Ubuntu 15.10 for Raspberry Pi 2 Kernel Patched by Canonical to Fix Seven Issues

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March 17, 2016

ubuntu-15-10-for-raspberry-pi-2-kernel On March 15, 2016, we reported the fact that Canonical published several new Ubuntu Security Notices to inform the community about important kernel updates for the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 15.10 operating systems.

Today, March 16, 2016, they’ve just released an updated kernel for the Ubuntu 15.10 for Raspberry Pi 2 operating system, patching the same issues that were taken care of for the Desktop and Server kernels of Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf).

A total of seven kernel vulnerabilities discovered by various developers and hackers have been patched in the Linux 4.2.0 kernel packages used in the Ubuntu 15.10 operating system

EFI Security Improvements And More For Linux 4.6

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Phoronix

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March 17, 2016

EFI-enabled systems will see some nice improvements with the upcoming Linux 4.6 kernel.

One of the big EFI changes for Linux 4.6 that was already delayed twice before is using separate EFI page tables when executing EFI firmware code, which is done in order to isolate the EFI context from the rest of the kernel. This obviously is a big help from a security perspective.

AT&T Sheds More Light on SDN, NFV Initiative

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eWeek

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March 17, 2016

The carrier is ahead of schedule in virtualizing its network, and unveils its ECOMP software platform for building a software-centric infrastructure.

AT&T’s high-profile effort to transform its infrastructure into a software-defined environment is humming along.At the Open Networking Summit (ONS) 2016 this week, John Donovan, chief strategy officer and group president of AT&T technology and operations, gave attendees an update on where the carrier stands with its multi-year Domain 2.0 project to embrace such technologies as software-defined networking (SDN) and network-functions virtualization (NFV) within its data centers.

In an accompanying post on the company blog March 15, Donovan wrote that AT&T is ahead of schedule in virtualizing its network, and that trials of the carrier’s CORD project—which is being used to help fuel AT&T’s fiber-optic network project—will kick off in the next few weeks.

Closed Silo Challenges to an Open Web

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OpenSource.com

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March 17, 2016

BIZ integralintegration The growing trend of closed content silosâ€”publishing platforms that require a login in order to view the contentâ€”is a step away from a more open web. As this trend continues, owners of closed silos will have even more control over published content and traffic that content drives.

This is why content producers should also consider ways to publish content openly, and for their users to have the option to access content through their web browsers rather than being driven into closed ecosystems.

How to copy permissions from one file to another on Linux

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Vivek Gite

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March 17, 2016

I need to copy or clone file ownership and permissions from another file on Linux without copying file itself. Is there a bash command line option to clone the user, group ownership and permissions on a file from another file on Linux operating system?

Linux: KVM libvirt assign static guest IP addresses using DHCP on the virtual machine

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Vivek Gite

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March 17, 2016

I am using KVM/libvirt on Linux operating system and how do I assign static IP address using dnsmasq dhcpd server for my default virtual network switch?

By default, an instance of dnsmasq dhcpd server is automatically configured and started by libvirt for each virtual network switch needing it. Each virtual network switch can given a range of IP addresses provided to guests through DHCP. The default networking switch uses dnsmasq server.

How to check Debian/Ubuntu Linux package version using apt-get/aptitude command

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Vivek Gite

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March 17, 2016

I am a new Debian / Ubuntu Linux sysadmin. I would like to find out what version I would install if I ran the apt-get command. How do I find out which versions of a package can I install using apt-cache/apt-get command? How do you check package version using apt-get/aptitude on Debian or Ubuntu Linux server?

Share your Insights in the 2016 Future of Open Source Survey

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Mark Hinkle

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March 16, 2016

For the past nine years Black Duck Software and North Bridge have run a survey measuring open source trends called the Future Of Open Source Survey. This year The Linux Foundation has partnered with them to help paint a picture of how open source is evolving.

As someone who was involved in a business that was heavily reliant on open source (Linux, sendmail, BIND) in the 1990s, it’s fascinating to see the evolution and massive adoption in 2015 and beyond. I recall explaining free and open source software to my “business” friends and recall the look of confusion as I explained that it’s free and customizable.

Fast forward to 2015. The nature of software development has fundamentally changed: we are living in a post proprietary world. It’s not that proprietary software is going away — rather, all types of software are increasingly built with a blend of open source and proprietary code.

The end of the software “cold war” has given rise to a new and uncertain time in the software industry, for open source communities and also for software companies, the technology industry and indeed the entire global economy which is increasingly dependent on software.

In 2015 the results of the survey and the overall adoption around open source versus nine years ago was remarkable.

Seventy-eight percent of respondents said their companies run part or all of its operations on OSS and 66 percent said their company creates software for customers built on open source. This statistic has nearly doubled since 2010, when 42 percent of respondents in the Future of Open Source survey five years ago said that they used open source in the running of their business or their IT environments.
Ninety-three percent said their organization’s use of open source increased or remained the same in the past year.
Sixty-four percent of companies currently participate in open source projects – up from 50 percent in 2014 – and over the next 2-3 years, 88 percent are expected to increase contributions to open source projects.
Open source has become the default approach for software with more than 66 percent of respondents saying they consider OSS before other options.

The interesting thing will be to see if the results continue to accelerate at the same rate or even faster. You can see results of last year’s survey here. Follow the 2016 Future of Open Source Survey on Twitter at #FutureOSS and @FutureOfOSS, and stay tuned to Linux.com for future updates and results.

SDN Changing the Way We Network

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IT World

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March 16, 2016

sdn-control-100624422-primary.idge SDN’s impact is profoundly changing the way users operate their networks. Databases and distributed systems can now participate in networking, and workloads can be segmented for scale, participants at the 2016 Open Networking Summit said here this week. Network management is simplified, and application interactions are more intuitive and network-aware.

Despite the progress to date in SDN, there’s more to come, the panelists agreed. Applications will take on more of the network configuration duties through policy, while SDN technologies will become thinner and lighter, and offer more variety in the way they abstract the physical infrastructure.

CyanogenMod 13.0 Release 1 Now Available

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Phoronix

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March 16, 2016

CyanogenMod 13 Release 1 is now available as the Android community’s first release based off Google’s 6.0 Marshmallow release. CyanogenMod 13 Release 1 thus brings the new battery-saving doze feature, a new permissions model, new settings, a new SMS/MMS application, and many other changes.