After years of development, the deadline scheduling class has finally been merged for the 3.14 kernel. This class allows processes to declare an amount of work needing to be done and a deadline by which it must happen; with care, it can guarantee that all processes will meet their deadlines. It has applications in the realtime world, in streaming media processing, and elsewhere.
Large Enterprises Purposely Build Walls Between Developers and Operators
DevOps encourages informal, spontaneous and collaborative connections between developers and computer operators. Everything that large organizations seek to reduce.
The Linux Foundation Delivers Complete 2014 Event Schedule
The Linux Foundation has changed up its mode of planning events, and has released its schedule of events for the entire year. A new video is also being launched with the announcement, which is live here: The Linux Foundation Event Experience. Here are more details on what this year’s foundation events will focus on.
The 2014 events schedule, which includes LinuxCon and CloudOpen in North America and Europe, as well as the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit, Embedded Linux Conference, Android Builders Summit and ApacheCon, among others. LinuxCon and CloudOpen North America will take place this year in Chicago and will be co-located with the Linux Kernel Summit. LinuxCon and CloudOpen Europe will be in Duesseldorf, Germany, along with Embedded Linux Conference, KVM Forum and Linux Plumbers Conference.
Fedora Workstation Proposal: Ease Installation of Non-Free Software
The Fedora Workstation working group has come out with a proposal to ease Fedora’s traditional “see no evil” approach to non-free software in the hope of making the distribution appealing to a wider group of users. “In order to keep with the Fedora policy of only shipping free software we will only make available 3rd party software that offers their own repository for their software. Examples here include Google Chrome and Adobe Acrobat.“
New SteamOS Beta Has Non-UEFI Support
A new SteamOS 1.0 “Alchemist” Beta was made available on Monday night. This latest SteamOS beta has support for installing Valve’s Debian-based Linux distribution on non-UEFI systems…
Linux 3.14: Generic CPU Boost, P-State Improvements
The ACPI and power management updates for the Linux 3.14 kernel have a wide range of changes, including updates to Intel’s new P-State CPUfreq driver, various fixes, and other CPUfreq improvements…
CentOS / RHEL: Yum Lock Package Version At a Particular Version
yum-plugin-versionlock plugin takes a set of name/versions for packages and excludes all other versions of those packages (including optionally following obsoletes). This allows you to protect packages from being updated by newer versions, for example. This quick tutorial explains how to install and use yum versionlock to prevent package update using yum on a CentOS or RHEL based server.
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Intel Introduces Nine New Core i5, Core i7 Haswell Mobile Processors
The fourth-generation Core laptop lineup gets a new Extreme Edition quad-core CPU that costs over $1,000.
How to Search Text Files for Patterns Efficiently
For a system admin or a programmer, grep and the likes are probably the most popular tools when it comes to searching through complex configuration directories and large trees of source code for a particular text string or pattern. If grep is one of your favorite tools, chances are that you will like ack even […]
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Inside the Linux Foundation’s AllSeen Alliance and the Internet of Things

If you read the technology press lately, odds are you already know about the launching of the AllSeen Alliance (a Google News search I just did produced 412 results in a wide range of languages). That’s not a surprise, because this is an important and ambitious project. But there’s a story behind the story that likely won’t get the attention that it deserves, and that’s what this blog post is about. (Disclosure: the AllSeen Alliance is a Linux Collaboration Project—the 11th so far—and I assisted in its structuring and launch.)