IT in schools can be a powerful tool for students in emerging nations, but we’ve got to think about more than just the hardware. Here, one school offers a glimpse of how tech really can make a difference.
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openSUSE Conference 2014 Location Sneak Peek
Less than two months from the awesome openSUSE Conference will kick off. The location of oSC14 is the beautiful and historic city of Dubrovnik, located on the Dalmatian coast in Croatia. A warm and sunny weather at the beautiful Adriatic sea and sandy beaches should welcome geekos from 24th to 28th of April.
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A Sneak Peek of OpenStack Icehouse
It seems like it was only yesterday that the OpenStack community found itself gathering in Hong Kong to set the design goals for the Icehouse release. As we entered March development was still progressing at a fever pitch in the lead up to the feature freeze for the release but now the dust has started to settle and we are able to start getting a real feel for what OpenStack users and operators can look forward to in the Icehouse release.
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New Linux Version Will Reduce Suspend and Resume Times
Linux 3.15, expected to be released in mid-2014, “will feature a large number of ACPI and power management updates” and allow Linux-based computers to suspend and resume faster, Phoronix reported today.
“Visible to users with the Linux 3.15 kernel should be reduced time for system suspend and resuming, thanks to the enabling of more asynchronous threads,” the article said, pointing to a list of changes posted by Rafael Wysocki, an Intel employee who maintains the Linux kernel’s core power management code. Basic support for Nvidia’s Maxwell architecture is also in the works for Linux 3.15.
The latest stable release of Linux was version 3.13.6. Linux 3.14 could be released in the coming days, with improved Intel Broadwell graphics support, updates to the open source Nvidia driver, enablement of dynamic power management for newer AMD Radeon graphics cards, support for Logitech’s Dual Action Gamepad, and other upgrades.
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