Upcoming Features of GNOME 3.16

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February 12, 2015

We can bet that many of you are eagerly awaiting for the forthcoming GNOME 3.16 open-source graphical desktop environment, which is used with great success on numerous Linux kernel-based operating systems, including Fedora, openSUSE, and Ubuntu GNOME.

Currently, GNOME 3.16 is in heavy development (see below for details) and the features to be implemented are still discussed by its developers. However, we’ve managed to compile a list of upcoming features of GNOME 3.16 and decided to share it … (read more)

TPM 2.0 Support Sent In For The Linux 3.20 Kernel

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Phoronix

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February 12, 2015

Trusted Platform Module 2.0 (TPM 2.0) is to be supported by the Linux 3.20 kernel…

Dell is Launching a New Chromebook 11 Alongside a $299 Windows-Based Counterpart

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The Verge

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February 12, 2015

Dell’s education-focused Chromebook 11 was surprisingly one of the best Chromebooks we’ve ever used, even though it was notoriously difficult to actually purchase for much of last year. Now, Dell is taking what it learned from last year’s launch and releasing a new, upgraded Chromebook 11 that feels just as solid as last year’s model at first glance. The first Chromebook Dell produced was a well-built, well-rounded machine with no glaring defects â€” and it appears the new model offers the same solid combo.

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CoreOS and the App Container Spec

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ServerWatch

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February 12, 2015

The open-source Docker application virtualization container project has become a defacto standard for applications containers over the course of the last year. But it’s a defacto standard that isn’t a real specification and is one that is being challenged by Linux distribution vendor CoreOS.

CoreOS is developing its own Docker replacement, both in terms of technology with Rocket and in terms of an actual specification for defining what an application container is all about. The App Container Specification (appc) is currently in development and has some important differences in contrast to Docker.

Linux Kernel 3.18.7 Officially Released, Fixes Maximum Transfer Length for 4K Disks

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Softpedia

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February 12, 2015

Linux Kernel 3.18 is still used in numerous distributions of GNU/Linux, despite that fact that Linus Torvalds announced the final release of Linux 3.19 kernel on February 8, 2015, so it is time to update it to version 3.18.7, which was announced by Greg Kroah-Hartman a few hours ago, on February 11.

According to the changelog, Linux Kernel 3.18.7 is a quite small maintenance release of the stable 3.18 branch of the Linux kernel. It brings several fixes for the x86, ARM, and MIPS CPU architec… (read more)

The Intel Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 3.20

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Phoronix

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February 12, 2015

As usual, the next version of the Linux kernel will bring a number of prominent changes to Intel’s open-source DRM graphics driver…

Upcoming Features of Fedora 22

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Softpedia

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February 12, 2015

While Fedora 21 has been officially released on December 9, 2014, and users worldwide still enjoy the powerful operating system on their desktop or server computers, the time has come to look at the future and see what the forthcoming Fedora 22 release has prepared for its dedicated users.

We all know that the default desktop environment of Fedora Linux is GNOME, despite the fact that numerous official spins exist with KDE, Xfce, LXDE, and other desktops, so probably the most important featu… (read more)

Lustre Metadata Performance and Solutions from Seagate

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insideHPC

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February 12, 2015

“Alongside the increasingly high demands of streaming bandwidth in HPC storage solutions, there is a growing need for higher levels of metadata performance for various applications and workloads. The Lustre parallel file system provides a distributed namespace, divided across multiple metadata servers, that allows the metadata throughput to scale with increasing servers. This presentation addresses meeting the increasing requirements for high performance metadata in Lustre environments with the ultimate aim of reducing the time to results and improving overall efficiency.”

MEA Enterprise Software Market – Global Scenario, Trends, Industry Analysis and Forecast by 2020

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sagar kale

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February 11, 2015

The enterprise application software market can be segmented based on: types, organizational size, and verticals. Types of application software include digital content creation (DCC), web conferencing,enterprise resource planning (ERP), business intelligence (BI), enterprise content management (ECM), customer relationship management (CRM),supply chain management (SCM)and project &portfolio management (PPM) software.Categories by organizational size include small business, medium business, enterprises and large enterprises. Verticals include BFSI (banking, financial services and insurance), manufacturing, telecom, media &entertainment, transportation, healthcare, energy &utilities, retail, distribution and public sector.

Some of the drawbacks are high licensing and support cost, flexibility and customization issues and difficulty in migration of existing data. Overlooking these issues, the benefits of using enterprise application software would actually aid an enterprise in information sharing, process automation, complete visibility of all important processes across various departments, reducing information technology complexity and increasing agility.

There is a growing need to capture, organize and exploit the use of big data which can give internal and external business processes a competitive edge. Enterprise mobility such as the Bring-Your–Own-Device (BYOD) trend to enhance employee flexibility in the organization across MEA has resulted in an increased uptake of enterprise platforms. Further, analytics and business intelligence have also become important factors driving enterprise planning, mainly when it comes to collecting and assessingunstructured data on enterprise networks, or business related information posted on social networking sites etc. Another driving factor in the enterprise software market is the shift towards cloud computing, where an enterprise moves some or its entire infrastructure to the cloud, reducing total cost ownership (TCO) infrastructure and provisioning time.These dominating factors are expected to drive the enterprise application software market in the MEA region, in the near future.

The enterprise application software market can be segmented based on: types, organizational size and verticals. Types of application software include digital content creation (DCC), web conferencing,enterprise resource planning (ERP), business intelligence (BI), enterprise content management (ECM), customer relationship management (CRM),supply chain management (SCM)and project &portfolio management (PPM) software.Categories by organizational size include small business, medium business, enterprises and large enterprises. Verticals include BFSI (banking, financial services and insurance), manufacturing, telecom, media &entertainment, transportation, healthcare, energy &utilities, retail, distribution and public sector.

Sam Ramji Takes Lead at the Open-Source Cloud Foundry Foundation

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ZDNet

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February 11, 2015

Ramji, best known for being the first head of Microsoft’s Open Source Software Lab, has just been appointed to be CEO of the Cloud Foundry Foundation.