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Submission + - Google unwraps a new Lollipop -- Android 5.1 (betanews.com)

Submitted by Mark Wilson
Mark Wilson writes: Many people may still be waiting for Android 5.0 Lollipop to make its way to their smartphone, but today Google released Android 5.1. This may have been a day dominated by the Apple Watch and new MacBook, but by launching an updated version of Lollipop on the same day, Google managed to avoid too much attention.

Was this done on purpose because of the small number of handsets that will be in line to receive Android 5.1? Or could it be because there are few stand out features to get excited about? There may be little new, but the performance and stability improvements will be welcomed by those eligible for the upgrade.

Submission + - Google Announces Android 5.1 (blogspot.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Google has officially announced Android Lollipop 5.1. This is a small update to the mobile operating system. The main features include support for multiple SIM cards, high definition voice calls on supported devices, and the ability to joining Wi-Fi networks and managed Bluetooth pairings through Quick Settings. The biggest features is "Device Protection." They say, "With Device Protection, your lost or stolen device will remain locked until you sign in with your Google account — even if someone resets your device to factory settings. This feature will be available on most Android phones and tablets shipped with Android 5.1 in addition to Nexus 6 and Nexus 9."

Submission + - Kali Linux on a Raspberry Pi (A/B+/2) with LUKS Disk (offensive-security.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: With the advent of smaller, faster ARM hardware such as the new Raspberry Pi 2 (which now has a Kali image built for it), we’ve been seeing more and more use of these small devices as “throw-away computers“. While this might be a new and novel technology, there’s one major drawback to this concept – and that is the confidentiality of the data stored on the device itself. Most of the setups do little to protect the sensitive information saved on the SD cards of these little computers.

Submission + - Kansas Linux Fest 2015 Talks Announced March 21st-22nd, 2015 (kansaslinuxfest.us)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Press Release Feb 2015 For Immediate Release

Kansas Linux Fest 2015 Talks Announced March 21st-22nd, 2015

http://www.kansaslinuxfest.us/

Over 200 attendees are set to meet at the 1st annual Kansas Linux Fest for a weekend-long program of training, talks and workshops from the 21st to 22nd of March at the Lawrence Public Library in Lawrence, Kansas. The conferences is free and open to all people, being run by the non profit Free/Libre Open Source and Open Knowledge Association of Kansas and the Lawrence Linux User group. There is also no need to pay or preregister for the conference, but tickets are available and seating preferences will be given to those who have registered. Donations are accepted via online ticket sales, or at the door.

There will be over twenty presenters giving technical presentations and hands-on workshops throughout the conference. Presenters include Dave Lester, Twitter's open source advocate, Frank Wiles, Revolution Systems, and Hal Gottfried, Open Hardware Group Kansas City CCCKC. Alan Robertson of Assimilation Systems will be presenting on an open source network security system. Oracle's MySQL community manager, Dave Stokes, will be presenting two technical talks on MySQL, a popular relational database. Researchers from KU and K-State and Wichita State University will be presenting as well as Linux User Groups in Wichita and Omaha. Presentations on mobile phone security and open source phone hardware as well as system and cloud security are planned.

The conference will run from 9 am to 6pm on Saturday and from 12am to 6 pm on Sunday with a breakfast event in planning from 9 to 12 and to be announced. The full schedule and speakers directory can be found at the website http://www.kansaslinuxfest.us/... and http://www.kansaslinuxfest.us/.... Sponsors and still welcome and if you would be interested in supporting the event please find the contact details on website http://www.kansaslinuxfest.us/....

To find out more about the conference and to register, visit http://kansaslinuxfest.us./

Media logos and posters can be found on the website. http://www.kansaslinuxfest.us/...

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What is Free/Libre open source software? Free and open source software is software whose source code is open and available to anyone who wishes to improve it, study it, modify it, and share the original and the modifications with others.

Submission + - Google Chrome Requires TSYNC Support Under Linux 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: It has been found out that Google's Chrome/Chromium web browser does not support slightly older versions of the Linux kernel anymore. It seems that Linux 3.17 is now the minimum requirement. In Debian mailing list it turns out that a kernel feature called TSYNC is what makes the difference. When a backported patch for Debian 8 kernel was asked for, one was met with hostile replies of not wanting to support "Google spyware".

Submission + - Mesa 10.5 Updates Open-Source Graphics Drivers (phoronix.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Mesa 10.5 has been released to update the open-source Linux graphics driver stack. This quarterly update to Mesa has initial support for Intel's next-generation Skylake graphics, Qualcomm Adreno A4xx support, EGL support on the BeOS-inspired Haiku, the new NIR intermediate representation, and other changes. While new GL4 extensions were implemented, the Intel/Radeon/Nouveau drivers only have enough support right now to expose OpenGL 3.3, but GL4.2 is expected out of the open-source drivers by the end of the year.

