Four smartphone OSes that hope to find room next to Android and iOS were on display at Mobile World Congress, but the most exciting were Ubuntu Phone and Sailfish OS. Apple and Google have further tightened their grip on the smartphone OS market; they had a market share of 96.1 percent last year, up from…
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"Can I borrow your phone?" Hands-on with Mark Shuttleworth's Ubuntu phone
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BARCELONA, Spain-At the Canonical booth at Mobile World Congress, I had a chance meeting with Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical and spiritual leader of Ubuntu. I was actually at the booth to try out the new Ubuntu Edition of the Meizu MX4, a mid- to high-end smartphone, but all of the untethered devices had run…
Ubuntu: 2515-2: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities regression
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Software Description: – linux-lts-trusty: Linux hardware enablement kernel from Trusty Details: USN-2515-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel. There was an unrelated regression in the use of the virtual counter on arm64 architectures. Source: Tech
The Seven Habits Of Open Source
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Full Stack Hacker Developer Training Bundle: $49
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Linux Academy lives and works in the world of technology, and enjoy sharing the depth and breadth of their experience with the community. Linux Academy is composed of professionals dedicated to their craft, all certified in both Linux and Amazon Web Services. Source: Tech
Calling all developers! Survey on container adoption in the enterprise
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Containers are a hot topic in the developer/software engineering community, with some predicting that 2015 will prove to be the year of the production-ready container. The ability to create multiple lightweight, self-contained execution environments on the same Linux host simplifies application deployment and management. Source: Tech
Microsoft brings machine learning to Azure
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At the Strata + Hadoop World conference in San Jose last week, Microsoft announced new and enhanced Microsoft data services for Azure. This includes a preview of Azure HDInsight running on Linux, the general availability of Storm on HDInsight, the general availability of Azure Machine Learning, and the availability of Informatica technology on Azure. Source:…
Cloud.com Founders Start New Thing–You Guess It, It's Docker-Related. The War Escalates
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Best Distros for Switchers and Repairs
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There are Linux distributions for just about any imagined purpose and many times there are several from which to choose. Mihir Patkar today posted his thoughts on the best distros for switchers from Windows and Mac. Source: Tech
Linux has 2,000 new developers and gets 10,000 patches for each version
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Nearly 2,000 developers started contributing to Linux in the past 15 months, making up nearly half of all developers writing code for the open source operating system kernel. The new developers are helping fuel an ever-bigger Linux community, according to the latest Linux Kernel Development report, which will be released today by the Linux Foundation.…