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Cloud Music Player Tomahawk Updated for Linux

Tomahawk is a music player capable of using both local and cloud libraries. A new update has been released for this application and it comes with a few interesting changes.

Most of the music in your library is probably already available in various cloud services like Grooveshark or Beets, so developers made an app that is capable of using most, if not all of the cloud music services, and thus Tomahawk was born.

“Support for Qt4 in git-master won’t be dropped unless there… (read more)

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DRM Graphics Updates Sent In For The Linux 4.1 Kernel

David Airlie has sent in the big pile of DRM subsystem updates for the Linux 4.1 kernel that includes significant work to the Radeon, Intel, and Nouveau drivers along with the DRM ARM drivers and the introduction of the new VGEM driver…

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VMware Starts Two Open Source Projects Focused on the Cloud

VMware has turned a significant corner, and is adopting open source in a big way. The company has announced two new open source projects focused on enterprise adoption of cloud-native applications — Project Lightwave, an identity and access management project for enterprise-scale and security to cloud-native applications; and Project Photon, a lightweight Linux operating system built for cloud-native applications.

These new open source projects are targete to integrate into VMware’s unified platform for the hybrid cloud — giving it options for providing private and public cloud to support cloud-native and traditional applications. “By open sourcing these projects, VMware will work with a broad ecosystem of partners and the developer community to drive common standards, security and interoperability within the cloud-native application market,” the company announced.

 

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Canonical Is Now Using Phased Updates for Ubuntu Touch

A fresh Ubuntu Touch update was made available just a few days ago, and it was received very well by the community, but Canonical also introduced a new feature called phased updates.

Now that Ubuntu phones are in the wild, Canonical is trying to make everything so that the experience of those users goes as smooth as possible. For example, … (read more)

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Android Wear Poised to Get Big Update: Gesture Control, Wi-Fi and More Added

Google’s wearable-friendly Android Wear OS is bound to get a new important update in the upcoming weeks. It’s high time Google revamped its platform, since the previous major update rolled out back in October.

So in case you are curious what new features are incoming, Google is providing us with a list of improvements we should expect t… (read more)

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More eBPF Improvements Heading To Linux 4.1

With the in-development Linux 4.1 kernel one of the new features is for eBPF programs to attach to Kprobes but now there’s more eBPF work headed for this next major kernel version…

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Kdenlive 15.04 Is a Great Free Multi-Track Video Editor for Linux

Kdenlive is one of the few free multi-track video editors for Linux that supports DV, AVCHD and HDV editing. The developers have reminded the community once more that a new major version has been released, 15.04.0, and that the project is now part of the KDE Applications suite.

The KDE project was recently split into KDE Applications, KDE Framework, and KDE Plasma, which means that the old KDE SC is no more. Users will still find KDE in the old formula in some of the distro… (read more)

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LLDB Is Getting Into Shape For Linux 64-bit Debugging

From Valve’s interest in the LLDB debugger to many other firms also being interested in LLVM’s debugger as an alternative to GDB on Linux, LLDB is getting into very usable shape for 64-bit Linux systems…

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Wine-Staging 1.7.41 Works On Improved Debugging Support

Following in the foot steps of Wine 1.7.41, Wine-Staging 1.7.41 has been released as the re-based version of this version of Wine with various testing/experimental patches…

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Midori 0.5.10 Browser Released

For users of the open-source Midori web-browser, a new release is available…

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