Open Source Encryption? Now Netherlands Votes to Help Fund Security Projects

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December 9, 2015

password In what some might see as swimming against the political mainstream, the Netherlands parliament has just decided to back open-source web security with hard cash.

While November’s Paris attacks prompted US and European governments to revisit the debate over back-door policies to soften data encryption, the Netherlands lower house has voted to fund projects to strengthen it.

In total, the Dutch lower house agreed to spend €500,000 ($547,000) to support the open-source OpenSSL, LibreSSL, and PolarSSL web-security projects.

How to install and configure ZFS on Linux using Debian Jessie 8.1

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Falko Timme

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December 9, 2015

ZFS is a combined file system and logical volume manager. The features of ZFS include protection against data corruption, support for high storage capacities, efficient data compression, integration of the concepts of filesystem and volume management, snapshots and copy-on-write clones, continuous integrity checking and automatic repair, RAID-Z and native NFSv4 ACLs. This tutorial will show you how to install ZFS on Debian 8.

Bright Cluster Manage Integrates with Dell PowerEdge Servers for HPC Environments

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insideHPC

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December 9, 2015

Today Bright Computing announced that the latest version of its Bright Cluster Manager software, version 7.1, is now integrated with Dell’s 13th generation PowerEdge server portfolio. The integration enables systems administrators to easily deploy and configure Dell infrastructure using Bright Cluster Manager.

The latest version of Bright Cluster Manager is deeply integrated with Dell’s industry-leading PowerEdge servers to simplify the management and operation of clusters.

Raspberry Pi: New Releases of Raspbian and NOOBS

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ZDNet

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December 9, 2015

Amid all the excitement of the Raspberry Pi Zero announcement, a new Raspbian release and the corresponding NOOBS package were often overlooked. Here’s my take on them.The day before the announcement of the Raspberry Pi Zero, a new version of Raspbian Linux very quietly appeared in the Raspberry Pi Downloads, along with a new NOOBS archive that included it. As there was no release announcement made at that time, and then there was so much excitement about the Raspberry Pi Zero the next day, the Raspbian release slipped past almost entirely unnoticed.

Unity 5.3 Game Engine Moves to OpenGL 4.x Core

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Softpedia

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December 9, 2015

The Unity game engine has been upgraded to version 5.3, and its developers have made a series of very important improvements to it. Unity is one of the most successful gaming engines out there, and it’s being used by too many games to count. Some of the more famous include Angry Birds 2, Pillars of Eternity, Shadowrun: Hong Kong, Sword Coast Legends, Torment: Tides of Numenera, Kerbal Space Program, Ori and the Blind Forest, Fallout Shelter, Cities: Skylines, and many others. And these are just from 2015.

6 Motivations for Consuming Or Publishing Open Source Software

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OpenSource.com

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December 9, 2015

BUS OSwhy 520x292 ma 2 Open source is awesome, and there are many reasons why you might consider consuming, publishing, collaborating on, or supporting open source.¹ Here are a few of them:

1. Microeconomic motivations

Open source is in your best interest, whether you’re an individual, a corporation, a small business, a non-profit, or a government agency.

Git 2.6.4 Open Source Distributed Version Control System Has Many Improvements and Fixes

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Softpedia

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December 9, 2015

git-version-control-system The Git developers have announced the release and immediate availability for download of the fourth maintenance build for the stable Git 2.6 branch of the world’s most popular distributed version control system.

According to the internal changelog, attached at the end of the article for reference, Git 2.6.4 is here to add support for talking HTTP and HTTPS over socks proxy, to improve the “configure” script with support for -lpthread testing, as well as to support ignoring of standard input for all hooks.

10 Top Most Popular Linux Distributions of 2015

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Ravi Saive

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December 9, 2015

As the end of 2015 approaches, it is not only a time to start drafting your new year’s resolutions but also to check out what were the most popular Linux distributions in 2015. A brief comparison with 2014 will also help us whether those distros are actually experiencing sustained growth or not. Ready to start? Let’s b

http://www.tecmint.com/10-top-most-popular-linux-distributions-of-2015/

Meet the World’s First Commercial Remotely Controlled Drones, Powered by Ubuntu

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Softpedia

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December 9, 2015

drones-powered-by-ubuntu UAVIA, a French company that develops inspection and surveillance drones controlled remotely without human intervention on the ground, announced the availability of the first commercial 100% remotely operable drones powered by Ubuntu.

The announcement has been made during the TechCrunch Disrupt event that takes place these days at the Copper Box Theatre in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, in London, United Kingdom, where UAVIA has demonstrated its impressive Ubuntu-powered drones in the hardware alley. The drones are powered by Canonical’s Snappy Ubuntu Core…

Linux Desktop Fun: Christmas Tree For Your Terminal

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Vivek Gite

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December 9, 2015

Let us create Linux or Unix console Christmas tree just for fun and profit. First, you need to install a Perl module called Acme::POE::Tree. It is an animated Christmas tree module. I’ve tested this on Linux, OS X and Unix-like system.