2015 was an extremely good year for open source, in general. Enterprise customers embraced open source at an unprecedented rate. Not only that, arch rivals came together to work on shared technologies like Cloud Foundry and OpenStack. And we saw traditional proprietary companies like Microsoft and Apple release their software as open source. It was an exciting year.Read more at CIO.com
More and more enterprises are putting cloud technologies to work–but they’re still missing out on key opportunities. Here are some ideas to consider for the year to come.
In 2015, industry research showed that 88% of enterprises were using some type of cloud technology. Despite this, there are still ways to utilize the cloud that are relatively unexploited by a majority of businesses. Here are 10 of them.
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While Linux 4.5 brings support for PowerPlay in the AMDGPU DRM driver to allow the modern discrete Radeon graphics cards to run much faster thanks to re-clocking, this major feature isn’t being enabled by default for Linux 4.5.
AMDGPU PowerPlay for graphics cards like Tonga and Fiji isn’t enabled by default with the code in DRM-Next for Linux 4.5. There are basically two steps needed to ensure there is working AMDGPU PowerPlay support on 4.5.
The Missing Maps project, which launched in 2014, aims to literally and figuratively put more than 20-million at-risk people on the map using OpenStreetMap (OSM) as a platform. We need to fill in “missing maps” before the next disaster strikes, ensuring the maps have detail sufficient for emergency responders to hit the ground running.
OpenStreetMap is an open and free source of geographic data. Anyone with a username can add, edit, or update data, so the Missing Maps project is community driven and focuses on local knowledge. Remote volunteers around the world use satellite imagery to trace features, such as roads and buildings.
This the distribution’s first version based on Debian GNU/Linux 8.0 and it comes with the GNOME Shell desktop in “Fallback” mode. From the release announcement: Tails 2.0 will be the first version of Tails based on Debian 8 ‘Jessie’. As such, it upgrades essentially all included software.
Jigish Gohil had the great pleasure of announcing the release and immediate availability for download of the openSUSE Edu Li-f-e 42.1 operating system targeted at schools and educational institutions.
As its version number suggests, openSUSE Edu Li-f-e 42.1 has been based on the openSUSE Leap 42.1 computer operating system, which means that it inherits all of its features and software. However, openSUSE Edu Li-f-e (Linux for Education) includes a broad range of education applications for both students and teachers.
