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KDE Software Compilation 4.8 Officially Released

  • Softpedia; By Marius Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Jan 26, 2012 7:03 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: KDE
KDE e.V. and the developers behind the KDE project has proudly announced a few minutes ago, January 25th, the final and stable release of the highly anticipated KDE Software Compilation 4.8 environment.

TI ships Linux-ready DLP eval module for pico projectors

Texas Instruments announced a Linux-based evaluation module featuring the digital light processing technology from its DLP Pico Projectors. The DLP LightCrafter combines an ARM9-based, 300MHz DaVinci TMS320DM365 processor, a 20-lumen RGB LED light engine and projector, as well as TI's 0.3-inch, WVGA DLP chipset, enabling up to 4000 binary patterns per second, says TI....

Martin Odersky on Scala

Dr Dobb's talks with Martin Odersky, designer of the Scala Language, about the latest developments and directions in this increasingly popular language.

This week at LWN: LCA: Addressing the failure of open source

Bruce Perens wore a suit and tie for his linux.conf.au 2012 keynote for a reason, he said: it reflects our community's need to think more about how it appears to the rest of the world. Despite our many successes, he said, we have failed to achieve the goals that our community set for itself many years ago. We have failed to engage and educate our users, and are finding ourselves pulled into an increasingly constrained world. To get out of this mess, we will have to make some changes - and expand our scope beyond software and culture.

Did Linus Jump the Gun on a Kernel security fix?

  • InternetNews.com; By Sean Michael Kerner (Posted by red5 on Jan 26, 2012 3:22 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Linux
"On January 17th, Linus Torvalds committed a patch to the mainline Linux kernel for a memory handling flaw. As it turns out the flaw was exploited quickly once Torvalds put out the patch with a proof of concept emerging rapidly.

So what's the problem with this picture?

NVIDIA Talks Of Optimus Possibilities For Linux

A NVIDIA Linux engineer is trying to work on code that could lead to official Optimus support under Linux, but there's a catch... And it falls outside of NVIDIA Corp as the fate of this multi-GPU notebook feature could now fall with the Linux kernel developers...

KDE 4.8 Released, New Features And Improvements

The KDE project has announced the release of KDE 4.8 which provides major updates to KDE Plasma Workspaces, KDE Applications, and the KDE Platform.

Graphics hardware in $25 Raspberry Pi Linux box outperforms iPhone 4S GPU

The board is built around the Broadcom BCM2835 chipset, which is designed to handle intensive multimedia. In a recent interview, Raspberry Pi founder Eben Upton claimed that the Broadcom graphics hardware in the Raspberry Pi offers twice the performance of the iPhone 4S GPU and soundly beats NVIDIA's Tegra 2. Upton worked for Broadcom on the team that developed the hardware.

HP publishes webOS Enyo framework under open source Apache license

HP has published the code of Enyo, the underlying JavaScript framework of the webOS platform. It is available from a public repository on GitHub. Enyo 2 is lightweight (at the time of this writing, roughly 13k gzipped), easy to digest, and powerful.

Google delivers a unified platform via new privacy policy

  • GigaOM; By Derrick Harris (Posted by kennethh on Jan 26, 2012 12:10 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Editorial
Google today announced a new privacy policy and new terms of service that will take effect on March 1 and eliminate some 60-odd disparate policies across its myriad services.

Tiny server offers modular design

  • Linux for Devices; By Jonathan Angel (Posted by tuxchick on Jan 26, 2012 5:08 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Linux
Xi3 Corporation announced a 4-inch, & eco-friendly& server it claims will be readily upgradeable, thanks to the use of one board containing the processor and memory and two separate boards containing I/O ports. The & microServ3r& apparently offers a choice of AMD processors, SSD (solid state disk) storage, two gigabit Ethernet ports, two eSATA ports, and a Fibre Channel port.

Release 4.8: Features, Stability, Performance

The latest set of KDE releases has been announced. It includes major updates to Plasma Workspaces, Applications, and the Development Platform. Version 4.8 provides many new features, as well as improved stability and performance. Check out the highlights below and read the full announcement. Dolphin gets a new display engine (click for larger) read more

Going Over The Good & Bad For UEFI On Linux

  • Phoronix; By Michael Larabel (Posted by tuxchick on Jan 26, 2012 3:13 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Linux
Another one of the interesting talks that was recorded from Linux.Conf.Au in Barratt, Australia last week was the presentation by Matthew Garrett. He went over the good and bad of UEFI support under Linux.

New Kernel Vulnerabilities Affect Ubuntu 11.04

Canonical announced last evening, January 24th, in a security notice, that a new Linux kernel update for its Ubuntu 11.10 (Natty Narwhal) operating system is now available, fixing three security vulnerabilities discovered in the Linux kernel packages by various developers.

LCA 2012 Bruce Perens on Status of Open Source and James Applebaum on Anonymity

At the just concluded Linux Conference Australia (LCA 12), open source was under the limelight as some powerful presenters left behind a lot to be thought about. First to make an impact was Bruce Perens. Coming as an ex-Debian Project Leader and strong advocate of open source programs, Perens left many thinking on the future of open source and the role the platform can play in the future.

KDE 4.8 released with new features and improvements

  • my-guides.net; By axel (Posted by axel on Jan 26, 2012 12:22 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: KDE
KDE 4.8 is released with updates to KDE Plasma Workspaces, KDE Applications and the KDE Platform. I have a feeling that something is missing here...

Mobile Drives Apple's Monster Quarter

  • Tech Target View From Above; By Ron Miller (Posted by rsmiller on Jan 25, 2012 11:12 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Editorial
As Apple made inroads into China and the enterprise, its mobile devices sold in astonishing numbers, driving it to the most profitable quarter ever for a technology company and challenging my ability to come up with superlatives to describe it.

How Small Business PrintedArt Uses Linux and Open Source

Sure, Linux is great for big organizations like Google, Facebook, and others, but what about small business? Take a look at PrintedArt. Founded in 2010, PrintedArt is an online shop that sells limited-editions of fine art photography. It now has three full-time and three part-time employees and eight sales representatives. According to President and CEO Klaus Sonnenleiter, Linux and open source play a number of roles in the company's success.

Meet the Gentlemen Behind Gentlemint, the Mint of Manly Things

Developer Brian McKinney explains the inspiration and open source technology behind Gentlemint, a new online "mint of manly things."

Jailbreak iPhone 4S and iPad 2 On Linux With Absinthe

Absinthe 0.3, an iPhone 4S and iPad 2 (iOS 5) untethered jailbreak tool, has been released a few days ago and it includes a Linux version too.

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