The walls that began a-tumblin’ down when Microsoft and Red Hat announced their historic partnership agreement last week, just keep on a-fallin’ . In time for the KubeCon conference going on now in San Francisco, Red Hat released for general availability version 3.1 of its OpenShift platform. This new version establishes critical bridges that didn’t exist before that link major parts of its technology stack — some of which were Red Hat’s parts to begin with.

With OpenShift, it will soon be feasible for distributed applications built on OpenShift to incorporate the recently open-sourced .NET Core — which, we learned, Red Hat will now distribute — as well as Red Hat’s JBoss Fuse Enterprise Service Bus, plus Red Hat Gluster distributed file storage, and the Red Hat Ceph software-defined data access.

Distribution Release: Quirky 7.3

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DistroWatch

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November 11, 2015

Barry Kauler has announced the release of a new version of Quirky, a sister project to Puppy Linux. The new version, Quirky 7.3, marks the start of the project’s Werewolf series, which is binary compatible with Ubuntu 15.10. “Quirky Werewolf 64-bit version 7.3 has been released. Here is….

Support For Old Hardware Is Being Removed From Coreboot

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Phoronix

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November 11, 2015

Coreboot developers are taking to their Git tree and dropping support for old motherboards and chipsets…

Installing Lighttpd with PHP (PHP-FPM mode) and MySQL or MariaDB on Ubuntu 15.10

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Falko Timme

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November 11, 2015

Lighttpd is a secure, fast and standards-compliant web server designed for speed-critical environments. This tutorial shows how you can install Lighttpd on an Ubuntu 15.10 server with PHP support (through PHP-FPM) and MySQL. PHP-FPM (FastCGI Process Manager) is an alternative PHP FastCGI implementation with some additional features useful for sites of any size, especially busier sites.

Linux Kernel’s Kconfig xconfig Ported To Qt5

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Phoronix

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November 11, 2015

It’s usually not worth mentioning Kconfig changes for each new Linux kernel release, but this time around there is actually new functionality to point out…

SteamOS Finally Gets Proper Filters to Sort by OS

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Softpedia

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November 11, 2015

Valve has finally fixed one of the most annoying and ridiculous bugs that were present in the Steam client and implicitly on SteamOS.

The Linux and SteamOS users noticed a long time ago that it wasn’t possible to sort the games in the library that were only working on that system and that the Store was also lacking some kind of filter.

Both of these issues have been addressed in the past few weeks, and it’s now possible to see just the supported Linux games in the librar… (read more)

Rackspace Sees OpenStack Public Cloud Demand Slowing

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ServerWatch

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November 11, 2015

Taylor Rhodes, President and CEO of Rackspace, admitted the growth rate for Rackspace’s OpenStack public cloud has slowed over the past year.

“We expect it to continue to grow albeit at a slower rate than in the past, because of the appeal of other public clouds,” Rhodes said. ” Many customers prefer AWS or Azure as their public cloud platform, which presents us with the opportunity to add value by managing those clouds for them as part of a comprehensive multi-cloud strategy.”

Now Android Device Modders Get Free Core Cyanogen OS Apps

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ZDNet

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November 11, 2015

CyanogenMod users who want a taste of what Cyanogen has been doing commercially can now install the Cyanogen Apps Package.