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Submission + - Linux Foundation Comments on Microsoft's Increasing Love Affair with Linux (linux.com)

Submitted by LibbyMC
LibbyMC writes: Executive Director Jim Zemlin writes, "We do not agree with everything Microsoft does and certainly many open source projects compete directly with Microsoft products. However, the new Microsoft we are seeing today is certainly a different organization when it comes to open source.

"The company's participation in these efforts underscores the fact that nothing has changed more in the last couple of decades than how software is fundamentally built. "

Submission + - The US-China Climate Deal Changes Everything

Submitted by merbs
merbs writes: As a result of the deal, which negotiators have reportedly hashed out over a nine-month period, in secret, the US has promised to double the rate at which it's cutting carbon pollution—slashing emissions over a quarter from 2005 levels by 2025. Meanwhile, China has pledged to ensure its greenhouse gas output peaks by 2030. The two nations are by far the world's largest contributors to global warming—combined, they account for a jaw-slackening 40 percent of the world's emissions.

And until now, the two nations have not seen eye to eye on fighting climate change. In fact, it's closer to the opposite: they've been outright hostile.

Submission + - Google signed a 60-year, $1 billion Moffett Field Lease

Submitted by Biff Stu
Biff Stu writes: Google has signed a 60-year, $1 billion Moffett Field Lease. This lease includes the large hangars that housed dirigibles that hunted Japanese submarines near the California coast during WW2. According to the article, "a Google subsidiary called Planetary Ventures LLC will use the hangars for "research, development, assembly and testing in the areas of space exploration, aviation, rover/robotics and other emerging technologies." Does this mean that Google is planning to include actual clouds in "cloud" computing?

Submission + - Google to lease and refurbish Naval Air Base for space exploration (go.com)

Submitted by Taco Cowboy
Taco Cowboy writes: Google has signed a long-term lease for part of a historic Navy air base, where it plans to renovate three massive hangars and use them for projects involving aviation, space exploration and robotics. The giant Internet company will pay $1.16 billion in rent over 60 years for the property, which also includes a working air field, golf course and other buildings. The 1,000-acre site is part of the former Moffett Field Naval Air Station on the San Francisco Peninsula. Google plans to invest more than $200 million to refurbish the hangars and add other improvements, including a museum or educational facility that will showcase the history of Moffett and Silicon Valley, according to a NASA statement. The agency said a Google subsidiary called Planetary Ventures LLC will use the hangars for "research, development, assembly and testing in the areas of space exploration, aviation, rover/robotics and other emerging technologies"

NASA plans to continue operating its Ames Research Center on the former Navy site. Google will take over operations at the runways and hangars, including a massive structure that was built to house dirigible-style Navy airships in the 1930s. NASA said the deal will save it $6.3 million in annual maintenance and operation costs

Submission + - Systemd again? Debian drops kFreeBSD as official architecture (itwire.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The Debian GNU/Linux project has decided not to support its GNU/kFreeBSD distribution as an official release for the forthcoming version 8.0 which is better known as Jessie. One of the reasons for this decision could be systemd, the new init system that will be the default for the Jessie release. It cannot be used with any kernel other than Linux.

Submission + - GM Ordered 500,000 Replacement Switches Months Before Recall

Submitted by HughPickens.com
HughPickens.com writes: The NYT reports that according to emails to its supplier Delphi Automotive, General Motors placed an urgent order for 500,000 replacement switches nearly two months before notifying federal regulators and the public that it was recalling cars with a dangerously defective ignition switch. The emails were sent on December 18, 2013, a day after a crucial committee met to discuss the switch issue but declined to order a recall. Despite the official inaction, a GM employee sent an email to Delphi the next day requesting the half-million replacement parts: for “an urgent field action for our customers.” The emails were turned over by Delphi during discovery in sweeping class-action litigation against the automaker and were released to the press by Robert C. Hilliard, one of the three lead attorneys for plaintiffs in the case.

