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Ubuntu Online Summit for Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet) The Ubuntu Online Summit is an event that allows the Ubuntu community to contribute to the development of the operating system by taking part in discussions with the developers. It features a lot of topics regarding the system, some more complex than others, but pretty much all of the aspects of the distribution will be covered.
The current summit is scheduled to take place right after the Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet) development cycle has started. Users will be able to find out about the features that are going to be integrated in Ubuntu ahead of time, and they will be able to query the developers about any subject. If you have any questions about Ubuntu (not technical support related), if you want to know why something is implemented in a certain way, or you just want some general information, then the Ubuntu Online Summit is the place to ask them.
Source: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Ubuntu-Online-Summit-for-Ubuntu-15-04-Vivid-Vervet-Starts-In-a-Few-Days-464323.shtml Submitted by: Silviu Stahie
Mozilla Releases ‘Firefox Developer Edition’ for Windows, Mac and Linux The Developer Edition is exactly what it says on the tin: a browser built around the needs of web developers.
The Firefox team set out to bring together tools needed to keep developers productive across a multi-device and multi-platform environment, “creating a focal point to streamline your development workflow.” Though the Firefox Developer Edition has a touch of the familiar, the rejigged UI and features make it a formidable development environment while still the fully capable browser Firefox users know and love.
The biggest change you’ll notice is the dark UI of the slick inspector applied to the rest of the browser. Not your style? You can revert to the familiar light theme by heading into the Customize options at the bottom of the “hamburger” menu and clicking “Use Firefox Developer Edition Theme”.
Source: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/11/mozilla-releases-firefox-developer-edition Submitted by: Sam Tran
Dropbox 2.11.34 Experimental Features a Rewritten UI for Linux Client Dropbox, a client for an online service that lets you bring all your photos, docs, and videos anywhere, has been promoted to version 2.11.34 for the experimental branch.
The Dropbox developers don't usually provide too many changes for the Linux platform and the latest update is not all that promising either. In fact, there is nothing specific for Linux, but the branch is an entirely different discussion. This will be a very interesting release when it becomes stable, but until then we can take a closer look at what's coming.
Source: http://linux.softpedia.com/blog/Dropbox-2-11-34-Experimental-Features-a-Rewritten-UI-for-Linux-Client-464468.shtml Submitted by: Silviu Stahie
Canonical Drops Ubuntu 14.10 Dedicated Images for Apple Hardware Ubuntu 14.10 (Utopic Unicorn) has been available for a couple of weeks and the reception has been positive for the most part, but there is one small piece of interesting information that didn't get revealed. It looks like the Ubuntu devs don't need to build specific images for Apple hardware.
Many Ubuntu users will remember that, until the launch of Ubuntu 14.10, there was an image of the OS available labeled amd64+mac, which was technically aimed at Apple hardware.
The Ubuntu devs marked this interesting evolution in the official announcement for Ubuntu 14.10, but it went largely unnoticed.
Source: http://linux.softpedia.com/blog/Canonical-Drops-Ubuntu-14-10-Dedicated-Images-for-Apple-Hardware-464174.shtml Submitted by: Silviu Stahie
Ubuntu Touch Music App Is Proof That Total Ubuntu Convergence Is Getting Closer – Gallery While other platforms like Windows or iOS are still working towards their convergence goal, Canonical is already there and the developers now have applications that work both on the mobile and on the desktop platform without any major modifications. One such example is the Ubuntu Touch Music App, which looks and feels native on both operating systems.
For now, Canonical is working on Ubuntu for phones and Ubuntu for desktop. Before long, however, the projects will be folded into a single one, probably in a couple of years. Until then, the biggest change that we’re seeing due to this convergence policy is the fact that applications for Ubuntu Touch don't really have a problem running on the desktop.
The Ubuntu Touch Music App 2.0 is the same as the one you can find on the mobile platform, but there are some perks if you run it on the desktop. Users can resize it and work much more easily with the playlist, which is a nice thing to have. In any case, it only runs on Ubuntu 14.10 (Utopic Unicorn), so that's the only way to test it.
Source: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Ubuntu-Touch-Music-App-Is-Proof-that-Total-Ubuntu-Convergence-Is-Getting-Closer-464595.shtml Submitted by: Silviu Stahie
China starts Windows wipe-out, switches to Linux China is presently in a situation to completely eradicate Windows from the country. Though this is not immediately possible, the map to wipe-out the Windows operating system from every computer is planned over a period of a few years from now.
According to a report on SoftPedia, China has planned to move away from Microsoft Windows completely. Recently, China had announced the ban of Windows 8 in the country accusing Microsoft of spying the China government and businesses via the operating system.
China has made it mandatory to all organizations to switch from the Microsoft Windows operating system to a locally developed operating system based on Linux.
