Linux Training Scholarship Deadline this Friday

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July 8, 2015

learn linux Our Linux training scholarships have become highly competitive over the last few years with more than 1,000 people applying for just five scholarships annually. With the increasing use of Linux resulting in even more demand for Linux talent, this year we expanded our program to award 14 scholarship recipients. We also added two new categories to be inclusive of all age groups and skill levels: Teens-in-Training and Linux Newbies.

Since introducing Linux training courses more than five years ago and our Linux certification program last August, we’ve learned through our partners like Dice, our advisors and members and Linux professionals the world over that IT pro’s equipped with Linux skills can bank on a lucrative career. Linux has become the entry point for anyone seeking a technology career because it dominates most of today’s IT infrastructure, from cloud computing to virtualization, web, embedded and much more.

We hope our Linux training scholarships and Linux Foundation Certifications can increase access to learning opportunities and provide ways for professionals to showcase their knowledge and stand apart from their peers.

Details on this year’s categories are below. With more spaces available this year for scholarships, don’t hesitate to apply. Get your application in by this Friday!Apply here.

Linux Newbies (NEW): Open to applicants who have completed LFS101x – Intro to Linux through edX: Individuals who are new to Linux but have learned the basics by completing the Intro to Linux online course are invited to apply. Recipients in this category will be awarded a scholarship specifically for the next course in this career-focused series – LFS201 – Essentials of System Administration.

Teens-in-Training (NEW): Students under the age of 18 who have already started using Linux and want to get a head start on a career in the field.
Whiz Kids: 2015 high school or college grads already familiar with Linux but who want to prepare for their career with extra training. Applicants must be 18 years or older.
Women in Linux: We invite women who have demonstrated leadership or want to take initiative in creating opportunity for themselves or other women in Linux to submit applications in this category.
SysAdmin Super Stars: These applicants should have already begun using Linux in their workplace but want to take their work to the next level with additional training.

Developer Do-Gooder: We invite developers who are using Linux for good to submit applications, so they might expand that good work while enhancing their Linux skills.

Linux Kernel Guru: This category will recognize an individual who has already contributed to the Linux kernel community and who has promise of becoming a Linux kernel developer or maintainer.

Linux on the Desktop is So Hot There’s Now a Fight Over It

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The Register

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July 8, 2015

Citrix has made good on its April promise to deliver virtual Linux desktops, today announcing it’s ready to roll out penguin-powered pretend PCs.

The company snuck the penguin-powered desktops into Feature Pack 2 for XenApp and XenDesktop 7.6. For now, Citrix says says you can choose from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 Workstation and Server, or SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop and Server 11 Service Pack 3, the two distros the company says its customers have asked for the most.

Canonical Closes Numerous PHP Vulnerabilities in Ubuntu 15.04

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Softpedia

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July 8, 2015

Canonical has published details in a security notice about some PHP vulnerabilities that were found and repaired in Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS OSes.

The Ubuntu maintainers have been quick to upgrade the PHP package in all the supported OSes in order to correct a large number of issues that were identified upstream.

According to the security notice, “It was discovered that the PHP Fileinfo component incorrectly handled certain files… (read more)

Debian to Switch Back to ffmpeg

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LWN

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July 8, 2015

After nearly a year of consideration, the Debian project has decided to switch back to the ffmpeg multimedia library at the expense of its fork libav. See this wiki pagefor a summary of the current reasoning behind the switch.

uReadIt 3 Is an Awesome Reddit Browser for Ubuntu Touch

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Softpedia

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July 8, 2015

uReadIt is as a native application for Ubuntu Touch for browsing Reddit. It’s one of the best of its kind, and it can easily compete with any other similar app from other platforms.

The uReadIt app is developed by Michael Hall, who also happens to be one of the community managers from Canonical. He’s been working on this app for quite some time, and he managed to get feature ready in a very short amount of time. This is the third major iteration of uReadIt, and it looks tha… (read more)

Understanding More Of The Shader Storage Buffer In Mesa

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Phoronix

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July 8, 2015

Iago Toral of consulting firm Igalia has been working on ARB_shader_storage_buffer object support in Mesa the past few months. This extension is needed for OpenGL 4.3 and is a buffer that allows for bidirectional communication between the CPU and GPU space and perform random access reads/writes and atomic operations on variables within the buffer objects…

How to Record from JACK with Ardour on Linux

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Falko Timme

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July 8, 2015

With all the madness that prevails the Linux audio engines and complex inter-related frameworks and subsystems, it is very easy to get lost and overwhelmed when you want to do something as simple as to record yourself playing an electric musical instrument. Recording from JACK is imperative in that case, as using a “mic to speaker” arrangement will introduce unwanted noise to the recording, no matter what.

