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.”
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x86 Will See KVM Improvements In Linux 3.17
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…
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Valencia Schools Save Almost $50 Million with a Linux OS Based on Ubuntu
Representatives from the Valencia Linux School district have announced that they have managed to save €36 million ($48.3 million) by using a Linux distribution instead of proprietary software.
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.
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IT Careers: Open Source, Open Resume
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.”
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Someone is Trolling the Linux Kernel Mailing Lists Really Hard
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€
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Android Users MORE ACTIVE Than iOS Fanbois for the First Time
About time too – fandroids dominate in buying devices
Android has raced past iOS to become the top mobile operating system for the first time.…
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IT Leaders Focus on Talent, Reducing Complexity
Reducing complexity in the architecture is a key step that allows IT to realign resources with higher-value activities that increase effectiveness.
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Linux OpenCL Performance With The Newest AMD & NVIDIA Drivers
The latest Linux GPU benchmarks at Phoronix for your viewing pleasure are looking at the OpenCL compute performance with the latest AMD and NVIDIA binary blobs while also marking down the performance efficiency and overall system power consumption.
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Xen EFI Support Being Added To Linux 3.17
With the Linux 3.17 kernel that’s now officially under development since yesterday’s Linux 3.16 release is now support for Xen EFI…
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Why doesn’t Intel put DRAM on the CPU?
They keep cramming more transistors on chips every year while performance gains have slowed to a crawl. Why not put DRAM on-chip to speed up CPUs?
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