China believes that by the year 2020, they will successfully eradicate Windows and would have an already switched to a more powerful and secure operating system of their own.
Source: http://www.deccanchronicle.com/141101/technology-latest/article/china-starts-windows-wipe-out-switches-linux Submitted by: Arnfried Walbrecht
Krita Desktop: A free, open source painting tool, maybe as good as Photoshop If you do any graphics work you should take a look at Krita Desktop, a really impressive painting tool that rivals Adobe Photoshop for features and makes some ways of working much easier.
Available as free, open source software for Windows (Vista, 7, 8) , Linux (Ubuntu, Mint, Debian, and others) and OS X (the site only refers to 10.9 compatibility but I ran it under 101.10 without problems). Krita Desktop is also available in two paid-for variants: Krita Studio and Krita Gemini.
First impressions: Way cool, definitely worth checking out.
Source: http://www.networkworld.com/article/2841804/software/krita-desktop-a-free-open-source-painting-tool-maybe-as-good-as-photoshop.html Submitted by: Arnfried Walbrecht
Linux Foundation: Open Source is Eating the Software World In every sector of the technology world there is now an open source project that is defining that particular technology. Software drives value in nearly every industry, and open source projects are where most of that value comes from.
That’s according to Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation and one of Monday’s keynote speakers at this week’s OpenStack summit in Paris – the first in Europe. “Open source is really eating the software world,” Zemlin said, adapting the famous phrase from a 2011 Wall Street Journal OpEd by venture capitalist Mark Andreessen, titled Software is eating the world.
There is a wholesale shift in the enterprise software world from using a little bit of open source code here and there to an 80-20 split, where 80 is the open source portion, he said. The reason for the shift is quite simple: software has become a way for an enterprise to add value, and open source is the best way to use a lot of software. “There is too much software being written for any organization to write that software on their own,” Zemlin explained.
Source: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2014/11/03/linux-foundation-open-source-eating-enterprise-software-world/ Submitted by: Arnfried Walbrecht
Google Cloud Adds Support for Ubuntu Linux Distribution Google partnered with Canonical to bring official Ubuntu images to Google Compute Engine.
Google Compute Engine became generally available in December 2013. Since then, it added support for CoreOS, Debian, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE and Microsoft Windows Server. Though Debian and Ubuntu distributions are compatible, many developers prefer to work on Ubuntu. According to Canonical, Ubuntu powers 85% of Linux workloads running on public clouds. Ubuntu is a popular choice of Linux distribution on Amazon EC2, Microsoft Azure and HP Cloud and Joyent.
According to a blog post from Google Cloud Platform team, Canonical maintained images are continually tested and updated, following Ubuntu’s best-practices.
Source: http://www.infoq.com/news/2014/11/google-cloud-supports-ubuntu?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=global Submitted by: Arnfried Walbrecht
Ubuntu GNOME 14.10: Unifying the Linux desktop As you may know, Ubuntu 14.10 came out with about as much fanfare as growing grass. If you're unsure why this happened, it's simple – Ubuntu is in a state of holding because of Unity 8/Mir. Until that happens, Ubuntu version upgrades will be about bug fixes and not much more. It makes sense… why dump a bunch of time/effort into an interface that's about to undergo a radical shift? However, that's not the case for the GNOME flavor of Ubuntu. Ubuntu GNOME 14.10 was released along with the official flavor and brings to light some really impressive features. This release also includes the much anticipated GNOME-Maps and GNOME-Weather – and it's important to developers, because it comes with numerous new APIs and widgets.
Source: http://www.techrepublic.com/article/ubuntu-gnome-14-10-unifying-the-linux-desktop/ Submitted by: Arnfried Walbrecht
Canonical Confirms Involvement in Ubuntu Linux Tablet According to emails from Andrew Bernstein, who has emerged as the public face of the UT One tablet project, Canonical “certainly will be involved” in the production of the tablet, which will feature an Intel x86 processor.
For now, Bernstein is holding his cards close with regard to specifying exactly what Canonical's role will be. But he writes that, at a minimum, “we do hope to get official hardware certification and some agreement on support for UT One's software, as in providing support for end users in relation to the hardware.”
Bernstein also confirmed that the tablet hardware will be ready to ship by December, although he expressed doubt that the software it needs to run will be available that soon. That's because Canonical likely won't complete work on Ubuntu Touch, the version of Ubuntu that it is building for tablets, phones and other mobile devices, until some time in the new year, postponing the UT One released, Bernstein said.
Source: http://thevarguy.com/ubuntu/110614/canonical-confirms-involvement-ubuntu-linux-tablet Submitted by: Arnfried Walbrecht
Linux still owns supercomputing That's no surprise. For years, Linux has dominated supercomputing. The November 2014 Top 500 supercomputer ranking found 485 out of the world's fastest 500 computers running Linux. That's 97 percent for those of you without a calculator at hand.
