Raspberry Pi’s Raspbian Improves Its Performance

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May 28, 2013

The Debian-based “Raspbian” Linux distribution for the Rasperry Pi ARM development board is now a heck of a lot faster thanks to recent software improvements…

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CGit Update Adds Exciting Features, Security Fix

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May 28, 2013

CGit, the widely-used replacement to GitWeb, has out a new release today. Besides incorporating some useful new functionality, it also takes care of a security fix where out-of-date CGit installations could allow arbitrary access to files from the system…

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Development Release: Elive 2.1.42 (Unstable)

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May 28, 2013

Samuel Baggen has released an updated development build of Elive, version 2.1.42, a Debian-based distribution with a highly customised Enlightenment 0.17 window manager: “The Elive team is proud to announce the release of development version 2.1.42. This version includes some miscellaneous features like: bug fixes in the automatic….

Wandboard Steps Up to Quad-Core ARM, Beefier GPU

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May 27, 2013

Wandboard.org announced a quad-core version of its Linux- and Android-ready Freescale i.MX 6-based open source boardset. The Wandboard Quad moves up to four Cortex-A9 cores at the same 1GHz speed, provides a more powerful Vivante GC355 GPU, doubles DDR3 RAM to 2GB, and adds a SATA port. In late February, Wandboard.org’s Wandboard entered the increasingly […]

Eight-Way BSD & Linux OS Comparison

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May 27, 2013

Being benchmarked today at Phoronix is a comparison of eight different BSD and Linux operating systems. The contenders for this performance roundabout include PC-BSD 9.1, DragonFlyBSD 3.4.1, Ubuntu 13.04, Linux Mint 15 RC, CentOS 6.4, Fedora 18, Mageia 3, and openSUSE 12.3. Which of these operating systems are the fastest and slowest for a variety of different workloads? Read on to find out.

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Intel 2.21.8 Driver Takes Care Of COW Regressions

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May 27, 2013

Just one week after the Intel X.Org driver was updated with support for all known Haswell variants and introducing some new copy-on-write support for cloning pixmaps, a new release has been warranted…

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Rustboot: A 32-Bit Kernel Written In Rust

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May 27, 2013

Rust, the general purpose programming language developed by Mozilla for being a safe, concurrent, and practical language, can even be used to write a system kernel…

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Replacing X With Wayland On The Raspberry Pi

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May 27, 2013

Last week I wrote about the emergence of a new Wayland Weston compositor renderer for the Raspberry Pi. There was a fair amount of discussion about it and since then additional details have emerged…

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Red Hat Discusses Gluster Roadmap Ahead of LinuxCon Japan Workshop

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Jennifer Cloer

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May 24, 2013

Fresh on the heels of his talk on achieving total data center victory at Collaboration Summit in April, John Mark Walker, Gluster community leader at Red Hat will show us how to get there at the Gluster Workshop at LinuxCon Japan on Friday, May 31 in Tokyo.

The full day of talks will focus entirely on the open source GlusterFS distributed file system and will include:

– Creating a Shared Storage Service with GlusterFS

– Converged Infrastructure: Leveraging oVirt and Gluster for Fully Virtualized Environments

– Hands on Development: Getting Started with GlusterFS translators, GluPy and libgfapi.

Here, Walker discusses the upcoming workshop, the rapid adoption of GlusterFS in Japan, version 3.4 and QEMU integration, new Gluster community initiatives and the state of enterprise storage.

What is the Gluster Community Workshop taking place at LinuxCon Japan? Why is this an important activity that you host with The Linux Foundation?

Cloudscaling, Focused on OpenStack, Gets $10 Million in Funding

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May 24, 2013

San Francisco-based company Cloudscaling is the latest small company focused on the open source OpenStack cloud computing platform to score some meaningful venture capital. The company has raised $10 million in Series B funding from partners including Trinity Ventures, Juniper Networks and Seagate. That’s some pretty solid backing, and Cloudscaling–which provides infrastructure-as-a-service support–is just the latest Northern California company to get solid funding.

Cloudscaling was founded in 2006 and is one of a handful of small companies competing with Amazon Web Services and Rackspace to be “the leader in elastic cloud infrastructure.” Its platform is the Open Cloud System, an OpenStack-centric software framework.