Black Duck’s Dave Gruber and Peter Vescuso: Open Source Is Maturing

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March 19, 2013

Mentioning open source to a typical consumer will no doubt result in puzzled looks or a reference to that “free stuff.” Even in some business circles, the open source concept may only be synonymous with an alternative computer operating system known as Linux. On the software development side of the computing industry, however, open source is known for much different reasons. Its practices have become a path to secure, rapid product development with many inherent cost-saving features.

PCI-SSD Maker Fusion-io Acquires Linux SCST Developer ID7

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March 19, 2013

Fusion.io has acquired UK-based ID7, developer of the open source SCST Linux SCSI Target Subsystem. It is expected that ID7’s expertise will be applied to increasing the capabilities of Fusion.io’s ION Data Accelerator.

Video: KernelGen — Next-Generation Compiler Platform for Accelerating GPUs

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insideHPC

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March 19, 2013

In this video from the HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Conference, Dmitry Mikushin from the University of Lugano presents KernelGen â€” Next-generation Compiler Platform for Accelerating GPUs. Download the Slides (PDF).

ARM CEO Retires After Leading the Mobile Revolution for 12 Years

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The Verge

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March 19, 2013

ARM is announcing that CEO Warren East is stepping down after 19 years at the company, making way for new CEO Simon Segars — the company’s current president. The succession will happen on July 1st of this year, 12 years after East took charge. Even though ARM doesn’t produce devices (or even chips) of its own, the processor architecture it designs provides the foundation for the vast majority of mobile CPUs on the market, from the likes of Qualcomm, Nvidia, Texas Instruments, Samsung, and others.

Distribution Release: SparkyLinux 2.1

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DistroWatch

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March 19, 2013

Paweł Pijanowski has announced the release of SparkyLinux 2.1, a Debian-based desktop Linux distribution with a choice of Enlightenment, LXDE, MATE or Openbox desktops user interfaces: “I am happy to announce the final versions of SparkyLinux ‘Eris’ 2.1 E17/LXDE, 2.1 MATE edition and update of 2.1.1 Ultra edition…..

ARMBRIX Zero Low-Cost ARM SBC’s Bubble Bursts

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LinuxGizmos

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March 18, 2013

A project to develop a low-cost ARM Cortex A15-based single-board computer (SBC) reportedly has been abandoned. Initially named “ARMBRIX Zero,” the $145 board got as far as its prototype debug phase when the company behind it abruptly closed its doors. The ARMBRIX Zero generated considerable excitement among Android and Linux gadget hackers, as its design […]

Apache CloudStack Weekly News – 18 March 2013

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March 18, 2013

Big news this week: Apache CloudStack has passed major milestones towards graduation, major progress on bugs against 4.1.0, discussions about integrating the Palo Alto firewall with CloudStack, and getting Eclipse and Maven to play nice for developers. Some interesting posts from members of the Apache CloudStack community as well.

Want to keep reading the CloudStack Weekly News? See the next section for information on how to contribute.

Contributing to the Apache CloudStack Weekly News

If you have an event, discussion, or other item to contribute to the Weekly News, you can add it directly to the wiki by editing the issue you want your item to appear in. (The next week’s issue is created before the current issue is published – so at any time there should be at least one issue ready to edit.) Alternatively, you can send to the cloudstack-dev mailing list with a subject including News: description of topic or email the newsletter editor directly (jzb at apache.org), again with the subject News: description of topic. Please include a link to the discussion in the mailing list archive or Web page with details of the event, etc.

Major Discussions

CloudStack Getting Closer to Graduation

Chip Childers notified the project that the graduation resolution has passed the IPMC vote. With the votes passed, it’s now up to the Apache Software Foundation board to discuss. The next board meeting is on March 20th, though it’s unclear whether the IPMC vote was finalized in time for the matter to be discussed during this meeting…

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IBM takes SKA Technologies from Deep Space to the Datacentre

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ZDNet

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March 18, 2013

Big Blue hopes that emerging technologies designed to handle big data from the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope will translate into datacentre breakthroughs over the next few years.

Read more at Enterprise Open Source Toolkit

OpenSuSE 12.3: In-Depth and Hands-On

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ZDNet

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March 18, 2013

A look at the latest release of openSuSE, which is so good I have installed it as the default boot on all of my computers.

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Vagrant 1.1 Adds First Paid Plugin for VMware Fusion

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March 18, 2013

The latest version of the command line virtual machine provisioning tool Vagrant adds a provider system so it can work with AWS and Rackspace as well as VirtualBox. It also adds a commercial plugin for VMware Fusion 5.