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Systemd dominates and Debian, Ubuntu, Git updates – Linux Snippets
Systemd – the d is for dominates: The Debian Technical Committee decided that, after quite a bumpy process, that it would follow Fedora, Arch Linux, Mageia and openSUSE in planning to switch to...
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LXC’s 1.0, Thrift opened again, WhatsApp serving and more – Snippets
LXC goes 1.0: Linux Containers, LXC, is now at version 1.0, a major milestone which also brings together and completes a lot of things that have been working their way through the Linux kernel, like...
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Node-RED updated, Hadoop 2.3.0 out, NetBeans 8.0 RCs and Skrollr scrolls –...
Node-RED updated: The most excellent graphical UI for connecting the Internet of Things (or just things in general), Node-RED has been updated to version 0.6. The announcement notes the process of...
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Python upped, Persona non grata, Markdown marked and more – Snippets
Python 3.3.5 released: The latest update to Python 3.3 fixes two regressions, in zipimport and executing scripts and alleviates a potential denial of service. Mac users should pay specific attention...
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Docker 0.9, Vagrant 1.5 and Xen 4.4 – Virtually Snippets
Docker 0.9 unloads: Docker bumps its version number to Docker 0.9 and as it approaches version 1.0 makes a big change. Docker’s been pretty tightly tied to Linux Containers (LXC) technology to run...
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Python 3.4 lands, Bootstrap flattened, USB2go-on-a-phone and Doge2048 – Snippets
Python 3.4 is here: After many months of development, no changes to the language but lots of enhancements in the CPython implentation and standard library improvements, Python 3.4 has arrived. Before...
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Java 8, Firefox 28 and wibbly wobbly timey wimey – Snippets
Java 8 lands: So, after what feels like an age and after its been through the thresher of reality, Java 8 has officially arrived. What’s changed? Lambda expressions, functional interfaces, default...
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GNOME, Systemd, Node Packages and a comment – Snippets
GNOME 3.12: And so GNOME 3.12 has arrived with updates all around. Over here at Codescaling, we’re looking forward to the improvements to HiDPI display support . We had been spoiled by Apple’s fairly...
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Linux 3.14, Etherpad 1.4, Pass and an RGB/LED/Pi tutorial – Snippets
Linux 3.14 lands: And another ten week dev cycle of Linux ends with the release of Linux 3.14. There’s a new realtime scheduler (deadline), event triggers for tracing, graphics driver updates...
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TypeScript 1.0, IPython 2.0.0 and Rust 0.10 – Snippets
TypeScript hits 1.0: Microsoft’s take on reworking JavaScript, TypeScript, has hit version 1.0 and is now accepting pull requests on the open source compiler (though it’s bug fixes only for now.)....
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Heartbleed, MongoDB 2.6, Easier BeagleBone Black – Snippets
Heartbleeds out: So the Heartbleed OpenSSL vulnerability is out and about and everyone is checking their systems and updating to OpenSSL 1.0.1g (go straight to the (http://www.openssl.org/source/) or...
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Varnish 4.0, Erlang/OTP 17.0 and Rails 4.1.0 – Snippets
Fresh Varnish: Varnish Cache, a popular HTTP reverse proxy, has had version 4.0 released – version 3.0 came out two and a half years ago. The new version can now cache streamed objects, refetch expired...
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Bigger BeagleBone Blacks and Thoughts on Raspberry Pi’s Module
The Embest BeagleBone Black looks like it’ll be appearing outside China now Bigger BeagleBone Blacks It’s been hard to get the BeagleBone Black(BBB); limited production capabilities have fought with...
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QEMU, Retro, Crypto, Debian 6 and Hello to Bundy – Snippets
QEMU 2.0.0: The QEMU emulator and virtualiser has reached version 2.0.0 with its latest release. QEMU provides the emulation of one machine on another or, when provide that more authentic environment...
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Go Beta, Gogs, GCC Release and TinyCore Linux – Snippets
Go 1.3 goes Beta: The first beta of Go 1.3 has been announced. This update will have no language changes, and instead sees improvements to the Go ecosystem like experimental support for Solaris, Plan...
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Tails goes 1.0, Debian goes 7.5 and Apache OO goes 4.1
Tails 1.0: The developers of Tails, the Linux distro built for anonymity and privacy, have declared the latest version Tails 1.0. Tails wires all its networking through Tor and leaves no traces on...
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XBMC 13, OpenElec 4.0, JavaScriptCore and Android stats
XBMC and OpenElec updated: The XBMC Media Centre app has been updated to version 13.0 with hardware decoding support for Android, performance improvements on Raspberry Pi and Android, support for...
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Arduino’s Zero Hero, Postgresql’s beta and fun small projects
Arduino Zero: It’s looking like the next Arduino will be the focussed refresh we’ve been waiting for. Makezine has all the details on the Arduino Zero, announced at Makercon. It’s a 48Mhz ARM cored...
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Qt 5.3 released, an OS in JS and Papilio’s FPGA power – Snippets
Qt 5.3: The folks at Digia seem to be keeping the Qt development pace up, and not forgetting to take a breather and getting the stability story right. The latest release, Qt 5.3 appears to be one of...
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Perl 5.20 released, Openduty open sourced and Numeral.js counted – Snippets
Perl 5.20: After 12 months of development work, Perl 5.20 has arrived with around 470,000 lines of changes from 124 authors. Your first port of call is the perldelta for 5.20 which lists all the...
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