Lolcat – A Command Line Tool to Output Rainbow Of Colors in Linux Terminal

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June 15, 2015

Lolcat is an utility for Linux, BSD and OSX which concatenates like similar to cat command and adds rainbow coloring to it. Lolcat is primarily used for rainbow coloring of text in Linux Terminal.

How to built a fully encrypted file server with ZFS and Linux to avoid data loss and corruption

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Hendrik Schuster

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June 15, 2015

Do you know if all the Data on your File Server is OK?

Unless you are already using ZFS, Btrfs or ReFS you don’t. If your file server is a couple of years old, there is a very good chance that your Data is NOT OK.

Your server hardware might tell you everything is OK but that does not really tell you much because none of your monitoring systems check the actual data.

ZFS on the other had knows if your data is ok and can even repair it. I upgraded my file server recently. All the old disks that were still in the pool at the time were OK according to their SMART values. yet look what the monthly check told me:

Just think about that: In just one month almost 2MB of data got corrupted. And right now you don’t know if your server has similar issues. If you did not know it yet this particular issue has a name: Bit Rot and it gets worse the older your current hardware is and more likely the larger your disks are.

If you want to avoid loosing your data this way you should think about building a ZFS based file server.

Linus Torvalds Asks Kernel Devs to Take a Break So He Can Too

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The Register

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June 15, 2015

Linux 4.1 delayed by driver dramas and Linus’ holiday

In May, Linux overlord Linus Torvalds warned that his holiday might delay the release of Linux 4.1.…

Linux Kernel 3.18.16 LTS Arrives with Tons of x86 and ARM Improvements

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Softpedia

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June 15, 2015

After releasing a buggy Linux kernel 3.18.15 LTS version, Sasha Levin announced on June 15 the immediate availability for download of Linux kernel 3.18.16 LTS (Long Term Support).

Linux kernel 3.18.16 LTS is a huge release and the changelog is overwhelming, but few of you know that it has been released a few hours after version 3.18.15, in order to fix a … (read more)

DFKI and Univention develop secure technology for third-party applications in Univention Corporate S

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Maren Abatielos

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June 15, 2015

As the use of and dependency on IT solutions grows, IT infrastructure security is becoming central to business survival. Industrial espionage and temporary production outages are just two possible consequences of poorly secured IT solutions. That is why research staff in the Cyber-Physical Systems department at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) and developers at the Bremen software provider Univention are creating a security infrastructure based on virtualisation techniques, as part of the “Safer Apps” project. The aim is to enable companies safely to install and run applications from third-party vendors in an existing IT infrastructure and in the cloud, without this posing risks or problems for that IT environment.

The project team wants to create a prototype of such a security model in the Linux Enterprise distribution Univention Corporate Server (UCS) – a model that will allow the “safe” operation of third-party applications from the Univention App Center on UCS as the operating system platform.

Further information on Univention’s and DFKI’s website.

Cinnamon 2.6.8 Released for Linux Mint 17.2 (Rafaela) with Important Fixes

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June 15, 2015

Clement Lefebvre published earlier today, June 14, details about the eight maintenance version of the stable Cinnamon 2.6 open-source desktop environment for the upcoming Linux Mint 17.2 (Rafaela) operating system.

According to the release notes, which have been attached at the end of the article for reference, Cinnamon 2.6.8 is an important release that fixes many issues reported by users since the previous version of the acclaimed desktop environment. As expected, all use… (read more)

Cinnamon 2.6 Released : Here’s What’s New

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linux scoop

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June 14, 2015

Cinnamon 2.6

Cinnamon 2.6, the latest version of cinnamon desktop environment has been released and announced few week ago by linux Mint Developer (Clement Lefebvre) via Linux Mint Segfault blog and it will become as main desktop for upcomming Linux mint 17.2 rafaela will be released end of June, 2015.

The biggest changes of the release has to be the optimisations made to the system to increase boot times for some users and that reduce the CPU usage by up to a staggering 40%. If you get cinnamon desktop freezes, just press the combination key Ctrl+Alt+Escape to restart cinnamon desktop without lose any work and all your windows and applications remain open.

More details you can read at Cinnamon 2.6 Released : Here’s What’s New

Linux Humor on the Command-line

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Steve Emms

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June 14, 2015

The desktop is full of eye candy. It enhances the visual experience and, in some cases, can also increase functionality of software. But it also makes software fun. Working on the command-line does not have to be always serious. If you want some fun on the command-line, there are lots of commands to raise a smile.

20 Things To Do After Installing Elementary OS Freya

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linux scoop

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June 14, 2015

Here is a guide for things to do after installing Elementary OS Freya to get a more polished desktop.

01 – Update your system

sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade sudo apt-get dist upgrade02 – Install additional drivers

Software & Updates – Additional Drivers

03 – Install Multimedia Codecs and Enable DVD Playback

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:mc3man/trusty-media sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras ffmpeg gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly libavcodec-extra-54 libvdpau-va-gl1 libmad0 mpg321 gstreamer1.0-libav

Enable DVD Playback

sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh

More details read at 20 Things To Do After Installing Elementary OS Freya

Embedded Linux Conference Europe Issues Call for Papers

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LinuxGizmos

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June 13, 2015

The Linux Foundation has issued a call for papers for Embedded Linux Conference Europe, which this year joins LinuxCon + CloudOpen in Dublin from Oct. 5-7. Like last year, the Linux Foundation’s LinuxCon Europe show is being co-located with CloudOpen Europe and Embedded Linux Conference Europe, with a single registration. This year the show moves […]