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Not Just for Computer Nerds: 5 Reasons Linux is a Growing Business Trend
Business.com
Linux distros have been largely improved as we move closer toward bridging the historical gap, surfacing within us. Technical savviness has readily matured over years, bringing us closer to the five valid points which make Linux, a virtual powerhouse: ...

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Major CoreOS Linux Alpha Vulnerability Patched
InfoQ.com
A misconfiguration in the PAM subsystem in CoreOS Linux Alpha 1045.0.0 and 1047.0.0 allowed unauthorised users to gain access to accounts without a password or any other authentication token being required. This vulnerability affects a subset of ...

Linux Kernel 3.12.60 LTS Released with ARM and PowerPC Fixes, Updated Drivers
Softpedia News
Linux kernel developer Jiri Slaby today, May 24, 2016, announced the release and general availability of the sixtieth maintenance build in long-term supported Linux 3.12 kernel series. Linux kernel 3.12.60 LTS arrives approximately one month after the ...

ZDNet
Best Windows, iOS, Android and Linux tablets of 2016
ZDNet
Linux: Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Edition tablet. Looking for a Linux-powered tablet? Well, I got a Linux-powered tablet for you! This is Canonical's first Ubuntu tablet built by the Spanish OEM BQ. Tech spec: 10.1 inch 1280 x 800 (149 pixels-per-inch) 10 ...

Inquirer
You too can turn your PS4 into a Linux Steam machine
Inquirer
A COMPUTER EXPLORER has managed to take a PS4 and turn it into a Linux box that can be used to play Steam games. Why? Progress, people, and porting. If you can think it, you might as well give it a go. After all, without such invention we would not ...
Hacker group demonstrates Steam games running on PS4 via Arch LinuxExtremeTech
Steam can run on the PlayStation 4 thanks to Arch Linux, a jailbreak, and old firmwareDigital Trends
Sony PlayStation 4 hacked to create Linux Steam MachineHEXUS
SlashGear -PlayStation LifeStyle -TechRadar
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Microsoft - Channel 9 (blog)
Windows Subsystem for Linux: Process Architecture
Microsoft - Channel 9 (blog)
... coming to Windows 10. I thought this sounded a little scary until Nick explained how these things are governed and fit into the larger functionality that we've come to know as the Windows Subsystem for Linux (which enables Bash on Ubuntu on Windows).

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Linux.com (blog)
Repurposing Old Smartphones for Home Automation
Linux.com (blog)
At the recent Embedded Linux Conference and OpenIoT Summit, Mozilla Technical Evangelist Dietrich Ayala proposed a simple and affordable solution to home automation: A discarded smartphone can handle some of the most useful home automation tasks ...

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TechRepublic
From Windows 10, Linux, iPads, iPhones to HoloLens: The tech astronauts use on the ISS
TechRepublic
From the first days of the station, NASA astronauts have used Linux-based laptops to interact with the avionics, the critical systems that keep the station in orbit and the air breathable. Meanwhile Windows machines have always been used for general ...

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Network World
10 more pointless (but awesome) Linux terminal tricks
Network World
One year ago, I put together a list of my favorite “pointless but awesome” Linux terminal tricks—filled with such classics as making a cow talk with “cowsay” and rainbow-coloring your terminal with “lolcat.” As was correctly pointed out to me at the ...

Opensource.com
Driving cars into the future with Linux
Opensource.com
In addition to GENIVI's efforts, the Linux Foundation sponsors the Automotive Grade Linux (AGL) workgroup, a software foundation dedicated to finding open source solutions for automotive applications. Although AGL will initially focus on IVI systems ...

Linux 4.0 arrives as a 'pretty small release'

Linux 4.0 is here. Linux head honcho Linus Torvalds sent out an update to the Linux Kernel Mailing List on Sunday that explained the "pretty small" release fits in with an earlier agreed schedule as opposed to there being any big changes to the Linux Kernel. "Feature-wise, 4.0 doesn't have all that much special. Much has been made of the new kernel patching infrastructure, but realistically that ...

Linux 4.0 is here. Linux head honcho Linus Torvalds sent out an update to the Linux Kernel Mailing List on Sunday that explained the "pretty small" release fits in with an earlier agreed schedule as opposed to there being any big changes to the Linux Kernel. "Feature-wise, 4.0 doesn't have all that much special. Much has been made of the new kernel patching infrastructure, but realistically that ...

Linus Torvalds downplays the version jump

Concurrent , a global leader in unified content delivery, video analytics, and real-time Linux® solutions, today announced it is a silver sponsor of its partner, VI-grade’s 2015 VI-grade Users Conference in Trieste, Italy on April 15-16, 2015.

Torvalds looses neatened number feat. non-disruptive patches, Z13 support and more Linux 4.0 is upon us.…

DevOpsify your boring Ethernet Cumulus Networks, home of a Linux-of-choice for white-box switches, has linked arms with Puppet Labs and joined its Puppet Supported Program.…

Dell and Red Hat Inc. , the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced an enhanced edition of the Dell Red Hat Cloud Solution, a co-engineered, enterprise-grade private-cloud solution based on OpenStack.

Linus Torvalds was at hacked event, but organisers say payment details safe The names, phone numbers and street and email addresses of delegates for Linux Australia conferences and PyCon have been exposed in a server breach.…

Kubernetes container control freak is in ... but Docker is out Container-happy Linux upstart CoreOS has launched a beta program for a new distribution of software designed to let enterprises run their own infrastructures the way large-scale software companies like Google run theirs.…