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Gorgeous Ubuntu-Based Mangaka Linux for Anime and Manga Fans Enters Beta
Animesoft International has released earlier today the second milestone towards Mangaka Nyu, a free and GPL licensed Ubuntu and Debian-based operating system designed especially for anime and manga communities from all over the world.
“Maintaining the focus to a fast, beauty, complete and very customizable desktop, now with full support to Japanese language, bugfix in the whole system and software updates, we are proud to introduce you to the BETA release of our system,” says Animesoft International.
The distribution comes with professional free software pre-installed for fansubbing, fandubbing, 2D graphical creations, multimedia playback and web browsing. Users will have a complete desktop experience thanks to the built-in codecs, Java, and Flash support.
Source: http://linux.softpedia.com/blog/Gorgeous-Ubuntu-Based-Mangaka-Linux-for-Anime-and-Manga-Fans-Enters-Beta-483540.shtml Submitted by: Arnfried Walbrecht
9-dollar computer tops two million on Kickstarter
Raspberry Pi has new competition in the ultra-budget computer universe. CHIP purports to be the world's first $9 computer and its run on Kickstarter is coming to a close after raising over $2 million, more than 40 times its crowdfunding goal from nearly 40,000 backers.
CHIP easily fits in your palm and packs a 1GHz processor, 512 MB RAM and 4 GB of storage with Linux loaded and ready to roll. It has built in WiFi, Bluetooth and a composite video port; VGA and HDMI adapters can also be added. LibreOffice and the Chromium browser allow for instant web browsing and productivity – just about as quickly as you can get the system connected to a display and means of input.
The key to CHIP's low price is a partnership with China's Allwinner Technology, a chipmaker that has been particularly popular for open-source and budget projects, to drive down component prices through bulk ordering tens of thousands of chips at a time. Given the resounding success of the crowdfunding campaign, it looks like the CHIP team will be able to place those bulk orders.
Source: http://www.gizmag.com/chip-9-computer-linux-kickstarter-raspberry-pi-killer/37474/ Submitted by: Arnfried Walbrecht
openSUSE Linux-Powered Educational Pilot Program to Become Nationwide in Indonesia
Dubbed Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Utilization for Educational Quality Enhancement in Yogyakarta Province, the pilot project promises to enhance the computer usage knowledge of numerous Indonesian students, as it is set to become a nationwide educational program.
Mr. Mohammad Edwin Zakaria, a Linux and IT consultant for the Indonesian pilot program, is extremely confident that the project will become a model of ICT utilization in Indonesia's educational sector. “More and more education people and officials come to Yogyakarta to learn about how to implement information technology in basic education,” reveals Mr. Zakaria for the openSUSE Project.
Singgih Raharjo, the department head of Yogyakarta Province’s Education Communication and Technology Office, adds that they are also providing a similar program for teachers, instructing them on how to make learning material for students. The program is a real success in Indonesia, and students have access to numerous materials created by teachers.
Source: http://news.softpedia.com/news/openSUSE-Linux-Powered-Educational-Pilot-Program-to-Become-Nationwide-in-Indonesia-482649.shtml Submitted by: Arnfried Walbrecht
Run the Kali Linux Penetration Testing Distro on Any Platform via Docker Images
With the official Kali Linux Docker images, which include a minimal Kali Linux 1.1.0a base, you can easily run the best penetration testing distribution on almost any platform, including Mac OS X, SUSE, Gentoo, CentOS, RackSpace, and Azure.
Docker is a revolutionary, open-source software solution that lets system administrators and application developers package, distribute and run apps in virtual containers, anywhere, without too much of a hassle.
To get started, you will need to install the latest version of the Docker software on your operating system of choice. Once Docker is successfully installed and configured, you can use the following commands to fetch the Kali Linux images from the Docker repository and run the penetration testing distro…
Source: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Run-the-Kali-Linux-Penetration-Testing-Distro-on-Any-Platform-via-Docker-Images-482656.shtml Submitted by: Arnfried Walbrecht
Ubuntu-Based REMnux 6.0 Linux Distro for Malware Analysis Officially Released
According to the release notes, REMnux 6.0 Linux is here to update almost all of its great software collection of tools that help you analyze malware, and introduces various new and useful utilities that will elevate the distribution to a whole new level.
Among the new tools that have been added in REMnux 6.0, we can mention pedump, readpe.py, virustotal-tools, Nginx, VolDiff, Rule Editor, Rekall, m2elf, Yara Rules, OfficeDissector MASTIFF plugins, Docker, AndroGuard, vtTool, oletools, libolecf, tcpflow, passive.py, CapTipper, oledump, CFR, and update-remnux.
