It May Soon Be Possible To Build A Do-It-Yourself 64-Bit ARM Laptop

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Phoronix

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November 30, 2015

Olimex Ltd is hoping to make it possible to sell a Do-It-Yourself laptop powered by a 64-bit ARM SoC…

Garrett: What is Hacker Culture?

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LWN

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November 30, 2015

Matthew Garrett argues that meritocracy does not work as intended in development communities. “When people criticise meritocracy, they’re not criticising the concept of treating contributions based on their merit. They’re criticising the idea that humans are sufficiently self-aware that they will be able to identify and reject every subconscious prejudice that will affect their treatment of others. It’s not a criticism of a desirable goal, it’s a criticism of a flawed implementation.“

Kernel Prepatch 4.4-rc3

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LWN

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November 30, 2015

The 4.4-rc3 kernel prepatch is out for testing. “I don’t think there’s anything particularly exciting, although that obviously depends on whether some particular issue ended up affecting you or not. Most of it is pretty tiny random fixups.“

HPC Helps Drive Weather Forecasting

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insideHPC

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November 30, 2015

The computational requirements for weather forecasting are driven by the need for higher resolution models for more accurate and extended forecasts. In addition, more physics and chemistry processes are included in the models so we can observe the very fine features of weather behavior. These models operate on 3D grids that encompass the globe. The closer the points on the grid are to each other, the more accurate the results.

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FreeType 2.6.2 Brings Changes To Rendering Fonts On LCD Screens

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Phoronix

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November 30, 2015

FreeType 2.6.2 was released this weekend as the newest version of this widely-used, open-source library for text/font rendering…

How to Install Gitlab with PostgreSQL and Nginx on Ubuntu 15.04

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Falko Timme

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November 30, 2015

Gitlab is a web-based git repository management application written on Ruby. It is similar to GitHub and includes features like a project wiki and issue tracking system. In this tutorial, I will guide you step by step trough the installation of Gitlab CE with PostgreSQL as the database system, and Nginx as the web server on Ubuntu 15.04 version. We will use Ruby version 2.x.x, gitlab stable version 8.x.

Visual Studio Code: The Top Five Features

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The Register

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November 30, 2015

Getting started with the new open-source code editor

Visual Studio Code is a new, lightweight, and open-source code editor that can be installed on Windows, Linux or Mac OS X. The first of this short series of articles, published in association with Microsoft, Sergii Baidachnyi, a Tech Evangelist at Microsoft Canada, will take us through the following features of Visual Studio Code:…

LibreOffice Now Has More Than 100 Million of Active Users

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Softpedia

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November 30, 2015

LibreOffice is hailed as the best open source office suite available right now and keep hearing about the amazing rate of adoption, but we hardly get any real numbers. That changed today after Collabora released some statistics about LibreOffice usage and it’s more than impressive.

There is an interesting trend in the software world, and it looks like the proprietary software is being dropped for open source alternatives, especially LibreOffice. With virtually no licensing … (read more)

Ubuntu’s Mainline Kernel Archive Finally Has Working Linux 4.4 Kernels

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Phoronix

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November 30, 2015

After failing to build working kernels for the past few weeks, the Ubuntu Mainline Kernel PPA is finally offering working daily Linux kernel builds…

KShutdown Review – Scheduled Shutdown, Restarts, and Other Actions on Linux

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Softpedia

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November 30, 2015

KShutdown is an application that allows users to customize the shutdown procedure for Linux and Windows OS, with features like time delay or proper notifications.

The Windows OS has a ton of these applications, but there aren’t too many for Linux users. The main difference is that Linux users can do pretty much anything they want from the terminal, but that’s not always fun, especially if you are new to this OS. Having a proper application that can automate the shutdown sys… (read more)