IT Leaders Focus on Talent, Reducing Complexity

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August 4, 2014

Reducing complexity in the architecture is a key step that allows IT to realign resources with higher-value activities that increase effectiveness.

Linux OpenCL Performance With The Newest AMD & NVIDIA Drivers

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Phoronix

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August 4, 2014

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.

Xen EFI Support Being Added To Linux 3.17

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Phoronix

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August 4, 2014

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…

Why doesn’t Intel put DRAM on the CPU?

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ZDNet

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August 4, 2014

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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What Owning Your Personal Cloud Means for the Open Source Movement

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OpenSource.com

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August 4, 2014

Sandstorm.io is a radically easier way to run personal instances of web apps. It allows you to have your own personal server and install apps to it through an app store interface as easily as you would install apps on a phone. Here at Sandstorm, we talk a lot about the need for privacy, security, and control of your cloud data. Let me let you in on a secret: these aren’t the reasons for Sandstorm, our personal cloud platform (currently accepting funding on Indiegogo.) They are pleasant side effects.

How to Perform Graphical Installation of “Red Hat Enterprise or CentOS 7.0″ Remotely Using VNC Mode

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Tecmint

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August 4, 2014

This tutorial concentrates on how to perform a graphical installation of Red Hat Enterprise or CentOS 7.0 from a remote point in VNC Direct Mode using Anaconda included locally VNC server and how to partition a hard-disk smaller than 2TB with a GPT Partition Table Layout on non-UEFI systems. In…

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Install LibreOffice 4.3 in Kubuntu, Ubuntu with PPA

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Muktware

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August 4, 2014

The Document Foundation recently released LibreOffice 4.3, which is one of their best releases so far. While it was quite easy to install it in openSUSE via OBS, there was no way to install it via PPA in Ubuntu. But now you can install LibreOffice 4.3 in your Ubuntu-based systems – whether it is Ubuntu, Kubuntu, or Linux Mint.

Linux Kernel 3.16 Stable is Now Available! Install Linux Kernel 3.16 in Ubuntu/Linux Mint Systems

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YourOwnLinux

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August 4, 2014

The Linux Kernel 3.16-Stable is now available for the users, announced Linus Torvalds. This Linux Kernel version comes with plenty of fixes and improvements. This article will guide you to install or upgrade to Linux Kernel 3.16 in your Ubuntu or Linux Mint system.

The 3.16 Kernel Has Been Released

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LWN

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August 4, 2014

Linus has released the 3.16 kernel, right on schedule. This release includes the unified control group hierarchy work, many improvements to the multiqueue block layer, and, as always, lots of new drivers and internal improvements.

Distribution Release: IPFire 2.15 Core 80

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DistroWatch

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August 3, 2014

Michael Tremer has announced the release of IPFire 2.15 Core 80, a new stable release of the project’s specialist Linux distribution for firewalls: “This is the official release announcement for IPFire 2.15 Core Update 80. It comes with lots of new features, some bug fixes and some minor….