Samsung’s Tizen Phone Delayed Yet Again

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July 11, 2014

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…

AWS’ Vogels on Hybrid Cloud, Mobile, Big Data, Technical Debt

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ZDNet

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July 11, 2014

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.

Read more at Enterprise Open Source Toolkit

NVIDIA Contributes Re-Clocking Code To Nouveau For The GK20A

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Phoronix

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July 11, 2014

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…

MonoTizen-1.0.0 Release Brings C# Support to Tizen

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The Linux Foundation

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July 11, 2014

The following guest post is by Bob Summerwill, who is the owner of Kitsilano Software. Kitsilano Software released MonoTizen-1.0.0 today, 10th July 2014, to coincide with Tizen Developer Summit Russia 2014 Here are some videos created specifically for TizenExperts.com to show MonoTizen in action.

Critical Infrastructure Firms Lag Behind in Cyber-Attack Defenses

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eWeek

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July 11, 2014

Utilities, industrial manufacturers and energy companies expect cyber-attacks in the next year, but these organizations continue to react to threats, rather than build up security measures, according to the latest Ponemon survey.

CentOS 6.5 vs. CentOS 7.0 NAS Performance Comparison

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Alex Shraib

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July 11, 2014

After years of development, RedHat finally released the next major version of RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) v7. RedHat Enterprise Linux is an enterprise-grade Linux distribution, which is frequently used in corporate data centers as an operating system for NAS storage devices. From the performance point of view, the new Linux kernel and the new default file system may have a significant impact on a NAS storage device and therefore it is very important to understand how the newly released RedHat Enterprise Linux version 7.0 compares to the last stable version 6.5.

http://www.flexense.com/centos6_vs_centos7_nas_performance.html

How To : Install NVIDIA 331.89 (Stable) Graphics Drivers in Ubuntu/Linux Mint Systems

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YourOwnLinux

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July 11, 2014

The latest version of Nvidia Graphics driver for Linux which is Nvidia 331.89 has been released and is available for download. It comes with plenty of fixes and changes. This article will guide you to install Nvidia 331.89 in Ubuntu and Linux Mint systems.

Fixes

Added support for the following GPU:
Fixed a race condition in the NVIDIA kernel module that caused some GPUs to sporadically become unresponsive.
Updated the error reporting in the NVIDIA kernel module to include the GPU serial number, when available, in error messages written to the system log.
Fixed a bug that caused blank screens when transforming or rotating displays in an SLI Mosaic layout.
Fixed a bug that corrupted certain software rendering on 32-bit systems.

CentOS 6.5 vs. CentOS 7.0 NAS Performance Comparison

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Alex Shraib

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July 11, 2014

After years of development, RedHat finally released the next major version of RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) v7. RedHat Enterprise Linux is an enterprise-grade Linux distribution, which is frequently used in corporate data centers as an operating system for NAS storage devices. From the performance point of view, the new Linux kernel and the new default file system may have a significant impact on a NAS storage device and therefore it is very important to understand how the newly released RedHat Enterprise Linux version 7.0 compares to the last stable version 6.5.

http://www.flexense.com/centos6_vs_centos7_nas_performance.html

How To : Install NVIDIA 340.24 Graphics Drivers in Ubuntu/Linux Mint Systems

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YourOwnLinux

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July 11, 2014

The latest version of Nvidia Graphics driver for Linux which is Nvidia 340.24 has been released and is available for download. It comes with plenty of fixes and changes. This article will guide you to install Nvidia 340.24 in Ubuntu and Linux Mint systems.

Fixes

Fixed a bug that prevented 3D Vision stereo and ultra low motion blur modes from working on G-SYNC capable monitors in some cases.
Fixed a bug that caused the “Allow G-SYNC” checkbox to be displayed in nvidia-settings even if the GPUs in the system are not capable of G-SYNC.
Fixed a kernel crash when running some applications with IOMMU functionality enabled.
Fixed a floating point exception in the OpenGL driver when running “Risk of Rain” under Wine.
Made various improvements and corrections to the information reported to GL applications via the KHR_debug and ARB_debug_output extensions.
Fixed a bug that caused GLX applications which simultaneously create drawables on multiple X servers to crash when swapping buffers.
Updated nvidia-settings to report all valid names for each target when querying target types, e.g. `nvidia-settings -q gpus`.
Added support for controlling the availability of Fast Approximate Antialiasing (FXAA) on a per-application basis via the new __GL_ALLOW_FXAA_USAGE environment variable and the corresponding GLAllowFXAAUsage application profile key. See the README for details.
Fixed a bug where indirect rendering could become corrupted on system configurations that disallow writing to executable memory.
Updated the nvidia-settings Makefiles to allow nvidia-settings to be dynamically linked against the host system’s libjansson. This option can be enabled by setting the NV_USE_BUNDLED_LIBJANSSON Makefile variable to 0.Please note that nvidia-settings requires libjansson version 2.2 or later.

How To : Install/Upgrade to Linux Kernel 3.15.5 in Ubuntu/Linux Mint Systems

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YourOwnLinux

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July 11, 2014

“The Linux Kernel 3.15.5 is now available for the users and all the users of 3.15 kernel series must upgrade”, announced Greg Kroah-Hartman.This Linux Kernel version comes with plenty of fixes and improvements. This article will guide you to install or upgrade to Linux Kernel 3.15.5 in your Ubuntu or Linux Mint system.

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