At the NFV World Congress, ARM is teaming with Enea, Applied Micro and Netzyn to show off platforms for OPNFV and virtual set-top boxes.
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This Week in Linux News: Why Linux Succeeded, Docker Competition Heats Up, and More
This week in Linux news, Christopher Tozzi reviews the history of Linux to discover its advantage over other projects, a Docker competitor from CoreOS is adopted by major cloud providers, and more. Read on for this week’s top Linux stories.
1) Why did Linux succeed while other similar projects did not? An historical investigation of Linux.
Open Source History: Why Did Linux Succeed? – The VAR Guy
2) The AppC container standard – and Docker competitor – from CoreOS is adopted by Google, Red Hat, VMware, and Apcera.
CoreOS gains on Docker, with support from Google, Red Hat, VMware – InfoWorld
3) A slideshow of Linux security strides over the years.
8 Linux Security Improvements In 8 Years – InformationWeek
4) An overview of Mumblehard malware and how to fend it off.
Mumblehard Malware Mugs Linux Servers – LinuxInsider
5) Red Hat adds new features to RHEL6.x.
How AT&T is Using OpenDaylight
Yesterday at an event in San Jose Margaret Chiosi, distinguished network architect at AT&T Labs, shared what they’re doing with SDN and NFV on the path to Domain 2.0.
Craig Matsumoto of SDxCentral writes, “AT&T has been developing its own global controller, using OpenDaylight as its framework. And in doing so, the carrier has decided to extend its controller’s reach to Layers 4-7, going beyond the usual concept of an SDN controller that spans Layers 0-3. AT&T is even going to back to application-layer vendors and asking them to put adapters into OpenDaylight, Chiosi said.”
AT&T has also adopted a ‘code first, tweak later’ strategy which helps them iterate faster. Read the full article at SDxCentral.
Read more at OpenDaylight Blog
Grooveshark to Be Removed from Ubuntu Touch
The Ubuntu Touch platform has a music scope and one of the music sources for that service was Grooveshark, but the service has been shut down. Now Ubuntu developers need to make some adjustments to Ubuntu Touch.
Many users were surprised to see that Grooveshark is going away, but the fact that it was included by default in Ubuntu Touch also complicates facts. It won’t be difficult to remove it from Ubuntu Touch, and that will be done with the next update.
“Grooveshark ha… (read more)
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Cinnamon 2.6 and MATE 1.10 to Land in Linux Mint Soon
The Linux Mint project is constantly working to improve the operating systems they are developing, along with the Cinnamon desktop environment. A new major update for Cinnamon is expected to land pretty soon, and it will come with lots of new features and changes.
The leader of the Linux Mint team, Clement Lefebvre, has just published a short newsletter for the month of April and he revealed some very exciting news, including the launch of the Cinnamon 2.6, the next major u… (read more)
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Managing an Open Source Project Comes Down to Three Things
My favorite part about our open source project, PencilBlue, is that I get to interact with people from all over the world. When we first started, there were just two of us, but as the months progressed we saw our contributors begin to grow. It got me thinking about what it takes to be a good maintainer and how my team will make sure the project continues to run smoothly for years to come.How many people across the world contribute to open source software?
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Canonical Showing Off Ubuntu-Powered Tablet Running PC-like Desktop
Making a mobile device act like a PC might seem like a thing of the future, but it’s not. Ubuntu developers just showed how connecting a mouse to a tablet transforms the Ubuntu Touch into a desktop experience.
Some of the Ubuntu users will remember that developers showed a few months back that it was possible to have windows on the phone, just like you would have on a regular PC. Even of that feature might seem a little bit redundant on a mobile phone, it makes perfect sens… (read more)
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