplane.

We all knew that Linus Torvalds is a fan of scuba diving, but doi… (read more)

Red Hat Pushing Hard Beyond Linux in the Data Center

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The Linux Foundation

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July 16, 2015

At the recent Red Hat Summit in Boston, Executive Vice President Paul Cormier declared victory for open source. “Linux has won in the data center,” he proclaimed to an applauding crowd, acknowledging that along with Windows, Linux is one of two major operating systems in enterprise data centers today.

Now, however, there is an even bigger challenge: “Our job is to take open source all the way across the infrastructure and application development [stack],” Cormier said.

Ubuntu 12.04 Finally Gets Latest Firefox 39 After a Long Wait

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Softpedia

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July 16, 2015

The Ubuntu maintainers for Firefox have finally released the latest 39.x branch of the Internet browser for users of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS is still supported by Canonical until 2017, so it would have been weird for the users of this distro to be stuck with an older version of the application. The maintainers have finally pushed the Firefox 39.x update to the repos, a few days after it had already been released for all the other supported distros in the Ubuntu f… (read more)

How to Setup Android/SmartPhone Test Farm (STF)

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Mitesh Shah

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July 16, 2015

Smartphone Test Farm (STF) is a web application for debugging smartphones, smartwatches and other gadgets remotely, from the comfort of your browser.

Features

Android 2.3 ~ 5.1
Keyboard & Mouse Input
Copy & Paste
Take Screenshots
Drag & Drop APK files
Open URLs
Display Logs
Run Shell Commands
Debug Remotely
Reverse Port Forwarding, Device Rotation, Play Store Automation etc

More Details https://miteshshah.github.io/sysadmin/how-to-setup-smartphone-test-farm-stf/

Features

Android 2.3 ~ 5.1

Keyboard & Mouse Input

Copy & Paste

Take Screenshots

Drag & Drop APK files

Open URLs

Display Logs

Run Shell Commands

Debug Remotely

Reverse Port Forwarding, Device Rotation, Play Store Automation etc

More Details and Features List Check – https://openstf.github.io/

Oculus Acquires Yet Another VR Hand-Tracking Company

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The Verge

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July 16, 2015

As its virtual reality headset nears release, Oculus has acquired yet another company. This time around, it’s Pebbles Interfaces, a five-year-old Israeli company working on high-definition hand-tracking technology. “Pebbles Interfaces will be joining the hardware engineering and computer vision teams at Oculus to help advance virtual reality, tracking, and human-computer interactions,” says Oculus in a blog post. It’s not confirming any further terms of the deal, but a spokesperson said that the group would be moving to Oculus’ main campus in Menlo Park, California.

On a very basic level, Pebbles’ hardware is similar to the Leap Motion controller. In a Geektime interview from May, the company’s marketing manager suggested that it…

Docker 1.7.1 Open-Source Linux Container Engine Has Better Support for CentOS 6.6

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Softpedia

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July 16, 2015

The well-known and widely used Docker open-source container engine for GNU/Linux operating system has recently been updated to version 1.7.1, a release that fixes over 15 issues reported by users since the announcement of Docker 1.7.

According to the changelog, which we have attached at the end of the article for reference, Docker 1.7.1 is here to fix creation of bridge interfaces on the CentOS 6.6 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.6 operating systems, as well as to rem… (read more)

Mozilla Winter of Security is Back!

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The Linux Foundation

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July 16, 2015

The first edition of MWoS was a success, and a lot of fun for students and mentors, so we decided to run it again this year.