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Cavium, Canonical Demo OpenStack Running on ARM-Based Servers

At the OpenStack Summit, the companies show a cluster of servers powered by Cavium’s ThunderX SoCs running OpenStack, Ubuntu and various workloads.

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Stable Kernel Updates

New stable kernels 4.0.4, 3.14.43, and 3.10.79have been released. All of them contain important fixes throughout the tree.

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Critical Apps Missing From Linux

If users are going to migrate from Windows, these Linux apps need to step up.

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Ubuntu Linux Phone Now Available in China

VIDEO: Mark Shuttleworth announces the availability of Ubuntu Phone in China at the OpenStack Vancouver event.

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Russia Plans to Leave Apple, Android Behind by Building Its Own Smartphone Software

The Kremlin wants to use smartphone technology it can trust — by cracking open an alternative’s source code.

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Blue Box Cloud Brings OpenStack On-Premises

The company’s new offering provides packaged engineered hardware to enable an organization to deploy and manage an OpenStack cloud, taking on VCE’s vBlock.

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Brocade CMO: Where Marketing and IT Meet in the Truly Modern Enterprise

Christine Heckart knows about the intersection of marketing and IT: As a CMO and one-time CIO, she serves up lessons on cloud, marketing and customer data.

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Canonical to Modify Ubuntu Touch Release Channels

Canonical has been publishing Ubuntu Touch images and the developers used different channels to make their work known. That’s about to change as the Ubuntu devs prepare to make some modifications to the current system.

Until now, the Ubuntu Touch project was separated into various channels that served different purposes. You can tell which one is stable, which is just for testing, and everything in between. In fact, there is now a channel for the BQ phone and one for the ne… (read more)

BSD Release: PC-BSD 10.1.2

Ken Moore has announced the release of PC-BSD 10.1.2. The PC-BSD project offers users a desktop-oriented operating system based on FreeBSD. The project also provides a server edition, called TrueOS. The latest release of PC-BSD allows users to maintain their home directories on an encrypted external drive and….

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​Red Hat Unveils its Full-Stack Cloud Suite for Applications

From next month, early access starts to Red Hat’s Cloud Suite for Applications, built from its existing offerings to form what it calls a complete open-source cloud stack.

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