In a bid to break the world land speed record of 1000 miles an hour, the UK’s largest distributed general supercomputing network is challenging schools in Wales with the ultimate science project.
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Ubuntu Server and Cloud Survey Highlights Private Clouds, OpenStack
Canonical is out with findings from its sixth annual Ubuntu Server and Cloud Survey, which went out to respondents at the end of 2014. The survey aims to provide an overview of the enterprise cloud market, including emerging and changing trends, current challenges and technology preferences. It also tracks the adoption of OpenStack and Ubuntu as well as public cloud usage.
The current survey had a broad base of respondets. It was completed by over 3,000 CIOs, managers, software developers, engineers and others from a wide range of organisations in different sectors, according to Canonical. The respondents were mostly Ubuntu server and cloud users, who represent a majority of public cloud users, and are the largest group of OpenStack users.
If you want to dig into the findings from the survey, there is a our SlideShare here, and there is a detailed infographic at the bottom of the page here.
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Microsoft Releases Final Office Apps for Android Tablets
Back in early January, Microsoft finally made the Office preview for Android tablets openly available for most owners of Android slates.
But this week Microsoft comes back and unleashes the final tablet version for Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint.
To be able to install the Office suit on your Android tab, you’ll need your device to run Android 4.4 KitKat or later, which is supported by an ARM processor fitted with up to 1GB of RAM. Microsoft Office for Android Tablet… (read more)
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LibreOffice 4.4 Released With Major UI Revamp
A new version of open-source office suite LibreOffice is now available for download and the hands behind it are calling it ‘the most beautiful’ release ever.
The post LibreOffice 4.4 Released With Major UI Revamp first appeared on OMG! Ubuntu!.
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Google Fixed GHOST Exploit in Chrome OS in 2014 and Didn’t Tell Anyone
Details about a GLIBC vulnerability were published a couple of days ago by a company called Qualys, and the distributions using it have already received patches. Now, it seems that Google knew about this problem, patched it in ChromeOS a year ago, and forgot to say anything to anyone.
Things are pretty clear in the open source world. When someone finds a vulnerability, exploit, or any kind of issues, that person or entity usually informs everyone else about it. That’s the reason why CVE (Comm… (read more)
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Steam Workshop Now Allows Creators to Make Money for Non-Valve Game Mods
Valve has just announced that it’s extending the Steam Workshop to two additional games, after the program had huge success since it was released back in 2011.
Steam Workshop allows content creators to get paid for their creations, and according to Valve the total payments made to individuals for making in-game items in Team Fortress 2, Dota 2 and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has passed $57 million (€5 million).
No less than 1,500 people from 75 countries have contributed with their crea… (read more)
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