System76 Is Launching Skylake Computers Powered by Ubuntu, Become a Superfan

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October 6, 2015

System76, the computer manufacturer that ships PCs, laptops, and servers powered only by Ubuntu, is preparing for Intel Skylake and is now organizing a competition to find a superfan in the community.

The switch to Intel Skylake is a big deal for regular users, but it’s also extremely important for companies like System76, which are expected to integrate the new processor in their line. System76 is a young company, and it’s not waiting around. They want to put the new Skylake…

Google Patches Stagefright 2.0 in Nexus, Fixes Land in ‘Nightly’ CyanogenMod Builds

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October 6, 2015

istock000054929008medium copy While most Android owners could be waiting weeks or months for Google’s latest Stagefright fixes, CyanogenMod has them ready to go now. In tandem with the release of Android Marshmallow 6.0 for Nexus phones, Google has also delivered a critical security update for Nexus devices vulnerable to the latest Stagefright bugs.

Revealed last Friday, Stagefright 2.0, like its predecessor, has left virtually every Android device in the wild exposed to a dangerous attack on the operating system’s media player engine, which can be triggered after receiving a malicious MP3 or MP4 media file.

What Are Linux Meta-packages?

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Matt Hartley

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October 6, 2015

I was recently in a discussion about meta-packages, and realized many users don’t know what they are or what they do. So, let’s see if we can clear-up the mystery.

Meta-packages in a nutshell

A ‘meta-package’ is a convenient way to bulk-install groups of applications, their libraries and documentation. Many Linux distributions use them for a variety of purposes, from seeding disk images that will go on to become new releases, to creating software “bundles” that are easy for a user to install. A meta-package rarely contains anything other than a changelog and perhaps copyright information, it contains no applications or libraries within itself. The way they work is by having a list of “dependencies” that the package manager reads. The package manager then goes to the repositories to find the dependencies and installs them. (Read the rest at Freedom Penguin)

Multiple external networks with a single L3 agent testing on RDO Liberty per Lars Kellogg-Stedman

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Boris Derzhavets

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October 6, 2015

Following bellow is nothing more then test in multi node environment. Link for original blog post:-

Multiple external networks with a single L3 agent
The only difference is attempt to analyze and understand how traffic to/from external network flows through br-int when provider external networks has been involved.

Complete text is may be seen here

Top EU Court Says US Privacy Protections Are Inadequate in Landmark Ruling

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October 6, 2015

Europe’s highest court today ruled that Facebook cannot send personal information on European users to data centers in the US, invalidating a 15-year trans-Atlantic data transfer agreement. In a decision that could have far-reaching implications for many US tech companies, the European Court of Justice said that the EU’s Safe Harbor agreement with the US is “invalid” because the country does not guarantee adequate privacy protections. The agreement allows technology companies to transfer data from Europe to the US, provided that certain privacy requirements are met. According toThe Wall Street Journal, today’s ruling could impact around 4,500 companies that currently rely on the laws to transfer data to the US.

Sarah Sharp Quits as a Linux Kernel Developer, Blames the Toxic Behavior of the Community

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Softpedia

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October 6, 2015

On October 5, Sarah Sharp, a prominent Linux kernel developer, announced that she officially stepped down as a contributor to the upstream kernel, blaming the lack of respect among those who run the show from behind the curtains.

Sarah Sharp had been a longtime Linux kernel developer, the maintainer of the USB 3.0 host controller driver. She was the Linux kernel coordinator for the FOSS Outreach Program for Women (OPW), encouraging females from all over the world to get involved in the development of the Linux kernel, the core component of any GNU/Linux operating system out there.

Linux Foundation to Host Open License Compliance Project FOSSology

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October 5, 2015

logo lf new The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux and collaborative development, today announced it will host the FOSSology project, an open source license compliance software project and set of tools. FOSSology was originally founded by HP in 2007. Through community collaboration and industry adoption, it has become a trusted tool for open source license compliance. FOSSology 3.0 is expected to be released this week.

â€œAs Linux and open source have become the primary building blocks for creating todayâ€™s most innovative technologies, projects like FOSSology are more relevant than ever,â€ said Jim Zemlin, executive director at The Linux Foundation.

The Linux Foundation Announces Project to Advance Real-Time Linux

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October 5, 2015

logo lf new The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux and collaborative development, today announced the new Real-Time Linux (RTL) Collaborative Project. RTL will bring together industry leaders and experts to advance and maximize technologies for the robotics, telecom, manufacturing, aviation and medical industries, among others.

The RTL kernel supports the largest range of architectures of any operating system and can leverage Linux device drivers, file systems and more from the mainline kernel. Real-time properties make it possible to control robots, data acquisition systems, manufacturing plants and other time-sensitive instruments and machines from RTL applications. It provides the critical infrastructure for some of the world’s most complex computing systems.

RTL’s Thomas Gleixner, who has been maintaining the RTL branch for more than a decade, will become a Linux Foundation Fellow to dedicate even more time to his work on RTL. He joins other Linux Foundation Fellows, including Linux kernel stable maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman, embedded Linux developer, and Yocto Project maintainer Richard Purdie and Linux creator Linus Torvalds…

Linux Foundation Debuts Digital Video Series to Raise Awareness of the Ubiquity of Linux

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October 5, 2015

wwol-2 The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux and collaborative development, today announced the immediate release of its digital video series, “A World Without Linux,” a web series that flips this reality on its head to illustrate in an entertaining fashion just how pervasive Linux is today.

This fictitious world is such a preposterous notion that the scenarios depicted in the series help us understand how much Linux is a part of our everyday lives and allows us to thank the developers and companies who support the operating system.

HP Launching Open Source Network OS, OpenSwitch Dev Community

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ZDNet

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October 5, 2015

The OpenSwitch community, opening up to the public today, is being backed by a number of other open source proponents as well, including Broadcom, Intel and VMware, among others.

Hewlett-Packard is expanding its outreach to the open source community with a new initiative and networking operating system to fuel new data center technologies. The Linux-based, open source network operating system (NOS) was designed to counter “traditional networking” models, which HP derided in Monday’s announcement as typically closed and proprietary, among other archaic practices.