GNOME Developer Comes Up With New Animated Image Format

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October 17, 2014

Jasper St. Pierre who we’re usually talking about on Phoronix due to his GNOME contributions related to Wayland support, shared today he’s come up with a new animated image format to compete with GIF…

Debian Is Back To Discussing Init Systems, Freedom of Choice

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Phoronix

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October 17, 2014

The init system discussion is back on in the Debian camp… A vote will be taking place in two weeks to look at preserving the “freedom of choice of init systems.”..

Distribution Release: Tails 1.2

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October 17, 2014

Tails 1.2 has been released. Tails is a Debian-based live distribution developed with the goal of preserving privacy and anonymity of users on the Internet. From the release announcement: “Tails, The Amnesic Incognito Live System, version 1.2, is out. This release fixes numerous security issues and all users…”

Open Source Moves from Accepted to Expected

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OpenSource.com

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October 17, 2014

Dwight Merriman of MongoDB headshot Dwight Merriman is executive chairman and co-founder of MongoDB, an open source document database. Prior to MongoDB, Dwight was co-founder of DoubleClick and Panther Express (CDNetworks).

He will give a keynote at the upcoming All Things Open conference in Raleigh this year. In this interview, I asked him a few questions about open source, MongoDB’s business model, the challenges of hiring developers, and more. Dwight discusses open source and how it has moved from being accepted to expected.

Torvalds: ‘I’m Pretty Good at Alienating Devs’

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The Register

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October 17, 2014

Admits to ‘a metric ****load’ of mistakes during work with Linux collaborators

Linux Lord Linus Torvalds has admitted that his tendency to use strong language has alienated other members of the Linux community.…

Private, Hybrid Clouds May Only be Temporary Stepping Stones to Public Cloud

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ZDNet

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October 17, 2014

GE, the world’s sixth-largest company, reveals it plans to go public — to the public cloud, that is.

Read more at Enterprise Open Source Toolkit

Docker 1.3 Released

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LWN

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October 16, 2014

The 1.3 release of the Docker container system is available. “First up, in this release, the Docker Engine will now automatically verify the provenance and integrity of all Official Repos using digital signatures. Official Repos are Docker images curated and optimized by the Docker community to be the best building blocks for assembling distributed applications. A valid signature provides an added level of trust by indicating that the Official Repo image has not been tampered with.“

Tor Browser 4.0 Released

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LWN

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October 16, 2014

Version 4.0 of the Tor Browser is now available. “The primary user-facing change since the 3.6 series is the transition to Firefox 31-ESR. More importantly for censored users who were using 3.6, the 4.0 series also features the addition of three versions of the meek pluggable transport. In fact, we believe that both meek-amazon and meek-azure will work in China today, without the need to obtain bridge addresses.“

Modular Smartwatch Runs Tizen on Edison

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LinuxGizmos

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October 16, 2014

A startup is prepping a modular “Blocks ” watch that runs Tizen on an Atom-based Intel Edison module, and houses modular components in the watchband links. Samsung’s Tizen-based Gear S, Gear 2, and Gear 2 Neo are no longer the only Tizen-based smartwatches on the planet. A startup called Blocks, inspired by the modular smartphone […]

IT Budget Increases Not Realized, but Hiring Increases Anticipated

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eWeek

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October 15, 2014

Help desk and technical support, cloud and social media have consistently been the least difficult roles to fill with exceptional talent.