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Choose Your Side on the Linux Divide

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InfoWorld
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The battle over systemd exposes a fundamental gap between the old Unix guard and a new guard of Linux developers and admins

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Haiku Debates Kernel Switch (But It’s Not Happening)

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The Linux Foundation
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 A very interesting discussion is taking place in the Haiku mailing list right now. A developer has created a working prototype implementation of the BeOS API layer on top of the Linux kernel, and he is wondering if the project is worth pursuing. He’s got the App, Interface and Networking Kits in good shape within a few months’ work.

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VMware Comes Full Circle, to Release its Own OpenStack Flavor

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OStatic
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Ever since 2012, we’ve covered the unsure stance that VMware has displayed toward emerging open source cloud computing platforms, including OpenStack, CloudStack and Eucalyptus. In this post, we reported that VMware’s CEO had cited OpenStack in particular as “lacking maturity.”

Now, VMware has moved to challenge the threat to its hegemony that OpenStack poses by working on its own distribution of OpenStack called VMware Integrated OpenStack (VIOS).

 

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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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