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KDE Releases Ice-Cream Coloured Plasma 5 Just in Time for Summer

Melty but refreshing – popular rival to Mint’s Cinnamon’s still a work in progress

Review  Plasma 5, released last week, is a major redesign of the Unix KDE desktop environment and underlying frameworks.…

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Samsung Indefinitely Puts the Brakes on Tizen Launch

It’s the Android-rival mobile operating system that never was. At least for now, anyway.

Rackspace Tacks on More Open Source Database Support

Rackspace’s senior product director touted the expanded support should make “scaling and performance problems a thing of the past.”

Power-Hungry SSDs: Hotter Than Disks

Making flash SSDs look like disks isn’t easy. In fact, advanced high-performance SSDs use more power and run much hotter than disks. They aren’t your fathers thumb drive.

Radio Free HPC Looks at the Need for Better Resource Management in Linux

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“With next-generation technology like non-volatile memories and PCIe SSDs, there are going to be more resources in addition to the CPU that need to be scheduled to make sure everything fits in memory and does not overflow. I think the time has come for Linux – and likely other operating systems – to develop a more robust framework that can address the needs of future hardware and meet the requirements for scheduling resources. This framework is not going to be easy to develop, but it is needed by everything from databases and MapReduce to simple web queries.”

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Xen Hypervisor: Assign Virtual Disk to a Virtual Machine

Dealing with our daily admin tasks we face lot of requests where we need to assign virtual disks or additional disks to Virtual Machines running on Xen hypervisor .

Xen hypervisor have lot of â€œxm†commands that can be used to manage the functionality  of Xen VM’s .

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AWS Worry Misplaced: Welcome to the Maturing Cloud

Amazon’s earnings spurred a flurry of worry about Amazon Web Services’ growth. The larger takeaway that the cloud service game is maturing.

DARPA-Derived Secure Microkernel Goes Open Source

Hacker-repelling, drone-protecting code will soon be yours to tweak as you see fit

A nippy microkernel mathematically proven to be bug free*, and used to protect drones from hacking, will be released as open source tomorrow.…

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Debian 8.0 Jessie Is Settling For Linux 3.16

It looks like the next major Debian GNU/Linux release will be shipping with the soon to be released Linux 3.16 kernel…

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Meson: A Next-Gen Build System Showing Promise

Meson is a new, open-source build system under development showing good results over the likes of SCons…

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