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Snappy Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Will Support Nvidia and AMD Drivers, Says Mark Shuttleworth
Remember when we told you, guys, that Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical and Ubuntu Linux, the world's most popular free operating system, said that Snappy Ubuntu Core 16.04 LTS would support private snaps?
Well, today we have more excellent news for all of you who use the Snappy Ubuntu Core operating system on embedded and IoT devices. Mr. Shuttleworth has stated in a recent email on the Snappy Core mailing list that the upcoming Ubuntu Snappy Core 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) operating system will support proprietary graphics drivers.
When asked by Dan Kegel if Snappy Ubuntu Core has support for high-performance OpenGL graphics drivers, such as the proprietary ones from Nvidia and AMD, as well as those from Intel, Mark Shuttleworth immediately replied that they would all be supported in the 16.04 LTS release of the operating system.
IBM takes Linux mainframes back to the future
IBM introduced several significant new elements for its Linux server stack last month: support for KVM on its z Systems mainframes, Linux-only models in both the z Systems and Power Systems ranges, and a new purchasing model.
The most technically interesting new development is mainframe support for KVM, the Linux kernel’s built-in hypervisor. Although this is just a new way to access facilities that existing IBM products offer, it may help drive migration of x86 workloads onto IBM’s highest-end kit.
Big Blue’s big iron already has rich virtualisation offerings. At the lowest level, the PR/SM facility splits each machine’s resources into multiple logical partitions (LPARs), each appearing as a separate machine with a portion of the host’s processing and storage capacity. Even if the machine’s configured as a single unit, it’s really one LPAR.
Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/11/02/ibm_linux_mainframes/
How Will the Big Data Craze Play Out?
What happened in 2011? Did Big Data spontaneously combust? Was there a campaign of some kind? A coordinated set of campaigns?
Though I can't prove it (at least not in the time I have), I believe the main cause was “Big data: The next frontier for innovation, competition, and productivity”, published by McKinsey in May 2011, to much fanfare. That report, and following ones by McKinsey, drove publicity in Forbes, The Economist, various O'Reilly pubs, Financial Times and many others—while providing ample sales fodder for every big vendor selling Big Data products and services.
Among those big vendors, none did a better job of leveraging and generating buzz than IBM. See Resources for the results of a Google search for IBM + “Big Data”, for the calendar years 2010–2011. Note that the first publication listed in that search, “Bringing big data to the Enterprise”, is dated May 16, 2011, the same month as the McKinsey report. The next, “IBM Big Data - Where do I start?” is dated November 23, 2011.
Source: http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/how-will-big-data-craze-play-out
Microsoft and Red Hat Reach Linux Deal
Microsoft Corp. and Red Hat Inc., longtime rivals from conflicting camps of the software industry, plan to collaborate in the cloud.
The companies are announcing a partnership Wednesday to make Red Hat’s version of the Linux operating system available to users of Microsoft Azure, the software company’s cloud service.
Under the deal, Microsoft agreed to designate Red Hat’s Linux as its “preferred” option for enterprise-style computing jobs on Azure. In addition, personnel from both companies will work together in Redmond, Wash.—Microsoft’s hometown—to offer technical support to customers.
No financial elements of the deal are being disclosed.
Source: http://www.wsj.com/articles/microsoft-and-red-hat-reach-linux-deal-1446642000
OmniRAT Lets Hackers Control Android Phones, Windows, Mac, and Linux PCs
RAT stands for Remote Access Trojan (some use the term Tool as well) and refers to a particular piece of malware that infects user computers via a client component, which then starts communicating with a server counterpart. This allows an attacker to steal data from a target, spy on the user, and even take control of the victim's device.
Unlike previous Android RAT kits, OmniRAT comes with built-in support for controlling desktops, something that its competitors don't have the ability to do. Additionally, also compared to its competition, OmniRAT is also ten times cheaper to purchase, being offered for sale at prices between $25 and $50 (€23 and €46).
