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Distribution Release: ROSA R4 “Desktop Fresh”
Ekaterina Lopukhova has announced the release of ROSA R4 “Desktop Fresh” edition, a desktop Linux distribution featuring a customised and user-friendly KDE 4.13.3 desktop: “The ROSA company is happy to present the long-awaited ROSA Desktop Fresh R4, the number 4 in the “R” lineup of the free ROSA….”
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LinuxCon, CloudOpen and Embedded Linux Conference Europe This Week
LinuxCon, CloudOpen and Embedded Linux Conference (ELC) Europe will kick off next Monday, Oct. 13, in Dusseldorf, Germany, along with a multitude of co-located events, hack fests, and workshops.
The event is sold out but all keynotes will be streamed live (available here with login) and will be available on the Linux Foundation YouTube channel after the event. You’ll also find live updates on Linux Foundation Twitter, Facebook, and Google+ channels and at the #LinuxCon and #CloudOpen hash tags, as well as more in-depth keynote coverage here on Linux.com. Preview Q&As with most of the keynote speakers are also available at the links in the schedule, below.
Monday, Oct. 13
9 a.m. (CEST) State of Linux – Jim Zemlin, Executive Director of The Linux Foundation.
9:30 a.m. How Open Source Communities are Improving the Health of the Poor – Paul Biondich, Founder and President of OpenMRS.
9:50 a.m. Building Blocks of AWS – Chris Schlaeger, Managing Director at Amazon Development Center.
Tuesday, Oct. 14
9:20 a.m. Building Exponential Communities – Jono Bacon, Senior Director of Community at XPRIZE.
10 a.m. Panel: Giving Private Clouds Public Capabilities – Roger Spoor, SurfNet; Dr Jakub Moscicki, CERN; Peter Szegedi, TERENA; Dr. Raimund Vogl, NRW; Frank Karlitschek, ownCloud; Markus Rex, ownCloud (Moderator)
Wednesday, Oct. 15
Qubes OS – Joanna Rutkowska, Founder and CEO of Invisible Things Lab.
Alien Life Forms: Communities, Enterprises and All the Rest – Olaf Kirch, Director SUSE Linux Enterprise.
COWL, a New Web Privacy Tool, to Arrive for Chrome and Firefox
A group of researchers is making news for building a new web privacy system for the Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox browsers that more efficiently handles JavaScript code among other tasks. In a paper introduced this week in conjunction with the Proceedings of the 11th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, the researchers reported that 59 per cent of the biggest one million websites, and 77 per cent of the top 10,000 websites, incorporate jQuery, a tool that has been preyed on by hackers.
The researchers’ new tool is dubbed COWL, and it will be available as a free download starting October 15. “Confinement with Origin Web Labels” (COWL) works with the Firefox and Chrome browsers and aims to prevent websites from leaking sensitive information. The team behind COWL includes researchers from University College London, Stanford Engineering, Google, Chalmers and Mozilla Research.
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Google, Microsoft, and Other Tech Companies Want to Get 100 Million Students Coding in One Year
Google, Microsoft, and other major names in tech are joining together with the nonprofit Code.org in a major fundraising drive that hopes to introduce 100 million students to coding. Code.org wants to bring its computer science courses into tens of thousands of new classrooms over the next year, and it says that it’ll need $5 million in order to do that. It’s launching a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo to raise the money, but it’ll only need to get half of it from web donors — the other half will come from dollar-for-dollar matching provided by the supporting tech companies and figures, which also includes Bill Gates and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman.
Code.org is particularly focused on promoting its Hour of Code program, which…
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