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	Ubuntu 14.04: Is Canonical taking on too much? The recent release of Ubuntu 14.04 Long Term Support/LTS (Trusty Tahr) proves to us once again that it doesn't matter if you're Oracle, Microsoft, or Canonical: Bringing a fleet of products into new release revision synch is tough. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology Microsoft SharePoint Performance Brief To use SharePoint as it was intended, it is essential to provide quick document check-in/check-out performance to all team members, regardless of where they are trying to connect from or their distance from the server. Read Now In this Issue Open source tool could sniff out most heavily censored websites Is Linux dead for the desktop? Intel to ship Galileo Gen2 open-source computer in August for $60 11 ways LXLE Linux will make you forget all about XP Six free Cisco labs Ubuntu Touch may be our last hope for a Linux tablet How WebRTC Is Making Enterprise Inroads NSA Data Center photo set free for all to use Ubuntu 14.04: The good, the bad, the Unity WHITE PAPER: BMC Software The Future of IT: A Customer First Approach Explore how customer-first policies can make use of social, mobile and cloud technologies to give workers the freedom and flexibility they desire to drive company productivity. Learn More. Open source tool could sniff out most heavily censored websites Georgia Tech researchers are seeking the assistance of website operators to help better understand which sites are being censored and then figure out how to get around such restricted access by examining the data collected. Read More Is Linux dead for the desktop? For executives in charge of desktop deployments in a large company, Linux OS was once hailed as a savior for corporate end users. With incredibly low pricing – free, with fee-based support plans, for example – distributions such as Ubuntu Desktop and SUSE Linux Enterprise offered a "good enough" user interface, along with plenty of powerful apps and a rich browser. Read More Intel to ship Galileo Gen2 open-source computer in August for $60 Intel's competitor to the Raspberry Pi could be used to create robots, 3D printers, wearables. Read More WEBCAST: VCE Vblock™ Specialized System for SAP HANA® Deploy SAP HANA® fast and with low risk. VCE brings together all of the necessary components for SAP HANA® into a single, standardized converged infrastructure system to ensure maximum performance at scale even with high data volumes. Learn More 11 ways LXLE Linux will make you forget all about XP A lightweight powerhouseWindows XP's long run may have finally come to an end, but that doesn't mean your XP-era hardware has to go too. No indeed: There are numerous options available in the Linux world, and one shining example is LXLE. Read More Six free Cisco labs Looking for some practical experience with Cisco routers and switches for little to no cost? There's no shortage of free Cisco labs on the Web. Read More Ubuntu Touch may be our last hope for a Linux tablet The KDE-powered Vivaldi tablet project has been killed, leaving Ubuntu Touch as our only hope for a Linux-first tablet. Read More WHITE PAPER: PC Connection It's Time to Refresh Your Data Center Want to discover the health of your data center infrastructure in a single question? Call someone in IT and ask, "How old is our server?" Seems simple enough, right? But be ready to be asked which server you're specifically asking about. Applications, storage, email--you may have several assigned to just as many tasks. Learn more >> How WebRTC Is Making Enterprise Inroads Toy Genius has now turned to WebRTC, a set of components that enable real-time voice, text and video communications within supported browsers. WebRTC, an open source project that surfaced in 2011, has the backing of Google, Mozilla and Opera. Read More NSA Data Center photo set free for all to use The Electronic Frontier Foundation released a copyright-free photograph of the NSA's sprawling Utah Data Center that was captured from a Greenpeace airship June 27 during a protest the government's mass surveillance program. Read More Ubuntu 14.04: The good, the bad, the Unity Canonical is trying to cover the bases of cloud, server, desktop, smartphone/tablet, plus management and support and services add-ons. Read More
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