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• Connnect Watch smartwatch with AsteroidOS crowdfunding campaign begins — First unveiled in late August, the team behind the Connect Watch have launched a campaign on European crowdfunding site Ulule in hopes of raising about $33,000.
• Sailfish meetup in Krakow — We are inviting you to a meetup with our CEO, Mr. Sami Pienimäki in the city of Kraków on Thursday, September 14th for a round or two of beer!
• What Project Treble Means for Future Custom ROM Development — Because of the way the lower layer of Android was modularized, all Treble devices in the market will be able to boot a generic stock, AOSP Android build. This takes away most of the hassle of porting custom ROMs to an older device since a single, generic Android build can run on many devices.
• Mozilla and the Washington Post Are Reinventing Online Comments — Talk is developed by The Coral Project, a Mozilla creation that builds open-source tools to make digital journalism more inclusive and more engaging
• Chinese government bans ICOs — The ruling comes from China’s central bank, which issued a statement criticizing ICOs for “disrupting” the country’s financial order. The regulator described initial coin offerings as “a form of unapproved illegal public financing” that “raises suspicions” of fraud and criminal activity
• Might shut down Bitcoin exchanges — China’s Bitcoin exchanges said on Saturday they are still awaiting clarification from the authorities on a media report that they will be shut down.
• WinBtrfs 1.0 Released For Supporting Btrfs On Windows — Harmstone’s WinBtrfs driver is a “reimplementation from scratch” of Btrfs for Windows that supports all major functionality as well as basic RAID 0/1/10/5/6, caching, Btrfs partition discovery, ACLs, symlinks and hardlinks, free-space cache, LZO/ZLib compression, balancing, scrubbing, TRIM/DISCARD, and much more.
• A Breakdown of Operating Systems on Dockerhub — It is clear that Debian is the most popular, with Alpine taking second place, and then a number of others each taking a smaller share.
• NGINX releases application platform with new application server, centralized management tools — Today, NGINX launched its new NGINX Application Platform, a suite of products which together, form a solution made up of application delivery, an application server, and policy-driven monitoring and management.

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Linus Torvalds passed a kidney stone and then squeezed out Linux 4.13

Linus Torvalds has released Linux 4.13 to a waiting world and in so doing detailed a tricky work week in which he endured “seven hours of pure agony due to a kidney stone”.

Microsoft is turning Windows into the ultimate Linux Runtime

“In under a second I’ve run a Windows executable, I’ve fed that into one distribution of Linux and then taken that output and fed that into another distribution of Linux, which is pretty amazing,”

WinBtrfs

WinBtrfs is a Windows driver for the next-generation Linux filesystem Btrfs. A reimplementation from scratch, it contains no code from the Linux kernel, and should work on any version from Windows 7 onwards.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Sends Supercomputer into Space to Accelerate Mission to Mars

• SpaceX Is Sending A Linux-Powered Supercomputer To The Space

On August 14, 16:31 UTC, SpaceX’s Dragon Spacecraft will carry Hewlett-Packard’s supercomputer called Spaceborne Computer. This is being done as a part of an experiment to make computing devices capable enough to survive in space and assist humans in exploration. The launch will happen at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida.

Oracle just killed Solaris/SPARC/ZFS teams … | The FreeBSD Forums

Oracle, just layed off about 2500 people from Solaris, Storage (ZS1/ZFS), SPARC and Library teams, earlier this year 450 people has been layed off.

• illumos Home – illumos – illumos wiki

• Solaris update plan is real, but future looks cloudy by design

Oracle looks like it’s going to suggest Solaris users move to its SPARC-powered cloud.

Solaris to Linux Migration 2017

ZFS is available for Linux via the zfsonlinux and OpenZFS projects, and more recently was included in Canonical’s Ubuntu Linux distribution: Ubuntu Xenial 16.04 LTS (April 2016). It uses a Solaris Porting Layer (SPL) to provide a Solaris-kernel interface on Linux, so that unmodified ZFS code can execute.

Linux Academy

• Linux Academy | Linux and AWS Online Training

Remote desktop capabilities making a comeback in GNOME on Wayland

Remote desktop under Wayland seems to finally be happening; thanks to work on new APIs and a new GNOME Remote Desktop service undertaken by Jonas Ådahl!

Status Icons and GNOME

From GNOME 3.26, we are therefore planning not to show status icons in GNOME Shell by default. We feel that, long-term, this change will enable us to provide a better experience for our users

My feeling is that we have actually been using status icons as a crutch for far too long – that they have been used to fill gaps in our APIs, gaps which are now thankfully getting filled – and that moving away from them will help us to extend application integration in some exciting directions.

Ubuntu GNOME Shell in Artful: Day 9 · ~DidRocks

A very visual update today on our new Artful default session! This one is, as promised about our new GNOME Shell theme and you can see below some examples of those changes.

#Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful Ardvark) to Support All Known Driverless Printing Standards, Ship with #GNOME 3.26 https://t.co/KLBTvRjl3a #Linux pic.twitter.com/XMdLXNoNtB

— Softpedia Linux (@softpedialinux) September 5, 2017

DigitalOcean

• DigitalOcean: SSD Cloud Server, VPS Server, Simple Cloud Hosting

Ubuntu Rally in NYC

Looking forward to seeing you in NYC! Travel safe Chris!

— Ubuntu (@ubuntu) September 5, 2017

The Ubuntu Rally, taking place in New York City September 25th-29th, is a forward-thinking five day software hackathon attended by major software vendors, Ubuntu developers working at every level of the stack, and community contributors.

TING

• Ting – mobile that makes sense

Is Linux Missing the Bot Revolution?

• Bot automation will sweep in faster than we realize.
• Bots like Alice will surprise us with how quick they move in.
• Most large bot platforms are Google, or Microsoft powered.

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