Compared to that, Windows on desktops and Android on smartphones are pikers. Linux has grown to own supercomputing since it first appeared on the Top 500 list in June 1998 because it simply works well in creating ultra-fast computers. Unix, which once dominated the bi-annual listings is down to a mere 13 systems, 2.6 percent. The remaining two supercomputers consists of a system running a mixed operating system and a single Windows system.
Source: http://www.zdnet.com/linux-still-owns-supercomputing-7000035876/ Submitted by: Arnfried Walbrecht
Prominent developers pulling out of Debian as voting deadline nears Four prominent members of the Debian community have stepped down or reduced their involvement in the project as a result of an increasingly bitter argument over the future of the widely influential Linux distribution.
The battles center on the recent decision by Debian's governing technical committee to replace the venerable sysvinit startup module with systemd in the forthcoming release, dubbed “Jessie.” Systemd is a more sophisticated, complex piece of software, which supporters say is a necessary update to a badly outmoded part of Debian, while critics accuse it of being needlessly complex and suffering from serious feature creep.
The criticism has hit a fever pitch in recent months, with systemd creator Lennart Poettering taking to Google Plus to talk about receiving death threats and other online abuse.
Source: http://www.infoworld.com/article/2849364/linux/prominent-developers-pulling-out-of-debian-as-voting-deadline-nears.html Submitted by: Arnfried Walbrecht
Crowdfunding Jolla, a GNU/Linux-powered high-spec tablet It runs an OS called Sailfish that can use Android apps as well its own native apps, and was created by a team with a bunch of senior Nokia refugees on it.
The tablet itself is super high-spec and competitively priced (and total vapourware at this point, caveat emptor). The OS is built on GNU/Linux with the Qt application framework. The company advertises itself as privacy-friendly and promises never to sell or share your data and not to build in any intentional back-doors.
I took a flutter and pre-ordered one.
Source: http://boingboing.net/2014/11/19/crowdfunding-jolla-a-gnulinu.html Submitted by: Arnfried Walbrecht
How the Linux Foundation's CII Is Securing the Internet The Heartbleed flaw that was first publicly disclosed in April of this year, was in some respects a black eye on the open-source community. Heartbleed is a flaw in the open-source OpenSSL cryptographic library that had wide ranging impact across the infrastructure of the Internet. In the aftermath of Heartbleed, a new effort emerged called the Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII) to help fund developers wanting to improve security across critical open-source infrastructure technologies. In a video interview with eWEEK, Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, explains how CII works and what can be done to improve open-source security. Zemlin noted that in the case of OpenSSL, though it plays a critical role in Internet infrastructure, it was not receiving the level of support that is commensurate with the role it plays. There are other open-source efforts beyond just OpenSSL that could also benefit from increased financial support, he added.
Source: http://www.eweek.com/security/how-the-linux-foundations-core-infrastructure-initiative-is-securing-the-internet-video.html Submitted by: Arnfried Walbrecht
'Less' means more to malware authors targeting Linux users Using the “less” Linux command to view the contents of files downloaded from the Internet is a dangerous operation that can lead to remote code execution, according to a security researcher.
At first glance, less appears to be a harmless command that outputs a file’s content to a terminal window and allows the users to navigate forward and backward through it. Less does not allow file editing, which is a job for file editors like the widely used vi, but has the benefit of displaying data on the fly without needing to load an entire file into memory. This is useful when dealing with large files. Less is frequently used to view text files, but on many Linux distributions, including Ubuntu and CentOS, it supports many more file types, including archives, images and PDF. That’s because, on these systems, less is extended through a script called lesspipe that relies on different third-party tools to process files with various extensions.
Source: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2851692/less-means-more-to-malware-authors-targeting-linux-users.html Submitted by: Arnfried Walbrecht
Antarctic ice might be thicker than previously thought, reveals Linux powered underwater robot seaBED SeaBED, a submersible robot powered by Linux, was recently used to scan the huge frozen ice sheets across Antarctica. That has helped scientists get detailed and high-resolution 3-D maps of the frozen continent for the first time. Researchers at the British Antarctic Survey will now be able to know more regions which had earlier been difficult to access because of the hostile conditions prevailing in the area.
The robot runs on a 1.2GHz Intel Pentium processor and uses Ubuntu, while the hull of the sub has been so designed that it stays stable enough for photographic work, to allow the sonar to aim precisely and to be able to send the data thus collected consistently.
Source: http://thewestsidestory.net/2014/11/25/21794/antarctic-ice-might-thicker-previously-thought-reveals-linux-powered-underwater-robot-seabed/ Submitted by: Arnfried Walbrecht