Amazon’s Cloud Looks Unstoppable—And Databases Are Its Next Target

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November 14, 2014

At AWS re:Invent this week, Amazon Web Services (AWS) chief Andy Jassy declared that AWS could become Amazon’s “biggest business.” That’s a mighty bold statement for a company that did $74 billion in annual revenue last year, only $5 billion of which derives from AWS….

Amazon showed its cloud ambition this week in multiple ways. But one that should most alarm the enterprise technology behemoths is Aurora, a high-end relational database-as-a-service offering that complements existing investments in MySQL and its home-grown NoSQL offering, DynamoDB.

LibreOffice 4.3.4 Released With 60 Bug Fixes, v4.4 Shaping Up Nicely

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The Linux Foundation

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November 14, 2014

libreoffice tile Two weeks on from the last update, The Document Foundation is back with yet another minor release of its open-source LibreOffice productivity suite.

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Fedora Looks To Make /usr World-Readable

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Phoronix

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November 14, 2014

Fedora developers are looking at requiring all files that be placed in /usr world-readable…

10 Operating Systems for the Raspberry Pi

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The Linux Foundation

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November 14, 2014

The Raspberry Pi single board computer has become incredibly popular with hobbyists, academics, educators and OEMs. Itâ€™s tiny, itâ€™s cheap, it has great performance and itâ€™s extremely versatile. Even better, you have a surprisingly wide choice of operating systems to help you tackle whatever project you take on. What? You thought there was only Raspbian? If so, read on. Weâ€™ll look at Raspbian first, but wait to you see what else you can run â€¦

Intel Publishes More Skylake Linux Graphics Patches

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Phoronix

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November 14, 2014

We’re still likely about one year out before seeing any Skylake processors released from Intel, but their open-source Skylake graphics enablement continues to flow…

Ctalk Adds FreeType 2 Font Support, Richer Language Semantics

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Robert Kiesling

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November 14, 2014

The latest release of Ctalk supports TrueType and Type1 fonts on Linux and UNIX systems by adding the X11FreeTypeFont class and library support for libXft. The language also supports method overloading based on the number of parameters, and adds internal improvements that greatly simplify the handling of objects in Collection classes like List and AssociativeArray class. In addition, Ctalk now contains C-like support for Object references, and the semantics of nearly all C operators operators are customizable in the class library, which allows programs and classes to extend the operators and define application-specific language semantics.

The latest Ctalk source code release is downloadable at
http://sf.net/projects/ctalk/files/ctalk-0.0.55-2014-10-11.tar.gz.

If you would like to receive announcements of Ctalk releases by e-mail, you can subscribe to the ctalk-announce mailing list. For information, look at the list information page at
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ctalk-announce/.a

Okular Overview – The KDE Universal Document Viewer

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Chris7mas

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November 14, 2014

Okular is the KDE document viewer with support for a wide range of formats, different view modes and various viewing and selection tools. Okular can be used to open basically any type of document, from PDFs to mobile formats, text or CHM files.

Wine 1.7.31 Released with 51 Bug Fixes, New Gecko Version, DirectWrite and Direct2D Improvements

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Chris7mas

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November 14, 2014

The latest Wine development release, 1.7.31, ships with numerous bug fixes, support for a new version of the Gecko web engine based on Firefox 34, support for the Visual Studio 2013 C/C++ runtimes, support for more font metrics in DirectWrite, Direct2D improvements. An impressive 51 bug fixes also found way into this release.

Mount & Blade: Warband 75% Off During This Steam Weekend Deal

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Chris7mas

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November 14, 2014

Mount & Blade is a 3D role-playing game taking place in medieval times, in which you will carry battles, lead armies, expand and conquer, and eventually claim the throne of Calradia. The game is available on Steam with a 75% discount throughout this weekend.

How to find the exact memory usage of your App on Linux

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Leo G

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November 14, 2014

Linux memory management has always intrigued me. While learning Linux, many concepts are confusing at first, but after a lot of reading, googling, understanding and determination, I learned that the kernel is not only efficient at memory
management but also on par with artificial intelligence in making memory distribution decisions..

This post will hopefully show you how to troubleshoot or at least find out the
amount of memory used by Linux and an application running on it. If you have any
doubts, do let me know by commenting.

http://techarena51.com/index.php/linux-memory-usage/