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Red Hat OpenStack Products Now Available

The Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure and Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform bundles, which are built on OpenStack Grizzly, have now become available.

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$4 Million in Prize Money for More Tizen Apps

Intel, Samsung and the Linux Foundation have together announced the “Tizen App Challenge” to promote the development of apps for the Tizen mobile operating system. The development contest offers prizes of up to $200,000.

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Mesa 9.2, R600 SB Also Good For Older AMD GPUs

Mesa 9.2 and the R600 Gallium3D shader optimization back-end can deliver some nice performance gains for various generations of AMD Radeon HD graphics cards…

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Microsoft Says PCs Were Attacked After Google Engineer’s Public Windows Bug Disclosure

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Google Information Security Engineer Tavis Ormandy publicly disclosed a bug in the Windows operating system in May, and Microsoft now claims there have been “targeted attacks” using the vulnerability. In a security bulletin issued on Tuesday, the software maker notes it was made aware of attackers using the bug to elevate security privileges in Windows. “Microsoft detected targeted attacks after the issue described by CVE-2013-3660 became publicly known,” says Microsoft’s Dustin Childs in a statement issued to The Verge. Targeted attacks is a term usually used to describe malicious malware or threats to specific industry’s or organizations.

Ormandy, who claims Microsoft is difficult to work with, revealed the bug publicly in a full…

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Install YouTube-DL – A Command Line Video Download Tool for Linux

youtube-dl is a Python based small command-line tool that allows to download videos from YouTube.com, Dailymotion, Google Video, Photobucket, Facebook, Yahoo, Metacafe, Depositfiles and few more similar sites. It written in pygtk and requires Python interpreter to run this program, it’s not…

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Zswap Merged Into The Linux 3.11 Kernel

Zswap is a feature for the Linux kernel that provides compressed swap caching. It’s been in development for a long time and was finally merged into the mainline Linux kernel for the 3.11 release…

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Write a Charm, Win $10,000!

Many of you will be familiar with Juju, the powerful cloud orchestration platform we have been building.

Ubuntu has become the most popular Operating System in the world for cloud deployments, and Juju brings a powerful orchestration platform with over 100 services ready to deploy. It enables you to build entire environments in the cloud with only a few commands on public clouds such as Amazon Web Services and HP Cloud, private clouds built with OpenStack, or raw bare metal via Metal As a Service (MAAS).

Jorge Castro on my team has been working over the last few years to grow our community of Juju charmers, running charm schools online and offline, coordinating tutorials, education weeks, and working with many different upstreams to help them harness Juju.

Recently we kicked off a particularly fun part of our community growth efforts in the form of the Juju Charm Championship.

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Red Hat Will Switch from Oracle MySQL to MariaDB, Reports

Officially, Red Hat still isn’t saying that MariaDB, instead of Oracle’s MySQL, will be its default database management system in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. But off-the-record people close to Red Hat tell a different story.

Dota 2 Is Now Available For Testing On Linux

Dota 2, the popular game out of Valve Software that was just talked about earlier today for being soon on its way for a Linux release, is now available for testing…

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Is the Post-PC Industry Headed for Premature Stagnation?

The PC reigned supreme for decades, but there are hints that the timespan that post-PC devices will have in the sun could be much shorter.