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Samizdat no more: Old Unix source code opened for study

  • The Register (Posted by bob on Mar 30, 2017 12:30 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Nokia Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent pack away the sueball gun After years of lobbying by computer science luminaries, Bell Labs and Alcatel-Lucent (both owned by Nokia) have relented and will allow non-commercial study of the source code for Unix Research Editions 8, 9, and 10.…

We can teach women to code, but that just creates another problem

  • theguardian – Logic magazine; By Miriam Posner (Posted by mbaehrlxer on Mar 30, 2017 11:10 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Editorial; Groups: Community
Get-girls-to-code initiatives aim to fix tech’s gender imbalance – but they may help reinforce it – Conventional wisdom says that the key to reducing gendered inequality in tech is giving women the skills they need to enter particular roles. But in practice, when more women enter a role, its value seems to go down more.

Trivial Transfers with TFTP, Part 1: Why Use It?

  • Linux.com; By Chris Binnie (Posted by bob on Mar 30, 2017 8:31 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Linux
Although the feature set included with TFTP is limited, it can still be very useful on a local area network. Chris Binnie has details in this tutorial.

Kubernetes 1.6 Brings New Scalability and Stability

  • eWEEK; By Sean Michael Kerner (Posted by red5 on Mar 30, 2017 7:12 AM EDT)
  • Groups: Cloud
Every release of the open-source Kubernetes container management and orchestration system has been led by a Google emp

How to install Apache webserver in Linux

Step by step procedure to install and configure Apache webserver in Linux. It also includes troubleshooting steps for errors during install.

GNOME 3.26 "Manchester" Desktop Environment Slated for Release on September 13

  • Softpedia; By Marius Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Mar 30, 2017 4:33 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: GNOME
The GNOME Project published today the preliminary release schedule for the next major version of the popular GNOME desktop environment, GNOME 3.26, whose development will start very soon.

Green software blacked out Australian State

  • The Register; By Richard Chirgwin (Posted by bob on Mar 30, 2017 3:13 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Editorial; Groups: Community
Wind-turbine-ware defaults didn't handle exceptional weather events. Something good is going to come out of last year's “Black System” in the Australian State of South Australia: the global wind power industry has learned how to do better modelling for systems under attack from repeated failures.…

How to Install, Configure and Use Redis on Ubuntu 16.04

Redis is an in-memory data structure store primarily used as a database and cache. In this tutorial, we are going to show you how to install, configure and use Redis on a Linux VPS running Ubuntu 16.04 as an operating system.

Wine Staging Has a Brand-New Repository, Here's How to Migrate to It Right Now

Wine Staging's Michael Müller announced today that he and his colleague have been working lately on a brand-new and more advanced build system that will allow them to release packages faster after a new version is announced.

Hybrid Cloud Storage Delivers Performance and Value

Just in the past two years, technology has created a veritable ocean of data. And like an ocean, that data, created by social technology, mobile technology and IoT, is vast, bountiful and dynamic. And also like an ocean, the climate, or temperature of data, constantly shifts and changes.

Rugged, expandable touch panel PCs come in Skylake and Bay Trail flavors

Aaeon's two Linux-ready “OMNI” touch-panel computers run on Intel Skylake or Bay Trail chips, and offer a choice of touchscreens and 12 expansion modules. Aaeon launched the first in its line of modular, customizable OMNI Series Box Kit touchscreen panel-PCs with the Intel Bay Trail based OMNI-2155.

Pale Moon A Lightweight, Firefox Based And Cross Platform Web Browser

  • LinuxAndUbuntu.com; By Mohd Sohail (Posted by MohdSohail on Mar 29, 2017 8:36 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: Linux
?Using browsers on a daily basis is nothing new for all us. We all have our favorite type of browsers like Chrome, Opera, Aurora and more. While as being open source mine and many Linux geek favorite browser is Mozilla Firefox. Today I will discuss one of awesome browser based on firefox named Pale Moon.

Orange Pi SBCs offer a choice of 32- or 64-bit SoCs for under $20

  • LinuxGizmos.com (Posted by bob on Mar 29, 2017 7:16 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
The open spec “Orange Pi Zero Plus 2” SBC provides WiFi, BT, HDMI, MIPI-CSI, and a choice of quad-core Allwinner H3 (Cortex-A7) or H5 (-A53) SoCs. Shortly after launching an Orange Pi Zero Plus 2 with a 32-bit, Cortex-A7 Allwinner H3, Shenzhen Xunlong’s open source Orange Pi project shipped an Orange Pi Zero Plus 2 […]

Where Ubuntu 17.04 “Zesty Zapus” Is Heading

  • LinuxAndUbuntu.com; By Mohd Sohail (Posted by MohdSohail on Mar 29, 2017 5:57 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Linux, Ubuntu
You may have heard that our Ubuntu has got a new update. Yes, it is true. On 2017-03-23 20:12:37 the release notes on the website of Canonical Group Ltd were uploaded informing the latest Ubuntu 17.04 codenamed “Zesty Zapus”. Let's see where Ubuntu 17.04 is heading.

Tether a digital camera using Entangle

  • Fedora Magazine (Posted by bob on Mar 29, 2017 3:18 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Fedora
Ever wanted to be able to control your digital camera or DSLR from Fedora? Entangle — an application to tether digital cameras — allows you to take a shot, tweak settings, and view the shot all from the comfort of...

Is Scratch today like the Logo of the '80s for teaching kids to code?

Leave it to technology to take an everyday word (especially in the English language) and give it a whole new meaning. Words such as the web, viral, text, cloud, apple, java, spam, server, and tablets come to mind as great examples of how the general public's understanding of the meaning of a word can change in a relatively short amount of time. Hence, this article is about a turtle and a cat who have changed the lives of many people over the years, including mine. read more

Linux Watch Command, To Monitor a Command Activity

Watch is a very powerful command-line tool which execute a program or commands or script at a regular intervals and displays the results on standard output in full screen.

10 Portable Apps Every Linux User Should Use

  • Make Tech Easier; By Derrik Diener (Posted by damien on Mar 29, 2017 11:20 AM EDT)
  • Groups: Linux
Portable apps allow you to take any program to any PC, and continue using it. Here are some of the best portable apps for Linux that you should use.

Recognising the Death of Software Patents, Microsoft's Largest Ally in India Belatedly Joins the Linux-Centric Open Invention Network

With the demise of software patents come some interesting new developments, including the decision at Infosys — historically very close to Microsoft and a proponent of software patents — to join the Open Invention Network (OIN)

Google presents its open-source goodies to the world

  • ZDNet; By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (Posted by bob on Mar 29, 2017 8:41 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
?Google creates a lot of open-source software. Now, they've put much of it in one easy-to-find place along with the company's own open-source philosophy.

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