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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

  • Techlaze; By techlaze (Posted by techlaze on Oct 26, 2011 6:26 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
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

  • GamingOnLinux.com; By Liam Dawe (Posted by liamdawe on Oct 26, 2011 5:29 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
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

  • xjonquilx | Mepis, Ubuntu, Fedora, Linux, Oh My!; By Jonquil McDaniel (Posted by Jonquil on Oct 26, 2011 4:24 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: GNOME
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.

Learn Linux, 302 (Mixed environments): CIFS integration

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

  • Softpedia; By Marius Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Oct 25, 2011 5:12 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: SUSE
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

  • Linux User & Developer magazine; By Richard Hillesley (Posted by russb78 on Oct 25, 2011 3:18 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Editorial
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

  • Dr. Dobb's Articles (Posted by tuxchick on Oct 25, 2011 2:21 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
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

  • HowtoForge; By Christian Schmalfeld (Posted by falko on Oct 25, 2011 1:24 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Ubuntu, Xfce
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

  • http://linuxaria.com; By Linuxaria (Posted by linuxaria on Oct 25, 2011 10:43 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews
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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