Linux’s Open Mainframe Project Declares Areas of Focus

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February 24, 2016

The Linux Foundation is announcing new areas of focus for its Open Mainframe Project. The Open Mainframe Project is a collaborative effort launched six months ago as a focal point for the deployment and use of the Linux OS on the mainframe.

The new areas of focus were determined by the project’s technical steering committee, and they emphasize compatibility and support for growing technologies. The technical initiatives include:

JIT for OpenJDK, where the project will work on adding JIT support to the z port of OpenJDK.
Docker support to enhance Docker for highly available virtualized systems…

Researchers Create Super-Efficient Wi-Fi

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ArsTechnica

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February 24, 2016

passive wifi-640x307 Passive Wi-Fi consumes 1/10,000th the power of conventional wireless networks.

A team of computer scientists and electrical engineers from the University of Washington has developed an extremely power-efficient version of Wi-Fi wireless networking technology that consumes 10,000 times less power than the current Wi-Fi components, allowing Wi-Fi networking to be built into a much wider range of devices. The team will present a paper (PDF) with the results of their research into what they have dubbed Passive Wi-Fi at the upcoming USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation in March.

How to Install PostgreSQL 9.5 on Ubuntu (12.04 – 15.10)

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Falko Timme

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February 24, 2016

This tutorial shows the installation of the latest PostgreSQL 9.5 version on Ubuntu. We will use the official repository from postgresql.org, so you can update your server easily in future and get direct updates and patches from the database vendor. The steps have been tested with Ubuntu versions from 12.04 until 15.10.

Linux Mint Forum Database Compromised for at Least a Month Before Announcement

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Softpedia

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February 24, 2016

linux-mint-forum copy The Linux Mint forum database was sold on January 16, a full month before users were made aware of a breach. When the Linux Mint team announced that someone managed to hack their website and redirected the people who were downloading the Linux Mint ISO to a modified version of the OS, they were fully aware that their reputation would suffer.

Even if the breach had nothing to do with the operating system itself, it’s still something that remains in the collective mind of the public…

Upcoming Features in GCC 6

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LWN

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February 24, 2016

The Red Hat developer blog looks at what’s coming in version 6 of the GNU Compiler Collection. “The x86/x86_64 is a segmented memory architecture, yet GCC has largely ignored this aspect of the Intel architecture and relied on implicit segment registers. Low level code such as the Linux kernel & glibc often have to be aware of the segmented architecture and have traditionally resorted to asm statements to use explicit segment registers for memory accesses….”

Canonical Makes the DragonBoard 410c Its Reference Ubuntu Core ARM64 Platform

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Phoronix

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February 24, 2016

Canonical has announced they are making a 64-bit ARM developer environment based on Ubuntu Core and will use the DragonBoard 410c as its reference platform. The DragonBoard 410c is Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 410 quad-core processor powered development board as part of the 96Boards program. Canonical is also making the DragonBoard 410c its reference platform for Ubuntu Core on ARM 64-bit.

Meet Pantheon Mail, a Fork of the Now Dead Geary

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Softpedia

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February 24, 2016

meet-pantheon-mail copy The elementary OS team has forked the now dead Geary email client, and they have announced the launch of Pantheon Mail.

Geary was an email application developed by a group named Yorba, but they disbanded almost a year ago. Their email client was really good and on the right track to becoming something special, but now it’s dead. The beauty of open source means that anyone can pick up the pieces and either revive it or fork it. Geary was already made available in elementary OS, so it wasn’t really a stretch for the team that builds the famous operating system to pick up where Yorba left off.

5 Tips for Growing Your Developer Community on GitHub

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OpenSource.com

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February 24, 2016

github-universe You’ve done it: you’ve taken your own personal utility, library, or web application and placed it on GitHub as free and open source software for all the world to see.

Maybe you wrote this software to fill a personal need, or maybe you’ve always hoped that it would reach more people. One thing’s certain: it’s always been yours, and yours aloneâ€”but the moment you pushed that code for the first time, your baby left the nest. What comes next is up to you.

IBM Unveils Its Own Open Source Serverless Computing Platform

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The Linux Foundation

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February 24, 2016

IBM this week launched OpenWhisk, an open source event-driven computing platform meant to be a competitor to AWS’s Lambda.

OpenWhisk includes features such as “chaining,” which allows developers to build a series of microservices and later connect them together and have them be triggered by events. The system is based on Docker containers.

Tiny Core Linux 7.0 Released

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DistroWatch

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February 24, 2016

Tiny Core Linux 7.0 has been released. This is the first stable build in the minimalist distribution’s new 7.x branch, featuring the Linux kernel 4.2.9, glibc 2.22 and GCC 5.2.0.

From the release announcement: “Team Tiny Core is proud to announce the release of Core 7.0. Changelog: Linux kernel updated to 4.2.9 with the latest stable patch, with these configuration changes – minstrel enabled for some wireless cards, vmmouse disabled for VMWare + Xvesa, the CPU limit on the 64-bit kernel raised to 64; BusyBox updated to 1.24.1; …