The addition of the two vendors and Flextronics brings the membership of the open-source networking consortium to 39.
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Mirantis Delivers Version 5.0 of its OpenStack Distribution
Mirantis, which continues to double down its bets on the OpenStack cloud platform, has announced the availability of Version 5.0 of its own OpenStack distribution. The news comes directly on the heels of Mirantis’ announcement that it has teamed with Canonical to offer private cloud solutions based on Mirantis OpenStack and Ubuntu.
Mirantis OpenStack 5.0 is updated with the latest OpenStack release, Icehouse, and offers nteroperability between VMware and OpenStack environments.
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BSD Release: DragonFly BSD 3.8.0
Justin Sherrill has announced the release of DragonFly BSD 3.8.0, a new version of the UNIX-like operating system created in 2003 by Matthew Dillon as a fork of FreeBSD 4.8. This will be the last release supporting the i386 architecture. From the release announcement: “DragonFly release 3.8. Big-ticket….
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Samsung and Barnes & Noble are Making a Nook Together
Samsung and Barnes & Noble announced on Thursday a co-branded device called the Galaxy Tab 4 Nook, a 7-inch reading-focused tablet designed to compete with the Kindle Fire HDX and the Nexus 7. It’s the first sign of life in some time for the Nook brand, the lineup of ebook readers and tablets that have been consistently great but never popular enough to unseat Amazon as king of the reading device. Now, however, with the combined retail and marketing weight of Samsung and Barnes & Noble, the Galaxy Tab 4 Nook may have the might to find a place once again. (And there’s only the slightest irony in the fact that Microsoft owns part of the Nook brand, meaning it now owns yet another Android device.)
For Barnes & Noble, it’s a chance to keep…
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