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Buying Interest Increases for Public Cloud, Says Survey

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ZDNet
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The survey by 2nd Watch highlights a more mature cloud buyer who is interested in saving money and simplifying management as well as agility.

Makulu Linux 6.0 KDE: Guaranteed to Make You Smile

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ZDNet
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Another release in the Makulu Linux family, this the with the KDE desktop to join the Xfce desktop released a couple of weeks ago.

Mir Display Server Picks Up Some New Features

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Phoronix
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Now that Mir 0.3 is past, Canonical developers remain hard at work on introducing new functionality to the Mir Display Server for the Ubuntu 14.10 “Utopic Unicorn” release cycle…

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How to Configure a Tomcat Cluster on Ubuntu

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The Linux Foundation
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Apache Tomcat is the most popular open-source Java web server. If your web site is expecting more traffic as your business grows, a single instance of Tomcat will probably not scale with the growing traffic. In that case, you might be thinking to run Tomcat in a “clustered” environment, where web server workload is distributed […]
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    Microsoft Continues Android Push with Nokia X2 Handset

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    The Verge
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    Microsoft isn’t giving up on its Android smartphones. After acquiring Nokia’s phone business in April, Microsoft is introducing a new Nokia X2 handset today. It’s almost identical in appearance to the original Android-based Nokia X, but it sports a slightly bigger 4.3-inch display, 1GB of RAM, and a faster 1.2GHz dual-core processor. Although the specifications aren’t wildly different to the previous model, 1GB of RAM should help boost the performance of app switching, a feature that felt a little slow during our initial look at the original Nokia X. The Nokia X2 also includes a home button alongside the regular back button. The original X handset only included a back button, an odd choice given the popularity of home buttons on…

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    What’s Behind the Success of Free and Open Source Healthcare?

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    Black Duck recently published the results of their Future of Open Source Survey, finding the healthcare industry to be one of the most impacted by open source.
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    High Risk Security Hole Discovered In Qualcomm’s GPU Driver

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    Phoronix
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    Rob Clark, the developer employed by Red Hat who has near single-handedly been developing Freedreno as a reverse-engineered, open-source GPU driver for Qualcomm’s Adreno graphics hardware, made a big discovery. Rob was playing around with the Amazon Fire TV that boasts a Qualcomm SoC and runs on the Qualcomm proprietary graphics driver when discovering a “high risk” security issue…

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    Antergos: An Easy, Quick Way To Try Out Arch Linux

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    Phoronix
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    I decided to give Antergos a whirl to see how this Arch Linux variant works. For those pressed for time or looking at an easy path for setting up an Arch Linux installation, Antergos seems to get the job done well.

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    Development Release: Zorin OS 9 RC

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    Artyom Zorin has announced that the release candidate for the upcoming Zorin OS 9, a beginner-friendly desktop Linux distribution based on Ubuntu 14.04, is ready for testing: “We are excited to unleash the Zorin OS 9 Core release candidate. This is a pre-release version of the next-generation Zorin….

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    Intel, ARM Take Competition Into HPC Arena

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    eWeek
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    Intel offers a glimpse to its next-generation Xeon Phi supercomputer chips, while Applied Micro pushes its ARM-based X-Gene for HPC.

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