Twitter Open Sources Clutch.io Mobile A/B Testing Tool

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October 12, 2012

Following its acquisition of Clutch.io in August, Twitter has made the Clutch A/B testing service and Clutch framework for writing native mobile apps available as open source.

AMD A10-5800K Performance On Ubuntu Linux

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Phoronix

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October 12, 2012

Continuing on from last week’s initial benchmarks of the AMD A10-5800K Trinity APU on Linux, the Trinity memory performance testing, and then more benchmarks of the Radeon HD 7660D integrated graphics, here is the large Ubuntu Linux comparison of the AMD A10-5800K compared to the previous-generation AMD A8 Llano APU, an AMD FX-Series Bulldozer, and several Intel Core i3/i5/i7 CPUs from the Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge families.

Linux-Based Lamp Offers ‘Illumination as a Service’

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ZDNet

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October 12, 2012

A Sydney company will use a Kickstarter program to launch a programmable light running a LAMP stack.

Apple’s Going to Pay Up for the iOS 6 Clock Design It Stole [IOS 6]

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Gizmodo

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October 12, 2012

Click here to read Apple's Going to Pay Up for the iOS 6 Clock Design It Stole

Apple shamlessly swiped the design of iOS 6’s iPad clock from the Swiss National Railway, and a couple of weeks ago, it was called out. Now that its copycatism has been exposed, Apple has agreed to licensing terms. More »

Amazon Web Services Upgrades Cloud-Based Linux Implementation

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ComputerWorld

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October 12, 2012

The latest version of Amazon Web Services’ Linux AMI is now available, and includes the R language as well as new versions of Apache and PHP.

ROM Toolbox Pro’s Pretty Nifty for Rooting Around in Your Phone

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LinuxInsider

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October 12, 2012

Privileged control of your smartphone is one of the killer features of the Android operating system. This control, known as “root access,” allows users to remove manufacturer and mobile operator hardware and software limits to takeover the device. I’ve written about competitor ClockworkMod’s ROM Manager Premium app that you can use to automate and streamline maintenance and other tasks. ROM Toolbox Pro, from publisher JRummy Apps, takes the ROM Manager concept one step further by providing a bunch of tools you can use to tweak the ROMs you’ve installed.

Btrfs-Progs Sees A Pile Of New Changes

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Phoronix

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October 12, 2012

Btrfs-progs, the user-space utilities to the Btrfs file-system, has seen a number of improvements in recent days that provide new features.

How To Set Up An IPS (Intrusion Prevention System) On Fedora 17

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Falko Timme

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October 12, 2012

How To Set Up An IPS (Intrusion Prevention System) On Fedora 17

Vuurmuur is a linux firewall manager. It takes a human readable rule syntax and turns it into the proper iptables commands. It supports logviewing, traffic shaping, connection killing and a lot of other features. Suricata is a relatively new network IDS/IPS. It’s multithreaded for performance, supports IDS and IPS modes, can extract files from HTTP streams and has a lot of other features. Fedora 17 includes both Vuurmuur and Suricata in its repository. In this howto I’ll describe how to get a functional IPS using only Fedora packages.

ownCloud 4.5 Mounts External Cloud Storage

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The H

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October 12, 2012

The ownCloud developers have released version 4.5 of their cloud synchronisation software. It offers even faster synchronisation and supports external cloud storage solutions such as Dropbox and Google Drive.

Lucene and Solr 4.0 Released

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The H

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October 12, 2012

The Apache Software Foundation’s full-text search engine Lucene and the search platform built atop of it, Solr, have had their 4.0 versions released with better indexing, fuzzy searching, and easier clustering and sharding.