Schaller: Preparing the Ground for the Fedora Workstation

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April 16, 2014

Here is a long piece from Christian Schaller describing the planning for the upcoming Fedora Workstation product. “So when we are planning the Fedora Workstation we are not just looking at what features we can develop for individual libraries or applications like GTK+, Firefox or LibreOffice, but we are looking at what we want the system as a whole to look like. And maybe most important we try our hardest to look at things from a feature/usecase viewpoint first as opposed to a specific technology viewpoint.“

Chromium Browser Going Through Growing Pains In Ubuntu 14.04

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Phoronix

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April 16, 2014

Google’s open-source Chromium browser is in a bit of a bad shape for this week’s release of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS…

UDOO: A Linux/Arduino Compatible Board on Steroids

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The Linux Foundation

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April 16, 2014

In the past months we presented the Arduino Yun and Arduino Galileo boards. Today we present you a new board, quite more powerful, but still Arduino compatible and powered with GNU/Linux. It’s an all Italian board called UDOO. Indeed, now almost every month we see the birth of a new platform that integrates processors capable […]

Distribution Release: IPFire 2.13 Core 76

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April 16, 2014

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….

Amazon Web Services Eyes the Desktop Next

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ZDNet

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April 16, 2014

Amazon Web Services is huge and still growing – and it’s aiming at the desktop next.

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Speed up Apache with mod_pagespeed and memcached on Debian 7 (Wheezy)

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Falko Timme

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April 16, 2014

Speed up Apache webserver with mod_pagespeed and memcached on Debian 7 (Wheezy)

The page load time gets more and more important for websites to provide a better user experience and it is important for the search engine ranking as well. Google has developed the apache module “mod_pagespeed” to optimize and streamline the content delivery of the apache webserver which reduces the load times of pages, especially when they use many assets like css files, javascript includes and images.

Giving Rise to the Cloud with OpenStack Heat

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OpenSource.com

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April 16, 2014

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 Android Wear Watch and Google-Less Phone Coming This Year

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The Verge

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April 16, 2014

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 â€” Google’s customized software designed specifically for wearables â€” 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…

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Distribution Release: Rocks Cluster Distribution 6.1.1

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April 16, 2014

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….

Nine Out of Ten Executives Comfortable with IT Staff Out in Front of Clients

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ZDNet

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April 16, 2014

Avanade survey of 1,000 executives finds growing evidence of IT’s shift from server administrators to business advisory role.

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