today's leftovers
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GNU/Linux Bests “8.1” In Uruguay and Venezuela
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Docker’s New Microservices Monitoring Program Looks Like an OS-Style Approach
Docker is a container host, a multitude of corrections tell us, and not an operating system. But the “container host” took another huge step towards looking like an operating system, as Docker Inc. officially launched this week the first in what appear to be several ecosystem technology partner programs, this one geared toward certifying monitoring systems.
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XWayland Hit By Its First Security Advisory: Missing Authentication
It turns out that the XWayland server currently starts up in a non-authenticating mode, thus any client with access to the server UNIX socket could connect to the server and use it. However, there's no Wayland compositors out there known to start XWayland with open TCP access, so at least remote exploits aren't expected. But this does mean that locally, untrusted users could capture input meant from other X11 clients, etc.
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Qt 4.8 Forked Into New "CopperSpice" C++11 GUI Library
Making some rounds on the Internet today is CopperSpice, a fork of Qt 4.8 from two years ago that's starting to take shape as a nice C++ GUI library for developers.
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Calligra 2.9.5 Arrives with Kexi and Krita Improvements and New Features
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Krita 2.9.5 Released
The Kickstarter was a success, but that didn’t keep us from adding new features and fixing bugs! We made quite a bit of progress including adding pass-through mode to group layers, allowing inherit alpha to be used on all layer types, better PSD support, and adding an on-canvas preview of the color being picked. We even added a new brush preset history docker! You can see the full release notes below.
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Harden Advanced Gtk+ Sequencer v0.4.2
Advanced Gtk+ Sequencer is intended to use for music composition. It features a piano roll, as well a synth, matrix editor, drum machine, soundfont2 player, mixer and an output panels designed to be highly configurable. You may add effects to its effect chain and add or remove audio channels/pads. You may set up a fully functional network of engines, thus there is a link editor for linking audio lines.
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Playing with GtkAssistant
I decided to spend some time today to play with GtkAssistant, more precisely, I tried to build a mock installation wizard mimicking Boxes' one in order to test how I could adapt its behaviour to make it GtkAssistant ready.
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Clonezilla 2.4.2-10 Makes Use Of OverlayFS & Systemd
A few days ago Clonezilla, the popular Linux distribution with a focus on disk imaging and cloning, released version 2.4.2-10, and this release is a big one.
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REMnux 6.0 Screencast and Screenshots
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SolydXK 201506 Screencast and Screenshots
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Red Hat launches Software Collections 2
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) launches on a not-to-frequent basis, RHEL 7 launched last year, three years on from RHEL 6. To prevent applications becoming to out-of-date the Red Hat Software Collections are released which contain newer web development tools, dynamic languages and databases.
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Fedora 23 Will Get System Firmware Updates & Default Local DNS Resolver
The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee met today to discuss features proposed for Fedora 23.
Approved at today's FESCo meeting was the system firmware updates item along with having a default local DNS resolver.
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Linux Top 3: Debian 8.1, Sabayon 15.06 and REMnux 6.0
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Zyne is now in Debian
Zyne is a modular synthetizer written in Python. Anyone can create and extend its modules using the Pyo library. Zyne's GUI is coded using WXPython and will look nicely in GNU/Linux, Mac and Windows systems. It's written by the same author of Pyo, and together with Cecilia and Soundgrain is part of an amazing set of libre tools for sound synthesis and electronic music composition.
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Ubuntu powered BQ Aquaris E5 HD hit the market
Following the release of the BQ Aquaris E4.5 earlier this year, BQ have started selling the Aquaris E5. The device will not ship until June 21 and shipments will only be made to the European Union, Norway and Switzerland. On the plus side however it comes in at a relatively cheap €199.90/£146.83/$224.70.
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Graphics Microconference Accepted into 2015 Linux Plumbers Conference
Although the Year of the Linux Desktop has yet to arrive, a surprising number of Linux users nevertheless need graphics support. This is because there have been a number of years of the Linux smartphone, the Linux television, the Linux digital sign/display/billboard, the Linux automobile, and more. This microconference will cover a number of topics including atomic modesetting in KMS, buffer allocation, verified-secure graphics pipelines, fencing and synchronisation, Wayland, and more.
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Hacker Can Send Fatal Dose to Hospital Drug Pumps
When security researcher Billy Rios reported earlier this year that he’d found vulnerabilities in a popular drug infusion pump that would allow a hacker to raise the dosage limit on medication delivered to patients, there was little cause for concern.
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Tuesday's security advisories
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Numerous QEMU Vulnerabilities Found and Closed in All Supported Ubuntu OSes
Canonical has released some details in a security notice about quite a few QEMU vulnerabilities in Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, operating systems.
rence Accepted into 2015 Linux Plumbers Con
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