Joyent Clarifies its Love for Docker, and its Intent to Work With It

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November 10, 2014

Although OpenStack Summit created a big buzz last week, one of the biggest pieces of news outside of the summit was that cloud-focused company Joyent announced that it is open sourcing its core technology. Joyent’s platform can compete with OpenStack and other cloud offerings, and facilitates efficient use of container technologies like Docker.

I covered the news in detail in this post, but over the past several days some interesting information about how to use Joyent’s open source tools has arrived, including how its tools can work with Docker. .

Rich Geldreich On The State Of Linux Gaming

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November 10, 2014

Rich Geldreich, the former Valve developer who did a lot of work on the VOGL OpenGL debugger before leaving the game company, and has been critical of OpenGL and its drivers, has written a new post on the state of Linux gaming…

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Tiny Raspberry Pi A+ SBC goes for $20

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LinuxGizmos

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November 10, 2014

The Raspberry Pi Foundation launched a Model A+ with a $20 price, a tiny 65 x 56mm, 23g footprint, and a 40-pin array, making it a better fit for robotics. Despite its lower, $25 price, the Raspberry Pi Model A has never come close to the popularity of its larger, more feature rich sibling, the […]

Mozilla Delivers Firefox Developer Edition

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OStatic

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November 10, 2014

Mozilla has officially launched Firefox Developer Edition, billing it as “the first browser created specifically for developers.” If developers sound like a very narrowcasted audience to aim a browser at, remember that many of them complain about having to work across numerous platforms and environments and aim for disparate app stores. There are also a lot of them who work in Firefox via tools such as Firebug.

Firefox Developer Edition is targeted to simplify the development process so that applications can be created in a single instance for the desktop, mobile devices and various environments.

Ubuntu 14.10 vs. Scientific Linux 7.0 Trial Benchmarks With A Haswell-EP

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November 10, 2014

With the new 20-thread Intel Xeon Haswell-EP processor I ran some basic benchmarks comparing Ubuntu 14.10 against the Red Hat Enterprise Linux derived Scientific 7.0…

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Lubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn : Simple, Lightweight and Support for Low-end Machines

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November 10, 2014

Lubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn is a linux distribution derived from Ubuntu 14.10. As an official ubuntu flavor that uses the lightweight LXDE (Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment) window manager has been released with new features and bug fixes.

â€œLubuntu is a flavor of Ubuntu based on the Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment (LXDE), as its default GUI. The goal is to provide a very lightweight distribution, with all the advantages of the Ubuntu world (repositories, support, etc.). Lubuntu is targeted at â€œnormalâ€ PC and laptop users running on low-spec hardware. Such users may not know how to use command line tools, and in most cases they just donâ€™t have enough resources for all the bells and whistles of the â€œfull-featuredâ€ mainstream distributionsâ€ What is lubuntu?

Firefox OS 2.0 Developer Preview Gets WebNFC, H.264 Hardware Encode/Decode

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Phoronix

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November 10, 2014

Besides releasing Firefox Developer Edition today, Mozilla also has Firefox OS 2.0 news with making the latest developer preview available for the Flame development phone…

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Limba: Experimental Linux Software Installer Using OverlayFS

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November 10, 2014

Running off systemd’s new Linux software/packaging vision, Matthias Klumpp has proposed Limba, an experimental software installer that doesn’t depend upon Btrfs but rather technologies that have been mostly mainline for a while…

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[Video] This is your Tizen Samsung Smart Home

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The Linux Foundation

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November 10, 2014

Samsungâ€™s efforts in the Smart home are already well underway. We have seen the robotic vacuum cleaner, Washing machine, the fridge, the TV in what BK Yoon, the chief executive of Samsung Electronics called â€˜the Home of the Futureâ€™ at the IFA 2014.

â€œThe biggest change, the biggest transformation, it will happen in our Homes, at a speed we can barely imagine.â€ Below are some videos that Samsung has released today, showing how the Smart home can be a natural part of your home, there to help and not to hinder.

Systemd Fallout: Joey Hess Quits Debian Project

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IT Wire

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November 10, 2014

The ruckus over the adoption of systemd as the default init system for Debian appears to have claimed a victim, with veteran developer Joey Hess announcing that he is leaving the project.

Hess is one of the better-known developers, and, apart from his contributions on the software side, has also done numerous interviews with his fellow developers.