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Fog Heen: Resigning as a Debian Systemd Maintainer

Here are Tollef Fog Heen’s comments following his resignation as one of the systemd maintainers in Debian. “I’ve been a DD for almost 14 years, I should be able to weather any storm, shouldn’t I? It turns out that no, the mountain does get worn down by the rain. It’s not a single hurtful comment here and there. There’s a constant drum about this all being some sort of conspiracy and there are sometimes flares where people wish people involved in systemd would be run over by a bus or just accusations of incompetence.

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Freedreno MSM Driver Has Big Changes For Linux 3.19 Kernel

Rob Clark on Sunday submitted his “msm-next” pull request for the DRM-Next Git tree for pulling into the Linux 3.19 kernel…

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Kernel Prepatch 3.18-rc5

Linus has released the 3.18-rc5 prepatch. “So we still have a few pending issues, but things look fairly normal. We’ve still got a few weeks to go before final, and the more you can test, the better off we’ll be.

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Google Now Uses Clang As Their Production Compiler For Chrome Linux Builds

For just over one month Google’s Chrome/Chromium team has been using Clang as their production compiler on Linux in place of GCC…

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Fire OS 4.1.1 Rolls Out: Solid Update (Hands On)

Months after Amazon unveiled the latest version of the OS running the Kindle Fire HDX tablets and the ill-fated Fire Phone, the update is finally rolling out.

10 Great Plasma Widgets for KDE with Screenshots

Since the introduction of Plasma widgets in KDE4, the whole desktop took a new direction, starting to become a more interactive way to communicate with the user, to say nothing about the fact that a desktop with widgets will look more beautiful than a plain, icon-only desktop.

 

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Growing an Existing RAID Array and Removing Failed Disks in Raid – Part 7

Every newbie will get confused of the word array. Array is just a collection of disks. In other words, we can call array as a set or group. Just like a set of eggs containing 6 numbers. Likewise RAID Array contains number of disks, it may be 2, 4, 6, 8, 12, 16 etc. Hope […]

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Amazon’s Ability to Invest in AWS: By the Numbers

AWS chief Andy Jassy was asked whether Amazon had the funds to compete with the cash piles of Microsoft and Google in the cloud wars. Here’s a look at his answer and the numbers that back it up.

OpenStack’s Developers Make Plans for the Next Release

Blue clouds, OpenStack

Interested in keeping track of what’s happening in the open source cloud? Opensource.com is your source for what’s happening right now in OpenStack, the open source cloud infrastructure project.

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Rassam-paint 1.1 Is a Simple Painting Program [How to Install in Ubuntu and Mint]

Rassam-paint is a free painting application using GTK with support for formats that include PNG, JPG, BMP, CUR, ICO, TIFF, PGM, PBM and basic image editing tools such as shapes or text.

 

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