“I’m excited to announce the v6 release of the REMnux distro, which helps analysts examine malware using free utilities in a Linux environment. REMnux v6 updates the tools that were present in the earlier revisions of the distro and introduces several new ones. Moreover, it implements major architectural changes behind the scenes to allow REMnux users to easily apply future updates without having to download the full REMnux environment from scratch.”
Source: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Ubuntu-Based-REMnux-6-0-Linux-Distro-for-Malware-Analysis-Officially-Released-483709.shtml Submitted by: Arnfried Walbrecht
Pragmatism in the History of GNU, Linux and Free/Open Source Software
If you ask a lot of people why Linus Torvalds, and the Linux kernel that he wrote, became one of the most prominent open source projects of all time, while Richard Stallman's GNU project has received much less attention beyond hacker circles, they'll tell you the difference has to do with Stallman's excessive commitment to an uncompromising ideology. Is that really accurate?
Below, I'd like to make the case for a more nuanced interpretation of Stallman and the Free Software Foundation – which were more pragmatic than many observers have appreciated.
First, let's take a look at what people have said about Stallman, and the GNU project that he started in 1984. (He launched the Free Software Foundation a year later.) Here's what Torvalds wrote about Stallman in his 2001 autobiography: “The thing that drives me crazy about Richard is that he sees everything in black and white. And that creates unnecessary political divisions. He never understands the viewpoint of anybody else. If he were into religion, you would call him a religious fanatic.”
Source: http://thevarguy.com/open-source-application-software-companies/060915/pragmatism-history-gnu-linux-and-freeopen-source-software Submitted by: Arnfried Walbrecht
Apple's Decision to Open Source Swift Met with Developer Applause
Apple this week made an announcement worthy of applause and, indeed, the news received the loudest applause of opening day at WWDC. The company said it will open source its programming language Swift, and allow developers to compile programs on Linux.
This is a smart move for Apple and a big win for the developer community. Apple has long valued developers, but this week adopted a key strategy that has become the de facto approach to programming languages: open source.
Source: http://www.linux.com/news/featured-blogs/158-jim-zemlin/834610-apples-decision-to-open-source-swift-met-with-developer-applause Submitted by: Jim Zemlin
BQ Aquaris E5 HD Ubuntu Edition Is Now Available for Sale
The latest Aquaris E5 HD Ubuntu Edition from the Spanish company BQ is now available for purchase on the official website. This latest Ubuntu phone was announced just a couple of weeks ago and it's finally here.
BQ has been quick to release yet another Ubuntu phone after the previous e4.5 Aquaris Edition, which proved to be a very successful model. The first flash sales went very well, and it looks like a lot of people have ordered this particular model. Now the company is looking to expand its grip on the Ubuntu market, at least in Europe, with a new slightly improved model that comes with a bigger screen and a better camera.
If you were hoping to get your BQ Aquaris E5 HD Ubuntu Edition in your mail soon, you will probably be a little bit disappointed because it might take a while until shipping starts. In any case, you can now preorder it.
Source: http://news.softpedia.com/news/BQ-Aquaris-E5-HD-Ubuntu-Edition-Is-Now-Available-for-Sale-483773.shtml Submitted by: Silviu Stahie
Announcing Apache: Big Data and ApacheCon: Core
A year and a half ago, we forged a partnership with the Apache Software Foundation to become the producer of their official ASF events. The ASF has long blazed a trail of innovation in open source, and our work with them has yielded results in successful developer collaboration and events. It’s been a great partnership, in our opinion, led on our side by my colleague Angela Brown.
After extensive research and discussions with the Apache Software Foundation community, ApacheCon will now consist of two co-located events, called Apache: Big Data, and ApacheCon: Core. Starting this autumn in Budapest, we will now offer Apache: Big Data alongside ApacheCon: Core. Apache: Big Data will focus on Apache’s wide range of Big Data-focused projects, including Bigtop, Crunch, Falcon, Flink, Hadoop, Kafka, Parquet, Phoenix, Samza, Spark, Storm, Tajo, and more.
Source: http://www.linux.com/news/featured-blogs/167-amanda-mcpherson/834560-announcing-apache-big-data-and-apachecon-core Submitted by: Amanda McPherson
System76 Unveils the Fastest and Most Powerful Ubuntu Laptop on the Planet
System76 is a hardware company well known for producing unique laptops powered by the world's most popular free operating system, Ubuntu Linux, and it has just unveiled a new product called Serval WS.
