Ugoos is prepping an Android 4.4 “S85″ media player dongle with a quad-core Amlogic S805 Cortex-A5 SoC clocked to 1.5GHz, and a quad-core Mali-450 GPU. Ugoos has spun a variety of Android media player boxes and dongles over the last few years, including a UT3 box, featuring Rockchip’s quad-core, Cortex-A17 RK3288 system-on-chip with a 16-core […]
Congratulations to Zach Villers, the second winner of our Linux poetry writing contest. Zach has won a free pass to LinuxCon and CloudOpen North America, Aug. 20-22 in Chicago, for his Systemd haiku.
“I wrote the Haiku after a particularly frustrating go-round with Arch Linux,” he writes. “Being fairly new to Arch, I somehow ended up with three or four separate daemons trying to manage network connectivity. I had to read through some documentation to figure out all of the commands to list (list-units), start, and stop the extra services I had conflicting with NetworkManager.
“I had just learned init and this was a little foreign to me, but sometimes breaking something is the best way to learn about it. Fedora, RHEL, and CentOS all now use systemd, Debian and Ubuntu are heading there as well, so we might as well start saying goodbye to init,” he said.
The contest ended Aug. 1 and was inspired by software developer Morgan Phillips, who is teaching herself about Linux by writing poetry.
Systemd Haiku
List-units, start, stop
enable and disable
goodbye to init
Alleging that the company is being stiffed by Samsung, Microsoft turns to the courts.
Docker sells its platform-as-a-service business to cloudControl to ensure that “dotCloud PaaS customers have a good home with an experienced PaaS provider.”
For Linux 3.16 the KVM improvements were mostly about POWER, S390, and MIPS architectures while for Linux 3.17 the table has turned to focus upon x86 improvements to the Kernel-based Virtual Machine…
Adopting open source software instead of upgrading existing proprietary software that’s already in use seems to be a very good method to save money, especially if you are part of the government. These kinds of decisions are now made all over the world, but Europe seems to be a little ahead of the curve.
How’s this for some IT humor: What do you call a Linux volunteer who just contributed his or her sixth patch to the Linux kernel?
Hired.
Get it? Allow Linux Foundation fellow Greg Kroah-Hartman to explain: “The ‘joke’ is that no one contributes more than five patches to the kernel as an amateur, because after that, you normally get a job offer. It’s not a joke, as I’ve seen it happen numerous times.”
Read more at InformationWeek.
It’s A Bird… It’s A Plane… It’s Superman or itss a newbie kernel developer, it’s a troll, it’s NSA…
Someone named Nicholas Krause is all over the Linux kernel mailing lists. Theodore Ts’o of ext4 fame today posted a “A public service announcement regarding wanna-be kernel developer Nick Krause.â€
Nick seems to have ‘started’ his kernel journey by posting a message about ‘finding’ a kernel developer jot at the kernel hub. Later he graduated to become a ‘patcher’ akin to ‘Transporter’ of Jason Statham and started sending patches to different kernel mailing lists.
Theodore says, “So far, he has tried to do this with the ext4, btrfs, scsi, and usb subsystems. I’m probably missing a few.â€
Android has raced past iOS to become the top mobile operating system for the first time.…