Software like this is not illegal, mainly because it is also used by programmers and testers in their daily jobs. RATs become illegal when someone uses them for malicious purposes.
Around mid-August this year, Avast detected one of these malicious campaigns in action, one that involved a version of OmniRAT, spreading via SMS messages.
The kernel of the argument
For Linux, the operating system that Torvalds created and named after himself, has come to dominate the exploding online world, making it more popular overall than rivals from Microsoft and Apple.
But while Linux is fast, flexible and free, a growing chorus of critics warn that it has security weaknesses that could be fixed but haven’t been. Worse, as Internet security has surged as a subject of international concern, Torvalds has engaged in an occasionally profane standoff with experts on the subject. One group he has dismissed as “masturbating monkeys.” In blasting the security features produced by another group, he said in a public post, “Please just kill yourself now. The world would be a better place.”
Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/business/2015/11/05/net-of-insecurity-the-kernel-of-the-argument/
Mentor Graphics Announces Customizable, Secure End-to-End IoT Solution with Integrated Gateway, Cloud and Edge Devices
Mentor Graphics Corporation announced the availability of its customizable edge-to-cloud IoT solution that enables companies to get its product to market quicker while helping to reduce risk, cost, and development cycles. The Mentor IoT solution comprises a unique customizable IoT gateway System Design Kit (SysDK), a cloud backend, and runtime solutions on which to build an array of IoT edge devices. It enables IoT requirements with support from 8-bit microcontrollers to 64-bit microprocessors, and deployments of 100,000+ gateways each supporting dozens of edge devices.
To provide customers flexibility in meeting business needs, the technology can be licensed commercially as an end-to-end solution or in parts to address and complete a customer's existing solution. Additionally, Mentor Graphics can deploy and manage the solution as a service to customers. Both options are available today.
Latest TPP leak shows systemic threat to software freedom
On March 25th, 2015, Wikileaks released a leaked chapter of the ongoing Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations, the multinational trade agreement that is being developed through a series of secret negotiations and aims to create a host of new restrictions. We here at the FSF have been fighting against TPP for years, as it represents the threat of a world dominated by DRM, software patents, and perpetual copyright.
The latest leaked chapter on investments lays out changes to a system of supra-national courts known extrajudicial investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) tribunals. For years, these courts have enabled large companies to sue democratically-elected governments over policies that these corporations oppose. For example, Big Tobacco has used the system to block or obstruct health laws intended to reduce smoking in countries around the world.
While all of this is bad news in general, one provision in the leaked document presents a particular threat to software freedom. Holders of copyright, patent, and other proprietary interests are now included in the definition of “investor.” Given the destructive nature of these provisions, the fact that proprietary developers could use them to interfere with local government protections of users' rights is cause for alarm.
Source: https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/latest-tpp-leak-shows-systemic-threat-to-software-freedom
New encryption ransomware targets Linux systems
The antivirus software company Doctor Web has issued an alert about a new form of crypto-ransomware that targets users of Linux-based operating systems. Designated as “Linux.Encoder.1” by the company, the malware largely targets Web servers, encrypting their contents and demanding a ransom of one Bitcoin (currently about $500).
Many of the systems that have been affected by the malware were infected when attackers exploited a vulnerability in the Magento CMS. A critical vulnerability patch for Magneto, which is used to power a number of e-commerce sites, was published on October 31. Doctor Web researchers currently place the number of victims in the “at least tens” range, but attacks on other vulnerable content management systems could increase the number of victims dramatically.
In order to run, the malware has to be executed with administrator-level privileges. Using 128-bit AES crypto, the malware encrypts the contents of all users' home directories and any files associated with websites running on the systems. It then goes through the whole directory structure of mounted volumes, encrypting a variety of file types. In each directory it encrypts, it drops a text file called README_FOR_DECRYPT.txt. This demands payment and provides a link to a Tor “hidden service” site via a Tor gateway.
