Git 2.7.2 Open-Source Distributed Version Control System Adds New Features

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February 24, 2016

The development team of the best free, open-source and cross-platform distributed version control system, Git, which is being used by numerous developers worldwide, have announced the release of Git 2.7.2. Git 2.7.2 is the second maintenance release in the stable Git 2.7 series. According to the release notes, which we’ve also attached at the end of the article for reference, it implements various new features to some of the commands, as well as fixes a few bugs reported by users since the previous point release.

11 online Puppet resources you should know

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Surendra Anne

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February 23, 2016

Many people asks, what are the good places to learn puppet on-line.
This post is for the people who are looking for good on-line resources free as well as paid stuff.
There are many on-line resources available at the time of writing this post. With just Google we may not find all these stuff. We have categorized those resources as below.

Puppet Official documentation

docs.puppetlabs.com

This link have many products developed by Puppet labs to support puppet automation tool. They have really good docs z will go in depth for each topic.

https://puppetlabs.com/learn/

The Puppet labs provides us with beautiful on-line self phased resource to learn Puppet. The above link is a video tutorial and an on-line practice tool. We require to register to access this resources. The Puppet labs provide us with live Linux AWS instance to start practicing Puppet. We feel the best way to learn anything is implement the things at the time of learning.

Each video is followed by notes on what you see, details about AWS VM for practicing and a quiz on what you just learn.

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List installed packages in Redhat/Centos/Fedore

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Surendra Anne

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February 23, 2016

This is a small how to on listing installed software in Redhat/Centos/Fedora Linux OS. We already written a post on how to get installed package details for Ubuntu machines. Some times we require to list software which are already installed so that we will not redo the same work by installing it once again.

Example 1: To list installed software execute below command

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Linux: How to share files on a local network with woof

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Falko Timme

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February 23, 2016

We’ve all been in this situation were we want to exchange files with other users connected to the same network as we are, and while there are tons of ways to do this, almost none of them is easy, quick, or simple enough. Thankfully, though, Linux users can utilize a small tool called “woof” that simplifies the process and makes the exchanging of files a walk in the park. What I am about to present in this short tutorial is suitable for home networks where convenience is the primary concern, and security isn’t an issue.

Acecard – One of Today’s Most Dangerous Android Trojans

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Softpedia

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February 23, 2016

acecard-trojans-500784-3 Acecard evolved from a simple information stealer to the most sophisticated Android banking trojan ever seen. The Android malware scene has a new top threat if we are to believe the security researchers from Kaspersky Lab, who identified during the past months a massive campaign being carried out using the once-benign Android Acecard malware family.

First spotted in February 2014, Acecard was initially a simple sniffer that collected information on its victims, sending it to its C&C server. Many security researchers dismissed the trojan as a simple-minded tool and ignored it,…

Intel Shows Budget Android Phone Powering Big-Screen Linux

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The Register

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February 23, 2016

MWC16 Intel is showing what it calls “Big Screen Experience” at Mobile World Congress, an Android smartphone which runs a full Linux desktop when plugged into an external display. The concept is broadly similar to Microsoft’s Continuum for Windows 10 Mobile, but whereas Continuum devices are towards the high end, Intel’s project is aimed, it says, at budget smartphones and emerging markets.

On display in Barcelona is a prototype SoFIA (Smart or Feature Phone with Intel Architecture) smartphone with an Atom x3 processor, 2GB RAM and 16GB storage, and modified to support an external display. Attach keyboard, mouse and display, and it becomes desktop Linux…

New Docker Data Center Admin Suite Should Bring Order to Containerization

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TechCrunch

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February 23, 2016

docker54-am Docker announced a new container control center today itâ€™s calling the Docker Data Center (DDC), an integrated administrative console that has been designed to give large and small businesses control over creating, managing and shipping containers.

The DDC is a new tool made up of various commercial pieces including Docker Universal Control Plane (which also happens to be generally available today) and Docker Trusted Registry. It also includes open source pieces such as Docker Engine. The idea is to give companies the ability to manage the entire lifecycle of Dockerized applications from one central administrative interface.

ARM’s Cortex A32 is a Tiny CPU for Wearables and Raspberry Pi-Like Boards

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ArsTechnica

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February 23, 2016

ARM-32-AM ARM’s Cortex CPU core designs are widely used by all kinds of chipmakers who don’t want to create their own ARM CPU designs from scratch, so it’s important to pay attention when the company announces a new one. The ones we see the most often around here are the mainstream 64-bit cores for smartphones and tabletsâ€”the high-end Cortex A72 and A57 and the mid-end Cortex A53â€”but ARM produces a variety of smaller designs for ultra-low-power and embedded applications, too.

Enter the Cortex A32, a new super-small ARM core designed specifically for wearables, Internet of Things things, embedded systems, low-cost boards like the Raspberry Pi or Pi Zero, and other places where power, space, and cost savings are more important than raw performance.

BeeGFS Parallel File System Goes Open Source

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insideHPC

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February 23, 2016

Today ThinkParQ announced that the complete BeeGFS parallel file system is now available as open source. Developed specifically for performance-critical environments, the BeeGFS parallel file system was developed with a strong focus on easy installation and high flexibility, including converged setups where storage servers are also used for compute jobs. By increasing the number of servers and disks in the system, performance and capacity of the file system can simply be scaled out to the desired level, seamlessly from small clusters up to enterprise-class systems with thousands of nodes.

Cisco, Ericsson, Intel Partnering on 5G Networking Router

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eWeek

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February 23, 2016

Cisco Systems, Intel and Ericsson are working together to create what officials for the companies are saying will be the industry’s first 5G router.

The companies made the announcement Feb. 22 at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2016 show in Barcelona, Spain, saying the router could help accelerate the pace of innovation around 5G, the next generation of cellular networking that is expected to bring up to 100 times the speed of current 4G networks and handle the rapid increase in the numbers of connected devices, the growing Internet of things (IoT) and the rising presence of video on mobile networks.

It’s also the latest step in a partnership between Cisco and Ericsson that was announced in November 2015, a move designed to help the two vendors better address a range of emerging markets—including the IoT, software-defined networking (SDN) and network-functions virtualization (NFV)—and strongly compete in a changing networking space…