NGINX Plus Release 8 Fully Supports HTTP/2, Field Tests OAuth2

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January 20, 2016

Fracturing a siteâ€™s contents into a plurality of arbitrary domains to improve performance is still being taught as a legitimate practice for Web servers. It remains the best way to get around HTTP 1.1â€™s maximum limitation of six connections per host, and the, even more, draconian limit of two connections for older browsers such as Internet Explorer 7.

HTTP 1.1 was not designed to support the Web we actually use today, not to mention its inadequacy as the transport protocol for a world of microservices. Last September, NGINX introduced Release 7 of its commercial Web service gateway NGINX Plus.

Dell Preps Open Networking System

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January 20, 2016

Dell is hoping to challenge networking incumbents by offering a platform that disaggregates hardware and software and rides on open source. Dell’s networking unit on Wednesday outlined its Operating System 10 platform, which aims to disaggregate hardware and the underlying software.

In data centers, networking players are increasingly decoupling their operating systems from their hardware. Cisco, Juniper, Arista, Brocade and others have moved to offer their networking software separate from hardware.

Facebook’s Android App: Now Tor Lets You Connect Anonymously

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January 20, 2016

For people who want to use Facebook anonymously, the social network is now allowing Tor access directly from its Android app, expanding on its existing support from Tor-enabled browsers.

Facebook is rolling out a new feature on its Android app that will let mobile users access the social network anonymously over The Onion Router network, or Tor. You might not think of Facebook as a champion of privacy but the company did break new ground by launching an .onion address in 2014, so users could access the social network anonymously, without giving up their real location.

Snappy Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Will Let You Build Kernel Snaps via Snapcraft, Says Mark Shuttleworth

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January 20, 2016

snappy-ubuntu-16-04 Ubuntu on the phone, tablet or desktop is not the only thing Canonical is working on in 2016, as Mark Shuttleworth and his team of skilled IoT engineers over Canonical are planning great new features for the Snappy Ubuntu Core operating system for embedded and Internet of Things devices.

We reported last week that Canonical announced the release of new Snappy Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) images with the all-snap architecture for Raspberry Pi 2 and 64-bit devices, powered by Snappy 2.0. At the moment, all these technologies are in development, but they will get a final release on April 21, 2016.

How to block an IP address with ufw on Ubuntu Linux server

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January 20, 2016

I am using UFW to manage firewall on my Ubuntu Linux 12.04/14.04 LTS server. I need to block a specific IP address from accessing my server. How do I block an IP address using ufw?

How To Patch and Protect Linux Kernel Zero Day Vulnerability CVE-2016-0728 [ 19/Jan/2016 ]

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Vivek Gite

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January 20, 2016

A very serious security problem has been found in the Linux kernel. A 0-day local privilege escalation vulnerability has existed since 2012. This bug affects millions of Android or Linux applications to escalate privileges. Any server or desktop (32 or 64 bit) with Linux Kernel version 3.8+ is vulnerable. How do I fix this problem?

Deepin Takes Linux to New Depths

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January 20, 2016

deepin The latest release of the Linux distro now called “Depth OS” deserves serious consideration. It is fast, reliable and innovative, with an impressive homegrown desktop design dubbed “Deepin Desktop Environment.” Depth OS has a bit of an identity problem. It’s not well known outside Asia and Europe, but that’s not the major cause of confusion. The problem is that the open source community that developed the distro seems to have a difficult time deciding what to call it. It has had several names, including “Hiweed GNU/Linux,” “Linux Deepin,” “Deepin” and now “Depth OS.”…

Why Sustainable Software Needs a Change in the Culture of Science

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January 20, 2016

“Scientific research is dependent on maintaining and advancing a wide variety of software. However, software development, production, and maintenance are people-intensive; software lifetimes are long compared to hardware; and the value of software is often underappreciated. Because software is not a one-time effort, it must be sustained, meaning that it must be continually updated to work in environments that are changing and to solve changing problems. Software that is not maintained will either simply stop working, or will stop being useful.”…

The goal is to encourage software developers, whatever the type of software they are developing, to do the extra work needed to make their own software sustainable and to build or join communities whose members work together on shared code. The task is how to achieve this.

New Prime Number Discovery Breaks Record at 22 Million Digits

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January 20, 2016

A new highest known prime number has been calculated, clocking in at nearly 5 million digits more than the previous record holder.

Prime numbers, which can only be divisible by themselves, are presumably infinite. However, the higher you count, the fewer and farther between prime numbers are. The previous highest known prime number held the record for nearly three years. On January 25, 2013, 2 to the power of 57,885,161 minus 1, a figure 17,425,170 digits long, was announced by Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search… GIMPS has just announced a new record.

$65 Hacker Board Runs 64-Bit Linux on Quad-Core Atom

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January 19, 2016

jaguarboard hand-thm The Linux- and Android-friendly “JaguarBoard” SBC, based on a 64-bit quad core Atom processor, has achieved 600 percent of its Kickstarter funding goal.

Hong Kong-based Jaguar Electronic HK’s successful Kickstarter campaign for a $65 “JaguarBoard” SBC based on the quad-core Intel Atom Z3735G processor will end on Jan 22, having conjured up more than six times its modest $3,000 funding goal. Manufacturing of the first batch of boards is in process, with first shipments expected to go out within a few weeks, says the company. Once the Kickstarter project closes, the retail price is expected to rise to $79.