RDO OpenStack Simplifies Deployment and Stays Humble

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April 14, 2015

Back at the OpenStack Summit two years ago, Red Hat unveiled RDO, “a freely available, community-supported distribution of OpenStack that runs on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fedora and their derivatives.” The idea was that RDO would do for Red Hat OpenStack what Fedora does for Red Hat Enterprise Linux–helping to usher in new features driven by the community that could have a ripple effect.

Fast-forward to today, and RDO is steadily improving and getting some notice. Here are some notable citations about, and how you can investigate this interesting cloud project.

KDE Plasma 5.3 Beta Is Out and It’s One of the Biggest Updates Ever Made

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April 14, 2015

Plasma, the desktop for the KDE project, has just received a massive update and is now at version 5.3 Beta. It’s still under development, but users can already see the amount of work that has been done.

Plasma 5.x is the branch that provided a major upgrade to the famous desktop of the KDE project. It’s the most visible aspect of KDE, so people are definitely going to take notice when it’s being modified. This is the reason why changes to KDE Plasma are immediately visible … (read more)

Raspberry Pi Gains an E-paper Display

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April 14, 2015

A Kickstarter project is pitching a HAT add-on for the Raspberry Pi that provides a 2.7-inch E-paper display, as well as a battery backed real time clock. For educators, one of the coolest things about the Raspberry Pi is the HDMI port, which let you easily plug in to a monitor. But for embedded gizmos, […]

X.Org Might Possibly Try Voting Again For The SPI Merger

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Phoronix

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April 14, 2015

Last week upon conclusion of the X.Org Foundation elections it was revealed the planned X.Org + SPI merger failed. The failure to change the by-laws and become part of SPI failed not due to losing the vote, but in not securing enough votes to command the two-thirds majority of X.Org members needed to approve the change. X.Org members and the board are now pondering the next steps…

OCF Deploys Lenovo Arcus Cluster at University of Oxford

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insideHPC

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April 14, 2015

Today the University of Oxford unveiled its new Arcus Phase B cluster. Integrated by OCF in the UK, the 5000 core Lenovo cluster will support research across all four Divisions at the University; Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences; Medical Sciences; Social Sciences; and Humanities.

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NVIDIA Outs Quadro Graphics Driver 350.12 as Well – Download Now

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April 14, 2015

After rolling out GeForce 350.12 Game Ready Driver for GTA V, NVIDIA has now made available the same version of its Quadro graphics chipsets, which includes support for 5K Monitor, OpenCL 1.2, and more.

Besides the 9.18.13.5012 graphics and 1.3.33.0 HD Audio versions, the present release also adds compatibility with NVIDIA’s… (read more)

Samsung Z2 with Tizen OS and Quad-Core CPU Coming Soon

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April 14, 2015

Back in February, we told you that following the moderate success of the Samsung Z1, the first smartphone ever to arrive with Tizen OS on board, the Korean tech giant was rumored to be already working on a successor for the device.

Well, according to the folks over at Tizen Experts, the rumors are quite well… (read more)

The Real Reason Open Source Startups Fail

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April 14, 2015

The recent news around Nebula shutting its doors has stirred speculation that OpenStackstartups are struggling because of the state of the OpenStack market. There is even a piececlaiming that the OpenStack dream is on â€œlife support.â€

This couldnâ€™t be further from the truth. The reality is that winning in open source requires a playbook that is drastically different from one that most VCs investing in technology today are used to.

How to Monitor OpenVZ Limits with vzwatchd on Debian and Ubuntu

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April 14, 2015

Vzwatchd is an OpenVZ monitoring daemon that informs the server administrator by email when a limit of the container is reached. OpenVZ is a Linux Kernel virtualisation technology that is often used by Web Hosting services, it is the free core of the commercial virtuozzo virtualisation application. OpenVZ is a lightweight virtualisation which has less overhead then KVM or XEN, it is more like a Linux LXC jail but with advanced limit options to define how many ressources a virtual machine may use and it has support for filesystem quota.

Engine Yard Buys OpDemand, Maker of Deis, a PaaS Built on Containers

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April 14, 2015

The Docker market is indeed developing so fast that the distance between historical milestones is now measurable in hours. The latest such milestone also stands as an indicator of the twilight of the first era of PaaS, when language interpreters were deployed on public clouds as platforms.

Tuesday morning, Engine Yard — the proprietor of one of the first platforms-as-a-service to use a dynamic language, Ruby on Rails, as well as one of the first to adopt multiple languages at once — announced its acquisition of Boulder, Colorado-based OpDemand, whose Deis container deployment system for Docker had actually been inspired by Engine Yard’s later competitor, Heroku.

“The reason for choosing OpDemand was that they were so far out in front of the issues that we came across, as we started building our own infrastructure to support containerized applications,” stated John R. “Beau” Vrolyk, Engine Yard’s CEO, in an interview with The New Stack. “It became obvious that adding them to our team was really going to be a win for both companies.”