Lucid Sleep Support Is Being Worked On For The Upstream Linux Kernel

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May 1, 2015

Chrome OS supports “Lucid Sleep”, which is a mode of allowing the system to carry out various tasks while the system is in a low-power mode or even suspended, and similar to Microsoft InstantGo. This feature, which allows for tasks like checking of new emails or instant messages while the system is suspended, is being worked on for (hopeful) eventual upstreaming into the mainline Linux kernel…

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Improvements On The Way For GNOME’s Nautilus File Manager

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May 1, 2015

GNOME 3.18 is shaping up to be another super exciting GNOME 3 update. Aside from GTK+ improvements, better Wayland support, and various other additions being worked on for GNOME 3.18, there’s also significant improvements planned for the Nautilus file manager…

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Wine 1.7.42 Implements More Of Direct2D

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May 1, 2015

Wine 1.7.42 was released this morning as the latest bi-weekly Wine development release…

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Fedora 22 Beta Now Available For AArch64 & POWER

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May 1, 2015

Last week Fedora 22 beta was released for the primary architectures while out now are the spins for the alternative architectures: 64-bit ARM (AArch64) and POWER…

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Using ARM Chips and Linux, Barcelona Center Dreams of Being ‘Airbus of Supercomputing’

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May 1, 2015

A chapel in the heart of Barcelona Univesity is home to one of Europe’s most powerful supercomputers – and a mobile chip-based successor is under development.

Inside the Guts of Nano Server, Microsoft’s Tiny New Cloud OS

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May 1, 2015

This is definitely not your father’s Windows Server

Build 2015 Engineers from Microsoft’s Windows Server team took the stage at the Build developer conference in San Francisco this week to share more details on Nano Server, the upcoming micro-sized version of the OS aimed at cloud deployments.â€¦

Distribution Release: Robolinux 7.9.1

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May 1, 2015

John Martinson has announced the release of Robolinux 7.9.1, the new stable version of the project’s Debian-based distribution which comes with an optional virtual machine pack capable of running Windows and Windows applications: “The new Robolinux 7.9.1 release, ‘Apex X12 Privacy & Security!’, which has two more privacy….

Set up Nova-Docker Driver on OpenStack RDO Kilo (RC2) on CentOS 7.1

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May 1, 2015

Posting bellow is targeting testing official version of Nova-Doker Driver for Openstack Kilo with development version RDO Kilo ( supposed GA day is 05/07/2015). RDO Kilo installed via `packstack –allinone` on virtual CentOS 7.1 machine running at Fedora 21 KVM Hypervisor. The only one package python-pip was rebuilt via Fedora Rawhide Repos and re installed on CentOS 7.1 to satisfy requirements for successful build of Nova-Docker driver. Native version of docker-io is 1.5 and supports driver build as is. Regarding details of pulling in docker images and uploading to glance, please, view Setup Nova-Docker driver && Openstack Kilo on Ubuntu 14.04 in devstack environment recoverable between reboots

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GNOME Shell 3.17.1 Makes it Easy to Move to a Different Monitor

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May 1, 2015

The GNOME Project is preparing to release the first milestone towards the GNOME 3.18 desktop environment, which will see the light of day on October 23, 2015.

Several core components and applications have been updated these days in preparation for the GNOME 3.17.1 release of the acclaimed desktop environment, including the GNOME Shell user interface.

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Five Essentials to Keep Web APIs from Running Amok

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May 1, 2015

APIs are proliferating across enterprises like wild weeds — time to get a handle on how APIs are designed, distributed and renewed