Vivaldi Internet Browser Moves to Beta

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November 3, 2015

Vivaldi, a web browser developed by one of the Opera founders and his team, has finally moved out of the initial stages of development and into Beta. It’s a been a long road for Vivaldi, but the new browser is now taking shape, and we can get a better glimpse at what’s to come.

Vivaldi is a browser that was born from the desire to do something unlike anything we already have, and in this respect, it’s as different as it could possibly be.

Besides being different, the bro… (read more)

Chef Says its New Tool Can Deliver Your Code Quicker and With Less Bugs

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November 3, 2015

The workflow Chef Delivery automation tool is now fully available as company says it is integrating software from Germany’s VulcanoSec.

TPM 2.0 Support Continues Maturing In Linux 4.4

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Phoronix

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November 3, 2015

Trusted Platform Module 2.0 support has been around for a few kernel cycles now and with the forthcoming Linux 4.4 kernel it will be in much better shape…

GPUs in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Solutions

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insideHPC

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November 3, 2015

VDI or Virtual Desktop Infrastructure helps companies save money, time and resources. Instead of large bulky machines on every desk in the office, companies can connect multiple workstations to a single computer using thin clients. Instead of replacing individual desktops every year, companies only have to replace thin clients every 5 years. And when it comes time to do updates, the IT staff updates the one computer instead of spending time updating every individual workstation.

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Debian Moves To Non-Root X.Org Server By Default

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November 3, 2015

Distributions have been working on it for years to let the X.Org Server run without root privileges. This feat has now been accomplished for Debian testing users where if using systemd and a DRM/KMS graphics driver, you can run the xorg-server as a user…

Manjaro Budgie 15.11 Is Based on Budgie 8.3 and It Looks Great

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November 3, 2015

The Manjaro Community announced, through the voice of Stefano Capitani, the maintainer of Manjaro-Budgie, that a new version of the Budgie flavor has been released and is now ready for download.

The Manjaro Budgie flavor is relatively new, and it’s been around for about six months. Before a separate operating system was made available, the Budgie desktop was uploaded to the Manjaro repositories. It was the first distro, besides Solus, to provide it. Developers have since bu… (read more)

Intel’s Clear Containers Address Security Concerns

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November 3, 2015

If youâ€™re reading this site regularly, youâ€™d probably agree how containers are starting to change the way we perceive the application stack. However, major questions still linger around container security.

At least one company cognizant of this issue is Intel, which earlier this year launched Clear Containers, a technology designed to mix the security benefits of full virtual machines (VMs) with the deployment ease of containers. The version 0.8 release of CoreOSâ€™s rkt container runtime (which everyone calls â€œRocketâ€) incorporates Clear Containers to provide hardware-assisted security.

Where VMs inherently provide good isolation â€” as the attack surface on hypervisors is really small â€” containers still rely on borrowed security. They depend on underlying technologies on which they are built and, of course, careful configuration by humans, as well. You can see where the potential issues might be.

Linux 4.3 Released After Linus Torvalds Scraps ‘Brain Damage’ Code

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November 3, 2015

Linux 4.3 may have been what Linux kernel creator Linus Torvalds describes as a relatively “calm” release but that hasn’t prevented him turning the air blue over the quality of a certain piece of networking code.

Linux 4.4 Continues Moving x86 Assembly Code Into C

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November 3, 2015

The past few kernel cycles we’ve seen a fair amount of x86 Assembly changes with a goal of turning more Assembly into C code for the Linux kernel. That process has continued with the in-development Linux 4.4 kernel…

LibreOffice 5.0.3 and LibreOffice 4.4.6 Officially Released

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November 3, 2015

The Document Foundation has just announced that two new versions of the LibreOffice, 5.0.3 ‘Fresh’ and 4.4.6 ‘still’ have been released and are now available for download.

The developers from The Document Foundation have a few supported branches of the office suite, and they are aimed at various users. The latest and the most advanced version, 5.0.3, is for people who like to try all that’s new, and they don’t mind all the shiny features.

On the other hand, LibreOffice i… (read more)