Arm Yourself with A Good Open Text Editor

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May 9, 2014

Especially if you do any web development, web publishing, work with HTML or produce a lot of writing, a good text editing program can be a great ally. The good news is that some of the best text editors are free and open source. This week, Atom, the text editor from the group at GitHub and a favorite for use on the Mac platform, went open source. There are already some early builds of Atom for Windows, too, but if you want a good Windows open source text editor, look into Notepad++.

HP Is Going All In with Hardware/Software OpenStack Strategy

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OStatic

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May 9, 2014

Earlier this week, Hewlett-Packard announced the HP Helion brand, and pledged to commit $1 billion over the next two years on products and services surrounding OpenStack, under Helion’s branded umbrella. In addition to offering its free distribution of OpenStack, HP is putting all its other cloud offerings, including tools for workload management and software development, under the Helion brand.

As analysts digest the news, it is becoming clear that HP is very serious about committing a solid chunk of its company strategy to OpenStack. Its plans include evolving its own editions of the platform, delivering a Cloud Foundry-based platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and HP even intends to protect customers from Open-Stack-related patent infringement claims.

OpenBSD Affirms That LibreSSL Will Be Portable

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Phoronix

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May 9, 2014

In the fallout from the OpenSSL heartbleed bug, OpenBSD developers forked OpenSSL into LibreSSL. Initially the only supported platform for LibreSSL was OpenBSD, but the BSD developers are pushing harder now for platform portability…

Qt 5.3 Is Near With Today’s Release Candidate

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Phoronix

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May 9, 2014

The end of the Qt 5.3 tool-kit development cycle is near with today’s official release candidate…

Does Tor Browser Just Open a Text Editor? Here’s a Simple Fix

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Mike Wentworth

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May 9, 2014

If you use Ubuntu, then you’re probably familiar with the nuisance of running Tor Browser. Yes, I know, when you click “Run-Tor-Browser”, it just opens a gedit text window. Let’s change that with one simple step.

Open your terminal and type:

gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.preferences executable-text-activation ask

IT Security: It’s Time to Change the Game – and Here’s How

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ZDNet

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May 9, 2014

After several major security breaches is there’s another way to do things?

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Moving Towards an Open Source Cloud with OpenStack

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OpenSource.com

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May 9, 2014

Over the past years, I’ve played a leading role in helping to bring openness to the storage industry. At Nexenta, we inherited great technology from Sun Microsystems and went to market with an open core business model. This model, and a lot else, worked well and Nexenta has been called “the most disruptive storage company of the last 10 years” in part because of the impact we had on legacy, lock-in based proprietary vendors.

Testing Ubuntu, Debian and LMDE on My New Notebook

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ZDNet

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May 9, 2014

Three more popular Linux distributions (and one failed attempt), and finally my overall impression and evaluation of my new Acer V5-131

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ASUS Launches Intel Powered Android Tablet MeMO Pad 8

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Muktware

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May 9, 2014

ASUS has launched the new MeMO Pad 8 version in Japan, which features the new Intel® Atom™ Processor Z3580 (“Moorefield”). The MeMO Pad 8 is the first Moorefield-based device to be announced.

AMD to Enter Android Space With ARM Based Chip

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Muktware

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May 9, 2014

AMD Announces 64-bit ARM Core Architecture and Future “K12” ARM-based Core; Pin-Compatible x86 and ARM Processors.