Linux and Android Gain NIST-Certified Security Support

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June 3, 2013

Inside Secure announced that its Linux- and Android-ready SafeZone Encryption Toolkit has achieved U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) FIPS 140-2 certification. SafeZone, which is integrated within Inside Secure’s MatrixDAR and QuickSec VPN Client for Android products, now secures data in transit over SSL/DTLSand IPSEC, as well as “data at rest” on Android […]

Advanced Lustre Administration and Planning Tutorials Offered by Intel During ISC’13

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insideHPC

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June 3, 2013

Intel’s High Performance Data Division (formerly Whamcloud) is offering a pair of Lustre tutorials onsite at ISC’13:

Advanced Lustre Administration, with an emphasis on planning for performance tuning
Lustre 2.4 and 2.5 Feature Overview

Date: Tuesday, June 18th
Time: Noon to 3:00 PM local time
Location: Room M05 of the Messhaus, inside the Leipzig Congress Center

The two tutorials will be presented by Wil Mayers from Alces Software. There is no charge for these tutorials, so come and learn more about how you can better manage and optimize your Lustre configuration, and to learn more about the important features coming in Lustre 2.4 and later.

In related news, be sure to check out our feature story on the full spectrum of ISC’13 Ancillary Events.

Unity 8, Mir Changes Landed Last Week

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Phoronix

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June 3, 2013

Here’s an update on the Mir display server changes and the adjoining next-generation Unity 8 user-interface that were made to end out May…

Qualcomm Publishes New ath10k 802.11ac Driver

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Phoronix

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June 3, 2013

Qualcomm developers have posted their new mac80211 driver for the Qualcomm Atheros QCA98xx 802.11ac wireless adapters for use with the Linux kernel…

Multi-Seat Support Running Well In Wayland/Weston

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Phoronix

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June 3, 2013

With new patches, multi-seat support for Wayland with the Weston compositor is beginning to work well. For showing off Wayland/Weston multi-seat handling, a video has been made…

Canonical and Inktank Get Closer on Storage

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The H

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June 3, 2013

Customers of Canonical’s Ubuntu Advantage Cloud programme will now be able to get Inktank-backed support for the Ceph block and object storage system on OpenStack thanks to an enhanced partnership between the companies.

ARM Announces Anti-Piracy Chip

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ZDNet

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June 3, 2013

It’s not all about DRM anymore — we’re entering the realm of hardware.

Read more at Enterprise Open Source Toolkit

ARM: A ‘Generation Ahead’ of Intel?

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ZDNet

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June 3, 2013

A senior ARM executive claims that ARM is generations ahead of Intel, according to reports.

Read more at Enterprise Open Source Toolkit

Kernel Prepatch 3.10-rc4

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LWN

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June 3, 2013

The fourth 3.10 prepatch is available for testing. “Anyway, rc4 is smaller than rc3 (yay!). But it could certainly be smaller still (boo!). There’s the usual gaggle of driver fixes (drm, pinctrl, scsi target, fbdev, xen), but also filesystems (cifs, xfs, with small fixes to reiserfs and nfs).” Note that it is only available via git for now; patches and tarballs will follow eventually.

Ballmer at Work on Microsoft Restructure — report

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June 3, 2013

Ballmer is reportedly considering changing his company’s structure around focusing its efforts on “devices and services.” [Read more]