Submission + - EU Commissioner Oettinger Calls Net Neutrality a Taliban-like Issue

Submitted by next_ghost
next_ghost writes: Pirate MEP Julia Reda reports that Günther Oettinger, EU Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society, called net neutrality a "Taliban-like" issue at an event hosted by German Ministry of Finance. Excerpt from MEP Reda's translation of Oettinger's words:

"Net neutrality: Here we’ve got, particularly in Germany, Taliban-like developments. We have the Internet community, the Pirates on the move, it’s all about enforcing perfect uniformity. They talk about “the evil industry”. It’s not about the industry, it’s not about the CEO and his salary. If you want to have real time road safety, our lives are at stake, this has to have absolute priority with regards to quality and capacity."

He also argued that life-saving devices like road safety systems or remote surgery robots need traffic priority over entertainment services like YouTube, apparently unaware that lack of net neutrality would do the exact opposite (assuming these devices use public networks in the first place).

Submission + - KDE accepted to Google Summer of Code 2015 (kde.org)

Submitted by jrepin
jrepin writes: The KDE student programs team is happy to announce that KDE has been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015. This will allow students from around the world to work with mentors on KDE software projects. Successful students will receive stipends from Google. Ideas on what a student entering Google Summer of Code 2015 with KDE might work on are listed on the Community Wiki.

Submission + - EU Oettinger: the 28 finance ministers have just a dollar sign in their eyes

Submitted by dkatana
dkatana writes: At a press conference during the Mobile World Congress, Günther H. Oettinger, European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society, asked European member states to hand over digital spectrum policy to the European institutions, in order to clear the way for the next generation of wireless technologies, called "5G".

Answering a question from EE Times about spectrum licensing and auctions, Commissioner Oettinger said: " For the moment our spectrum policy is connected to our finance ministers, and the 28 finance ministers have just a dollar sign in their eyes" and he added "in our [Digital Single Market] DSM directive we have several clear and not problematic proposals, and we have net neutrality, roaming, and we have spectrum as the most sensitive points, and moving to 5G before the system is defined we need a clear European spectrum policy, or we can’t use new technologies."

Submission + - Ubuntu To Officially Switch To SystemD Next Monday

Submitted by jones_supa
jones_supa writes: Ubuntu is going live with SystemD, reports Martin Pitt in the ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list. Next Monday, Vivid (15.04) will be switched to boot with SystemD instead of UpStart. The change concerns desktop, server, and all other current flavors. Technically, this will flip around the preferred dependency of init to systemd-sysv | upstart in package management, which will affect new installs, but not upgrades. Upgrades will be switched by adding systemd-sysv to ubuntu-standard's dependencies. If you want, you can manually do the change already, but it's advisable to do an one-time boot first. Right now it is important that if you run into any trouble, file a proper bug report in Launchpad (ubuntu-bug systemd). If after some weeks it is found that there are too many or too big regressions, Ubuntu can still revert back to UpStart.

Submission + - Red Hat strips down for Docker (computerworld.com.au)

Submitted by angry tapir
angry tapir writes: Reacting to the surging popularity of the Docker virtualization technology, Red Hat has customized a version of its Linux distribution to run Docker containers. The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Atomic Host strips away all the utilities residing in the stock distribution of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) that aren't needed to run Docker containers. Removing unneeded components saves on storage space, and reduces the time needed for updating and booting up. It also provides fewer potential entry points for attackers. (Product page is here.)

Submission + - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 and Atomic Host Hit General Availability (eweek.com)

Submitted by darthcamaro
darthcamaro writes: Red Hat today released the first milestone update to its flagship Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x (RHEL) platform. Among the new features in RHEL is the dogtag certificate system and improved two-factor authentication support. Perhaps more noteworthy is the first release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 Atomic Host which is an optimized version of RHEL specifically for the deployment of Docker containers. Red Hat is using Google Kubernets for orchestration and the OStree open source technology as a way to enable 'snappy' transactional updates and rollback capabilities. Atomic Host also introduces the concept of 'super-privileged' containers. The super-privileged containers allow users to deploy system services as containers and then run those service containers with privileged access to the host system.

Submission + - Valve Developed An Open-Source Intel Vulkan GPU Driver For Linux (phoronix.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: For those wondering when the first graphics driver for the new Khronos Vulkan API will materialize and for what hardware, it looks like the first driver could very well be for Intel graphics and it might not be too far away. It turns out Valve developed an Intel Linux Vulkan driver to help ISVs bootstrap their new Vulkan code, with Valve planning to open-source this driver code. This is yet another reason to love Valve, especially as Intel graphics on Linux don't even support OpenGL 4 yet.

Submission + - Conservancy Announces Funding for GPL Compliance Lawsuit (sfconservancy.org)

Submitted by Jeremy Allison - Sam
Jeremy Allison - Sam writes: From the article:

Software Freedom Conservancy announces today Christoph Hellwig's lawsuit against VMware in the district court of Hamburg in Hamburg, Germany. This is the regretful but necessary next step in both Hellwig and Conservancy's ongoing effort to convince VMware to comply properly with the terms of the GPLv2, the license of Linux and many other Open Source and Free Software included in VMware's ESXi products.

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