As the Internet of Things has grown in scale, IoT developers are increasingly expected to support a range of hardware resources, operating systems, and software tools/applications. This is a challenge given many connected devices are size-constrained. Virtualization can help meet these broad needs, but existing options don’t offer the right mix of size, flexibility, and functionality for IoT development.

ACRN™ is different by design. Launched at Embedded Linux Conference 2018, ACRN is a flexible, lightweight reference hypervisor, built with real-time and safety-criticality in mind and optimized to streamline embedded development through an open source platform.

One of ACRN’s biggest advantages is its small size — roughly only 25K lines of code at launch.

Read more at The Linux Foundation

Yesterday’s Xbox E3 2018 Briefing featured a ton of big news, from our announcements of new studios joining the Microsoft Studios family to the reveal of the next chapter in the Halo saga. There was something for everyone in the briefing too, including first looks at hardcore shooters like Metro: Exodus and Battlefield V, family-friendly titles like Ori and the Will of the Wisps and Kingdom Hearts 3, and indie gems like Session and Tunic. Did you miss out on the action? If so, we’ve got you covered with trailers and demos galore. Take a look below or watch the entire briefing above!

Halo Infinite

Ori and the Will of the Wisps

Crackdown 3

Sea of Thieves – Cursed Sails and Forsaken Shores

Forza Horizon 4

Cyberpunk 2077 Trailer

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds

Gears 5 – Cinematic Announce Trailer

Gears 5 – Announce Trailer

Fallout 76

Tunic

Devil May Cry 5

Session

Gears POP!

Xbox Game Pass Catalog Preview

ID@Xbox Games Montage

Battletoads Announce Trailer

Hyper Universe

Xbox One X Enhanced Games

Xbox One E3 2018 Montage

Cuphead DLC Announce

Captain Spirit Announce

Jump Force Announce

Just Cause 4 Announce

Shadow of the Tomb Raider

Tales of Vesperia: Remastered

We Happy Few Story Trailer

NieR: Automata Become As Gods Edition

Metro Exodus Gameplay Trailer

Kingdom Heart III Frozen Trailer

The Division 2 Gameplay Demo

Dying Light 2 Gameplay Demo

Dying Light 2 Announce Trailer

Battlefield 5 Single Player Teaser

We recently interviewed Khaled Monsoor on how he uses Fedora. This is part of a series that profiles Fedora users and how they use Fedora to get things done. Contact us on the feedback form to tell of us about someone you think we should interview, or to express interest in being interviewed.

Who is Khaled Monsoor?

Khaled Monsoor was born and raised in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. After graduating with a degree in computer science and engineering, he worked in several different business sectors. Monsoor started a masters in Bioinformatics, but decided to not pursue it.

Monsoor currently works at Augmedix Inc., a Silicon Valley medicare startup, as a research engineer.  started using Linux in 2002 and got involved with the Fedora Project in 2005. He believes balancing the demands of a full-time job and family is the biggest challenge to contributing to open source projects.

His heroes are the Thundercats, Captain Planet and MacGyver. Khaled’s favorite movies are The Matrix and Interstellar. “During my youth, The Matrix [shook] my whole concept of reality. Is what we see and feel really real, or just sort of simulation or just a test? That sort of thing. In Interstellar, it’s the twisted human lives with advanced technology mesmerized me. I think the father in me cried, like a baby, with Matthew McConaughey in the hospital meeting scene.”

Monsoor also enjoys photography. He like to use his Nikon D7100, but admits the best camera is the one you have on hand. “I like magnificent nature pictures that takes me to that place, travel & street pictures of same spirit, and honest portraits that makes a close feelings of that person’s real life.”

More of Monsoor’s photos can be found on his Flickr page.

The Fedora Community

Monsoor’s first interaction with the Fedora Community left him impressed with its energy and passion about aesthetics. While there are many Linux distributions to choose from, he chose Fedora due to its “system stability, community support and Konsole terminal.” He would like to see more attention paid to Fedora’s overall visual aesthetics.

What Hardware?

For work, Monsoor uses Fedora 27 on an HP Probook 470 G3 laptop. The laptop is equipped with an Intel Core i7-6500U Processor and 16 GB RAM. It has a hybrid graphics solution utilizing Intel and AMD GPUs. The hybrid graphics is not very useful due to driver issues in Linux. Monsoor replaced the 500GB hard drive with a 128GB SSD drive to boost performance. “The big 17″ display is a huge plus for software development.”