Ubuntu Touch Should Get a New Major OTA Update Next Wednesday

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Softpedia

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July 8, 2015

A new Ubuntu Touch OTA update is on its way, and it looks like the developers are trying to wrap up the work for it and just focus on testing what’s already been implemented. If everything goes according to plan, we should have a new update next Wednesday.

Ubuntu Touch has been stable for a while now, and it has already received four major upgrades. Now a fifth one is on its way, and we already know that it’s going to bring some interesting improvements. One of those enhanc… (read more)

System Integration Market – Global Industry Analysis and Forecast 2015 – 2021

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Addie Thomes

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July 8, 2015

System integration (SI) enables to build computing systems for end users by combining hardware and software products from several vendors. By implementing systems integration, a company can acquire cheaper, pre-configured components of software. These small components of software help company to achieve key business goals. Otherwise the companies have to purchase customized, more expensive software; this may also require manufacturing of unique products or original programming. Creation of these information systems include designing and building a new customized applications or architecture, after building software components, they are integrated with the existing or new software and hardware packages and communication infrastructure. There are some system integrators such as SAP providing more specialized and specific applications.

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High investments in IT in last decade have created a huge demand for the system integration market. As the information technology developed the adoption and implementation of information technology system were high, this generated the distributed information system all over the industries and organization generating the demand for integration of the distributed systems. Thus high investment in distributed information technology system is the main driver for the system integration market. With this there are many emerging technologies supporting system integration market such as bid data and cloud. Cloud implementation and big data solutions implementation is the new trend in the information technology systems market. Thus companies are adopting the integration of their data with adoption of these technologies such as big data and cloud providing added advantages to the companies implementing it. Development in automation sector is driving system integration market, as adoption of system integration technologies is high in automation sector.

High implementation cost and time required for the effective implementation of system integration is resulting into less adoption of system integration technologies. With this there are very less number of international standard protocols for the communication between two or more information technology sub-systems resulting into complexities for the system integrators. If the industry previously is using legacy systems then it results into increased complexities for system integration. For system integration the network infrastructure must be standard, thus lack of network infrastructure is resulting into deferred demand for the system integration market.

System integration market is segmented on the basis of system integration service type, end-use industry and geography. On the basis of type the system integration market is broadly segmented into three major types namely infrastructure system integration services, application system integration services and business consulting services. Infrastructure system integration services are segmented into network management, data center management, building management, security and surveillance management, cloud based integration management and enterprise management. Application system integration services are segmented into data integration, unified communication, integrated social software, application integration and others. Further business consulting services are segmented into business process integration, business transformation and application lifecycle management.

System integration market is segmented on the basis of end-user industry into banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI), defense, healthcare, telecommunication and IT, oil gas and energy, transportation, retail and others (pharmaceuticals, public sector, education and automotive). And on the basis of geography system integration market can be segmented into North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and rest of the world (RoW).

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Some of the major players in system integration market are Accenture Plc., BAE Systems Plc., Capgemini S.A., Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), Fujitsu Limited, General Dynamics Corporation, Harris Corporation, IBM Corporation, Infosys Technologies, Lockheed Martin Corporation, Northrop Grumman Corporation, Raytheon Company, Leidos Corporation, Tata Consultancy Service Limited and Wipro Limited. With this global players system integration market in Asia Pacific is dominated by local players, such as there are many local players in China and India dominating and holding the maximum market shares.

This is the Tiny Computer the BBC is Giving to a Million Kids

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The Verge

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July 8, 2015

Earlier this year the BBC announced that it planned to give one million students across the UK a programmable microcomputer, called the BBC Micro Bit, to help them learn the basics of coding. Now four months later, the design of the device has been finalized, ahead of its scheduled rollout date in October. The Micro Bit features two buttons, an array of programmable LED lights, and an in-built motion sensor. Users can connect their microcomputer to bigger devices by Bluetooth or USB, or to the similarly tiny Raspberry Pi through it’s input-output rings.