Adam Conrad on the behalf of the Ubuntu development community has announced the final beta release of the upcoming Ubuntu 14.10 “Utopic Unicorn” and its derivatives…
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BSD Release: MidnightBSD 0.5
Lucas Holt has announced the release of MidnightBSD 0.5, a FreeBSD-derived operating system for desktop deployments: “MidnightBSD 0.5 has been released. Enhancements: jails now run shutdown scripts; support for username with length 32, previous limit was 16; imported FreeBSD 9.2 USB stack (plus z87 patches from stable)…”
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Twitter’s Mesos Brainbox Joins Data Centre OS Venture
The academic brainbox who got his data centre operating system adopted as a piece of critical infrastructure at Twitter has now gone into business.
Benjamin Hindman, the co-founder of open-source cluster manager Mesos – which runs at large web properties including Twitter and Airbnb – has joined VC-backed Mesosphere. The startup was founded in 2013 to drive a paying business around the cluster manager he built as a student.
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ShellShock: How to Protect Your Unix, Linux and Mac Servers
The Unix/Linux Bash security hole can be deadly to your servers. Here’s what you need to worry about, how to see if you can be attacked, and what to do if your shields are down.
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A Few Details of Samsung’s Budget Indian Tizen Smartphone SM-Z130H Emerge
The Tizen Smartphone that is expected to launch in India this November has had a few of its details passed to Sammobile this morning. This budget Smartphone is aimed at developing markets and hopes to take on Android One, FireFox OS, Microsoft (Nokia) and potentially BlackBerry in the less crowded new budget Smartphone category, a potentially lucrative area that everyone wants to be king of.
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Nuage Networks Adds SDN Support to Oracle OpenStack
Nuage Networks is bringing its software-defined networking (SDN) solution to Oracle (ORCL)OpenStack for Oracle Linux, which it says will expand the role of open SDN within the cloud.
The integration comes in the form of a plug-in that implements SDN functionality designed to increase data center automation and networking flexibility. The solution “lays the foundation for an open and dynamically controlled data center network fabric to accelerate application programmability, facilitate unconstrained mobility, and maximize compute efficiency for cloud service providers, Web scale operators and leading tech enterprises across the globe,” according to the company.
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The 12 Characteristics of Modern Application Development
We are witnessing a transformation in application development tools and techniques that is changing how enterprise software is being constructed and deployed. This transformation is the broadening of mobile application development approaches initially instigated by the mobile revolution (yes, the iPhone changed everything) to embrace initiatives for back-end Internet of Things architectures and even employee apps.
While the consumer app economy embraced these new tools and techniques rapidly in the last few years, enterprises have moved much more slowly. In the last couple of years however, enterprises have begun to get on the bandwagon.
Read more at SD Times.
GNOME Finally Supports Ctrl+Tab For Switching Tabs
It looks like for GNOME 3.16 one of the early changes will be better keyboard support for switching tabs…
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IBM: Watson Analytics Breaks Down Big Data Barriers for SMBs
IBM says that while most large companies are already utilizing big data in some way, SMBs are falling behind.
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10 Ways Enterprises Can Best Prepare for DDoS Attacks
With DDoS attacks posing such a formidable threat, it’s not surprising that many organizations lack sufficient resources to counteract them.
Read more at eWeek