Install UFW Firewall In Linux And Secure Computer From Harmful Incoming/Outgoing Connections

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March 25, 2015

UFW stands for Uncomplicated Firewall is a firewall to secure Linux desktop from harmful incoming and outgoing connections. UFW is the easiest firewall in Linux, it has a graphical user interface GUFW with all the features of setting up rules. In this tutorial we will install UFW & GUFW in our Ubuntu/Linux Mint/Debian operating system.

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The Companies That Support Linux: Treasure Data

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Libby Clark

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March 24, 2015

Eduardo Silva The explosive growth of data from Internet-connected devices has led to massive demand for storage and analysis tools in computing. Treasure Data aims to serve both of these needs in one place with its big data cloud service based on Linux.

“Treasure Data monitors and supports its cloud service for customers who collect, store and analyze tens of billions of records a day,” said Eduardo Silva, an open source developer at Treasure Data, who is focused on Fluentd and related open source projects. “Linux is one of our keys to success.”

Here, Silva discusses how Treasure Data uses Linux, the role of Linux and open source in data storage and analytics innovation, and why the company this week joined the Linux Foundation as a new corporate member along with Cirrus Logic and Xilinx.

Linux.com: What does Treasure Data do?

Eduardo Silva: Treasure Data offers analytics infrastructure as a service to help business and technical leaders collect, store and analyze their data when they need it, where they need it. Treasure Data’s managed service makes it easy to collect data from various data sources such as web, mobile, and IoT/sensor data and store them in one place with a unified interface to analyze them.

Treasure Data monitors and supports its cloud service for customers who collect, store and analyze tens of billions of records a day, enabling new applications and granular insights into customers, products and operations. More than 800 users from corporate customers including Pioneer, Yahoo! JAPAN, Pebble, Equifax, Wish.com, MobFox, GREE and other Global Fortune 500 companies access the Treasure Data Service.

How and why do you use Linux?

Silva: From a business point of view, Linux is our primary environment for data collection and big data analysis where we import an average of 500,000 new records per second.

We provide a reliable service and performance is very critical for all markets where our customers are coming from, this includes gaming, IoT, automotive and mobile, among others. Without Linux our position and scenario would be very different. Indeed, Linux is one of our keys to success.

I cannot fail to mention that a large amount of our team comes from the open source world where we have been involved in several projects. The nature of Treasure Data is about contributing and openness. Our more relevant contributions to the ecosystem are: Fluentd, Msgpack and Embulk.

Why did you join the Linux Foundation?

Silva: It was a natural pick and the best decision ever. Besides the fact that the services we provide are built on top of Linux, we share the same motivation to invest in the markets that the Linux Foundation is pushing forward, specifically in embedded (IoT), mobile and automotive. Having a close and strong relationship with the Linux Foundation not only helps our customers, but also the ecosystem and other members with whom we aim to share our experience and open technology.

What interesting or innovative trends in your industry are you witnessing and what role does Linux play in them?

Silva: The growth of data is increasing in unexpected ways, this comes hand-in-hand with the mobile market’s success in recent years. Without a reliable operating system for servers such as Linux, it would be almost impossible to collect, store and analyze data successfully as we are doing now.

How is your company participating in that innovation?

Silva: We participate by creating and sharing open source technology to solve the end-to-end data collection needs and minimize the data loss risk. As mentioned earlier, the projects Fluentd, Msgpack and Embulk are the core of our business and key components of our big data cloud service to process millions of collected events every day. We innovate by building and sharing.

What other future technologies or industries do you think Linux and open source will increasingly become important in and why?

Silva: Definitely the automotive and IoT industries are becoming a big player where Linux and open source technologies are helping to develop and make adoption easier. From our side, we want to make sure that data collection is done right, so we are expanding our business scope to these industries and generating technology to address their needs.

Eduardo Silva is an open source developer at Treasure Data, focusing on Fluentd and related projects. He is the founder of the Monkey HTTP Server Project and Duda I/O, high-performance open-source web framework for Linux. He likes to make software more efficient.

Is your company interested in Linux Foundation membership? See the Corporate Membership page for more information.

