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Free and Inexpensive Ways to Pick Up Open Source Tech Skills

This week Twitter was in the news for buying San Francisco-based company Marakana, which has focused on tech training, including training many people to use open source technology platforms and tools. As ZDNet reported, “Twitter is in the process of building its own engineering education program, dubbed Twitter University.” Marakana’s team will help build out this effort and the company will no longer train any individuals or organizations who want training.

However, there are a number of other places online where you can pick up valuable open source tech skills, and as we’ve reported these skills are very valuable in the current job market.  Here are some sites worth investigating if you want to pick up skills for free, or at very low costs.

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Steam for Linux Aug 15 Update

All ya Linux gamers, time to update your Steam for Linux client to the latest beta, which comes with quite a lot of good changes.

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Samsung Properly Open-Sources exFAT File-System

Back in June, Phoronix was the first to report of a native exFAT file-system implementation for Linux that appeared on GitHub. It later turned out that Samsung accidentally leaked their exFAT source code. The solution has now been corrected with Samsung formally open-sourcing their exFAT source code…

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JabirOS: A Former Ubuntu OS Turned FreeBSD

A developer behind JabirOS has written into Phoronix to announce their new FreeBSD-derived project. Formerly JabirOS was based upon Ubuntu…

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Inside the Bitter YouTube Battle Between Microsoft and Google

The gloves are off: Microsoft and Google find themselves battling in more product areas than ever while fighting a very public war of words. The latest spat has led Google to block a Microsoft-developed YouTube app for Windows Phone, despite a promise to collaborate between the two companies. In the past, Microsoft has launched public campaigns directly against Google: there’s Gmail mannewspaper adsScroogled, and even an anti-Google Apps “Googlighting” campaign. Google’s moves are less public, with curiously timed product changes, methods intended to block Windows Phone users, and the occasional sniping comment from Larry Page or Eric Schmidt. Behind closed doors, both companies are forced to work together for the benefit of…

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Tropico 5 & Blitzkrieg 3 Will Be Released For Linux

Tropico 5 was announced yesterday as the latest in a 12-year-old game franchise of this island maker game. What makes Tropico 5 really exciting is that when released in 2014 this construction/management simulation game will have native Linux support. The Blitzkrieg 3 World War II game is also being ported to Linux…

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Samsung Galaxy Gear Smartwatch Rumored for September 4th Unveiling

Bloomberg reports that Samsung’s long-rumored smartwatch is a “wristwatch-like smartphone” that will launch on September 4th. The news source specifically points to the Android-powered device being able to “make phone calls, surf the web, and handle emails.” As previously indicated by a trademark filing, Bloomberg expects the device to be named the Samsung Galaxy Gear.

The report implies that the device will operate independently of your smartphone, but it’s entirely possible that the site’s anonymous sources are in fact pointing to a companion device that will connect to your smartphone to place calls and access data services.The Samsung Galaxy Gear is expected to launch on September 4th at the company’s press event in Berlin.

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Interview: The Software Imperative for Supercomputing

In a newly posted interview, Cray’s Jay Gould describes how the supercomputing world has changed and why the company has nearly a 5:1 ratio of software engineers to hardware engineers.

You can’t just clock processors faster or add more cores and expect a supercomputer to go faster. What if the code is not performance optimized? What if the system SW is not built to recover from component or network failures? What if your off-the-shelf OS does not scale? Software in general, the programming environment, the operating system, the support tools and the actual code running the application are as critical to the success of a system just as the hardware and networking that they run on.

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Do Cloud Right: Four Critical Steps to Selecting the Provider for You

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When Edward Snowden leaked intelligence files, a storm was triggered in the cloud, leaving a path of destruction. Snowden’s email provider Lavabit shut down. So has the email offering of Silent Circle. The Guardian ran a story declaring: Lavabit’s closure marks the death of secure cloud computing in the U.S. And the EU is not entirely unaffected either. Be it by the Tempora program in the UK or the U.S. National Security Agency facilities that reportedly reside in Germany.

 

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Optimizing Performance For Intel OpenGL On Linux

For those OpenGL application and game developers seeking to optimize their program’s performance for the Mesa hardware drivers, and more specifically the Intel HD Graphics support, here’s some very useful information…

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