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Submission + - System76 Unveils the Fastest Ubuntu Laptop on the Planet

Submitted by prisoninmate
prisoninmate writes: System76 unveiled today what it would appear to be the fastest and most powerful Ubuntu laptop on the planet, powered by either the Ubuntu 15.04 or Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS Linux operating systems. Dubbed Serval WS, the laptop has been declared by the renown hardware company a pinnacle of performance, enclosed in an exceptionally high-quality finish, with backlit keyboard, and the fastest mobile GPUs from Nvidia. The laptop is available for pre-order starting June 9 and will be shipped in July.

Submission + - System76 unveils hardcore Serval WS laptop running Ubuntu Linux (betanews.com)

Submitted by BrianFagioli
BrianFagioli writes: Today, the company announces its newest laptop, called "Serval WS". To call this a mere laptop, however, does not do it justice. It is a hardcore, monstrous beast — a full desktop replacement — ready to shred through anything you throw at it. Yeah, the specs are that good.

Submission + - Europe to abolish geo-blocking and other copyright restrictions

Submitted by AmiMoJo
AmiMoJo writes: The European Commission adopted a new Digital Single Market Strategy today, which aims to improve consumer access to digital services and goods. Among other things, Europe vows to end geo-blocking, which it describes as “a discriminatory practice used for commercial reasons”, and lift other unwarranted copyright restrictions. Consumers will have the right to access content they purchased at home in other European countries. “I want to see every consumer getting the best deals and every business accessing the widest market – wherever they are in Europe,” Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker says.
GNU is Not Unix

Debian GNU/Hurd 2015 Released 52

Posted by Soulskill from the onward-and-upward dept.
An anonymous reader sends this announcement from the debian-hurd mailing list: It is with huge pleasure that the Debian GNU/Hurd team announces the release of Debian GNU/Hurd 2015. This is a snapshot of Debian "sid" at the time of the stable Debian "jessie" release (April 2015), so it is mostly based on the same sources. It is not an official Debian release, but it is an official Debian GNU/Hurd port release. The installation ISO images can be downloaded from Debian Ports in the usual three Debian flavors: NETINST, CD, or DVD. Besides the friendly Debian installer, a pre-installed disk image is also available there, making it even easier to try Debian GNU/Hurd. The easiest way to run it is inside a VM such as qemu.

Submission + - KDE Plasma 5.3 Released (kde.org) 2

Submitted by jrepin
jrepin writes: The KDE community has relesed Plasma 5.3, a major new features release of the popular opensource desktop environment. The latest release brings much enhanced power management, better support for Bluetooth, and improved Plasma widgets. Also available is a technical preview of Plasma Media Center shell. In addition, Plasma 5.3 represents a big step towards support for Wayland windowing system. There are also a few other minor tweaks and over 300 bigfixes.

Submission + - Debian 8.0 ("Jessie") Released

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: After almost 2 years of constant development the Debian project is proud to present its new stable version 8, which will be supported for the next 5 years thanks to the combined work of the Debian Security team and of the Debian Long Term Support (LTS) team. Debian 8 introduces two new architectures arm64 and ppc64el for POWER machines. systemd is now the default init system. You can easily install audio, midi, graphics, video, using the tasksel interface. This new release of Debian again comes with a lot more software and updates including the desktop environments such as GNOME 3.14, KDE 4.11, Xfce 4.10, Mate, Cinnamon, and LXDE desktops. Linux kernel is upgraded to 3.16 series, Apache 2.4.10, Python 3.4, OpenSSH 6.7p1, PHP 5.6, Perl 5.20, Samba 4.1, MySQL 5.5, MariaDB 10.0 and PostgreSQL 10.0.

You can choose your favourite installation media among Blu-ray Discs, DVDs, CDs and USB sticks. For cloud users Debian 8 also offers pre-built OpenStack images ready to use.

Existing Debian user can to Jessie, reading the official installation guide and the release notes. There is also a quick installation video here which include preview of various desktop environments. You can also support Debian project by donating money or required hardware.

