A Security Study of Docker Images

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May 28, 2015

The folks at Banyan have looked into the security state of the images stored on Docker Hub and published their results. “More than a third of all images have high priority vulnerabilities and close to two-thirds have high or medium priority vulnerabilities. These statistics are especially troublesome because these images are also some of the most downloaded images (several of them have hundreds of thousands of downloads).“

Running Linux On The Intel Compute Stick

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Phoronix

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May 28, 2015

The Intel Compute Stick has begun shipping, a tiny device that plugs into any HDMI TV or monitor and turns it into a fully-functioning computer. This low-power PC ships with Windows 8.1 or Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, though at the moment the Windows version is first to market with the Ubuntu Compute Stick not widely shipping until June. I have an Intel Compute Stick at Phoronix for testing…

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4 Ways to Polish Your IT Resume

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The Linux Foundation

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May 28, 2015

Your resume is your argument for employment. Make sure it’s in good shape.

Read more at TechRepublic Employment

AMD Launches The A10-7870K “Godavari” APU

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Phoronix

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May 28, 2015

To no surprise, this morning AMD officially announced the AMD A10-7870K “Godavari” as the new high-end APU…

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Emerging Markets Drive Smartphone Sales, with Samsung in Lead

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eWeek

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May 28, 2015

The fastest growing regions were emerging Asia/Pacific, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East and North Africa, according to the Gartner report.

Linux 4.1 Kernel Benchmarks With An Intel Core i7 IVB System

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Phoronix

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May 28, 2015

Yesterday I ran some fresh tests of Intel Ivy Bridge on the latest Mesa Git code to see if the performance has changed much recently for the slightly-older generation of Intel HD Graphics. Today I’ve done some similar tests in kernel-space with the Linux 4.1 kernel…

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Dell Is Telling Customers to Try a New OS, Ubuntu

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Softpedia

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May 28, 2015

Dell has been moving a lot of interesting moves lately and it’s focusing on the Linux side of the business, which can only be a good thing for the open source platform.

Dell is one of the big companies that sell PCs and laptops with Ubuntu preinstalled. This also means that it’s one of the ways which made Ubuntu famous around the world. Now, Dell has spotted that the interest of the Linux users has been growing lately and they have made a number of interesting announcement … (read more)

Debian 8.1 Jessie Is Being Released Next Weekend

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Phoronix

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May 28, 2015

Debian 8.1 is planned for release on next Saturday…

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Aura from Entroware Is a Mini-PC Beast That Ships with Ubuntu MATE 15.04

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Softpedia

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May 28, 2015

Aura from Entroware is new mini-PC powered by some very powerful hardware and shipping with either Ubuntu 15.04 or Ubuntu MATE 15.04.

The new PCs from Entroware were revealed a while ago, and now we get to take a closer look at some of the customization options. Unlike other companies that sell this kind of hardware, users can customize it a great deal and choose from a large number of components, like the CPU, the HDD, and RAM. It has a very small form factor, and it even … (read more)

How to Handle ISO Files on Linux with Mount, AcetoneISO and Furious

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Falko Timme

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May 28, 2015

ISO files are basically archive files that represent the contents written in every sector of an optical disk. This way you can have a CD or DVD image handy any time in your hard drive and use it accordingly (either mount it to access the data, or burn it on an actual physical disk). Linux users are very font of ISO files as this is the most common format that Linux distributions come in.