Linux Mint Systems

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May 13, 2014

“The Linux Kernel 3.14.4 is now available for the users and all the users of 3.14 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 3.14.4 in your Ubuntu or Linux Mint system.

Fixes

ahci: Ensure “MSI Revert to Single Message” mode is not enforced
ahci: Do not receive interrupts sent by dummy ports
pinctrl: as3722: fix handling of GPIO invert bit
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix KVM hang with CONFIG_KVM_XICS=n
powerpc/compat: 32-bit little endian machine name is ppcle, not ppc
aio: v4 ensure access to ctx->ring_pages is correctly serialised for migration
cpufreq: unicore32: fix typo issue for ‘clk’
rtlwifi: rtl8188ee: initialize packet_beacon
mtd: nuc900_nand: NULL dereference in nuc900_nand_enable()
mtd: sm_ftl: heap corruption in sm_create_sysfs_attributes()
libata/ahci: accommodate tag ordered controllers
ahci: do not request irq for dummy port
iwlwifi: dvm: take mutex when sending SYNC BT config command
iwlwifi: mvm: disable uAPSD due to bugs in the firmware
virtio-scsi: Skip setting affinity on uninitialized vq
mac80211: exclude AP_VLAN interfaces from tx power calculation
ath9k: fix ready time of the multicast buffer queue
x86-64, build: Fix stack protector Makefile breakage with 32-bit userland
drm: cirrus: add power management support
drm: bochs: add power management support
Skip intel_crt_init for Dell XPS 8700 and many more…

Canonical Offers ‘Chuck Norris Grade’ OpenStack Private Cloud Service

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ZDNet

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May 13, 2014

Canonical, best known as the company behind Ubuntu Linux, is entering the private cloud hosting business with an OpenStack-based option for your data center or hosting provider.

Read more at Enterprise Open Source Toolkit

Olimex Dives Into Linux/Android Modules

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LinuxGizmos

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May 13, 2014

Olimex has entered the computer-on-module market with three Linux- and Android-ready COMs, based on Allwinner’s A13 and A20 SoCs, and on TI’s AM3352. In addition to selling oLinuXino branded open source single board computers based on Allwinner SoCs, such as the Allwinner A20-based A20-OLinuXino-Micro SBC, Bulgaria-based Olimex is now getting into computer-on-modules. Its first three […]

Announcing Ubuntu Pioneers

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Jono Bacon

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May 13, 2014

Ubuntu has always been about breaking new ground. We broke the ground with the desktop back in 2004, we have broken the ground with cloud orchestration across multiple clouds and providers, and we are building a powerful, innovative mobile and desktop platform that is breaking ground with convergence.

The hardest part about breaking new ground and innovating is not having the vision and creating the technology, it is getting people on board to be part of it.

The Moto E is Shockingly Cheap and Surprisingly Good

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The Verge

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May 13, 2014

The Moto E isn’t the sort of phone you dream about or sketch concepts of in your spare time. It’s made simply and of simple materials; it’s neither extremely thin nor especially light. It’s just a regular smartphone. What’s different about the E, however, is its price: $129 without a contract. Nobody’s going to fantasize about this phone because almost everyone who wants one should be able to afford it.

Motorola has proven with the Moto G, which costs $50 more than the new E, that it can…

New A3CUBE Card Delivers PCIe over Standard Optical Cable

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insideHPC

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May 13, 2014

Today A3CUBE introduced the RONNIEE 2S Network Interface Card. Capable of transmitting four PCIe signals at 20Gb/s on standard Active Optical Cables, the device offers improved scalability and power efficiency over conventional solutions.

Red Hat Has Open Sourced ManageIQ Cloud Orchestration Platform

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OStatic

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May 13, 2014

This week’s OpenStack Summit conference is proving to be a showcase for many announcements of tools that can enhance and extend cloud computing deployments. Mirantis has delivered an online database and aggregation site for vendors and applications in the OpenStack ecosystem.

And now, Red Hat has announced that has announced that it is open sourcing ManageIQ, a cloud management program that has been built into Red Hat’s CloudForms platform.

NVIDIA Continues Beating Other Vendors On OpenGL Support

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Phoronix

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May 13, 2014

Along a similar theme to Rich Geldreich’s recent post on A Game Developer’s Perspective On Linux Driver Quality, here are some OpenGL sample tests of OpenGL 3.2 through OpenGL 4.4 with many different graphics drivers…

GCC 4.9 Will Soon Be The Default In Debian, Ubuntu 14.10

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Phoronix

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May 13, 2014

GCC 4.9, which was officially released in late April, brings many improvements to the de facto standard Linux compiler stack. Debian and Ubuntu developers are now working on landing this annually-updated compiler stack for their Linux distributions…

Canonical Announces The Orange Box $12k USD Ubuntu Cluster Suitcase

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Phoronix

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May 13, 2014

The Orange Box, which isn’t to be confused with Valve’s video game compilation, is a 10-node cluster computer designed by Canonical and TranquilPC for showing off Ubuntu Linux…