Michael Tremer has announced the release of IPFire 2.13 Core 76, a new build of the specialist firewall distribution that fixes a security issue in strongSwan: “This is the official release announcement for IPFire 2.13 – Core Update 76. It comes with a security fix for the strongSwan….
Setting up an application server in the cloud isn’t that hard if you’re familiar with the tools and your application’s requirements. But what if you needed to do it dozens or hundreds of times, maybe even in one day? Enter Heat, the OpenStack Orchestration project. Heat provides a templating system for rolling out infrastructure within OpenStack to automate the process and attach the right resources to each new instance of your application.
Samsung’s product roadmap for 2014 looks an awful lot like the 2013 version. In an interview with Reuters, the Korean company’s senior VP for product strategy, Hankil Yoon, says that Samsung will introduce a new Android smartwatch as well as a “high-end” Tizen smartphone this year. What’s different, however, is that the watch will run Android Wear — Google’s customized software designed specifically for wearables — and that the phone might actually ship this time around.
Samsung’s first attempt at putting together an advanced smartwatch based on Android, the Galaxy Gear, met with a very rough reception at the tail end of last year, and the company quickly switched to its own Tizen software for the Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo. In…
Philip Papadopoulos has announced the release of Rocks Cluster Distribution 6.1.1, a CentOS-based distribution for building real and virtual clusters: “The latest update of Rocks, code name ‘Sand Boa’, is now released. Sand Boa is a 64-bit only release and is based upon CentOS 6.5. The Rocks-supplied OS….