Monsoor has repetitive pain injury (RSI) pain in his wrists so he uses a special mouse. “I use an Anker vertical wireless mouse to ease the stress on my wrist.”

What Software?

Monsoor prefers KDE Plasma for his desktop. He also makes use of Kate, Konsole, Kalc, Dolphin file manager and Kdenlive. For non-KDE software he uses Gimp, Pinta, Shotwell, Hyper Terminal, VS Code, PostgreSQL, Firefox and Libre Office.

When asked about why he prefers KDE he said, “I’m not sure, exactly. Possibly, it gives me a feeling of control. In charge of something very capable, waiting for directions and just works. Not forced over-simplistic, or trying to hide the complexities it handles, rather gives a grip on them. Or, just that its name begins with the same character (K) as my name.”

He prefers Konsole because “it shares the philosophy of KDE. Stable, capable and highly-configurable, just what power users needs. Not too dumb-looking, not too nerdy.”

Have you ever needed to quickly stand up a web site, or web API app that was publicly available? Is your team or organization thinking about moving to the cloud but aren’t sure the best place to start? One of the first places you should look is Azure App Service Web Apps. In this post we’ll look at how easy it is to get started, and a quick overview of key concepts.

App Service offers the following benefits:

• A fully managed platform, meaning Azure automatically updates the operating system and runtime as security and stability fixes are released.
• 10 free plans to every subscriber, so it won’t cost you money or credits to try your app in Azure.
• First class support in Visual Studio, meaning that you can go from your app running on your local machine to running in App Service in less than 2 minutes.
• If offers deployment slots, which enable you to stage multiple versions of your app, and route varying amounts of traffic to the various versions (i.e. do A/B testing, or a ringed release model).
• Scale up and down quickly and automatically based on load
• For a more see Why use Web Apps?

In this blog post, I’ll provide an overview of App Service’s key features and concepts by walking through using Visual Studio to publish an ASP.NET application to Azure App Service.

Let’s get going

To get started, you’ll first need:

• Visual Studio 2017 with the ASP.NET and web development workload installed (download now)
• An Azure account:
  
• Any ASP.NET or ASP.NET Core app, for the purposes of this post, I’ll use a basic ASP.NET Core app

To start I’ll right click my project in Solution Explorer and choose “Publish”

This brings up the Visual Studio publish target dialog, which will default to the Azure App Service pane. The “Create new” radio button is already selected to, so I’ll click the “Publish” button on the bottom right.

This will open the Create App Service dialog in Visual Studio.

Key App Service Concepts

The dialog has four fields that represent key concepts of creating an App Service:

1. App Name: Will be the default public facing URL in Azure (it will be of the form https://<App_Name>.azurewebsites.net –you can configure domain names later if needed).
2. Subscription: The Azure Subscription to create the resources in if you have more than one
3. Resource Group: Groups your application and any dependent resources (SQL Databases, Storage Accounts, etc., see resource group design to learn more). To edit the name, click “New…”.
4. Hosting Plan: The hosting plan is a set of reserved resources for your app. You can choose to host multiple apps in a single hosting plan (we’ll explore this further in a minute).

One concept that can be confusing is the relationship between the “Hosting Plan” (or App Service plan”) and the “App Service”:

• The Hosting/App Service plan is the virtual machine resources you are reserving in Azure to host your application. This is what you are paying or using credits for.
• The App Service is your app and associated settings that run inside of the plan. You can run multiple apps (App Services) in the same plan (virtual machine) with the same implications as sharing any other server or VM between apps.

To explore the App Service plan further, click the “New…” button next to the Hosting Plan dropdown to open the “Configure Hosting Plan” dialog that has three fields:

1. App Service Plan: A non-public facing name for the plan.
2. Location: Is the region your app will run in. You generally want to pick a region that is close to customers that will be accessing the site.
3. Size: The size of the virtual machine you want to reserve for your application and the capabilities you want (e.g. deployment slots require a Standard or Premium plan).
   Note: Free and Shared plans run in the same VM as other App Service apps and are intended for development and testing, see App Service plan overview for more details

In the first 30 hours since recalibration, the matchmaker was overly sensitive on wins and losses and it resulted in players calibrating with bigger gains and losses than intended. We are processing all matches again and will be correcting the rank gains and losses throughout the day. Medals will be appear as undefined for a bit during this process.

