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The XPrize Foundation Announces $15-million Open-Source Literacy Prize

The XPrize Foundation, best known for its spaceflight challenges, has announced an earthly focus: Creating an open-source application that can teach teach a child to read, write, and perform arithmetic without a teacher.

Red Hat Launches Cloud Program for Government Agencies

Red Hat posted strong quarterly results last week that beat Wall Street’s expectations, and a big part of the news was that the company is starting to see meaningful revenue from its many initiatives surrounding cloud computing. Enterprises are a big part of Red Hat’s cloud focus, but the company has also made clear that it will focus on cloud services for big telecom companies, and organizations in niche sectors.

Now, the company has announced the launch of Red Hat Cloud for Government, a consulting platform that is purported to help government agencies deliver a secure cloud strategy and infrastructure.

 

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NetApp Intros Software-Defined Object Storage for Hybrid Cloud Adoption

The company said StorageGRID Webscale is a foundational platform within its approach to object storage.

Debian Switches Back To GNOME As Its Default Desktop

While Debian defaulted to the Xfce desktop in the past after switching from GNOME, the default Debian desktop is back to being with GNOME…

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Development Release: Fedora 21 Alpha

Dennis Gilmore has announced the availability of the much-delayed alpha release of Fedora 21. This comes almost exactly one year since the project’s last alpha release – that of Fedora 20, released on 24 September 2013. From the release announcement: “The Fedora 21 Alpha release has arrived, with….”

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Qt 5.4 Will Support Applications Under A Wayland Compositor

While Qt5 has always been promoted as being friendly towards Wayland and working to avoid its Linux dependency on X11, with the upcoming Qt 5.4 release is going to be the first version where there’s out-of-the-box support for running Qt applications under a Wayland compositor — i.e. integrating the Qt Wayland module…

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Valve Rolls Out A New Steam Storefront

Following the launch of the launch of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive on Linux and approaching the one year anniversary of the Steam Machines announcement (so much happens during Oktoberfest season…) is Valve rolling out a new Steam storefront…

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Exynos DRM Driver Gets Updated For Linux 3.18

While there hasn’t been much to report on lately as it pertains to the open-source Exynos DRM driver, it continues to be updated and maintained by Samsung’s staff…

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Unix Commands: stat – More Than ls

 The ls command is probably one of the first commands that anyone using Unix learns, but it only shows a small portion of the information that is available with the stat command.

The stat command pulls information from the file’s inode. As you might be aware, there are actually three sets of dates and times that are stored for every file on your system. These include the date the file was last modified (i.e., the date and time that you see when you use the ls -l command), the time the file was last changed (which includes renaming the file), and the time that file was last accessed.

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Heroku Intros New Developer Tools for Building Customer Cloud Apps

Salesforce.com is tying up more ends between its different developer platforms ahead of Dreamforce in a few weeks.