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CyanogenMod 13.0 Release 1 Now Available

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. 

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DAASI, Collabora Team to Bring Identity Management to CloudSuite, LibreOffice Online

Collabora Productivity, the company that offers commercial solutions based on LibreOffice, has partnered with DAASI International, a provider of open source authentication, single sign-on (SSO) and federated identity management products to provide identity management integration solutions for CloudSuite. Under the partnership, DAASI International will integrate CloudSuite as a pilot into the European Commission funded AARC project (Authentication and Authorisation for Research and Collaboration). 

DAASI will also offer support and implementation services for companies who want to integrate CloudSuite into their IT landscape. The two companies will offer flexibility and scalability for large organizations that want to deploy their own cloud document suites.

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Installing Nginx with PHP (as PHP-FPM) and MariaDB (LEMP) on Debian 8

This tutorial will show you the installation of the Nginx web server on Debian 8. Nginx (pronounced “engine x”) is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server. Nginx is known for its stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and low resource consumption. The setup includes PHP and MariaDB and is ready to use its as hosting system for CMS systems like WordPress, Joomla, Drupal etc.

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Crytek Unveils its Next-Generation, VR-Enabled Game Engine CryEngine V

cryengine 2016 CE VCrytek unveiled its next-generation video game development engine, CryEngine, and it supports virtual reality headsets. The Frankfurt, Germany-based company made the announcement at an event at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. VR is expected to become a $30 billion industry by 2020, according to tech adviser Digi-Capital. 

“Game engines that allow for lifelike rendering in real time will be at the forefront of this revolution,†said Frank Vitz, the creative director at Crytek. 

The engine is uses a â€œpay what you want†basis for its business model, Vitz said. The company is also investing heavily in tools for content creation for VR.

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FlyElephant Platform Adds Private Repositories

FlyElephant announced a number of upgrades that allow users to work with private repositories with an improved system security and good task functionality, including public API and improved logging.

“FlyElephant is a platform for scientists, providing a computing infrastructure for calculations, helping to find partners for the collaboration on projects, and managing all data from one place. FlyElephant automates routine tasks and helps to focus on core research issues.” 

It uses the Azure cloud as a computational resource. Users can run computing tasks written in C++ (with support for OpenMP), R, Python, Octave, Scilab, Java, Julia, OpenFOAM, GROMACS, Blender on servers from 1 to 32 cores and up to 448 GB. 

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KaOS Linux Releases Updated ISO Image: A Clean, Simple, and Solid Linux

kaos1KaOS is a specialty Linux rolling distribution focused on the KDE desktop. I have tested the latest release on several of my systems, with mixed results.

KaOS Linux is an unusual case in the world of Linux distributions. First, because it is not derived from any other distribution; second, because it is so tightly focused on the KDE desktop; and third, because it is a rolling distribution. When you put those three things together, it makes it interesting enough for me to keep KaOS Linux loaded on one or two of my laptops.

The KaOS developers recently announced the availability of a new stable ISO image. Because KaOS is a rolling distribution, it is not necessary to reinstall an existing system when a new image is released; simply making sure that you keep up with the official updates is sufficient. 

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Google Gets into Marketing Cloud with Analytics 360 Suite

Google Analytics 360 Suite, a new marketing cloud platform, is designed to help digital marketers make sense of vast pools of customer data.

Google launched a new marketing cloud platform for large enterprises. The Google Analytics 360 Suite is a set of tools designed to help marketers measure campaigns, compile data from various sources, and share insights for automated, or programmatic, marketing. Google has been working on its Analytics 360 Suite for three years, and it is the most comprehensive marketing platform from Google to date, according to the company. The new tools pit the company against notable rivals in the marketing cloud industry, including tech giants Salesforce, Oracle and Adobe. 

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Western Digital Offers Raspberry Pi Community 314GB Drive

WE-pi-driveAMThe PiDrive 314GB device is based on Western Digital’s high-volume 500GB platform with design changes made specifically for Raspberry Pi.

WDLabs, a business growth incubator of storage solutions specialist Western Digital (WD) announced availability of the WD PiDrive 314GB, a storage device engineered to serve the Raspberry Pi community.Featuring low-power USB operation, reliability and ease of integration, the WD PiDrive 314 GB HDD is designed to support Raspberry Pi growth by addressing barriers to hard drive adoption such as power loading and system set-up.

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8 Enters Beta

Although it’s no longer the leading edge of Red Hat’s product portfolio, RHEL 6 is still getting new features. 

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8 officially enters its beta stage today, providing users of Red Hat’s Linux platform with new features, some of which had already debuted in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 in November 2015.While the RHEL 7 product branch first became generallyavailable in June 2014, Red Hat has a long life cycle for its products. RHEL 6, which was first released in November 2010, is still in what Red Hat refers to as Product Phase 1,… 

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How To: Install/Upgrade to Linux Kernel 4.5 in Ubuntu/Linux Mint Systems

The Linux Kernel 4.5 is now available for the users, announced Linus Torvalds. This Linux Kernel version comes with plenty of fixes and improvements. This article will guide you to install or upgrade to Linux Kernel 4.5 in your Ubuntu or Linux Mint system.

Installation

For 32-Bit Systems

Download the .deb packages.

$ wget kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.5-wily/linux-headers-4.5.0-040500_4.5.0-040500.201603140130_all.deb
$ wget kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.5-wily/linux-headers-4.5.0-040500-generic_4.5.0-040500.201603140130_i386.deb
$ wget kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.5-wily/linux-image-4.5.0-040500-generic_4.5.0-040500.201603140130_i386.deb

Install them.

$ sudo dpkg -i linux-headers-4.5.0*.deb linux-image-4.5.0*.deb

Reboot the system.

sudo reboot

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