Queue Spinlocks Coming For Linux 4.2 Kernel

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June 22, 2015

Waiman Long of HP has been spearheading qspinlocks now for the past several months and with Linux 4.2 the queue spinlocks support will be merged…

Entroware’s Apollo Is a Superb White Laptop Powered by Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE

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Softpedia

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June 22, 2015

Entroware has recently forged a partnership with the Ubuntu MATE project to help them ship laptops powered by this operating system and the laptop called Apollo that will definitely turn some heads.

Entroware has already presented a new Linux mini-PC powered by Ubuntu 15.04 and Ubuntu MATE 15.04 read more)

Mageia 5 Released

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LWN

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June 22, 2015

The Mageia 5 release is now available. The headline feature in this long-awaited distribution release appears to be UEFI BIOS support, but there’s more; see the release notesfor details.

Qt 5.5 Release Candidate Finally Appears

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Phoronix

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June 22, 2015

The release candidate to Qt 5.5 is now available with The Qt Company hoping to officially ship this tool-kit update soon…

Raspberry Pi Default Firmware Updates To Using Linux 4.0

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Phoronix

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June 22, 2015

For Raspberry Pi users out there, the default firmware branch has changed to using the

Red Hat Names Calderoni CFO

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ZDNet

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June 22, 2015

The Cisco veteran takes over as chief financial officer for Red Hat and succeeds Charlie Peters July 13.

Read more at ZDNet News

The 4.1 Kernel is Out

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LWN

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June 22, 2015

Linus has released the 4.1 kernel. “It’s not like the 4.1 release cycle was particularly painful, and let’s hope that the extra week of letting it sit makes for a great release. Which wouldn’t be a bad thing, considering that 4.1 will also be a LTS release.” Headline features in this release include support for encrypted ext4 filesystems, the persistent memory block driver, ACPI support for the ARM64 architecture, and more.

How to Edit Movie Subtitles on the Linux Desktop

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Falko Timme

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June 22, 2015

Here’s is a quick guide on how to load and edit subtitles on GNOME Subtitles and Subtitle Editor. The movie that I will be using for this tutorial is a documentary called “The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard” released in 2013 under a Creative Commons (CC) license.

Cloud-Based Development Gains in Popularity

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eWeek

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June 22, 2015

The study estimated 4.9 million developers worldwide are currently using the cloud, while 4.1 million have the expectation of using it in six months.

A Different VMware: An API-Driven Hypervisor and a Docker Oriented vSphere

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The Linux Foundation

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June 22, 2015

Continuing its quest to make the developer a first-class user of the data center, VMware’s Cloud-Native Applications team is introducing today at DockerCon two new technology previews — VMware AppCatalyst and Project Bonneville.

“We’ve been spending a lot of time looking at how developers actually build these cloud-native applications and looking for ways we can reduce the friction between developer workflows and IT data center workflows,” said Jared Rosoff, VMware’s senior director of product management and architecture.