Systemd Adds Reboot To EFI Firmware Option

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Phoronix

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April 8, 2015

Systemd has picked up another feature for the upcoming systemd 220 release…

Unity 7 Improvements Backported from Ubuntu 15.04 to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

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Softpedia

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April 8, 2015

Every once in a while Ubuntu developers made improvements to the Unity desktop environment, but that usually happens for new Ubuntu releases, like 15.04 for example. That doesn’t stop them from porting those improvements to older releases, such as Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.

The next-generation Unity 8 desktop environment is still under construction and it will be a while until it is ready for deployment on PCs, which means that Canonical needs to make the best of the current Unity 7… (read more)

A Case to Keep Android and Chrome OS Separate

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ZDNet

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April 8, 2015

The long-running speculation that Google will eventually merge Chrome OS and Android surfaces from time to time. James Kendrick hopes the firm will keep converging them, while leaving them separate at the core.

Internet of Things Devices Lack Fundamental Security, Study Finds

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ZDNet

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April 8, 2015

What do you find when you test the security of today’s IoT devices? Vulnerabilities which could allow for robbery, theft or even stalking.

There’s Yet Another Awkward Ubuntu Linux Tablet Announced

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Phoronix

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April 8, 2015

In recent months we’ve covered an Ubuntu tablet with a 1TB hard drive, another sketchy Ubuntu tablet, and other awkward devices looking to ship Ubuntu in tablet/mobile form without any support from Canonical. There’s yet another tablet to talk about today…

Jolla Communicator for Ubuntu Helps Users Control Their Jolla Smartphones

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Softpedia

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April 8, 2015

The Jolla community has put together an application called Jolla Communicator that allows users to send and receive messages on Ubuntu, which connected to a Sailfish OS-powered smartphone.

Jolla is doing the same thing that Canonical is trying, and that is to penetrate the mobile market dominated by Google, Apple, and Microsoft (just a little bit). It’s difficult work, and both companies are just making their mark, but it’s happening. They both use the Linux kernel (for the… (read more)

Looking At Building The Linux Kernel With -O3 Optimizations

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Phoronix

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April 8, 2015

A Linux user has started an LKML discussion over compiling the kernel with -O3 for driving performance improvements out of a more-optimized kernel binary…

Celebrating Two Years of Blue Waters Supercomputing at NCSA

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insideHPC

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April 8, 2015

This week NCSA celebrated two years of Blue Waters supercomputing in an event convened by U.S. Senator Mark Kirk. The powerful Cray supercomputer is used by scientists and engineers across the country to tackle challenging research for the benefit of science and society.

The post Celebrating Two Years of Blue Waters Supercomputing at NCSA appeared first on insideHPC.

Using Putty to Remotely Open GUI Applications

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Falko Timme

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April 8, 2015

Remote connections can be established with system over a network through SSH (secure shell) easily, we can login, perform actions or send commands to another system remotely trough this conection on the commandline. But what we cannot do is launch a GUI application for viewing content present in the remote node. This is the disadvantage of using ssh in a terminal. But this disadvantage can be easily solved by making use of “putty”, a remote login application which can not only be used to login to a remote node, but also launch GUI applications. Examples of GUI applications are Browser, text viewers, etc.

[$] An Update on the Freedreno Graphics Driver

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LWN

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April 8, 2015

The freedreno project was started by Rob Clark to create a free-software driver for the Adreno family of GPUs, which are used by the Qualcomm Snapdragon system-on-chip (SoC) family. He presented a status report on the project, along with some history and future plans, at the Embedded Linux Conference, which was held in San Jose, CA, March 23-25.

Click below (subscribers only) for the full report from ELC 2015.