Ubuntu Server will be one of the first operating systems offered to customers of VMware’s infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud, with OS images that should be portable across clouds operated by VMware and rivals such as Amazon.

vCloud Hybrid Service, set to go live in September, will support all 90 or so operating systems certified to run on the vSphere virtualization platform. For most of those, customers will need to install the operating system themselves. A select few will be published by VMware on what’s basically an app store, making them a bit more accessible.

Intel Haswell Linux Performance Remains Mixed Against Windows

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Phoronix

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August 28, 2013

Last month I published benchmarks showing Windows 8 beating Ubuntu Linux when it came to the Intel OpenGL performance for the latest generation Intel “Haswell” desktop processors. Since then there’s been lots of commits to Mesa and continued improvements to the Linux kernel and for some tests the open-source Linux driver is in better standing. For the testing today is a comparison of Windows 8 Pro against the latest Ubuntu 13.10 development packages when using a System76 Gazelle Professional laptop with Core i7 4900MQ CPU.

Kobo Readies Three New Tablets For October Release, Complete With Android 4.2 And The Google Play Store

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The Linux Foundation

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August 28, 2013

Nearly all the attention for reader-tablet hybrids goes to Amazon and Barnes & Noble, but today the Toronto-based Kobo is making a compelling case for their share of the market. The company announced three new tablets: the Arc 7, Arc 7HD, and Arc 10HD, set for release on October 16th. The three models are roughly analogous to the latest Kindle Fire, Fire HD, and Fire HD 8.9, but they’ve got two distinct advantages: they run Android 4.2.2, and they’ve got access to the Google Play Store.

Snapdragon DRM/KMS Driver Merged For Linux 3.12

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Phoronix

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August 28, 2013

The upcoming Linux 3.12 kernel will feature a DRM/KMS driver that supports Qualcomm Snapdragon/Adreno graphics…

Zero In on Research Control With Zotero

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LinuxInsider

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August 28, 2013

With countless high school and college students heading back to school at roughly this time of year, now is a good time to get acquainted with Zotero, a great cross-platform tool for collecting, organizing, citing and sharing research sources. I have spent considerable time working in academic settings helping students manage their research assignments. Since its introduction in 2006, open source Zotero proved to be one of the few really useful applications for keeping track of information regardless of the user’s OS preference.

An Overview of the NUMA Architecture

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insideHPC

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August 28, 2013

Over at ACM QUEUE, Christoph Lameter has posted an overview of NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Access) in today’s computing architectures.

As the trend toward improving system performance by bringing memory nearer to processor cores continues, NUMA will play an increasingly important role in system performance. Modern processors have multiple memory ports, and the latency of access to memory varies depending even on the position of the core on the die relative to the controller. Future generations of processors will have increasing differences in performance as more cores on chip necessitate more sophisticated caching. As the access properties of these different kinds of memory continue to diverge, operating systems may need new functionality to provide good performance.

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Linux Foundation and OpenBEL Collaboration has Potential to Advance Science

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OpenSource.com

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August 28, 2013

A new Linux Foundation Collaborative Project has the potential to advance science through the use of open source software.

The Linux Foundation announced this week that it is joining forces with the life sciences information framework OpenBEL, an open source software project that captures, integrates, stores, and shares biological knowledge through organizations.

Help Wanted: openSUSE Review Team

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openSUSE

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August 28, 2013

The openSUSE Review Team is interested in adding 1 to 2 new members to the team. This person will review submissions to opnSUSE Factory that will improve the quality of the product and add great new functionality to the already awesome openSUSE distribution. Details of the tasks performed by the members of the Review Team can be seen on the openSUSE Review Team wiki page and the associated openSUSE Factory Submissions portal.

Ideally we want to add a non-SUSE employee from the community, but all qualified candidates will be considered. (Dominique â€œDimstarâ€ Leuenberger would really appreciate some more non-SUSE folks on the team. Who can blame him?!)