today's leftovers

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Filesystem issue solved in Linux Kernel 4.1-rc5
As reported yesterday a serious bug is present in Linux Kernel 4.0.x which is related to filesystem corruption. Developer Neil Brown released a fix to solve this issue.
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Opening The Gates To Our Daily Open-Source Linux Benchmark Results
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xfce4-power-manager updated to 1.5.0
Xfce4-power-manager version 1.5.0 was released today and I have updated that for rawhide and F22. Apart from bug fixes, there are one or two nice UI changes (shown in the screenshots).
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GNOME.Asia Summit 2015 in Depok, Indonesia
Out of the talks, the most interesting talk I have seen, I think, was the one from Iwan S. Tahari, the manager of a local shoe producer who also sponsored GNOME shoes!
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Gnome to get GPS support through Android
Between May 25 and August 24 students all over the world will partake in Google Summer of Code. GSoC sees work being done on new and existing open source projects.
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CoreOS becomes available in OpenStack App Marketplace: Linux Wrap
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CoreOS Linux is in the OpenStack App Marketplace
Today at the OpenStack Summit in Vancouver, we are pleased to announce that CoreOS Linux – the lightweight operating system that provides stable, reliable updates to all machines connected to the update service – is included in the OpenStack Community App Catalog.
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Answer page and Sign in page mockups for Askbot
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Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux's Anaconda Installer to Be Ported to Python 3
It has been recently brought to our attention that the text-mode and graphical installer used in the well-known Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora Linux operating systems will be soon ported to the Python 3 programming language.
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GPS Navigation Coming to Ubuntu Touch
One of the apps still missing from Ubuntu Touch is one that provides GPS navigation. Well, if you are an Ubuntu user that really needs this functionality, then you will be glad to know that an app called GPS Navigation is currently being developed.
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Apport Exploits Closed in All Supported Ubuntu OSes
A couple of Apport vulnerabilities have been found and fixed in Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.
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Canonical on the cusp of becoming a public traded company
Since 2004, when Ubuntu was launched, Mark Shuttleworth, its founder, has been paying privately to keep Canonical (Ubuntu’s parent company) alive. While Canonical as a whole has been unprofitable, its OpenStack cloud division has become profitable. Based on this Shuttleworth has been contemplating whether Canonical should become publicly traded.
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Pre-order Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela
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Smartphone Bloodbath Q1 of 2015 same ole, same ole
Nokia's own MeeGo OS (used in Nokia N9) was regularly rated better than iOS...
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A look back at the Vancouver OpenStack Summit
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What to expect from MongoDB World 2015
There are tech user conferences and then there are tech vendor conferences i.e. while the former seeks to code, the latter seeks to sell.
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LayerOne Hardware Hacking Village
Go to DEFCON and you’ll stand in line for five hours to get a fancy electronic badge you’ll be showing to your grandchildren some day. Yes, at DEFCON, you buy your hacker cred. LayerOne is not so kind to the technically inept. At LayerOne, you are given a PCB, bag of parts, and are told to earn your hacker cred by soldering tiny QFP and SOT-23 chips by hand. The Hardware Hacking Village at LayerOne was packed with people eagerly assembling their badge, or badges depending on how cool they are.
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AMD & Others Are Working On The LLVM SPIR-V Converter
AMD is among the companies working on adding a reader/writer for SPIR-V within LLVM.
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| Red Hat Hires a Blind Software Engineer to Improve Accessibility on Linux Desktop
Accessibility on a Linux desktop is not one of the strongest points to highlight. However, GNOME, one of the best desktop environments, has managed to do better comparatively (I think).
In a blog post by Christian Fredrik Schaller (Director for Desktop/Graphics, Red Hat), he mentions that they are making serious efforts to improve accessibility.
Starting with Red Hat hiring Lukas Tyrychtr, who is a blind software engineer to lead the effort in improving Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Fedora Workstation in terms of accessibility.
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