System76's Serval WS laptop has been declared by the renowned company as the most powerful and fastest Ubuntu laptop on the market – a pinnacle of performance, as the hardware manufacturer writes on the project's web page. Enclosed in an exceptionally high-quality finish, the Serval WS laptop is as powerful as a dedicated gaming workstation, offering users an experience that cannot be found in other existing similar products.
Source: http://news.softpedia.com/news/System76-Unveils-the-Fastest-and-Most-Powerful-Ubuntu-Laptop-on-the-Planet-483840.shtml Submitted by: Marius Nestor
Four New Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities Patched in Ubuntu 14.10 (Utopic Unicorn)
After having informed users about the immediate availability of a new kernel update for the Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) operating system, Canonical has also announced that Ubuntu 14.10 (Utopic Unicorn) received an important kernel update.
The new kernel update patches four security issues (CVE-2015-2150, CVE-2015-2666,CVE-2015-2830, and CVE-2015-2922) that were discovered in the upstream Linux 3.16 kernel packages by various developers, and are used in both Ubuntu 14.10 and Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS operating systems.
Source: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Four-New-Linux-Kernel-Vulnerabilities-Patched-in-Ubuntu-14-10-Utopic-Unicorn-483730.shtml Submitted by: Marius Nestor
3 Financial Companies Innovating With Open Source
The financial industry is on the verge of an open source breakthrough, say three companies on the cutting edge of the trend. Traditionally very secretive about their technology, banks, hedge funds and other financial services companies have begun in the past few years to talk about how they use open source software in their infrastructure and product development. They have also been steadily increasing their contributions to upstream projects in the form of user feedback and code. And some companies have initiated their own open source projects or released portions of their own code to the open source community.
Though many financial institutions have the same basic infrastructure requirements – largely based on Linux – they've long employed their own engineering teams to build these systems from the ground up, and at great expense. But stricter regulations on the finance industry after the 2007/08 financial crisis have caused IT departments to tighten their belts. So IT managers are starting to leverage open source tools and components to cut down on custom development costs and maintenance overhead.
This trend is most evident in the adoption of open source automation tools as institutions move to the cloud, says Vinod Kutty, senior director at CME Group. Enterprises are now looking to big web companies such as Google, Amazon Web Services, and Facebook, as the model for their own cloud migration – adopting the same open source tools for devops and continuous integration such as Puppet, Chef, and Ansible.
Source: http://www.linux.com/news/featured-blogs/200-libby-clark/833979-3-financial-companies-innovating-with-open-source Submitted by: Libby Clark
Protect your data with these five Linux encryption tools
If you think data is more precious than ever, you should certainly consider its security to be a priority. And with more and more businesses working with multiple platforms, you have to be prepared to work with encryption on just about every business-ready operating system available. Including Linux. Fortunately, you have plenty of encryption-ready tools to choose from.
But which tools should you be looking at? If you open up, say, the Ubuntu Software Center, you'll find the majority of tools available (under the “encryption” search results) to be nothing more than libraries to resolve dependencies. Dig a bit deeper, though, and you'll find everything you need for easy-to-use encryption. I've uncovered five such tools for encryption on the Linux platform.
Source: http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/five-apps/protect-your-data-with-these-five-linux-encryption-tools/ Submitted by: Arnfried Walbrecht
SC Congress: Use Linux to fight malware, and let business learn security-speak
When worried about the vulnerability of workstations used by several thousand IBM system administrators who had access to clients’ production systems, about four years ago the company took away their Windows computers and put them all on Linux PCs.
Those who needed Windows could run it in a KVM virtual environment. In addition, the admins were told that no personal browsing or email could be done on the Linux platform.
It was, admitted IBM CISO Koos Lodewijkx, a “very unpopular” decision, but it “significantly reduced malware infection rates” on those users’ machines.
“For long, we had been permissive,” he said, encouraging people to experiment with computing. But, he added, there’s a lot less Linux malware. Plus, if the work environment was infected, as a virtual machine the image could quickly be replaced.
Senior leadership realized how important this was, he said, if a client’s system was infected and this approach cleared it.
How was it sold to staff? “You don’t want to force it down the users’ throats,” wondered one audience member. “We did,” Lodewijkx replied.
“We told them how critical their role is for the survival of our company and our clients.” Most accepted that.
Source: http://www.itworldcanada.com/article/sc-congress-use-linux-to-fight-malware-and-let-business-learn-security-speak/375337 Submitted by: Arnfried Walbrecht
Linux servers up, thin clients decline
The EMEA server market has continued its positive year-on-year growth, according to analyst IDC.
The EMEA market witnessed a year-on-year growth of 3.5 per cent in Q1 2015, reporting £3 billion in vendor revenue.
