Linux 3.17 To Drop Old POWER Processor Support

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August 7, 2014

Should you be still running any PowerPC hardware older than 2001, the support is being dropped with the Linux 3.17 kernel merge window…

OpenStack Skills Remain in Very High Demand in the Job Market

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OStatic

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August 7, 2014

In the technology job market, hot trends can grow so fast that the pool of job seekers with skills related to the trends can look more like a puddle. That’s currently the case with the OpenStack cloud computing platform. Enterprises and smaller businesses are deploying OpenStack, but there just aren’t enough good job candidates with OpenStack and cloud skills.

“OpenStack talent is a rarified discipline,” Josh McKenty, who helped develop the platform, recently told CRN, adding, “to be good with OpenStack, you need to be a systems engineer, a great programmer but also really comfortable working with hardware.” The good news is that there are more ways to sharpen OpenStack skills, and gain valuable certification. Here are the latest details.

Ubuntu Shopping Lens (Scopes) Declared Legal in UK and Most Likely in European Union

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Softpedia

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August 7, 2014

The UK authorities have declared that the Ubuntu Shopping Lens are legal and that no laws have been broken, either in Great Britain or in the European Union.

Some of you might remember that Canonical took a lot of flak from the community when the developers decided to integrate the Shopping Lens into the Ubuntu operating system. Two years have passed since then and a lot of things have changed in the meantime.

KDE Ships First Update To Frameworks 5

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Phoronix

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August 7, 2014

KDE has shipped their first update to KDE Frameworks 5…

Basho Adds Scalability, S3 API Compatibility to Riak NoSQL Storage

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The VAR Guy

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August 7, 2014

Riak CS 1.5, the latest release of the open source distributed NoSQL database for cloud storage from Basho, is out this week, with new features aimed at enhancing performance, scalability, Amazon S3 compatibility and more.

The newest iteration of the company’s distributed storage platform is available as a community-supported version, called simply Riak CS 1.5. In addition, the company offers Riak CS Enterprise, which provides extra features, including storage replication across multiple data centers, dedicated monitoring and around-the-clock professional support.

I give the new Raspberry Pi B+ an A-

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ZDNet

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August 7, 2014

The new Raspberry Pi B+ board is a great upgrade over the RPi B board. I give it an A-.

Read more at Enterprise Open Source Toolkit

Facebook Is Hiring To Make Linux Networking Better Than FreeBSD

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August 7, 2014

Facebook is hiring another Linux kernel engineer to join its growing kernel team. The goal for the new employee will be to make “the Linux kernel network stack to rival or exceed that of FreeBSD” and carry out other improvements to the Linux network stack…

Official 13.1 Docker Containers Released

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openSUSE

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August 7, 2014

We are proud to announce official Docker containers for our latest openSUSE release, 13.1. Docker is an open-source project that automates the deployment of applications inside software containers. With the official openSUSE Docker containers it’s now easy for developers to leverage the power of our Linux distribution and it’s free software Eco-system as base for their applications.

openSUSE + Docker == Awesome

The Docker project was released in March last year. Until now, during this short amount of time, more than 450 people contributed with patches and 14,000 containers have been published on its central index. Docker recently released version 1.0, the first one declared enterprise-ready.

Scale Like Twitter with Apache Mesos

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OpenSource.com

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August 7, 2014

Twitter birds

Twitter has shifted it’s way of thinking about how to launch a new service thanks to the Apache Mesos project, an open source technology that brings together multiple servers into a shared pool of resources. It’s an operating system for the data center.

Distribution Release: KNOPPIX 7.4.0

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DistroWatch

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August 7, 2014

Klaus Knopper has released version 7.4.0 of KNOPPIX, a Debian-based live CD/DVD with a choice of LXDE (default), GNOME 3.12 and KDE 4.13.3 desktops: “Version 7.4.0 of KNOPPIX is based on the usual picks from Debian ‘Stable’ and newer desktop packages from Debian ‘Testing’ and ‘Unstable’.”