VDI comes to the Raspberry Pi

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December 14, 2015

raspberry pi official case The Raspberry Pi is now a threat to thin clients. Citrix has been fooling around with the Pi as a desktop virtualisation (VDI) target for a while, even releasing a prototype Citrix Receiver for the little computers. That effort was in early 2014.

Citrix has since decided it was inefficient to put a lot of effort into creating a special version of Receiver for one device, so instead set to â€œworking with the Pi Organization to ensure our existing Linux Receiver would work with their new Pi2 architecture and supported OS images.â€

7-Way Linux Laptop Comparison From Sandy Bridge To Broadwell

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Phoronix

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December 14, 2015

For those curious about how Intel’s laptop/ultrabook CPUs have evolved over the past few generations and whether it’s worthwhile upgrading from one generation to the next, here’s a fresh Linux laptop comparison with seven different laptops being tested on Ubuntu 15.10 x86_64 and comparing these laptops from Sandy Bridge to Broadwell on a variety of workloads while also doing some performance-per-Watt measurements.

GNOME Maps 3.20 Is Going to Be a Really Big Update

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Softpedia

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December 14, 2015

gnome-maps-3-20 GNOME Maps is one of the many components of the GNOME stack, and it looks like the upcoming 3.20 version will get some pretty cool features.

Not all the packages get big improvements when they move from one version to another. In fact, for many packages in the GNOME stack, not a lot happens. GNOME Maps is not one of those apps, and it’s becoming more useful with each new release.

Advanced Audio Control on Linux

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Falko Timme

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December 14, 2015

Linux audio control is as messed up as the Linux audio system structure. The default and only option of setting the volume level may be enough for the majority of users out there, but it certainly isn’t the best when you want to set specific audio levels, or define individual settings for different audio sources, etc. Here is a post on a selection of utilities that could help you get the sound you want on your Linux system.

Consumers Express Interest in IoT, Concerns Over Privacy

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eWeek

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December 14, 2015

290x195datasecure1 Nearly one-third of those that browse shopping websites make an online purchase using their mobile phone, the survey found.

American consumers are increasingly opting to embrace a lifestyle that can be facilitated with your mobile phone, according to a Deloitte survey of more than 2,000 U.S. consumers.This year’s survey results showed a dramatic increase in the use of mobile phones to make in-store payments with a nearly four-fold increase from 5 percent in 2014 to 18 percent today.

AIO RDO Liberty && several external networks VLAN provider setup

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Boris Derzhavets

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December 14, 2015

Post bellow is addressing the question when AIO RDO Liberty Node has to have external networks of VLAN type with predefined vlan tags. Straight forward `packstack –allinone` install doesn’t allow to achieve desired network configuration. External network provider of vlan type appears to be required. In particular case, office networks 10.10.10.0/24 vlan tagged (157) ,10.10.57.0/24 vlan tagged (172), 10.10.32.0/24 vlan tagged (200) already exists when RDO install is running.

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Hands-On: Ubuntu MATE on the Raspberry Pi 2

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ZDNet

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December 14, 2015

The faster and more powerful Raspberry Pi 2 makes it possible to run more and different operating systems than with earlier versions. Here is my first-hand experience loading and running Ubuntu MATE on the Pi.

When the original Raspberry Pi came out, some people had high hopes for it as a low-cost general-purpose desktop computer. Especially because it was running Raspbian (a derivative of Debian GNU/Linux) it seemed like a good prospect. Although it booted to a CLI text console, it also included the LXDE desktop and you could easily configure it to boot to the GUI rather than the CLI. It seemed pretty promising.

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How To Read CPUID Instruction For Each CPU on Linux With x86info and cpuid Commands

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Vivek Gite

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December 14, 2015

Is there a CPU-Z like a freeware/open source software that detects the central processing unit (CPU) of a modern personal computer in Linux operating system? How can I get detailed information about the CPU(s) gathered from the CPUID instruction, including the exact model of CPU(s) on Linux operating system? There are three programs on Linux operating system that can provide CPUID information and these tools are useful to find out if specific advanced features such as virtualization, extended page tables, encryption and more:

Torrent Websites Infect 12 Million Users a Month With Malware

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ZDNet

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December 14, 2015

If you visit torrent search websites to pirate software, the risk isn’t only through the law. Hundreds of websites used to find links to torrent files for downloading pirated content are serving millions of visitors malware every month, new research has discovered.

While there is a current misconception that torrent search websites — such as the Pirate Bay and KickAss Torrents — are only used to facilitate piracy, this isn’t the case. Torrent files facilitate the download of large files across peer-to-peer networking, and in itself this technology is not illegal and can be highly useful in finding license-free content or sharing large files with one another.

Samsung’s Galaxy S7 Will Have a Pressure-Sensing Screen: WSJ

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The Verge

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December 14, 2015

verge-020.0.0.0 Samsung’s Galaxy S7 is coming in March and will feature a pressure-sensitive screen similar to the 3D Touch display Apple introduced with the iPhone 6S, The Wall Street Journal reports. Like Samsung’s current flagship, the Galaxy S6, the S7 will also reportedly have an “Edge” variant with a curved screen; one source says the regular, non-Edge version is likely to have expandable storage, unlike both S6 models.

The WSJ says the S7 will look “largely similar” to the S6, but while the camera is said to have been improved, there will reportedly be no “bump” on the back of the phone to accommodate the optics.