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Error 451: The New HTTP Code for Censorship

If you wish to know how the Internet is restricted by governments, the new 451 protocol will tell you.

Governments will not always be able to disguise which content they restrict across the Web thanks to a new error code which will warn users of content restricted through censorship.

On Friday, the group responsible for Internet standards, the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG), approved a new HTTP code to differentiate between Web pages which cannot be shown for technical reasons and others which are unavailable for non-technical reasons, such as governmental censorship.

Read more at ZDNet News

Solus 1.0 Linux Launches on the First Day of Christmas with AMD GPU Driver Support

solus-1Josh Strobl from the Solus Project had the enormous pleasure of informing the world about the official release date for the Solus 1.0 Linux kernel-based computer operating system on December 25, 2015.

The development of Solus 1.0 started at the end of 2014, when the first Alpha builds were being distributed to a limited number of people for testing purposes, under the name of Evolve OS. A year has passed, and Solus 1.0 will finally see the light of day after three Beta builds and a Release Candidate (RC) version.

VMware, Xen Issue Urgent Patches

It’s going to be a virtual Christmas for virtualisation admins. VMware has let it be known that its vRealize Orchestrator, vRealize Operations, vCenter Operations and vCenter Application Discovery Manager products all need fixing to harden them against “a critical deserialization vulnerability”.

The flaw involves “Apache Commons-collections and a specially constructed chain of classes” and can result in “result in remote code execution, with the permissions of the application using the Commons-collections library.”

Read more at The Register

Income Idea For Linux Software – Interactive Information

This is just food for thought. As an income generating idea for Linux software or projects. Like the Ubuntu MATE or the Linux Mint distribution I’m currently running. I thought why not turn some of the documentation to an interactive tutorial. Then to earn some money why not make an Android application of it. The application “Learn Python” from SoloLearn is a perfect example of how one could do this. So the idea is very simple. Since people behind these distributions and other Linux software make documentation. They could also make an Interactive Tutorial Application for Android and then maybe charge a little money for that. I’m pretty sure this is an easier way to get funding rather then by donations only. // peroglyfer.se

Linus Torvalds Announces the Sixth Linux Kernel 4.4 LTS Release Candidate

Just a few minutes ago, December 21, 2015, Linus Torvalds had the great pleasure of announcing the release and immediate availability for download and testing of the sixth RC (Release Candidate) build of the upcoming Linux 4.4 LTS kernel.

According to Mr. Torvalds, Linux kernel 4.4 LTS RC6 is yet another quiet, small and fairly normal development milestone that consists of a little over 60% drivers updates, 16% core networking improvements, 13% hardware architecture fixes, and the rest of 10% is split among filesystems updates, documentation enhancements, header files, and various other under-the-hood improvements.

CentOS 7 Linux Officially Released for Raspberry Pi 2, Banana Pi, and CubieTruck

centos-7-linuxKaranbir Singh from the CentOS team had the great pleasure of announcing the general availability of the CentOS 7 Linux operating system for the ARM hardware architecture.

At the moment of writing this article, the CentOS developers didn’t write any release notes on their website about what new features and optimizations have been implemented in the ARM port of the latest CentOS 7 Linux operating system, except for the very brief announcement posted on their Twitter account… 

Wine 1.8 Officially Released for Linux After One and a Half Years in the Making

Today, December 19, 2015, the team of developers behind the Wine project, an open source software that lets Linux users run games and apps built for the Microsoft Windows operating system, were extremely proud to announce the final and stable release, as well as the immediate availability for download of Wine 1.8.

Wine 1.8 comes after one and a half years in the making, during which the Wine team released over 50 milestones under the 1.7 development branch, as well as four RC (Release Candidate) builds. It was one of the greatest efforts in the history of open source software and includes over 13,000 changes.

OpenMandriva Is Working On A Server Linux Distribution

OpenMandriva has largely been a desktop-focused Linux distribution but now apparently they have set their sights on assembling a server offering. OpenMandriva’s Kate Lebedeff has shared with us that the project is assembling a server distribution. OpenMandriva OMLxs Server is intended to be a stable environment for Docker…

Read more at Phoronix

Best Command Line PNG Tools

There are lots of tools for manipulating PNG files. This article provides a roundup of excellent open source tools for optimizing the compression of PNG files, covering both lossless and lossy compression.

<A HREF=”http://www.linuxlinks.com/article/20151219045905117/PNGTools.html“>Full article</A>

How to Install MEAN.JS JavaScript Stack on Ubuntu 15.04

MEAN.JS is a full javascript stack that contains MongoDB, Express, AngularJS, and Node.js. In this tutorial, I will show you how to install MEAN.JS on ubuntu 15.04. We will install MongoDB from the Ubuntu repository and install Node.js and the npm package manager with the nodesource script.

Read more at HowtoForge