Samsung Working On Another Tizen-Based Smart Camera – NX500

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December 19, 2014

Samsung has had a busy year with Tizen and not only in with Smart watches. Following the release of the first Tizen Smart Camera, the Samsung NX-300M, we have had the NX Mini, NX 30 and recently the NX1. Now the site Sammobile are reporting that Samsung is working on a Smart Camera that is a successor to the Samsung NX-300M which is to be called the NX500. It will run Tizen like its older brother but will hopefully offer a larger image resolution and better overall image quality, possibly it will be unveiled next month at CES 2015. We will bring you more as and when we hear it.

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IT Professionals in Strong Position as 2015 Arrives

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eWeek

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December 19, 2014

Like the last six months of 2014, hiring managers are particularly interested in the experienced candidates, the Dice IT jobs report found.

Imitate Fake Hollywood Terminal Hacking Melodrama with This Amazing App for Ubuntu

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Softpedia

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December 19, 2014

We all know that Hollywood movies are the worst place to see some accurate depiction of anything from real life and that includes computer terminals. Well, there is a solution for that now and we can only hope that some misguided producer will see the new “hollywood” package made for this exact purpose.

Hollywood movie producers invest a lot of time and money in custom interfaces and GUIs that don’t really do anything, but they think they’re nice and interesting on film. Most of the time, someone is hacking away by typing frenetically while windows with crazy stuff open and close. This is why this kind of image is now seared into the public’s consciousness and hacking looks more exciting than in real life. It isn’t.

OpenDaylight Developer Spotlight: Devin Avery

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OpenDaylight

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December 19, 2014

OpenDaylight accepted seven student interns for the summer of 2014 to work in the community and receive hands-on development experience in SDN. Each intern worked closely with an active OpenDaylight developer as their mentor on a project that suited interest and community need.

This blog series aims to showcase the interns chosen and the projects they actively worked on, the mentors who aided in their professional development and the overall experience of working in an open source community to create a common platform for SDN and NFV.

About Devin Avery

Devin Avery joined Brocade’s SDN team and the OpenDaylight Project in April 2014. As committer on the controller project, Devin is using his seven years of experience developing model based enterprise, MSP and CSP infrastructure monitoring applications (written in java and running in karaf) to help OpenDaylight move from labs into production. Devin current lives in and works out of his New Hampshire home and holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of New Hampshire.

What project in OpenDaylight are you working on? Any new developments to share?

I am a committer on the controller project with a primary focus of encouraging MD-SAL adoption among the community. Using models to represent “things” is a great way to separate business logic from common infrastructure. This creates more time to focus on the business value for our customers. The challenge is figuring out how we can make a model-driven engine that people desire to use. By documenting, refactoring, and refining tutorials, we have made great strides on increasing the usability of MD-SAL APIs. In addition, the weekly MD-SAL calls and email threads continue to offer up many suggestions on how we can continue to improve interactions with our current modeling core.

Creating your first Linux App with Python and Flask

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Leo G

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December 19, 2014

Whether playing on Linux or working on Linux there is a good chance you have come across a program written in python. Back in college I wish they thought us Python instead of Java like they do today, it’s fun to learn and useful in building practical applications like the yum package manager.

In this tutorial I will take you through how I built a simple application which displays useful information like memory usage per process, CPU percentage etc using python and a micro framework called flask.

http://techarena51.com/index.php/how-to-install-python-3-and-flask-on-linux/

Docker CTO Solomon Hykes to Devs: Have It Your Way

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LinuxInsider

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December 19, 2014

Docker has moved from an obscure Linux project to one of the most popular open source technologies in cloud computing. Project developers have witnessed millions of Docker Engine downloads. Hundreds of Docker groups have formed in 40 countries. Many more companies are announcing Docker integration. Even Microsoft will ship Windows 10 with Docker preinstalled. “That caught a lot of people by surprise,” said Docker founder and CTO Solomon Hykes. Docker is an open platform for building, shipping and running distributed applications.

Ubuntu 15.04 Alpha 1 Releases Now Ready for Download

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The Linux Foundation

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December 19, 2014

1504 The first alpha releases in the Ubuntu 15.04 development cycle are now available to download for testing. Four flavours participate in this milestone, including Ubuntu GNOME and Kubuntu. Ubuntu â€˜properâ€™ will once again only participate in the final beta release due March, 2015. Whatâ€™s New? Naturally, being this early on in the development cycle means there arenâ€™t huge wholesale changes [â€¦]

Why Docker, Containers and systemd Drive a Wedge Through the Concept of Linux Distributions

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The Linux Foundation

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December 19, 2014

The announcement of Rocket by CoreOS was perceived by many to be a direct challenge to Docker, particularly as it came on the eve of DockerCon Europe and threatened to overshadow news coming out at the event. Docker, Inc. CEO Ben Golub was quick to fire back with his ‘initial thoughts on the Rocket announcement’. This piece isn’t about the politics of ecosystems and VC funded startups, which I’ll leave to Colin Humphreys (and note an excellent response from Docker Founder and CTO Solomon Hykes). It also isn’t about managing open source community, which I’ll leave to Matt Asay. Here I want to look at systemd, which lies at the heart of the technical arguments.

There’s been an unholy war raging through the Linux world over systemd for some time. Pretty much everything on a system gets touched by what is selected as the first process on a system and how that impacts everything getting started up. People care a lot about this stuff, and the arguments have been passionate. Nevertheless, Mark Shuttleworth conceding defeat on behalf of Ubuntu marked the last major distribution going all in on systemd. Unless forks like Devuan become successful it’s going to be pretty hard to get Linux in a couple of years time without getting systemd as part of it.

Since CoreOS is a shiny new distribution, they went for systemd from the beginning. It was an obvious move, and frankly anything else would seem pretty ridiculous. Docker however, is a child of a different generation. Docker couldn’t align itself with systemd and then wait around for for it to become popular.

BBC: Why Do We Share?

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The Linux Foundation

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December 19, 2014

Why do we share? What makes it different from giving? And what does it have to do with strategy and impulse control? Mike Williams from the BBC talks to the scientist Nikolaus Steinbeis who found out which region of the brain is active when we share and why small children have problems with that. He visits the Redfield Community in the north of London, where over 20 people share a household and he discusses with a young ‘couchsurfer’ and a software specialist from the Linux foundation about the pros and cons of sharing.

â€œSharing is essential to be competitive these days. We’re no longer in a world where any single person can do all of the work individually and somehow out innovate the collective,” says Linux Foundation Executive Director Jim Zemlin in the interview.

Listen to the full podcast at the BBC’s The Why Factor.

How Red Hat Is on the Path to Become Red Hot in 2015 — and Beyond

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The Linux Foundation

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December 18, 2014

With OpenStack, the company has already disrupted how corporations view their infrastructure and what they’ve thought of as cloud — specifically, the relationship to the cloud and server virtualization. OpenStack serves as the operating system for cloud computing and because it is open source, other companies or independent software developers can use the computer code for their own use and build on it.

Red Hat envisions OpenStack becoming the default choice for next-generation of cloud computing architecture. This open source operating system for cloud computing can be used for virtual servers, where software can trick a single server into thinking it is running multiple, independent servers within one box, or tying together multiple servers through software and fooling them into acting as one server.