A More Stable Future for Ubuntu

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May 8, 2015

Canonical has announced plans to switch all versions of Ubuntu to its new Snappy package manager. The new tool offers the promise of greater stability and security for the system and applications. more>>

Teclast X70 3G Is the First Tablet with Intel Atom x3, Sells for $50

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Softpedia

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May 8, 2015

This year, Intel introduced several new members to the Atom chip family, including the relatively powerful Atom x7 chip, the mid-range Atom x5, and the Atom x3 for low-cost smartphones, tablets and such.

While we have seen Atom x7 and Atom x5 juice up tablets like the Microsoft Surface 3 (which sells for $499 / €443), Atom x3 products have been absent from the market.

But not anymore, as one of the first 7-inch tablets taking advantage of the low-cost architecture has be… (read more)

Musl Libc Support Lands In Mainline GCC

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Phoronix

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May 8, 2015

Musl has long aimed at being a lightweight, simple, free, and correct libc library. However, hindering its adoption has been out-of-tree patches required against GCC for supporting the Musl C library. Fortunately, Musl support has now been merged into GCC…

Ubuntu MATE Is Becoming A Thriving Member Of The Ubuntu Family

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Phoronix

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May 8, 2015

Back when the GNOME 2 desktop was forked in 2011 as the MATE Desktop Environment, there were polarized views from the Linux community how this fork of GNOME2 could survive and what sort of future it would have. Four years later, MATE is still being maintained, there’s distributions shipping with MATE as the default desktop, and the project is managing to stay relevant…

Ubuntu Snappy To Work On Deduplication Support

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Phoronix

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May 8, 2015

While Snappy packaging on Ubuntu is only a few months old, it’s generating a lot of interest and will eventually replace .deb packages on Ubuntu. One of the interesting features to be worked on going forward for Snappy is deduplication support…

IT Professionals See Rise in Stress Levels

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eWeek

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May 8, 2015

Up considerably on last year was stress caused by the users that IT staff look after, jumping to 23 percent from 16 percent.

Red Hat Takes a Stand Against Container Fragmentation. With Standards

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ZDNet

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May 8, 2015

Red Hat is trying to prevent containers from fragmenting and killing the community surrounding this game-changing technology.

A Shell Script to Monitor Network, Disk Usage, Uptime, Load Average and RAM Usage in Linux

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Avishek Kumar

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May 8, 2015

The duty of System Administrator is really tough as he/she has to monitor the servers, users, logs, create backup and blah blah blah. For the most repetitive task most of the administrator write a script to automate their day-to-day repetitive task. Here we have written a shell Script that do not aims to automate the task of a typical system admin, but it may be helpful at places and specially for those newbies who can get most of the information they require about their System, Network, Users, Load, Ram, host, Internal IP, External IP, Uptime, etc.

A Shell Script to Monitor Network, Disk Usage, Uptime, Load Average and RAM Usage in Linux

Devstack install Openstack Kilo on Fedora 21 ( Rawhide repos )

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Boris Derzhavets

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May 8, 2015

Running stack.sh on Fedora 21 requires several updates via rawhide repo. I am not quite sure that systemd in meantime requires an upgrade via rawhide, however I did it just in case. Several services mentioned bellow have to be enabled to support reboots, firewalld has to be be disabled after after stack.sh completion, due to devstack is not packstack (RDO). F21 VM been used for devstack install had nested kvm enabled, 8 GB RAM and 3 VCPUS

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LibreOffice 4.4.3 Released, Available To Install/Upgrade In Ubuntu/Linux Mint

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Mohd Sohail

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May 8, 2015

LibreOffice 4.4 is the most beautiful and featured release ever by The Document Foundation and now The Document Foundation has released LibreOffice 4.4.3, a bug-fix release with 88 bug fixes over 4.4.2. This release makes LibreOffice even more stable. So let’s install or update LibreOffice 4.4.3 inUbuntu/Linux Mint or in other Ubuntu based distributions.

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A More Stable Future for Ubuntu

Teclast X70 3G Is the First Tablet with Intel Atom x3, Sells for $50

Musl Libc Support Lands In Mainline GCC

Ubuntu MATE Is Becoming A Thriving Member Of The Ubuntu Family

Ubuntu Snappy To Work On Deduplication Support

IT Professionals See Rise in Stress Levels

Red Hat Takes a Stand Against Container Fragmentation. With Standards

A Shell Script to Monitor Network, Disk Usage, Uptime, Load Average and RAM Usage in Linux

Devstack install Openstack Kilo on Fedora 21 ( Rawhide repos )

LibreOffice 4.4.3 Released, Available To Install/Upgrade In Ubuntu/Linux Mint

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