Source: http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/11/new-encryption-ransomware-targets-linux-systems/
Linux Foundation Launches Open Source High-Performance Computing Group
The Linux Foundation, a nonprofit organization that promotes the Linux kernel and other open source projects, has partnered with Dell, HP Enterprise, Intel, Fujitsu Systems Europe and a number of university research labs to create the OpenHPC project. The collaboration will center on four main goals: Producing a stable environment for testing HPC software Creating an open source framework for HPC environments that will reduce costs Developing a sophisticated HPC software stack suited to a variety of applications Building a configuration framework that offers developers and users flexibility to tailor HPC software to meet their needs. The time is right for new investment in open source HPC software because such software is vital in fields like meteorology, astronomy, engineering and nuclear physics, yet it has not been developed in a central, efficient way, according to the Linux Foundation.
'Smaller than a credit card': Tiny supercomputer could mean self-flying drones With NVIDIA's new machine learning module, companies will be able to specifically identify construction vehicles, building materials and other structures, so they'll have even more relevant information to manage their job sites using commercial drones“.
As a result, the platform is capable of performing complex tasks such as recognizing images, processing conversational speech, or analyzing a room full of furniture and finding a path to navigate across it. Nvidia described the Jetson TX1's machine learning abilities as “a groundbreaking technology that will give autonomous devices a giant leap in capability”.
NVIDIA would like us to think that its newly announced Jetson TX1 is a few sort of AI upgrade for computers and networks, one built to aid autonomous systems by enabling machine learning.
Source: http://heraldvoice.com/2015/11/15/smaller-than-a-credit-card-tiny-supercomputer-could-mean/
Linux 4.4 glimpses the future with its first release candidate
LINUX IS already past the point when, in theory, Skynet should have created a T-800 Terminator to save John Connor, and Linux puppetmaster Linus Torvalds has released the first release candidate for kernel version 4.4.
“Just looking at the patch itself, things look fairly normal at a high level, possibly a bit more driver-heavy than usual with about 75 percent of the patch being drivers, and 10 percent being architecture updates,” said Torvalds in a release statement.
“The remaining 15 percent is documentation, filesystem, core networking (as opposed to network drivers), tooling and some core infrastructure.”
He also explained that driver changes for staging, networking and GPU drivers account for 40 percent of the entire kernel patch.
Around half of the content is aimed at ARM-based architecture, while x86 and others make up the other half.
The change list is, as ever, phenomenal in size, but includes a number of improvements for IoT support for ARM processors and updates for DRM.
There are likely to be up to 10 release candidates before the real deal is released sometime next year.
Freescale Makes Significant Investment in Real Time Linux
Freescale has just announced they are joining the Real Time Linux (RTL) Collaborative Project as a Gold Member. Freescale joins Google, National Instruments, OSADL, and TI with a significant investment because they value the strategic importance of this open source project and the benefits it creates for their customers.
Linux adoption for embedded applications is following a similar path to what we saw in mobile, where smartphones and their apps drove new experiences and even further commercial success of Linux (via Android) in the marketplace. In the case of embedded systems, advances in artificial intelligence, image and voice recognition are sparking massive innovations based on the power, flexibility and cost advantages of embedded Linux systems. For example, in drones and cars we are seeing a convergence of advanced image recognition and artificial intelligence giving way to pilotless and driverless navigation. From robotics, to drones, to cars, a real time Linux kernel is key to the foundation of these soon-to-be commercially available solutions.
Numecent raises $15.5M to bring cloudpaging to Android and Linux
Irvine, California-based software company Numecent said today it has raised a new round of $15.5 million from a broad range of European investors as the company seeks to expand its cloud-based services beyond Windows.
The series B round includes $4.5 million from Deutsche Telekom, with the rest from “European industrialists, family offices and private equity firms,” according to Numecent. Deutsche Telekom also led the company’s series A round.
“Numecent is on a good trajectory and is receiving traction from major players in the industry,” Vicente Vento, chairman of the supervisory board of Deutsche Telekom Strategic Investments in a statement. “This traction validates the view that cloudpaging is potentially transformative not only for IT, but also for emerging sectors like IoT.”