Welcome to Next Week on Xbox, where we cover all the new games coming soon to Xbox One! Every week the team at Xbox aims to deliver quality gaming content for you to enjoy on your favorite gaming console. This coming week we can live the life of a morally conflicted vampire in early 20^th century London in Vampyr, travel to the home of the high elves in The Elder Scrolls Online: Summerset, or explore dream-like forests, aquatic caves, and peaceful shores in Shape of the World — and these are just a few of the excellent games coming soon to Xbox One! Read more below and click on each of the profiles for pre-order details (dates are subject to change).

Games

June 05, 2018

Aragami is a third-person stealth game that casts you as an undead assassin with the power to control the shadows. Teleport to any shadow, become invisible, materialize weapons or even summon a shadow dragon to infiltrate the enemy ranks and dispose of your targets. The Shadow Edition includes the Nightfall expansion.

Games

June 05, 2018

At the end of the 1800s, the government declared a global ban on this legendary card game due to an increase in bar fights, divorces, and family feuds. Awkward is the ultimate test on finding out how well friends, couples, and family know each other. Players are asked to answer increasingly uncomfortable questions in secret, while their companions try to guess the outcome.  

Games

June 05, 2018

Xbox One X Enhanced – Travel to the home of the high elves in Summerset, the latest chapter in the Elder Scrolls Online to save the world from destruction. As chaos reigns over Tamriel, the Imperial Throne sits empty as ancient enemies band together to bring ruin to the mortal world. Take up arms and fight for Tamriel’s salvation and unravel a dark conspiracy that threatens the world’s existence.

Games

June 05, 2018

The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker is a FMV murder mystery. You are a psychiatrist, trying to solve a murder whilst treating the unusual patients of the recently deceased Doctor Dekker. Ask any questions and collect the evidence as you uncover the identity of the randomly generated murderer whilst trying to figure out the chaos that was left behind.

Games

June 05, 2018

Xbox One X Enhanced – It’s all about style, flair, and performing incredible takedowns of your opponents in the arcade racer Onrush. The game describes itself as a celebration of sensational speed, outright fun, and over the top spectacle that makes sure you’re always at the heart of the action.

Games

June 05, 2018

Purge the unclean with the most powerful agents of the Imperium of Man. Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor – Martyr is a grim ARPG featuring the Inquisition who will carry out the Emperor’s will in the darkest reaches of the galaxy. Featuring an open-world sandbox with a huge variety of missions, tactical and brutal combat, destructible environments, and a storyline influenced by the community.

Games

June 05, 2018

Xbox One X Enhanced – You are a newly-turned Vampyr, Dr. Jonathan Reid living in London in the year 1918. As a doctor, you must find a cure to save the city’s flu-ravaged citizens; as a Vampyr, you’re cursed to feed on those you vowed to heal. Struggle to live with your decisions as your actions will save or doom London.

Games

June 06, 2018

In this Castlevania-inspired retro action game, play as Zangetsu, a demon slayer who must travel through perilous lands to defeat a powerful demon lurking in a dark castle. Battle with swords and whips and meet fellow travelers who can join your journey as playable characters who have their own unique abilities.

Games

June 06, 2018

A twin-stick shooter inspired by classic arcade games, you’ll travel through diverse locations packed with tremendous danger and huge bosses. Choose your character and utilize their abilities and special items to progress through Riddled Corpses EX and destroy the root of evil. Featuring two-player local co-op and six playable characters each with unique abilities.

Games

June 06, 2018

Xbox One X Enhanced – In this serene and surrealist first-person explorer, you’ll travel through dream-like forests, aquatic caves, and peaceful shores accompanied by psychedelic wildlife. No clock or hidden perils lie in wait to prevent you from enjoying your journey in an environment where wild flora constantly flourish and fade as you wander in Shape of the World.

Games

June 07, 2018

Xbox One X Enhanced – Race with all the riders of MotoGP on 19 official tracks, including the new Buriram International Circuit in Thailand and enjoy an even more immersive experience thanks to new features and a new edition of the MotoGP eSport Championship. Become the star of the 2018 MotoGP season as you pursue your career as a professional rider starting from the Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup up to the Premier class of the MotoGP.

Games

June 08, 2018

Someone wants you dead and you must use all your toughness to survive. Shoot, choke, and sneak your way through enemies and engage them in breathtaking car chases with an aesthetic inspired by the Italian crime flicks of the ’70s. Milanoir is a pixel-packed action game set in the violent city of Milan as you hunt for the truth and escape the ones who are chasing you through an unforgiving city.