Morphlabs Gets $10 Million to Expand its OpenStack Push in Asia

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August 21, 2013

Morphlabs, which has focused on enabling Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) functions through public and private OpenStack cloud deployments, has announced a new new $10 million Series D investment that will help it expand its OpenStack efforts in Asia. The company had already been offering training services for OpenStack in both the U.S. and Asia, but is also working in partnership with NEC on OpenStack public cloud services for Asia.

Morphlabs has a Tokyo office from which it can drive its efforts in Asia, and is helping organizations leverage OpenStack for public cloud services, in direct competition with Amazon Web Services. Tallwood Capital and G2iG contributed to its latest round of funding.

Distribution Release: Proxmox 3.1 “Virtual Environment”

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August 21, 2013

Martin Maurer has announced the release of Proxmox 3.1 “Virtual Environment” edition, a Debian-based distribution offering a complete server virtualization management solution based on KVM and containers: “We just released Proxmox VE 3.1, introducing great new features and services. We included SPICE, GlusterFS storage plugin and the ability….

Gotta Access Linux Files? Paragon ExtFS Delivers the Goods

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August 21, 2013

Paragon’s ExtFS is a cross-platform application that can make using Linux much easier in multiple-OS platforms. As much as I try to stay exclusively in the Linux OS world, every so often a work situation arises that puts the comfort zone of staying with Linux to the test. When I absolutely must cross the Great Divide separating the Windows partition from Linuxland on a computer in the workplace, Paragon’s Universal File System Driver in ExtFS comes to my rescue.

Development Release: OpenELEC 3.1.6 (Unstable)

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August 21, 2013

Open Embedded Linux Entertainment Center (OpenELEC ) is a small Linux distribution built from scratch as a platform to turn a computer into an XBMC media center. OpenELEC 3.1.6 has been released following the new versioning scheme: “The OpenELEC 3.1 release series are test releases (beta) for OpenELEC-3.2…..

New Intel Tablet Processors Coming in 2014, Says Digitimes

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CNET

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August 21, 2013

A Taipei-based report discusses Intel’s roadmap for future tablet chips. [Read more]

Ubuntu In a Nutshell: App Upload Process

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August 21, 2013

This article is part of a series of blog posts covering the many different areas of work going on in Ubuntu right now. See the introduction post here that links to all the articles.

In this article I am going to discuss some improvements we making to significantly simply and speed up how app devs get their apps into Ubuntu.

You can think of an Ubuntu system as two layers of software:

The System – the core Operating System includes the system software itself that is required to boot the device, bring up services (e.g. networking/bluetooth/sound), and display the user interface.
The Applications – these are the applications that run on top of the system where you spend most of your time as a user.

When we started working on Ubuntu back in 2004 the system and the applications where closely intermingled. We basically synced the Debian archive with Ubuntu, applied a bunch of patches, and whatever was in the Debian and Ubuntu archives was available as applications. There were some inherent problems with this approach:

Redo Backup and Recovery Tool to Backup and Restore Linux Systems

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Tecmint

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August 21, 2013

Redo Backup and Recovery software is a complete backup and disaster recovery solution for systems. It provides simple and easy to use functions that anyone can use. It supports bare-metal restore, means even if your computer hard drive totally melts or damaged by a virus, you can still able to…

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Open Source Education Projects

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August 21, 2013

As of this writing, there are only 28 hours left in the indiegogo campaign to build the Ubuntu Edge phone, and the campaign looks to be $20 million short of the goal. On the bright side, this also means that there were 10,760 people willing to pay a good chunk of money for a phone that they most likely didn’t need. For the past month, Larry the Free Software Guy has been posting a list of worthy projects that are in need of funds every time he mentions Ubuntu Edge. If you are disappointed in the fund raising campaign this list might be worth a look.

Oracle Survey Examines Evolving CFO Role and Their Cooperation With CIOs

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ZDNet

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August 21, 2013

A new report from Oracle hones in on how the role of the chief financial officer is shifting worldwide.

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Crowdfunding a Custom Linux SBC The Easy Way

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LinuxGizmos

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August 21, 2013

Thinking about launching a Kickstarter or Indiegogo campaign to fund a custom Linux-powered SBC for powering your dream product? Gumstix says it has come up with a better way: find 50 collaborators, agree on a design, and have first articles of your custom SBC built and booting Linux in under three weeks. Sounds tempting, but […]