Zenwalk 8.0 Linux Distribution Now In Beta

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January 26, 2016

It’s been a while since last having anything to report on with the Zenwalk Linux distribution originally derived from Slackware. However, I was pleasantly surprised to see this afternoon that Zenwalk 8.0 is now in beta. The Zenwalk 8.0 release is switching to Chromium as its default browser, is using the latest Xfce desktop components, is powered by the Linux 4.4 LTS kernel, …

Distribution Release: ROSA R7 “Desktop Fresh”

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January 26, 2016

ROSA R7 “Desktop Fresh”, a desktop Linux distribution featuring a customised KDE 4.14.8 desktop, has been released: “The ROSA company gladly presents ROSA Desktop Fresh KDE R7 – a distribution from the ROSA Desktop Fresh family with the KDE 4 desktop environment. Technical changes in comparison to the previous release (R6): the default set of applications has been adjusted – new programs include Kup for backups and Kamoso to work with web cameras, while KWallet has been removed from default installation; default installation now contains even more media codecs,…

IBM Refreshes LinuxONE, Expands Platform’s Ecosystem

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eWeek

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January 26, 2016

290x195linux2012 IBM enhances LinuxONE for hybrid cloud environments, adding data management and API tools for service providers, small, mid-size businesses.

IBM has announced a host of new features and collaborations for its LinuxONE family of high-performance Linux systems, broadening its ecosystem and adding new platform support.The enhancements will enable organizations of all sizes to develop, deploy and manage applications for the cloud with robust security, IBM said.A key move to expand the LinuxONE ecosystem includes providing support for the Go programming language.

Public Cloud Services Spending to Grow Rapidly, Gartner and IDC Say

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eWeek

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January 26, 2016

Spending in 2016 will hit $204 billion, according to Gartner analysts, while IDC says it will reach more than $141 billion by 2019. Spending on public cloud services will increase sharply this year and through 2019, according to analysts with IDC and Gartner.

In a report Jan. 25, Gartner analysts said the global public cloud services market will jump 16.5 percent this year compared with 2015.

In a report issued last week, IDC analysts took a look at projected market growth in public cloud spending between 2014 and 2019, when the space will increase by 19.4 percent, to more than $141 billion. The growth rate is almost six times the rate of overall IT spending during that time, the analysts said.

Time-lapse Video: Edison Supercomputer Moves to Berkeley

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January 26, 2016

edison-150x150 In this video, engineers move the NERSC Edison Supercomputer from Oakland to Berkeley. The one week long move is condensed into :41 seconds in this time lapse video, shot during the entire process. Edison is a Cray XC30, with a peak performance of 2.57 petaflops/sec, 133,824 compute cores, 357 terabytes of memory, and 7.56 petabytes of disk.

Linux 101: Check Disk Space Command

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Linux.com Editorial Staff

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January 26, 2016

I recently switched from a Windows server to a Linux server operating system. I am using Ubuntu LTS server. How do I find out disk space utilization information using command line option?

Linux command to check disk space

df command – Shows the amount of disk space used and available on Linux file systems.
du command – Display the amount of disk space used by the specified files and for each subdirectory.
btrfs fi df /device/ – Show disk space usage information for a btrfs based mount point/file system. Read more

Find Out If Patch Number ( CVE ) Has Been Applied To RHEL / CentOS Linux

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Vivek Gite

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January 26, 2016

I know how to update my system using the yum command. So many many vulnerabilities out there, how can I find out that patch has been applied to a package? How do I search CVE patch number applied to a package under a Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS/RHEL/Fedora Linux based system?

GitLab Rev Zeroes in on Speed, Search, and GitHub

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InfoWorld

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January 25, 2016

On the occasion of its 50th release, GitLab challenges GitHub with performance monitoring and faster search.

GitLab, a code-hosting alternative to GitHub, is adding performance monitoring and “super-powered” search to the 50th release of the platform. Version 8.4, unveiled late last week, also makes it easier to work with large files or large volumes of artifacts. Performance monitoring gathers data on the time it took to complete a transaction, time spent running SQL queries, time spent executing Ruby methods, and system statistics like process memory usage.

How to Use Docker in a Practical Way (Part 1 – Introduction)

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Falko Timme

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January 25, 2016

It is not an uncommon situation, for early adopters of newly introduced concepts and technologies, to be totally confused when these can fundamentally change the ways of developing and delivering services. Especially when everybody talks about something like Docker, and how awesome and game changing it is. This confusion happens when we try things early on and rushing straight to testing them without grasping the whole concept and background of this newly introduced technology.

42 Best Free Linux Video Software

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Steve Emms

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January 25, 2016

There is an excellent set of free, open source video software available on the Linux platform which is both fully featured and mature. Become a digital video editing master, turn your Linux machine into a Home Theatre box are two options that are explored in this article.

We previously published an article on excellent open source video tools in 2008. Some of the tools featured in that article have ceased development. There were often developed by one or a few developers. They ceased working on the projects, in part because better alternatives sprung forward. Given the length of time that has elapsed, we thought it best to update the article.

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