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Slackware 14.1, MariaDB 10.0.5, Glassfish and Android Crypto – Snippets
Slackware updated: The venerable Slackware Linux has had its annual update for 2013 announced by Patrick Volkerding and a fine update it appears to be. A 3.10.17 Linux kernel, X11R7.7 X Windows,...
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Go at 4, Go Docker on Pi, Go in GCC and Turing revised – Snippets
4 Years of Go: Time flies when a language develops and Go is no exception as it celebrated its fourth year noting some of the projects built in Go (Docker, Packer, NSQ, JuJu and more) and Go users...
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Beta for Fedora 20, Scientific Linux 5.1 and is Tizen nearing? – Linux Snippets
Fedora 20 enters Beta: Fedora 20 has entered beta so its time to step up that testing as there’s lots of goodies in “Heisenbug”. Top items include ARM as a primary architecture, the end of sendmail...
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Hey! Presto – Facebook’s latest open source code
Facebook, in their now traditional goal of taking on big data problems, solving them and then open sourcing the result, have open-sourced Presto, a distributed SQL query engine “optimized for ad-hoc...
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1.0aplooza – Ceylon and Dart go 1.0
Red Hat and Google have announced version 1.0′s of their long baking new languages, Ceylon 1.0.0 and Dart SDK 1.0. With three years of work on Ceylon and at least two years behind Dart, are they worth...
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OpenSUSE 13.1, Gitorious 3.0 and a Raspberry Pi UPS – Snippets
OpenSUSE 13.1 lands: The openSUSE folks have been busy and the result of their work is now available in the form of openSUSE 13.1. We shall have to see how the stabilisation work, including getting...
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Facebook Rocks, Open Source Managers and Funner Fonts – Snippets
Facebook Rocks: Another database open sourced by Facebook? Yup, and demonstrating that the term “database” covers a lot of ground, Facebook’s latest is RocksDB, an embedded key-value store for those...
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RHEL 6.5 and Docker, Ruby Fixes and Epic Node.js Bugfixing – Snippets
RHEL 6.5 docks?: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 has been released and as is usual for the point releases of RHEL, has a number of enhancements like Precision Time Protocol support (for microsecond...
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Python 3.4 beta, Neo4J 2.0 RC1 and Redis 2.8.0 released – Snippets
Python 3.4′s beta days: The first beta of Python 3.4 has arrived and it has got the good stuff. Pathlib lets coders work with pure paths or filesystem dependent paths with the selection of the latter...
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Docker for all Linux distros, DPorts and more for DragonFlyBSD and advice for...
Docker 0.7 unloading: With Docker 0.7, the Docker developers have made a big leap in Linux coverage. (If you are new to Docker, read the introduction to it I did for the Linux Foundation). Under the...
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Mint 16, Oracle 6.5, CentOS 6.5, Tiny Core 5.1 – Linux Snippets
Linux Mint 16 Refreshes: Linux Mint 16 has landed in both Cinnamon and MATE flavours. Codenamed “Petra”, Mint 16′s lead Cinnamon variant comes with the new Cinnamon 2.0 (now with sound effects,...
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IDEA 13, Java crypto, FreeBSD 10 beta 4, Rails update, Go 1.2 – Snippets
IntelliJ IDEA 13: Jetbrains has rolled out the latest version of its IntelliJ IDEA Java IDE. Version 13 gets a big refresh on the user interface with new light look and feel on Windows and Linux and...
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Multiprocess Firefox, Kexec and Secure Boot, Poisoning GCC and OpenNebula 4.4...
Firefox goes multiprocess: Some years back, Mozilla embarked on the Electrolysis project to give Firefox a multiprocess architecture, where each web page ran in its own process. This idea isolates web...
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Firefox 26, Netflix’s Suro, Vagrants and Dockers and Websockets for all –...
Firefox 26 digs in: Today we’ll see the release of Firefox 26, latest in the overly regular Firefox release cycle. From the (currently beta) release notes, we can see the big changes. All but the...
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Debian 7.3, Dart at ECMA, Cloud-stealing – Snippets
Debian 7.3: The latest patch rollup update for Debian 7, Wheezy, has arrived. As usual, don’t throw away your media as all the changes are available as existing updates. This is just rolling up all...
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Fedora 20, Meteor 0.7.0 and hacked Linux servers examined – Snippets
Fedora 20 arrives: The latest Fedora has arrived, making it into 2013 and looking pretty good. There’s oodles of changes too. Desktop users will find GNOME 3.10 is the default desktop but there’s also...
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Node-RED’s cool GUI for the Internet of Things
Node-RED and a quick IRC bot flowThe latest version, 0.5.0 of IBM’s Apache licensed, incredibly useful and very cool Node-RED has landed but before going further, I suspect a lot of readers will want...
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Enlightenment 0.18 lit, FreeNAS 9.2 released and Java 8 brews – Snippets
Enlightenment Updated: The Enlightenment/EFL window manager/libraries/desktop has been updated to version 0.18.0, just a year after the long silence that led up to the release of Englightenment...
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Ruby 2.1 rolls out a performance push
Ruby 2.1 has been released on Christmas day and is billed as offering “speedup without severe incompatibilities”. The performance boost is down to a new method cache in the VM and a new generational...
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FreeBSD 10.0 so close, Ruboto goes 1.0, ODroid U3 coming – Snippets
FreeBSD 10.0 RC3 – so close: It’s so close, FreeBSD 10.0 that it, with the third release candidate for 10.0 being made available from the various FreeBSD mirrors. And while you are looking, remember...
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