List of latest Unix drivers for Nividia

 List of latest Unix drivers for Nividia

http://www.nvidia.co.uk/object/unix-uk.html

Edward Snowden: Here's how we take back the Internet

Edward Snowden is interviewed on TED talks and adds support to opensource for the future

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVwAodrjZMY

UKOUG Solaris SIG Meeting events

UKOUG Solaris SIG Meeting
Date: Wednesday 16th Apr 2014
Time: 18:00 - 21:00
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Events - UK Oracle User Group

Upcoming and past events from Oracle, UKOUG and our partners.

ukoug.org

 

 http://www.ukoug.org/events/

NASA Open Source Software Development

NASA renews its commitment to open source initiatives as the way forward

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2014/04/10/beat-jet-lag-with-this-scientist-developed-app/

Oios (openindiana) launches 151a9 prestable release for Developers

Changes and updates include

Release Notes from OiOS Date: January 18th, 2014

OiOSi_151a_prestable9 AKA oios_151a9 is a bug and security fix release with another JDS rebuild.  This is not an ISO release.
The python package issue for a8 should be fixed in the repo now.  This means if you got a pkg error trying to upgrade to a8, you should try updating and should have more success now.
If you have updated from oi_151a8, the package gvfs will be missing.  Check this with ``pkg info gvfs''.  This package was inadvertently deleted in oi_151a8.  Without this package, desktop mounting and unmounting CD and DVD disks and USB drives will be incorrect.  Install this package with ``pkg install gvfs''.
The list of major changes is listed below...

• Bump illumos to hg:14187:68927c785889 git:52e13e00ba
• SFW fixes and bumps
  • Bump Apache2 to 2.2.26
  • Bump APR to 1.5.0
  • Bump APR-util to 1.5.3
  • Bump BIND to 9.6-ESV-R10-P1
  • Bump mutt to 1.5.22
  • Bump ntpd to 4.2.7p411
  • Bump OpenLDAP to 2.4.38
  • Bump Samba to 3.5.22
  • Bump Wireshark to 1.8.12
  • Fix Apache 64bit binaries
  • Fixes for PHP - https://hg.openindiana.org/upstream/oracle/userland-gate/rev/f225f89a0538
  • Fix unrar password function - http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/~checkout~/pkgsrc/archivers/unrar/patches/Attic/patch-consio.cpp?rev=1.1
  • Fix weird subversion build issue
• pkg fixes
  • #1204 zoneadm cannot create clone of zone from snapshot
• oi-build changes
  • Bump illumos-kvm to a8ea37e
  • Bump NVIDIA driver to 304.117
  • Bump pkgbuild to 1.3.105 plus patches
  • Bump QEMU to 1c6181b
  • Fix python-26 conditional dependency
  • Fix python-26 pyconfig.h
  • Add automake-1.11
  • Add jq
  • Add tmux
  • oi-build build system cleanups
• Lots of release engineering fixes for pkg planning, version bumps and obsoletions
• jds changes can be found here: http://hg.opensolaris.cz/oi-jds/shortlog

http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/oi_151a_prestable9+Release+Notes

Everycity lauches new illumos blog

Alasdair Lumsden of Everycity lauches a blog aimed primary at developers for illuminos

http://everycity.co.uk/blog/2014/02/illumos-watch-january-2014/

Geforce Solaris Display Driver – x64/x86 released 13 th January 2014

Geforce Solaris Display Driver – x64/x86 released 13 th January 2014

Nividia announces a new release containing a number of bug fixes and updates the highlights of the release are outlined below.

• Fixed a bug that caused the X server to crash if video memory is exhausted and the GPU does not support rendering to system memory.
• Updated nvidia-installer to make the --multiple-kernel-modules option imply the --no-unified-memory option: Unified memory is incompatible with multiple kernel modules.
• Improved the robustness of the NVIDIA X driver in scenarios where GPU-accessible memory for allocating pixmaps was exhausted.
• Added NV-CONTROL attributes to control the brightness of the illuminated logos on certain graphics boards.For example, to turn off the illumination of the "GEFORCE GTX" lettering on the GeForce GTX 780, use
  nvidia-settings --assign GPULogoBrightness=0
• Fixed a bug that prevented screen transformations from being applied properly when starting X.
• GLX protocol for the following OpenGL extensions from OpenGL 2.1 and OpenGL 3.0 have been promoted from unofficial to ARB approved official status:

Nividia download link  http://www.geforce.co.uk/drivers/results/72333

Security review for 2014

Enterprise security  What to expect in 2014.

Sophos gives their opinion.http://vimeo.com/82043472