The most severe bug affects Cisco’s Aironet 1260, 2600, 3500 and 3600 access points, and could allow unauthorized parties gain privileged access to the affected device.

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Development Release: OpenELEC 4.0 Beta 1

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DistroWatch

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March 6, 2014

Stephan Raue has announced the availability of the first beta release of OpenELEC 4.0, an upcoming major update to the project’s multimedia distribution featuring the XBMC entertainment media hub: “The OpenELEC team is proud to announce its first beta of OpenELEC 4.0. The team has made a huge….

Make OpenStack Speak Your Language

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OpenSource.com

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March 6, 2014

Looking for a way to contribute to OpenStack? Coding is just one of the available options. In fact, there are several non-coding activities like design, documentation, marketing and internationalization. For more details about this, go ahead and check out the how to contribute wiki page.

Every contribution is welcome and what you decide to do depends on what you have to offer. That is, your knowledge and your time.

IBM as a Service Cloud Pieces Fall Into Place

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ZDNet

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March 6, 2014

IBM has acquired a bevy of cloud companies and built a Big Blue cloud stack. Here’s a look at the moving parts and how they fit together as IBM moves from hardware to the cloud.

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Calligra 2.8 Released

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KDE

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March 6, 2014

The Calligra team is proud and pleased to announce the release of version 2.8 of the Calligra Suite, Calligra Active and the Calligra Office Engine. This version is the result of thousands of commits which provide new features, polishing of the user experience and bug fixes.

New in This Release

Major new features in this release are comments support in Author and Words, improved Pivot tables in Sheets, improved stability and the ability to open hyperlinks in Kexi. Flow introduces SVG based stencils and as usual there are many new features in Krita including touch screens support and a wraparound painting mode for the creation of textures and tiles.

You can find more details in the official announcement on the calligra site.

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Install uGet Download Manager 1.10.4 in Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint and Fedora

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Tecmint

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March 6, 2014

The uGet project team is pleased to announce the release of version 1.10.4. The latest version includes support for Magnet Links via the aria2 Plugin, GnuTLS support, support for Flashgot, other features include: A new “Check for Updates” button informs you about new released versions. Added new…

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Fedora 20 Runs Great On The Intel Bay Trail NUC

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Phoronix

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March 6, 2014

Last month I wrote about Intel’s Bay Trail NUC Kit on Linux and shared some early Intel Bay Trail Linux benchmarks. That earlier testing was done from Ubuntu 13.10 but this DN2820FYKH NUC can also be made to work quite well with Fedora 20. Here’s the experience on setting up Fedora 20 for the Intel Bay Trail NUC Kit and some Ubuntu vs. Fedora benchmarks from this low-power, mini Intel system.

Setting Up Overlays on Open vSwitch

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The Linux Foundation

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March 6, 2014

Most sell or want to sell overlays or gateways of some type. Some sell overlays terminating in hardware, others sell overlays terminating in the server. The encaps are GRE, VXLAN and soon to be Geneve (Generic Network Virtualization Encapsulation: basically the good parts of the other encaps evolved). While none of these overlay networks should ever be setup by hand …

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