Product round-up Much to the dismay of many a sysadmin, Linux is no longer purely the domain of Captain Command-Line and his trusty side-kick Admiral APT. For those looking to make the most of their new-fangled graphics-capable hardware, here’s a selection of freeware to start with, in our case as installed on Ubuntu 14.04:…
The newly created Open Cloud Alliance is a network of software manufacturers, cloud service providers and system integrators providing a standardized cloud platform on the basis of open source software to offer flexibility and choice.
The formation of this alliance produced wide feedback in the press. Now, the initiator of this alliance, Peter Ganten, CEO of Univention, and Rafael Laguan, CEO of Open-Xchange and software partner of the alliance, both edited a post in their companies’ blogs giving a personal insight on the real benefits and motives behind it.
Univention blog: http://blog.univention.com/open-cloud-alliance-just-another-cloud-alliance/
Open-Xchange blog: http://blog.open-xchange.com/2014/12/03/oca/
The Linux kernel reaches deep fingers into that of Android. So, it only makes sense that the circle would be completed with Android holding sway over the Linux desktop. But how could a mobile platform inform a desktop platform? Two simple words…
Material Design.
If you haven’t yet taken a peek through the material veil, this new design is the driving force behind Android Lollipop and looks to reinvent the way developers design their apps (and users experience the environment). You can check out the full specs on the official Material Design site. With these design specifications, you can be sure your Android apps blend in perfectly with the new ecosystem.
Read more at TechRepublic.
HP Discover HP Technology Services has announced a partnership with Chef to include infrastructure automation as part of its Datacenter Care offering, at the HP Discover event today in Barcelona.…
Legendary Uber-distro splits over the systemd controversy.
Would containerized virtualization à la Docker work better if it didn’t depend on the Linux kernel? That’s the question startup Cloudius Systems is asking as it promotes OSv, a competing open source operating system designed specifically for the cloud. (Hint: Its answer is “Yes.”)
The major difference between OSv and cloud-oriented Linux distributions is that “OSv developers created the kernel with one thing in mind: Speed,” Cloudius said recently in an email to the press. That means that “unlike Docker, which runs on top of Linux, Cloudius OSv works much like the popular containerization app; however, OSv is its own unique OS in itself.”
I work with multiple time zones in mind. To help, I use widgets and menu items to keep me in sync.
New LTS version offers many refinements for the Cinnamon and Mate desktops and significant improvement under the hood.
The “Atlassian Developers” site has a summary of interesting features in the recent Git 2.2.0 release, including signed pushes. “This is an important step in preventing man-in-the-middle attacks and any other unauthorized updates to your repository’s refs. git push has learnt the --signed flag which applies your GPG signature to a “push certificate” sent over the wire during the push invocation. On the server-side, git receive-pack (the command that handles incoming git pushes) has learnt to verify GPG-signed push certificates. Failed verifications can be used to reject pushes and those that succeed can be logged in a file to provide an audit log of when and who pushed particular ref updates or objects to your git server.“
QEMU 2.2 is due out on Friday while out now is 2.2-rc4…