Submission + - Debian 8 Jessie released (debian.org)

Submitted by linuxscreenshot
linuxscreenshot writes: After almost 24 months of constant development the Debian project is proud to present its new stable version 8 (code name Jessie), which will be supported for the next 5 years thanks to the combined work of the Debian Security team and of the Debian Long Term Support team. Jessie ships with a new default init system, systemd. The systemd suite provides many exciting features such as faster boot times, cgroups for services, and the possibility of isolating part of the services. The sysvinit init system is still available in Jessie. Screenshots and a screencast is available.

Submission + - GNU Hurd 0.6 Released (lwn.net)

Submitted by jrepin
jrepin writes: It has been roughly a year and a half since the last release of the GNU Hurd operating system, so it may be of interest to some readers that GNU Hurd 0.6 has been released along with GNU Mach 1.5 (the microkernel that Hurd runs on) and GNU MIG 1.5 (the Mach Interface Generator, which generates code to handle remote procedure calls). New features include procfs and random translators; cleanups and stylistic fixes, some of which came from static analysis; message dispatching improvements; integer hashing performance improvements; a split of the init server into a startup server and an init program based on System V init; and more.
GUI

KDE Plasma 5.3 Beta Brings Lot of Improvements 64

Posted by timothy from the gui-not-gooey dept.
jones_supa writes: The KDE project today announced the release of KDE Plasma 5.3 beta. It brings better power management, improved Bluetooth support, improved widgets, Wayland support, new media center, and nearly 350 bugfixes. The power management improvements include settings that can be independently configured per activity, there is a new energy usage monitor available in KInfoCenter, and a battery applet identifies applications that hog power. Bluetooth applet brings added support for blocking and unblocking devices. New touchpad module has been added as well. The combined window manager and compositor KWin is now able to start a nested XWayland server, which acts as a bridge between the old X11 and the new Wayland world.

Submission + - KDE Plasma 5.3 Beta Brings Lot of Improvements

Submitted by jones_supa
jones_supa writes: The KDE project today announced the release of KDE Plasma 5.3 beta. It brings better power management, improved Bluetooth support, improved widgets, Wayland support, new media center, and nearly 350 bugfixes. The power management improvements include settings that can be independently configured per activity, there is a new energy usage monitor available in KInfoCenter, and a battery applet identifies applications that hog power. Bluetooth applet brings added support for blocking and unblocking devices. New touchpad module has been added as well. The combined window manager and compositor KWin is now able to start a nested XWayland server, which acts as a bridge between the old X11 and the new Wayland world.

Submission + - What's next for open source? Physical products.

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Interesting article in Jono Bacon's Six Degrees column about how Open Source could provide the guardrails for collaboration around products that include software, hardware, distributed computing, and other components, as well as what we need to do to achieve this. Read it here.

Submission + - India Pushing for Net Neutrality (savetheinternet.in)

Submitted by kousik
kousik writes: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) is soliciting input on the regulatory framework on OTT services. However the internet community of India sees this as a threat to net neutrality, especially at the wake of mutually beneficial schemes announced by the largest Indian ISP and the largest e-commerce company. To spread awareness the community has created a video, and www.savetheinternet.in website via which users can send a response to TRAI to protect #NetNeutrality in India.

Submission + - First alpha of public sector Linux deployment system 1

Submitted by mathiasfriman
mathiasfriman writes: SverigeLinux (SwedenLinux in swedish) is a project financed by the Swedish Internet Fund that develop a Linux deployment system for the public sector. It is based on DebianLAN and has just released its first public early alpha version. This 7 minute video shows how you can deploy up to 100 workstations with minimal Linux knowledge in under an hour, complete with DHCP, DNS and user data in LDAP, logins using Kerberos and centralized storage. The project has a home on Github and is looking for testers and developers, hope you will try it out. Don't worry, no Björgen Kjörgen, it's all in english.

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