Systemd v220 released

The long awaited Systemd v220 has been released. Systemd v220 has a lot new features, improvements and bug fixes.

Intel VA-API Driver 1.6 Is Coming

GNOME 3.18 - GTK3 Now Supports RandR 1.5

RandR 1.5 was firmed up a few days ago for X.Org Server 1.18. The lead features to RandR 1.5 are monitor objects and tile support.

X.Org developer at Red Hat, David Airlie, has added the RandR 1.5 monitor support to the GTK3 tool-kit's X11 backend.

OpenWRT 15.05 Preparing Improved Security & Better Networking

The first release candidate to OpenWRT 15.05, the "Chaos Calmer", is now available for testing.

Fedora 22 is “Go” for May 26!

That’s right — the bits are heading out the door (and onto our mirror network)! Expect the official announcement around 10am US Eastern time Tuesday morning.

Fedora 22 will arrive on time!

There’s one certainty in life, that is: Fedora will never arrive on time. In a post to the Fedora devel-announce mailing list the results of the ‘Fedora 22 Final Go/No-Go’ meeting were announced, it was a No-Go. Thankfully there was another meeting later today (May 22) to determine whether the release can be signed off and that’s where it was decided to ‘Go’.

Fedora 22 Is Being Released Next Tuesday

While yesterday there was risk of Fedora 22 being delayed beyond next week, this next Fedora Linux release was cleared today for being released next Tuesday.

An Official Debian And Ubuntu Repository For Syncthing Has Been Created

Canonical Introduced Kernel Updates For Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 14.04 And Ubuntu 12.04. Be Safe, Upgrade Now!

Canonical has recently announced that Kernel fixes for Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu 12.04 have been implemented.

Once released, an Ubuntu system does not get any new features implemented, but kernel updates that include security fixes become available very often.

SCALE 14X Moves, Canonical Considers IPO & More…

While the week started out with some of us waxing nostalgic about penguins on racing cars, it seems that the march of progress and onward-and-upward improvement continues, if news from the Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE) is of any indication.

Canonical Is Reportedly Considering An IPO

Mark Shuttleworth is reportedly considering a move to make Canonical a public company.

OS rumors: Google’s Brillo, Russia’s Jolla, Huawei’s Kirin

In the future, we may all have our own operating system, as well as 15 minutes of fame. Even now, the lure of owning, or more likely these days, hosting, one’s own OS continues to tempt companies and nations alike. This week we heard some rumbles about new OSes coming from Google, Huawei, and even the government of Russia. Meanwhile, Canonical took another step with Ubuntu Touch by announcing that Meizu has launched the developer version of the Ubuntu MX4 phone in China.

Why Wal-Mart’s E-Commerce Group Embraces Open Source

Automatic Goes Open Source to Make an App Store for Your Car

Chrome for Android goes almost “entirely open source”

Launched in September 2008, Google’s Chrome browser is now dominant in its share of the desktop web browser market, with approximately 1 in 4 Internet users interfacing with the web using the browser. What many Chrome users probably don’t know, however, is that it’s actually based off the open source Chromium browser, also developed by Google. Up until today Chrome for Android differed from its desktop counterpart in that it’s codebase wasn’t open source – meaning, the code for the app wasn’t publicly available for other developers to view, modify, and build upon. That changed today.

Tesora's TroveSpeed Program Aimed at Speeding OpenStack Trove Deployments

As the OpenStack cloud computing scene evolves, an ecosystem of tools is growing along with it. Tesora, the leading contributor to the OpenStack Trove open source project, cam out a few months ago with what it billed as the first enterprise-ready, commercial implementation of OpenStack Trove database as a service (DBaaS). The company also announced that it had open sourced its Tesora Database Virtualization Engine.

IBM Centralizing its Cloud Strategy Around OpenStack

Concentrating on the hybrid clioud during a time when it is seriously reshaping its whole business around cloud computing, IBM has announced that it will make OpenStack the central platform for its portfolio of cloud services. Dubbed IBM Cloud OpenStack Services, the new program will deliver a collection of OpenStack-based services for hybrid cloud customers.

EMC: Open source for the ViPR isn't sauce for the Golden Goose

Asking Obama to protect encryption, and why that's not enough

This week the FSF added our signature to a coalition letter addressed to Barack Obama, calling on him to reject any proposal to systematically undermine the encryption used to secure digital devices and software made in the US.

Dutch seminars on PSI Directive implementation

Rust 1.0.0, NASA Software Catalog, and more open source news

Open-source plant breeding: new freedom for farmers

Software developers—and even consumers—are familiar with the open-source movement. Open-source projects, like the popular Firefox web browser, are generally developed in a public, cooperative effort. The copyright holder “opens” the consumer’s right to modify the “source” product and distribute it to others as long as the result is also “open” for others to do the same.

Denmark: A web app to compare municipal budgets

Politiken, the third-largest daily newspaper in Denmark, has put online a data visualisation application which presents the budgets of 98 Danish municipalities, using Open Data.

Zapcc Claims To Be A "Much Faster C++ Compiler"

Zapcc is the latest compiler I heard about this morning... Zapcc is based on LLVM's Clang C/C++ compiler but claims to be much faster than it.

Using The New LLVM/Clang OpenMP Support

As of this month, the mainline code for LLVM and Clang finally have complete OpenMP support (currently against the OMP 3.1 specification).

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