VMware: Embrace and Extend Hybrid Cloud Style

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August 26, 2014

VMware’s VMworld announcements are a case study in the “embrace and extend” approach used so well by Microsoft. The big difference is VMware doesn’t want to and couldn’t add the “extinguish” to the cloud (hybrid or otherwise).

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SSH Key Management Guidelines

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Linux Pro Magazine

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August 26, 2014

The US government rolls new best-practice rules for protecting SSH.

SteamOS Update 133 Has Better Intel Performance, VA-API

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Phoronix

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August 26, 2014

Valve released this morning the 133 update to the SteamOS Alchemist Beta. With this update comes new packages and other updates…

Kernel Prepatch 3.17-rc2

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LWN

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August 26, 2014

Linus has released 3.17-rc2 a little later than might have been expected. “So I deviated from my normal Sunday schedule partly because there wasn’t much there (I blame the KS and LinuxCon), but partly due to sentimental reasons: Aug 25 is the anniversary of the original Linux announcement (‘Hello everybody out there using minix’), so it’s just a good day for release announcements.“

Leaked Specs Suggest Intel’s NUC 2.0 PCs Could be Future Steam Machines

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ZDNet

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August 26, 2014

More powerful versions of the company’s small-form-factor systems could include Core i5 and i3 Broadwell processors and support for 2.5-inch drives and handle up to 16GB of RAM.

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What Makes Your Developers Stick Around?

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OpenSource.com

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August 26, 2014

Community is a big part of the open source way. An open source project is nothing without a vibrant community of users and contributors. And participant satisfaction is a major factor in having a vibrant community. So, what are the factors that contribute to participant satisfaction with open source projects?

Linux Turns 23 and Linus Torvalds Celebrates as Only He Can

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The Register

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August 26, 2014

No, not with swearing, but by controlling the release cycle

Linus Torvalds released issued Linux 3.17 rc-2 on Monday.…

How to Create a Site-to-Site IPsec VPN Tunnel Using Openswan in Linux

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The Linux Foundation

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August 26, 2014

A virtual private network (VPN) tunnel is used to securely interconnect two physically separate networks through a tunnel over the Internet. Tunneling is needed when the separate networks are private LAN subnets with globally non-routable private IP addresses, which cannot be interconnected using traditional routing over the Internet. For example, VPN tunnels are often deployed […]
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DRM Graphics Changes For Linux 3.18 Might End Up Being Smaller

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Phoronix

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August 26, 2014

Handling merge requests for the DRM graphics driver updates will be done differently for the Linux 3.18 kernel, which will result in a few less weeks of development time…

China to Take On Windows With Homegrown OS in October

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eWeek

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August 26, 2014

After banning Windows 8 from its government’s PCs, China is reportedly preparing a desktop operating system of its own.