Greg Kroah-Hartman has just announced the immediate availability for download and upgrade of new maintenance releases for Linux kernel 3.19, 3.14, and 3.10, all of them bringing approximately the same improvements, bugfixes, and updated drivers.
While Linux kernels 3.14.36 and 3.10.72 are LTS (Long Term Support) releases, the latest stable version is now… (read more)
The Apache Software Foundation is putting together what looks like it will be one of the better open source events of the year: ApacheCon North America, to be held in Austin, Texas, April 13th – 16th. Austin is a fun place to visit, and the agenda for ApacheCon looks excellent. You can register by March 21st to take advantage of the earlybird pricing and here are more details on the event.
The Linux Foundation and The Apache Software Foundation are again joining forces to advance and support open source development by co-producing this year’s ApacheCon events in North America and Europe.
ApacheCon is meant to reinforce the Apache Software Foundation’s core tenet of ‘Community Over Code,’ with sessions that focus on open source projects, including Apache projects Cassandra, Cordova, CloudStack, CouchDB, Geronimo, Hadoop, Hive, HTTP Server, Lucene, OpenOffice, Struts, Subversion and Tomcat, among others. Overall, ApacheCon will feature 500+ Apache project community developers and users.
The convergence of OpenStack-based cloud computing and the telecom industry is continuing apace. We’ve reported on Red Hat’s partnership with Telefonica to drive Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) and telecommunications technology into OpenStack. And we’ve covered Canonical and Juniper Networks’ partnership to oversee co-development of a carrier-grade, OpenStack solution.
Now, Deutsche Telekom and Cisco are announcing a number of newly developed Intercloud-based services. However, these services won’t be focused on telco datacenters, but rather on small- and medium-sized businesses and enterprise customers.
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Clement Lefebvre has announced the availability of a release candidate for the upcoming launch of Linux Mint Debian Edition, version 2. The release candidate is available in two flavours, Cinnamon and MATE, and is offered for 32-bit and 64-bit x86 machines. The release notes have further information on…
A while ago, Google finally rolled out the second-generation Chromebook Pixel we had all been eagerly waiting for.
The notebook is the second to take advantage of the new USB Type-C standard (the first was the new MacBook with Retina Display), so it’s a pretty interesting affair overall. The new Pixel is powered by a 2.2GHz Intel Core i5 processor from the Broadwell family and will cost you a hefty $999 / €941.
But what if you want a Chromebook with an Intel Core i5 Broa… (read more)