Two Microconferences Accepted for the Linux Plumbers Conference

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LWN

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March 24, 2015

The 2015 Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC) has announced that two microconferences have been accepted for the event, which will be held August 19-21 in Seattle. The Checkpoint/Restart and Energy-aware scheduling and CPU power management microconferences will be held at LPC. Registration for the conference will open on March 27 and it will be co-located with LinuxCon North America, which will be held August 17-19.

11 Activities for KDE Plasma

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Datamation

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March 24, 2015

The best way to explain the value of KDE Activities is to show how to construct some.

Red Hat Is Rolling Out A VirtIO DRM/KMS GPU Driver

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Phoronix

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March 24, 2015

Red Hat has published a new KMS driver for the VirtIO GPU used within their Linux virtualization stack…

Building a Full Linux Image For Intel Galileo

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The Linux Foundation

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March 24, 2015

I recently worked on a small electronics project for our office. The project would require the use of OpenCV’s python module on an Intel Galileo. However, as I quickly found out full support for OpenCV was not available on Intel Galileo’s default Linux image. The solution was to build a clanton-full Linux image (the shipped version is a stripped down clanton-tiny) with OpenCV support included. However, I also quickly found out that creating the full build required a little more attention than pressing the “full build please” button. With that in mind I’ve put together a list of the steps I took to create the clanton-full image.

Introducing The Library Operating System For Linux

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Phoronix

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March 24, 2015

Announced today on the Linux kernel mailing list was the Library Operating System (LibOS) for Linux…

Meet Cyanogen, The Startup That Wants To Steal Android From Google

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Forbes

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March 24, 2015

It’s a little hard to take Kirt McMaster seriously at first. He tends to run on his own schedule, and when he shows up 20 minutes late for a meeting on a recent weekday, there’s not so much as a mention of his tardiness, let alone an apology. In black jeans, a black hoodie that looks a half-size too small, brown Birkenstock sandals and a pair of fat black rings–one on his left thumb, one on his right pinkie–the 46-year-old looks more like a techno beach bum than an entrepreneur. He works out of a squat, gray, converted plumbing-supply store in Palo Alto, Calif. that doesn’t call attention to the fact that his startup, Cyanogen, is housed inside. The period sign on the façade says “John F. Dahl Plumbing and Heating (since 1895).” The wardrobe and the location are disguises, necessary when one is hatching one of the most daring plots in Silicon Valley history. But McMaster happily blows his cover minutes into our conversation, summing up his mission–preposterous as it sounds–in his booming baritone: “We’re putting a bullet through Google’s head.”

The time is ripe for someone to try. The mobile revolution kicked into gear by the iPhone is getting stagnant just as it’s reaching a new inflection point. The number of smartphones on the planet is expected to grow from about 2.5 billion to nearly 6 billion by 2020. Prices for fast and feature-rich mobiles are crashing, allowing new powerhouses like Xiaomi to emerge in record time. Yet Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android control 96% of the mobile operating system market. It’s their chess game, and we all get to choose between white and black. McMaster doesn’t so much want to insert himself between Apple and Google as to kick their chessboard over and deliver to the world a third option, Cyanogen, a six-year-old mobile operating system that’s essentially a souped-up version of Android and available outside of Google’s control.

insideHPC Guide to Open Computing

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insideHPC

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March 24, 2015

The Open Compute Project, initiated by Facebook as a way to increase computing power while lowering associated costs with hyper-scale computing, has gained a significant industry following. This guide to Open Computing is design to help organizations optimize their HPC environment to achieve higher performance at a lower operating cost.

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18-GPU NVIDIA/AMD Linux Comparison Of BioShock: Infinite

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Phoronix

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March 24, 2015

Last week BioShock: Infinite was finally released for Steam on Linux. Following the premiere of that game for Linux, posted were the AMD Catalyst Linux results for this game followed by a preview of the AMD vs. NVIDIA graphics card results. For those curious about the performance of this game for a broader graphics card selection, here’s the BioShock: Infinite results from eighteen different graphics cards while running this new Linux game.