30 Years of X

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June 19, 2014

The X.Org Foundation reminds us that the first announcement for the X Window System came out on June 19, 1984. “The X developers have pushed the boundaries and moved X from a system originally written to run on the CPU of a VAX VS100 to one that runs the GUI on today’s laptops with 3D rendering capabilities. Indeed, X predates the concept of a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) as we currently know it, and even the company that popularized this term in 1999, Nvidia.” Congratulations to one of the oldest and most successful free software projects out there.

XCOM: Enemy Unkown Released For Linux

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Phoronix

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June 19, 2014

Many Linux gamers have written in today with excitement that XCOM: Enemy Unknown is now available via Steam on Linux…

Linux Kernel 3.14 Breaks Wine for 16-bit Windows Applications

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Softpedia

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June 19, 2014

Linux kernel 3.14 is one of the latest versions available, but it looks like this particular build has managed to break Wine for all the applications that were running in Windows 9x mode.

Linux users need Wine to run applications from the Windows platform, but the bulk of apps accessed in this way is actually quite old. Sure enough, it’s possible to run newer software as well, but most users need Wine for much older stuff.

Survey: Enterprise Private Clouds Driving OpenStack Adoption

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The VAR Guy

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June 19, 2014

OpenStack, the open source cloud operating system, is not the most widely deployed private-cloud platform. But it’s a close second, according to a new survey from database vendor Tesora, which also said the rise in OpenStack adoption is helping push organizations toward scalable database and database-as-a-service (DBaaS) solutions.

The survey results indicate that among responding organizations, 15 percent are running private clouds on VMware, followed by 11 percent using OpenStack.

How to Set Up a Secure FTP Service With vsftpd on Linux

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The Linux Foundation

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June 19, 2014

FTP or File Transfer Protocol is one of the widely used services on the Internet, mainly for transferring files from one host to other. FTP itself was not designed as a secure protocol, and as such, the classic FTP service is vulnerable to common attacks such as man in the middle and brute force attacks. […]
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Intel Might Finally Have Linux Frame-Buffer Compression Fixed-Up, On By Default

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Phoronix

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June 19, 2014

For years the open-source Intel Linux graphics driver developers have been working on frame-buffer compression (FBC) support but never it’s worked out quite good enough to turn it on by default in full. Frame-buffer compression has the ability to reduce power consumption for those using Intel HD Graphics while reducing the amount of memory bandwidth used for screen refreshes. Now though the Intel DRM FBC code has been re-worked and perhaps this time it will be flipped on by default…

Approved: Fedora 22 Will Replace Yum With DNF

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Phoronix

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June 19, 2014

The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee has gone ahead and improved the feature request of replacing Yum with DNF for the Fedora 22 release likely to happen in the first half of 2015…

Researchers Find Android Security on Par With iOS

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LinuxInsider

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June 19, 2014

The open source Android operating system long has been considered by security experts to be the mobile OS most vulnerable to security threats, but iOS is just as vulnerable, Marble Security has found. However, the two OSes expose users to different types of threats. The perceived greater security of iOS rests on Apple’s control of app distribution rather than on any inherent superiority of the OS over Android, Marble said. Marble analyzed the vulnerability of 12 million Android and iOS apps.

Installing Virtualizor on CentOS 6.5 with RAID1

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Falko Timme

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June 18, 2014

Installing Virtualizor on CentOS 6.5 with RAID1

This guide covers installing the Virtualizor control panel on CentOS 6.5 with RAID1.

Microsoft’s Android Patents Will Face Challenges

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ZDNet

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June 18, 2014

After the Chinese government revealed the patents that Microsoft uses to obtain licenses from Android phone manufacturers, we can expect to see these patents to face many challenges.

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