Submission + - Google Nexus 9 (mobilesvoice.com)

Submitted by mobilesvoice
mobilesvoice writes: The Nexus nine is that the 1st pill to run Google’s humanoid five.0 Lollipop, and it shines as a result of it. Its style won’t be value writing home regarding and also the speakers up front leave to a small degree to be desired, however the mixture of Lollipop and NVIDIA’s powerful K1 chipset build it a significant competition

Comment Re:Why not fork/wrap systemd to make it more sane? (Score 1) 863

As the trolls will surely tell you, that is how systemd works. it actually is a bunch of binaries, and not a single one. However, they will also conveniently forget that the biggest issue is that all these binaries have huge interdependencies; if you need one, like for instance some desktop decides to depend for some stupid reason on logind, you'll get the whole enchilada. And that, is the single biggest issue with systemd. It has absorbed many projects, and is even trying to break the kernel (by integrating a DBUS that only works with systemd, or removing firmware upload functionality so that only systemd will be able to do it). It is not an init system - it is an interdependent bunch of overcomplicated code, made non-modular and impossible to replace by design.

Submission + - Raging debate over systemd exposes the two factions tugging at modern-day Linux (infoworld.com)

Submitted by walterbyrd
walterbyrd writes: In discussions around the Web in the past few months, I've seen an overwhelming level of support of systemd from Linux users who run Linux on their laptops and maybe a VPS or home server. I've also seen a large backlash against systemd from Linux system administrators who are responsible for dozens, hundreds, or thousands of Linux servers, physical and virtual.

Submission + - ESA - Rosetta - Rosetta: the ambition to turn science fiction into science fact (esa.int)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: ESA — Rosetta had a surprise for us, in just released "Science Fiction" short movie about Rosetta probe.
Directed by Tomek Bagiski and starring Aiden Gillen and Aisling Franciosi.

Imagine: with a wasteland as their canvas, a Master and his young Apprentice set about turning rubble into planets and moons, asteroids and comets. They levitate the worlds above their heads, spinning them in orbit around their symbolic Sun.
http://www.esa.int/ESA_Multime...
Rosetta, making of
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Submission + - The Penguin Update 3.0 of Google (zoomwebmedia.com)

Submitted by ormzoom
ormzoom writes: It has been announced by Search Engine Land that Google had been in touch to confirm the release of this newest Penguin update on 19th October, 2014, answering all the speculations that had been thrown around over the recent weeks. This is the first time that over a year Google has rolled out an update. Theoretically aimed at fighting all the spam over the web, it only lies in the knowledge of a SEO that Google can be ruthless at this juncture and as often, can paint a wide brush over the previously accepted SEO tactics.

Submission + - wish for an indefinitely supported linux distribution (corlan.net)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: I posted a wish for a current linux distribution, or set of distributions, perhaps debian 7/ubuntu 14.04,
to be supported for ever. This should be a distribution with the most widely used components,
such as system V init and X Window. Inter alia, it would make stable documentation possible. What do slashdotters think? Is now the right time for this to happen?

Submission + - Penguin 3.0: A Refresh Impacting 1% of English Queries (creativeshory.com)

Submitted by creativeshory
creativeshory writes: The long awaited and widely anticipated Penguin 3.0 update from Google is finally here. Google updated their Penguin algorithm with version Penguin 3.0 this past Friday night. It should be rolling out for the next few weeks now. The Penguin algorithm primarily looks at a site’s backlink profile and may demote a site that appears to have a poor backlink profile.
In a post on Google+, Google’s Pierre Far revealed that Penguin 3.0 is actually a "refresh" and not a full-fledged update. It impacts less than 1% of English queries but may impact other languages more or less, with the main focus of the refresh being to help sites that have cleaned up webspam penalties incurred in previous iterations of Penguin.

Submission + - 6 New Features in Android 5.0 Lollipop (fortuneinnovations.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Google affirmed a lot of information about the latest version of Android previously, but we didn’t get a name – it was just “Android L.” Currently there is a name and a version number too. Google has named it “Lollipop”, bearing in mind the trend of naming its OSes after treats. Lollipop has landed first on the newest Nexus devices – Nexus 6, Nexus 9 and Nexus Player.
More: http://auckland.fortuneinnovat...

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