In particular, Linux has seen solid growth with a 15.9 per cent year-on-year increase in shipments in Q1 2015.
Eckhardt Fischer, research analyst of European infrastructure at IDC, said: “Linux continues to make positive strides in Western Europe, and its reported 15.9 per cent year-on-year growth in Q1 2015 can be attributed to higher levels of attraction seen by this OS in cloud, HPC, and Big Data scenarios.”
The EMEA server market also reported a year-on-year revenue growth of 29.2 per cent in Q1 2015, but due to a weakening euro, some vendors have been forced to adopt new pricing structures.
IDC revealed that HP took the top spot in Q1, with a server revenue of $1.08 billion (£701 million), while Dell came in second place with revenue reaching $534 million (£345 million).
Source: http://www.pcr-online.biz/news/read/linux-servers-up-as-thin-clients-decline/036373 Submitted by: Arnfried Walbrecht
Canonical Patches Linux Kernel Vulnerability in All Supported Ubuntu OSes
Canonical has published a new security notice for all of its supported Ubuntu Linux operating systems, informing users that a Linux kernel vulnerability has been patched, and urging them to update their systems as soon as possible.
The security issue, discovered by Philip Pettersson in Linux kernel's OverlayFS filesystem, affects the Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet), Ubuntu 14.10 (Utopic Unicorn), Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr), and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) operating systems, as well as their derivatives.
At the moment, all the Ubuntu OSes mentioned above are vulnerable to this security flaw, as a local user could exploit it easily and obtain administrative privileges to run programs as a system administrator. More details can be found by accessing CVE-2015-1328.
“Philip Pettersson discovered a privilege escalation when using overlayfs mounts inside of user namespaces. A local user could exploit this flaw to gain administrative privileges on the system,” reads the Ubuntu Security Notice posted by Canonical on June 15, 2015.
Source: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Canonical-Patches-Linux-Kernel-Vulnerability-in-All-Supported-Ubuntu-OSes-484412.shtml Submitted by: Arnfried Walbrecht
The Creator of Linux on the Future Without Him
It’s a morbid but important discussion. Torvalds released the Linux operating system from his college dorm room in Finland in 1991. Since then, the software has taken over the world. Huge swaths of the Internet—including the servers of Google, Amazon.com, and Facebook—run on Linux. More than a billion Android smartphones and tablets run on Linux, as do billions upon billions of everything from appliances and medical devices right on up to cars and rockets. While Linux is open-source, which allows people to change it as they please, Torvalds remains the lone official arbiter of the software, guiding how Linux evolves. When it comes to the software that runs just about everything, Torvalds is The Decider.
What’s more, Torvalds may be the most influential individual economic force of the past 20 years. He didn’t invent open-source software, but, through Linux, he unleashed the full power of the idea. Torvalds has proven that open-source software can be quicker to build, better, and more popular, than proprietary products. The result of all this is that open-source software has overtaken proprietary code as the standard for new products, and the price of software overall has plummeted. Torvalds has, in effect, been as instrumental in retooling the production lines of the modern economy as Henry Ford was 100 years earlier.
Source: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-16/the-creator-of-linux-on-the-future-without-him Submitted by: Arnfried Walbrecht
Black Lab Linux GNOME 2015.6 Is Still Based on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Supported Until 2020
Probably the most important change in this release is the new versioning scheme. Softpedia was informed by Mr. Dohnert a few weeks ago that upcoming releases of the Black Lab Linux distributions would drop the regular 6.x or 7.x version numbers in favor of a new scheme composed of the current year and month, which tends to become more popular among software distributors.
Powered by Ubuntu 14.04 LTS' Linux kernel 3.16.0-40, Black Lab Linux GNOME 2015.6 comes with the GNOME 3.10.4 desktop environment, GCC 4.9.2, Mozilla Firefox 38.0, Mozilla Thunderbird 31.7 with the Lightning add-on, Abiword 3.0, Gnumeric 1.12, Steam for Linux, Shotwell, Pinta, as well as Ubuntu-compatible Linux kernel 3.13.0-53 packages.
“We have set it up with a unique layout which makes it ideal for traditional keyboard and mouse desktop users as well as users with touchscreen systems,” says Robert Dohnert on behalf of the Black Lab Software. “This release is 64-bit only – although we are considering a 32-bit release if the community requests it. This release is fully supported until the year 2020 as our other releases.”
Source: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Black-Lab-Linux-GNOME-2015-6-Is-Still-Based-on-Ubuntu-14-04-LTS-Supported-Until-2020-484520.shtml Submitted by: Arnfried Walbrecht