The Talos Secure Workstation Is A High-Performance Libre System

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February 5, 2016

Raptor Engineering is working on the Talos Secure Workstation, which is being advertised as a high-performance, open-to-the-firmware system that is much better than the commonly antiquated “freed” x86 systems. However, getting a high-performance, free software friendly workstation doesn’t come cheap…

APT (Advanced Package Tool) 1.2.2 Brings Back Build-Dep Command

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Softpedia

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February 5, 2016

apt-advanced-package APT (Advanced Package Tool), a set of core tools inside Debian that make it possible to install, remove, and keep applications up to date, has been upgraded once more, and a few important changes and improvements have been made.

APT is an acronym for Advanced Package Tool, and most of the Linux users have heard of it, even if they don’t use Debian or any Debian derivative. It’s one of the most important packages in any distribution, and it’s been around for a very long time.

Deep Introduces deepSQL and Combines SQL with Cloud

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The Linux Foundation

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February 5, 2016

Deep Information Sciences is unveiling a new solution that combines a MySQL-compliant database with cloud- and resource-awareness. Called deepSQL, the solution aims to help companies meet real-time customer demands while providing the automated scalability to capitalize on unforeseen business surges.

Features include fast HTAP performance at scale, is built on an architecture that can handle complex environments, … and supports cloud automation frameworks such as VMware vCloud Director, Vagrant, and Chef.

Android Wear Gets Wide Marshmallow Rollout, Adds Speaker and LTE Support

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ArsTechnica

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February 5, 2016

AndroidWear-Designed The Android 6.0 Marshmallow update for Android Wear is back. The update debuted on the disastrousLG Watch Urbane 2nd Edition LTE in November, but due to “image quality issues,” LG pulled the watch from the market after only six days. The Marshmallow Android Wear update seemed to go down with the Watch Urbane, and the update went missing in action for the last two months. According to a post on the Official Android Blog, it’s now back and will now roll out to “all Android Wear watches over the next few weeks.”

Enterprise Cloud Performs Best with DevOps, Software-Defined Networks

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ZDNet

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February 5, 2016

A survey of F5 customers confirms everything is connected.

Hybrid cloud is in the plans of nine out of ten organizations, and DevOps and software-defined networking (SDN) are considered the best supporting approaches to making cloud services succeed. This is one of the takeaways from a recentsurvey of 3.002 IT executives and managers, conducted among the customer base of F5 Networks, Inc.

The survey explored the connection between cloud implementations and DevOps, and found some interesting relationships.

SmartBear Moves APIs Beyond Code With SwaggerHub

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eWeek

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February 5, 2016

SmartBear’s new SwaggerHub release makes APIs first-class software artifacts and supports private APIs and collaboration tools for the API lifecycle.

Software development tools provider SmartBear Softwarehas released a major upgrade to its SwaggerHub developer collaboration environment.SwaggerHub is a place for development teams to collaborate and coordinate the entire lifecycle of an API. With the new release, SwaggerHub users can now create organizations and teams to organize, share and collaborate on Swagger API definitions directly in SwaggerHub, where public and private APIs are stored in a single, easy to use SaaS product.

Thoughts on Monitoring file changes with Linux over the network

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Falko Timme

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February 5, 2016

Monitoring a directory for changes with Linux is possible through the well-known mechanism inotify. With inotify it’s possible to set a watch on a directory, configure it to watch events on the contents, and you’ll receive messages on a file descriptor when something happens. This works perfectly when the directory is on local storage, like a hard drive, SSD or a USB drive, But it is not sufficient when the directory is on a network filesystem when the storage is on another computer. Another user working in the same directory, connected via the same or another filesystem, can remove a file and the watch you’ve set on it will not get notified.

Rugged Turing Phone to Run on Sailfish OS, Not Android

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LinuxInsider

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February 5, 2016

blackphone Turing Robotic Industries this week announced that it has uninstalled Google’s Android mobile platform in favor of Jolla’s Sailfish OS in its yet-to-appear secure smartphone. The Turing Phone, molded from a single unit of the Liquidmorphium liquid-metal alloy, is designed to be more durable to absorb shocks and prevent screen breakage. Preorder pricing ranges from $610 for the 16-GB version to $870 for the 128-GB model. TRI started taking preorders for the smartphone last year….

The Sailfish OS is optimized to run fast on the Turing Phones and the Snapdragon 801 processor, according to the notice.

CoreOS Launches Docker Rival Rkt 1.0

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eWeek

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February 5, 2016

After more than a year of development, the container runtime gets a stable, production-ready 1.0 release. CoreOS released today rkt (pronounced Rock-it) 1.0, providing container users with an alternative runtime to Docker. CoreOS first announced rkt in December 2014 after dissatisfaction arose with the state of the Docker runtime.While rkt is a competitor to the Docker runtime, users will still be able to run application containers that have been built with Docker tools.

How to Install Redmine 3 with Nginx on Ubuntu 15.10

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Falko Timme

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February 4, 2016

Redmine is an open source project management and issue tracking tool based on the Ruby on Rails Framework. This tutorial covers the Redmine 3 installation with Nginx as the web server and MySQL as the database on Ubuntu 15.10 (64 Bit) operating system.