Source: http://venturebeat.com/2015/11/17/numecent-raises-15-5m-to-bring-cloudpaging-to-android-and-linux/
Texas Instruments – Kit enables fast and easy Linux software and hardware development
The OMAP-L138 DSP+ARM9 development kit, from Texas Instruments (TI) is designed to enable fast and easy Linux software and hardware development.
The scalable platform can ease and accelerate software and hardware development of everyday applications that require real-time signal processing and control functional, including industrial control, medical diagnostics and communications.
The low-cost kit, complete with freely downloadable and duplicable board schematics and design files, greatly reduces design work. A wide variety of standard interfaces for connectivity and storage allow developers to easily bring audio, video and other signals onto the board. Expansion headers such as LCD screen expansion headers and Leopard Imaging’s camera sensor allow users to extend the board’s functionality.
The TMDSLCDK138 replaces the TMDXLCDK138 with the same performance, price and features. It available on a limited quantity basis as inventory ramps, says the company.
The LCDK does not have an onboard emulator. An external emulator from TI (such as the XDS100, XDS200, XDS510, XDS560) or a third-party will be required to start development.
Linux Debugging Comes to Visual Studio
Microsoft has released a preview of its new Visual Studio GDB extension, contributing to their ongoing effort to make Visual Studio support as many development environments as possible. Microsoft's Marc Goodner has provided details of this new ability, which can be used with Visual Studio 2015 Community edition or higher.
Once installed, this extension provides a new Project target under Visual C++ →Cross Platform called “Makefile Project (GDB)”. Once created, an SSH client will be needed on your local/host Windows machine to enable communication. As Goodner explains, certificates have to be generated to enable secure communication but do note that pass phrases cannot be used at this time so it probably makes sense to generate a separate certificate just for this purpose. You will also want to make your first connection using your SSH client outside of Visual Studio so the certificate can accepted. Subsequent connections can then be made within Visual Studio.
Source: http://www.infoq.com/news/2015/11/vs-gdb
Parrot’s Bebop 2: smaller, faster, longer-lasting, Linux-fortified
In San Francisco, Parrot unveiled a smaller, faster, longer lasting version of its Linux-based Bebop drone, helping to solidify its dominance in the mid-range consumer market. One of the key new features is an emergency cutoff that instantly kills the quadrotor motors when a blade hits an obstacle. The increasing focus on safety was also demonstrated this week when 3DR (Solo) and DJI (Phantom) announced similar new technology to make it easier for their customers to avoid restricted airspace . France-based Parrot was an early leader in consumer unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with its AR.Drone quadrotors, which bridged the gap between the toy and prosumer/commercial markets. Parrot also owns a big chunk of the toy drone and robot market with products like the Rolling Spider and Jumping Sumo, as well as a newer line of Jumping, Airborne, and Hydrofoil mini-drones, selling from $145 to $220.
Source: http://linuxgizmos.com/parrots-bebop-2-smaller-faster-longer-lasting-linux-fortified/
Arduino Meets Linux: Arduino Introduces Its 3rd Generation Platform
The Arduino platform's simplicity, open architecture and ease of use helped make it the most popular embedded development tool within the Maker community.
Now, a third generation of Arduino boards is emerging that contains two processors. 3rd-gen boards such as the Arduino Yun have an embedded microcontroller (MCU) and a more powerful microprocessor Unit (MPU), similar to those found in PCs and mobile devices. The MCU (typically an Atmel ATmega32x device) supports the real-world I/O functionality traditionally handled by the Arduino platform. The MPU is typically based on the MIPS architecture (such as the Atheros AR9331) and powerful enough to support application languages such as C/C++, Python and Java. The microprocessor can also support multiple communication protocols (Wi-Fi, TCP/IP, HTTP etc) and web-based services (Chat, e-mail, Twitter, AllJoyn etc).