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SoC teams Cortex-A5 app processor with Cortex-M4 MCU
Freescale Semiconductor announced a system on chip (SoC) platform, combining a Linux-ready ARM Cortex-A5 application processor with a Cortex-M4 microcontroller intended to run a real-time operating system (RTOS). The company's unnamed & asymmetrical-multiprocessing-architecture& SoC features a wide range of peripherals, and is designed to enable simultaneous real-time control and graphics-rich application processing, primarily in industrial applications....
Google Chrome 15 is out with a bunch of new features
The world’s fastest growing browser, Google Chrome has just been updated to version 15. The most conspicuous change in this update is the redesigned New Tab page which we covered while it was in beta. Also coinciding with this release is the launch of a completely overhauled Web store which looks quite similar to the new Android marketplace. Here’s more about the changes in detail.
Gameolith website updates + indiegogo campaign
Gameolith.com one of the newest Linux Game Download Stores has undergone some upgrades, you can now buy directly in Pounds and Euros directly from the new domains gameolith.co.uk and gameolith.eu, accounts work across all domains.
How to Change the Login Screen Wallpaper in Gnome 3.x Shell
In this article I’m going to tell you how to change the login screen wallpaper in Gnome 3.x Shell. I’m also going to provide a script that is capable of starting this for you, along with instructions on how to use it.
The Staging Merge For Linux 3.2 Kernel Is Huge
Linus Torvalds was worried that the Linux 3.2 kernel might be of a worrying size due to the belated release of Linux 3.1. Merge requests are now starting to come in for the Linux 3.2 kernel and the staging merge alone touches several hundred thousand lines of code...
Faenza 1.1 Adds Many New Icons, Better Integrated With Ubuntu Unity
Faenza Icons Theme is kind of an household name among Linux folks. It definitely is one of the best looking icon themes for Ubuntu. Faenza Icons Theme 1.1 brings in a number of new brilliant looking icons and is also better integrated with Ubuntu Oneiric's new Unity UI.
Riverbed lets loose Stingray virty appliances
Traffic manager, content optimizer, and firewall swim together
In the wake of its acquisitions of Zeus Technology and Aptimize back in July, WAN optimization appliance maker Riverbed Technology has tweaked three software appliances for speeding up and securing cloudy applications to complement its Steelhead appliances.…
Open Source: You Know, For Kids!
Rikki Endsley offers seven practical reasons to teach children about open source software and get them involved.
openSUSE 12.1 RC1 Is Powered by Linux Kernel 3.1
The openSUSE development team, through Jos Poortvliet, proudly announced last evening, October 24th, the immediate availability for download and testing of the openSUSE 12.1 RC1 operating system.
Big-Box Science
A few months ago, I wrote a piece about how you can use MPI to run a parallel program over a number of machines that are networked together. But more and more often, your plain-old desktop has more than one CPU. How best can you take advantage of the amount of power at your fingertips? more>>
All patents are theft
If necessity is the mother of invention, patents are its delinquent offspring, providing stumbling blocks to innovation and progress, inhibiting the free exchange of ideas, and restricting our knowledge of how things work, says Richard Hillesley…
John McCarthy, in Memoriam
The designer of LISP, father of AI, and inventor of garbage collection passed away this week leaving a legacy of far-sighted innovation
KDE 4: Leader of the Semantic Pack
KDE4 has been flinging new technologies at us fast and furiously, many in the category of "semantic desktop." Semantic computing is the future of computing, and KDE4 has the only working implementation of a semantic desktop. The idea of a semantic Web has been kicking around for some years, and the semantic desktop is the same concept applied to the personal computer. Let's take a look and see what all the fuss is about. It starts with Nepomuk, Strigi, and Akonadi, which are odd names that have been bandied about much with little understanding.
The Perfect Desktop - Ubuntu Studio 11.10
This tutorial shows how you can set up an Ubuntu Studio 11.10 desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge. Please note that Ubuntu Studio 11.10 uses Xfce as the default desktop environment (instead of GNOME).
Cryptoboffin: Secure boot a boon for spooks' spyware
State-sponsored trojans will be harder to get rid of
A leading computer scientist has warned that the latest so-called Trusted Computing proposals may restrict the market for anti-virus and security software.…
OCZ unveils 'first' 2.5-inch SSD with 1TB, plus PCI Express-based hybrid
OCZ Technology announced what it claims is the first 2.5-inch SSD (solid state drive) to include up to 1TB of storage, with a SATA 3.0 version delivering reads at up to 560MB/sec. Also released was a PCI Express-based hard disk/SSD combo that also packs 1TB, but revs performance to 910MB/sec., according to the company....
Teeworlds – A retro multiplayer shooter
Teeworlds is a free open source fast-paced sidescrolling multiplayer-only computer game. The game features simple cartoon-themed graphics and physics, and relies heavily on classic shooter weaponry and gameplay. The controls are heavily inspired by the First-person shooter genre of computer games.
$200 Android tablet offers dual cameras, micro-HDMI
ViewSonic has begun selling a $200, seven-inch tablet that runs Android 2.3. The ViewPad 7e is equipped with a 1GHz Cortex-A8 processor, 4GB internal storage, 800 x 600 pixel screen resolution, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, dual cameras, and a micro-HDMI port, says the company....
HTC will upgrade many devices to Android 4
HTC announced they want to upgrade as many HTC devices as possible. This is completely in line with Google's statement last week about Android 4 upgrades.
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