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Open Door Policy: Microsoft’s K.Y. Srinivasan on Working with the Linux Community to Deliver Interoperability

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The Linux Foundation
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K.Y. Srinivasan, one of Microsoft’s Principal Software Developers who focuses on open source and interoperability talks about the interoperability enhancements he and his team have been undertaking with the Linux community, and about the larger vision guiding this work.

Can you start with how Microsoft and the Linux community are working together on kernel contributions?

It’s all part of our larger vision, which is to ensure that anything our customers want to run, they can run on Windows Server Hyper-V and in Windows Azure. This is what customers tell us they want.

Read more at Microsoft TechNet Blogs.

Upcoming ownCloud Enterprise 5 Improves Authentication speed

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The H
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Version 5 of the Enterprise Edition of the open source collaboration and file sharing software ownCloud will see its release next month. A release candidate is now available for testing.

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As Firefox OS Phones Loom, Mozilla Won’t Dabble on the Hardware Side

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OStatic
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Mozilla has been involved with open source for a very long time now, and as more details emerge about how the company will approach its promising Firefox OS mobile strategy, it’s clear that it is applying some lessons learned from the open source game.

In a series of new reports, there are signs that Mozilla will concentrate on development of its mobile operating system and leave it to hardware makers to make Firefox OS phones successful. It’s a page taken out of Google’s early Android strategy and it could redefine Mozilla’s fortunes forever.

 

Read more at Ostatic

Apache Gets a PaaS

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The H
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With the contribution of WSO2’s Stratos Platform as a Service software to the Apache Software Foundation, the WSO2 hopes to signal that the PaaS is open for contributions from the wider community.

Read more at The H

Ouya Launches for $99; Already Sold Out on Amazon, GameStop

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CNET
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The console is, however, available on other online marketplaces, including Best Buy. [Read more]

 

Read more at CNET News

Looking at the Timeline for 100 Petaflops

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insideHPC
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Over at The Register, Timothy Prickett Morgan looks at when we might see a 100 Petaflop machine on the TOP500 list.

Berkeley Lab is aiming for 100 petaflops with its NERSC-8 box, which three years ago was tentatively scheduled for 2017 or so with a strong possibility of an earlier delivery. In the latest NERSC roadmap embedded in the RFP from last November, that schedule was moved up to late 2015 or early 2016. Vendors are expected to be selected in the third or fourth quarter of this year, and it is highly likely it will be a Cray Cascade with future Intel processors and future Nvidia or Intel coprocessors.

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FDR InfiniBand Gains Momentum on the TOP500

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insideHPC
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In this video from ISC’13, Gilad Shainer from Mellanox describes the rapid adoption of FDR InfiniBand on the TOP500 supercomputer list.

Read the Full Story or check out more of our exclusive coverage from the show at our ISC’13 Video Gallery.

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Portal Now Officially Available on Steam for Linux

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Muktware
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In early May, Valve had made Portal available for Linux in beta. Now Portal is out of beta testing and is ready for action.

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CyanogenMod 10.1 Released, Monthly Release Series Begins

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The H
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The CyanogenMod developers have released the second version of the open source third-party firmware based on Android “Jelly Bean”. Following this release, the developers will concentrate on delivering monthly feature updates.

Read more at The H

Netflix Releases Open Source Genie for Hadoop

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The H
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The latest component to be open sourced by the cloud-based movie-streaming company Netflix offers a match-making service for Hadoop jobs and available Hadoop clusters.

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