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First Firefox OS Phone Arrives in India, Priced at $33

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OStatic
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Mozilla has announced that the first smartphone running its Firefox OS mobile operating system is now on sale in India, following earlier reports that a low-cost phone would arrive there in July.

The phone is called Cloud FX and is built by Intex Technologies, an Indian phone maker. It went on sale on the Snapdeal.com website on Monday for 1,999 rupees (Rs.), or approximately $33.

 

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KDE’s KWin On Wayland Is Progressing For 5.1 Release

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Phoronix
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Martin Gräßlin shared that work on KDE’s KWin window manager for supporting Wayland is back to happening at full-speed…

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Intel Launches Software Defined Security Controller

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ZDNet
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The chip giant steps up its security push for hybrid data centers, a common theme at VMworld.

AMD Radeon R9 290 Open-Source Driver Works, But Has A Ways To Go

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Phoronix
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With the Linux 3.17 kernel, Mesa 10.3, and the newest Radeon microcode files, there’s finally working Hawaii GPU support by AMD’s open-source Linux graphics driver. The Radeon R9 290 series launched nearly one year ago and finally now the open-source driver is working right, so we’ve conducted some preliminary tests using the R9 290 compared to AMD’s other Radeon GPUs on the open-source Linux driver.

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Linux 3.17 Doesn’t Boost Ivy Bridge Performance Numbers

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Phoronix
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Last week I ran some performance tests that found Sandy Bridge was faster with the Linux 3.17 kernel and these performance gains with the still in-development kernel extended beyond just graphics. Curious, I ran some tests this weekend to see whether Intel Ivy Bridge processors were also running faster with Linux 3.17 compared to Linux 3.16 stable…

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Who Manages the Management Software?

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ZDNet
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Intigua believes that the movement towards software defined data centers, networks, storage and the increasing reliance on virtualization technology means that companies need new tools to manage their management products.

Linux Turns 23 Years Old Today

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Phoronix
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It was on this day in 1991 that Linus Torvalds first announced his new operating system that would go on to become Linux…

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Welcome CryptX2: An Open Source Hardware Encrypted Storage Device

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The Linux Foundation
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Pretty cool open source project again looking into security and privacy in the post-PRISM world (Support on indiegogo): The CryptX2 is a hardware encrypted storage device. If you have data you want to secure and you want the highest level of security you can get, you want the CryptX2. Open source – verified secure, no backdoors, […]

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Cybersecurity’s Hiring Crisis: A Troubling Trajectory

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ZDNet
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There is a severe — and worsening — shortage of information security professionals. Leading industry experts believe it predicts a grave outcome.

Powerful Command-line File Transfer Programs

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Steve Emms
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This article provides my pick of the best open source command line file transfer programs. The software featured here supports a number of different protocols. They offer shell-like command syntax, and are great for scripting purposes.

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