First cross-platform version of cleaned-up OpenSSL fork
The OpenBSD project has released the first portable version of LibreSSL, the team’s OpenSSL fork – meaning it can be built for operating systems other than OpenBSD.…
The OpenBSD project has released the first portable version of LibreSSL, the team’s OpenSSL fork – meaning it can be built for operating systems other than OpenBSD.…
Red Hat is now testing the latest iteration of its Satellite server management technology with a beta release of Satellite 6.
“Satellite 6.0 is far more than the next release of Satellite 5; Satellite 6.0 is a totally new generation of Systems Management from Red Hat,” David Caplan, principal product manager, Red Hat Satellite, told ServerWatch.
Read more at ServerWatch.
Wink aims to reach the masses through a partnership with Home Depot that will cover a range of home automation products.
Windows XP’s long run may have finally come to an end, but that doesn’t mean your XP-era hardware has to go too. No indeed: There are numerous options available in the Linux world, and one shining example is LXLE.
A brand-new LXLE 14.04 made its debut a few weeks ago, and it’s packed with new features while remaining lightweight and speedy. With an XP mode among several other desktop options, this zippy OS needs less than a minute to boot and get online. Don’t try that on your Windows machine.
Read more at PC World.
Chef, the open source configuration management company, found itself the recipient of a strongly worded blog posting last week by a former employee named Noah Kantrowitz, who claimed that Chef is not really acting like an open source company (at least according to Kantrowitz). While these debates over open source have been going on for years, Kantrowitz’s post and Chef’s subsequent response by its chief development officer Adam Jacob, highlighted the difficulties open source companies face when they start getting big.
Kantrowitz, who worked for Chef (then known as Opscode) as a lead web developer from 2011 through 2013, wrote that he has witnessed a shift in the way Chef has been operating over the years that led him to question whether or not the company is interested in maintaining its open source ideals. In an interview, Kantrowitz said that while his blog posting’s headline was “intentionally inflammatory†(the title was “Chef is not Open Sourceâ€), he wanted attention pointed to the fact that Chef’s community engagement is not what used to be when Chef was first getting off the ground.
Read more at GigaOM.
According to the 2014 Linux Jobs Report, SysAdmins are the highest in demand position among Linux professionals. Fifty-eight percent of hiring managers said this year they are most aggressively seeking Linux SysAdmins followed by Linux application developers at 45 percent.
There is no doubt that as Linux has grown to support the world’s most advanced technology infrastructure that we need more SysAdmins to support it. Also, the role of the SysAdmin is gaining in significance in every organization. Today SysAdmins contribute to important strategic discussions about their companies’ futures, and their work is very often a critical component in enabling organizational growth. SysAdmins are our IT heroes.
That’s why this year The Linux Foundation is honoring some of its very own SysAdmins in celebration of SysAdmin Day 2014 by profiling them here in Linux.com. So far in this series we’ve introduced Ryan Day and Andy Grimberg.
We also want to honor your SysAdmins. We want to hear about the amazing things they’re doing to support the infrastructure and projects your companies are working on. Or, tell us about the time(s) they stepped in and solved a problem so big you thought you were pretty much toast.
Just email the Linux.com editors atThis e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
about why your SysAdmin should be recognized. Submissions are due by SysAdmin Day, July 25. Two individuals will be chosen by the Linux.com editors to be profiled in the weeks following SysAdmin Day and both the submitters and the SysAdmins who are chosen will receive free tickets to LinuxCon and CloudOpen North America taking place in Chicago August 20-22, 2014.
Don’t let your hero go unrecognized!
Two organizations said the government’s approach to health care IT provides regulators an opportunity to adapt its health IT certification program.

Samsung’s plans to diversify its portfolio with the introduction of smartphones running the open source Tizen OS have had to be postponed once more. Originally scheduled to launch at a developer event in Moscow yesterday, the Samsung Z has now been delayed to an indeterminate point in the future. In a statement sent to The Verge, the Korean company says that it “plans to postpone” the Russian release of the phone, but will continue to “actively work with Tizen Association members to further develop TIzen OS and the Tizen ecosystem.”
This follows the scuppering of plans to release a Tizen handset in Japan last year, which Samsung rationalized as the result of “poor market conditions.” The strategy was altered again earlier this year to…
Amazon CTO Werner Vogels, chief of Amazon Web Services, says hybrid cloud is important to the company. He also discusses AWS’ approach to legacy infrastructure, big data and mobile.
One of the biggest challenges with the Nouveau open-source graphics driver for NVIDIA graphics hardware in recent times has been with regard to GPU / video memory re-clocking. As a minor step forward, NVIDIA has contributed re-clocking patches for the GK20A graphics processor…