Live from the Summit: All Hands on Cloud with Red Hat CEO

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April 15, 2014

Red Hat CEO and President Jim Whitehurst kicked off the 2014 Red Hat Summit, celebrating 10 years of growth and innovation. Whitehurst addressed a crowded ballroom at Moscone Center South. â€œYou are all part of our mission statement,â€ he said…

Whitehurst, a fan of history (and analogies), took us back to September 2, 1666: the Great Fire of London. A terrible eventâ€“but a time when the city of London got the chance to start over.

Business leaders want greenfields. They wish they could start over. London got a greenfield, but chose to rebuild old infrastructure. Constituents had needs that the old city satisfiedâ€”and new needs in conflict. But they did (like we do today) have common questions: How do you keep the traffic flowing while building the infrastructure of tomorrow?

Out in the Open: Inside the Operating System Edward Snowden Used to Evade the NSA

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Wired

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April 15, 2014

When NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden first emailed Glenn Greenwald, he insisted on using email encryption software called PGP for all communications. But this month, we learned that Snowden used another technology to keep his communications out of the NSA’s prying eyes. It’s called Tails. And naturally, nobody knows exactly who created it.

Tails is a kind of computer-in-a-box. You install it on a DVD or USB drive, boot up the computer from the drive and, voila, you’re pretty close to anonymous on the internet. At its heart, Tails is a version of the Linux operating system optimized for anonymity. It comes with several privacy and encryption tools, most notably Tor, an application that anonymizes a user’s internet traffic by routing it through a network of computers run by volunteers around the world.

Most Engineers Are Happier And Think They’ll Be Richer Than The Rest Of Us, Study Says

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The Linux Foundation

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April 15, 2014

Software engineers are very confident that their hacking skills will someday make them millions, according to a new study. The survey, commissioned by Seattle-based code automation company Chef, specifically found that 56% of engineers believe they will become millionaires.

Ubuntu 14.10 Convergence To Focus On Replacing Core Apps

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Phoronix

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April 15, 2014

With Ubuntu 14.04 LTS due to be shipped this week, Canonical developers are already well at work on formulating their plans for the Ubuntu 14.10 release due out in October. Given Ubuntu’s tablet/phone focus and convergence strategy, that will be the big aim of this post-LTS release…

Cinnamon 2.2 Released

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LWN

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April 15, 2014

Version 2.2of the Cinnamon desktop environment is out. New features include a lot of improvements to the settings dialogs, tweaks to the “hot corners” and heads-up display mechanisms, better high-resolution display support, and more.

Development Release: Deepin 2014 Alpha

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DistroWatch

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April 15, 2014

Chen Xiang Bang has announced the availability of the initial alpha build of Deepin 2014, the upcoming new version of the project’s desktop Linux distribution featuring the updated Deepin 2.0 desktop: “Deepin 2014 is an alpha release and it is only for community users who are familiar with….

Google: Compute Engine Customers Should Create New SSL Keys Over Heartbleed

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ZDNet

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April 15, 2014

Google Compute Engine customers need to create new keys in services that use OpenSSL. Meanwhile, Google Search Appliance customers are still waiting for a patch.

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How to Set Up a Secondary DNS Server in CentOS

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The Linux Foundation

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April 15, 2014

In the previous tutorial, we created a primary DNS server (ns1) for a test domain example.tst. In this tutorial, we will create a secondary DNS server (ns2) for the same domain by using bind package on CentOS. When it comes to setting up a secondary DNS server, the following factors should be kept in mind. […]
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How Eni is Enlisting IBM’s Watson in the Hunt for Black Gold

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ZDNet

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April 15, 2014

The Italian energy giant is creating a new business unit to explore how IBM’s cognitive computing could help it find new oil reserves and make better business decisions.

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SMPlayer 14.3.0 released and PPA installation instructions included

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Sridhar G

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April 15, 2014

SMPlayer is a free media player for Windows and Linux with built-in codecs that can play virtually all video and audio formats. It doesn’t need any external codecs. Just install SMPlayer and you’ll be able to play all formats without the hassle to find and install codec packs.
One of the most interesting features of SMPlayer: it remembers the settings of all files you play. So you start to watch a movie but you have to leave… don’t worry, when you open that movie again it will be resumed at the same point you left it, and with the same settings: audio track, subtitles, volume…

SMPlayer is a graphical user interface (GUI) for the award-winning MPlayer, which is capable of playing almost all known video and audio formats. But apart from providing access for the most common and useful options of MPlayer, SMPlayer adds other interesting features like the possibility to play Youtube videos or download subtitles.

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