Mesa 10.2 Features Are Quite Exciting

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May 26, 2014

Mesa 10.2 is expected to be released in the next few days and with this three-month update will come many improvements to the Intel, Radeon, and Nouveau graphics drivers plus other improvements to core Mesa/Gallium3D, the advancement of the Freedreno Gallium3D driver, and much more…

openSUSE Welcomes its GSoC 2014 Students

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May 26, 2014

openSUSE welcomes Google Summer of Code 2014 participants. Thanks to Google, openSUSE has an excellent number of slots and an equally excellent number of mentors and students for Google Summer of Code 2014. Throughuout the summer, students participanting in this program will code for openSUSE and its sister organizations ownCloud, MATE and Zorp and help them move forward. The best part of GSoC is that most of the code written by students will go upstream and will benefit openSUSE in general also. Along with this, we have an equally good range of projects that will improve the existing openSUSE architecture.

10 Growth Opportunities IT Service Providers Need to Know

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eWeek

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May 26, 2014

IT service providers can fall behind competitors if they don’t expand their security offerings, and monitor key performance indicators and benchmarks.

Legal Issues Related To Cloud Hosting

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Pengy Droid

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May 26, 2014

In South Africa, President Zuma recently signed a Privacy Protection Act into law. Various countries have similar laws in place.

Section 11 of said Act makes it a criminal offence to divulge/make known any personal details, contact information, etc., by any person to a third party. It seems a bit drastic but service providers, retailers, even banks have been selling contact details without consent.

This leaves one in a position where you may end up with a criminal record if you have been using cloud services to synchronize contacts, calendars, tasks, etc., via services such as Google and it gets leaked from there. The recent 145 million exposed accounts at eBay comes to mind.

In a criminal court, the state prosecutor may argue that the “reasonable man” should have foreseen such leaks, based upon the history of successful hacking attempts. It could be argued that the user should have refrained from using cloud services.

The sad thing is that, especially for Linux users, there currently is no local sync alternative, except for those who have the resources to run a server with something like ownCloud. Most users simply have no options as device manufacturers are adamant about pushing everything through the cloud.

I stand corrected on this, but I am almost 100% sure that a legal advisor from New Zealand or Australia voiced a similar concern. It is my hope that someone really develops a user-friendly (read: newbie) solution that can be easily installed and configured, at least for Android devices as this is used by the majority.

How To : Install Webmin 1.690 – A Web Based Utility for System Administration in Ubuntu/Linux Mint

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YourOwnLinux

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May 25, 2014

Webmin, an open-source tool written in Perl, is a web-based interface used for Linux system administration purposes. Webmin helps the users in user accounts management, disk quota management and file configurations. Not only this, with Webmin, ont can easily manage services like Apache server, MySQL, PHP and file sharing, to name a few. Being a web-based application, it uses TCP port 10000for handling the communication part through a web browser.

This article will guide you to install the latest version on the said application – Webmin 1.690 in your Ubuntu/Linux Mint Systems (or Debian based systems I should say). Before that, make sure that you have installed LAMP server in your system. If you do not know how to do that, please refer to our article: LAMP Server- Installation and Configuration in Linux.

Fixes in This Version

Several security fixes for XSS attacks in popup windows.
Added the Fail2Ban module, for blocking the IP addresses of systems that have many failed logins.
More German translation updates thanks to Raymond Vetter, Catalan from Jaume Badiella and Norwegian updates from Stein-Aksel Basma.
Fixed handling of the url_rewrite_children directive in the Squid module to support all the process count options.
Improved Ubuntu 14.04 support.

How To : Install Dropbox 2.8.2 in Ubuntu/Linux Mint

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YourOwnLinux

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May 25, 2014

When you wish to send images/photos or files to your friend who is residing far away from your location, you would prefer to send them by attaching those files to an email. But, there is a limitation to the maximum size of files those can be attached to an email, which generally is a few MBs. So, when it comes to sharing a large chunk of data, say an entire movie of 1.5GB, you would not be allowed to send it as an email attachment. So, the remedy is ‘DropBox’. Just store the data you wish to share with your friends in the Dropbox and you’re done.

With Dropbox, you can not only store or send the documents worldwide, but you can also put the back up data into the Dropbox. Very very useful application available for no cost !

How To : Install/Upgrade to Linux Kernel 3.15-RC6 in Ubuntu/Linux Mint Systems

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YourOwnLinux

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May 24, 2014

The Linux Kernel 3.15-RC6 is now available for the users, announced Linus Torvalds. 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-RC6 in your Ubuntu or Linux Mint system.

Fixes

MIPS/loongson2_cpufreq: Fix CPU clock rate setting
ACPI / video: correct DMI tag for Dell Inspiron 7520
drm/i915: restore backlight precision when converting from ACPI
ALSA: hda – Add new GPU codec ID to snd-hda
clk: bcm281xx: don’t use unnamed structs or unions
iommu/amd: Fix interrupt remapping for aliased devices
ARM: Kirkwood: T5325: Fix double probe of Codec
i2c: qup: Fix pm_runtime_get_sync usage
target: Allow non-supporting backends to set pi_prot_type to 0
target: Don’t allow setting WC emulation if device doesn’t support
x86, mm, hugetlb: Add missing TLB page invalidation for hugetlb_cow()
powerpc: irq work racing with timer interrupt can result in
timer interrupt hang
[media] rtl28xxu: do not hard depend on staging SDR module

CoreOS Linux Distro Lands on the Google Cloud Platform

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PCWorld

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May 23, 2014

CoreOS, a new lightweight Linux distribution customized for massive server deployments, has found a home on the Google Cloud Platform, giving organizations an easy way to test and use the software for their clusters and distributed computer programs.

CoreOS will be offered in the Google cloud alongside other Linux distributions such as Debian, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Suse.

Install / Uninstall NVIDIA Driver 331.79 On Ubuntu / LinuxMint

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Dhamodharan C

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May 23, 2014

In this Tutorial I will tell you how to install the Latest stable version of NVIDIA Graphics driver 331.79 On Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 13.10 /12.04 LTS and LinuxMint 15 / 14

This Version 331.79 released on 20th May 2014 with a fix of 5 bugs and no new support to GPU’s

Installation instructions

Step 1: Remove the Older version of Nvidia driver before installation
sudo apt-get purge nvidia*
Step 2: Reboot the system

Step 3: Download the Nvidia Driver 331.79
For 32bit

wget http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/331.79/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-331.79.run
For 64 bit

wget http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/331.79/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-331.79.run

Step 4: Switch to command prompt and stop the running Graphics session

Press Ctrl+Alt+F1-F6 for switching to command prompt
For Ubuntu
sudo service lightdm stop
sudo service gdm stop
For LinuxMint
sudo mdm stop
Step 4: Give execute permissions to the installer
sudo chmod 755 NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-331.79.run
Step 5: Install the Nvidia 331.79 driver
sudo ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-331.79.run
After successfull installation reboot the system

SOURCE : ASKMETUTORIALS

Linux-Based Eyewear Tracks Eye Movements

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LinuxGizmos

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May 23, 2014

Tobii announced a Linux-based eyewear device with advanced eye-tracking software that lets market researchers see what’s capturing the viewer’s attention. At first glance, Tobii Glasses 2 may look like another Google Glass competitor, but there’s more – and less — here than meets the eye. First, this is a casual date: the glasses cost a […]