With a minimum of fuss over the weekend, the Linux kernel has moved onto its 4.x series, while elementary has had its first major stable release since mid-2013.
Play Linux:
Play Linux: an ubuntu-based linux distribution optimized for the daily routine of a gamer
Chromixium (what it is and why we should be excited about it)
What is Cromixium? It’s a GNU/Linux distro designed around the Chromium web browser and meant to have the look and feel of Chrome OS.
What’s new in Ubuntu 15.04
New features and changes in Ubuntu 15.04.
5 Things To Know About The Rise Of Open Source
Similarly, more large companies are utilizing open source solutions alongside proprietary software to tap into open source’s diverse, creative, cooperative community of developers, thought leaders and users.
Linux 4.0 brings Skynet closer to existence, offers reboot-free kernel patching
20, but lots of people wanted to see Linux 40 As Linus Torvalds himself said, “the strongest argument for some people advocating 4. The biggest feature (aside from dragging us ever closer to the robotic hellscape seen in the Terminator series) is live kernel patching. When an update—perhaps a critical security update—is issued for the Linux kernel, this technology would allow the operating system to swap out its running kernel without a reboot.
Google sticks anti-SQL injection vaccine into MySQL MariaDB fork
Google is dropping encryption into MariaDB, the fork of Oracle’s MySQL, to help shut out SQL injection attacks.
Snoop Dogg Using Linux While Being Chased by a Stormtrooper Is Real
The Instagram account of Snoop Dogg is a mishmash of ideas and various aspects of the artist’s life, but it’s also a personal account. , also known as Snoop Dogg, is a famous rapper and music producer, using Linux
Dell & Red Hat revamp open stack private cloud solution
Dell and Red Hat have upgraded their Dell Red Hat Cloud Solution to help enterprise customers meet their demand for more flexible, elastic and agile IT services. The upgraded enterprise-grade private-cloud solution will help customers build highly scalable clouds that will be powered by OpenStack.
Endian Firewall Community 3.0.5-beta1 released
Endian Firewall Community 3.0.5-beta1 has been released and is now available for download. This new minor release contains many improvements and closes more than 350 issues.
Top 5 Linux First Person Shooter Games Play On Steam
Among many Games categories ‘First Person Shooter’ FPS for short has been choice of majority of gamers. First Person Shooter games have always been liked, as you can play it online with friends or have a competition offline with friends. Such FPS gaming on Linux sometimes seems impossible to many newbies but NO We have many such FPS games for Linux.
It’s Now Easier To Try PHP 7 On Fedora & RHEL
For those interested in PHP 7, it’s now easier to try out the development version of the next-generation PHP on Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux based operating systems. It’s already easy to build PHP (7) on most any supported platform, but for those interested in RPMs and Yum’ing, there’s now pre-built packages of PHP7 in its current development state. … Read More
Red Hat Beats Fourth Quarter Estimates, is on a Cloud Roll
Red Hat delivered its fourth quarter and year-end financial results after the bell on Wednesday, and the news gets ever rosier. The company is in the midst of a major shift in its strategy toward OpenStack-based cloud computing, and it looks like service revenues from that effort are starting to arrive. Non-GAAP earnings were 43 cents per share on revenue of $464 million, up 16 percent year-over-year, marking the 12th consecutive quarter of revenue growth in the mid-teens. As 2014 ended, there were many eloquent summaries of the state of open source and the state of cloud computing, but one of the most focused ones came from Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst.
SUSE Explains Why the Future of Enterprise Storage is Open Source
So SUSE’s announcement last month of its new enterprise storage solution based on the open source Ceph project is perfectly timed. If you’re attending Vault this week, be sure to look for the four SUSE engineers presenting there, including Lars Marowsky-Brée, a SUSE Distinguished Engineer and architect for SUSE Enterprise Storage.
We list Valve’s first 15 living-room PCs in search of the best deal
Following Valve’s Steam Machine reveal in 2013, the PC games giant retreated for a year and, at GDC this week, returned to the stage with a robust and detailed line-up of 15 systems.