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India's $35 Tablet 'Aakash' Launched, Runs Android 2.2

India's much talked about US$35 tablet running Android 2.2 Froyo is finally launched. World’s cheapest tablet will be called 'Aakash' and it's exact price is Rs.2,276. At current rates, final cost will be around US$50, which still makes it the world's cheapest tablet. If the price point of this Android tablet impressed you already, specifications are going to impress you even more.

Computer-Aided Engineering in Linux

Engineers are some of the heaviest number-crunchers around. If you are a grad student, post doc or undergrad, you usually get whatever is lying around as your work machine. Also, depending on how inflexible your local IT department is, you may be forced to use one of the commercial operating systems around these days. What are lowly students to do when they need to do heavy computational work?

Helena the 3rd now available to buy from the Ubuntu Software Centre

Helena the 3rd now available to buy from the Ubuntu Software Centre

SGX 543MP2 vs Mali-400: Is iPhone 4S GPU Really Twice As Strong As SGS 2?

  • Shantanu’s Technophilic Musings (Posted by shantanugoel on Oct 6, 2011 1:24 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews
Ever since Apple announced the iPhone 4S having “A5? processor, everyone has been pointing to the below image from a test run by Anandtech and saying that the iPhone 4S will be twice as strong as the Samsung Galaxy S2. I beg to differ.

Firefox for Tablets available for download in Aurora Channel

  • Techlaze; By techlaze (Posted by techlaze on Oct 6, 2011 12:29 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
It’s been quite a while since we did that post on Firefox’s upcoming tablet User Interface, and guess what, it’s finally here! Firefox for Tablets has just landed in Aurora channel, which means, you can now download it, test it, and make the product even better. The tablet version includes all the features we discussed in our earlier post along with some additional features. Here’s more about it :

Linux Foundation snags three enterprise cloud vendors as new members

  • Network World's Open Source Subnet (Posted by Julie188 on Oct 5, 2011 11:32 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Editorial; Groups: Linux
The Linux Foundation has added three enterprise, cloud-focused companies to its membership: Eucalyptus Systems, Nebula and Virtual Bridges. Here's hoping the foundation can convince Eucalyptus CEO Marten Mickos that the company's "open core" strategy isn't really "open source."

OLPC XO-1.75 Laptop Preview

  • Phoronix (Posted by kennethh on Oct 5, 2011 10:35 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Fedora
Last month at XDC2011 Chicago, I managed to get my hands on what should be the production hardware model of the XO-1.75 laptop that is expected to be released in the coming months by the OLPC project. The low-cost OLPC laptop targeted for students is now ARM-based and consumes very little power

EXCLUSIVE-Microsoft considers bidding for Yahoo-sources

Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) is considering a bid for Yahoo Inc (YHOO.O), resurfacing as a potential buyer after a bitter and unsuccessful fight to take over the Internet company in 2008, sources close to the situation said on Wednesday. Microsoft joins a host of other companies looking at Yahoo, which has a market value of about $18 billion and is readying financial pitch books for potential buyers, they said.

Videos: KVM Forum 2011 Presentations

The KVM Forum 2011 was held at the Hyatt Regency in Vancouver, Canada on August 15-16. It was co-located with LinuxCon North America 2011. LinuxCon was sponsored by The Linux Foundation who recorded a large number of videos from both events. Unfortunately, The Linux Foundation had few security breaches to deal with on their kernel.org and linux.com domains which (I'm guessing) has greatly delayed them doing post-production work on the recordings and posting them publicly. Luckily Red Hat has posted a handful of videos from the KVM Forum.

Salix OS 13.37 Features Ratpoison Window Manager

George Vlahavas from the Salix OS development team, proudly announced on October 4th that the a new edition of the Salix OS operating system is now available for download, featuring the Ratpoison window manager.

IBM donates code to distributed open-source healthcare project

Open source enables large distributed science projects in a way that closed, proprietary software never will– here is some interesting news from IBM:

ARMONK, N.Y. – October 3,2011 -IBM (NYSE:IBM) today announced that the company is donating a portion of its Blue Spruce Project code to the Dojo Foundation’s Open Cooperative Web Framework (OpenCoweb). The Blue Spruce technology, which was developed in the IBM labs, enables real-time cooperative web solutions. It is already being utilized in an online data exploration system for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded study of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPDGeneR), and to create customized solutions for the healthcare industry by iTel Companies, Inc.

Now, pay attention to the latest Calculate Linux 11.9

Here is an understated Gentoo-based project Calculate Linux with its just release version 11.9. It is a source-based distribution aimed at businesses

Simple LightDM Manager: Change The LightDM Background Or Logo Using A GUI

  • WebUpd8; By Andrew Dickinson (Posted by hotice on Oct 5, 2011 6:38 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Claudio @ ubuntued.info has created a tool for tweaking the LightDM appearance called Simple LightDM Manager.

Virtualization is not evil. It's sarcastic.

  • ZDNet Virtualization Blog; By Ken Hess (Posted by khess on Oct 5, 2011 5:41 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Linux; Story Type: Interview
If virtualization were truly evil, it would be a lot more popular than it is. Unfortunately, Linus Torvalds thinks virtualization is evil. Evil technology should be made of sterner stuff.

Fedora 16 Beta Has GNOME 3.2 and Linux Kernel 3.1

  • Softpedia; By Marius Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Oct 5, 2011 4:44 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Fedora
The Fedora Project proudly announced last evening, October 4th, the immediate availability for download and testing of the Beta version of the upcoming Fedora 16 operating system, due for release in November 2011.

Introduction to Cgroups, the Linux Control Group

  • http://www.linuxaria.com; By Linuxaria (Posted by linuxaria on Oct 5, 2011 3:47 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial
Cgroups is present in the official Linux kernel 2.6.24 (late 2007), still he’s not much know or used (at least for what i know). In this article I’ll give you an overview of this powerful Linux tool to control how much CPU, memory, disk I/O or network I/O each process or user can use in your server.

So in short cgroups it’s a feature to limit, account and isolate resource usage (CPU, memory, disk I/O, etc.) of process groups.

Let’s see how.

Mageia, Mandriva and IBM: Battle of Giants

  • Linux notes from DarkDuck; By DarkDuck & Vasilijs (Posted by darkduck on Oct 5, 2011 2:49 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: Linux, Mandriva
My laptop is very old, so old that many people don’t even remember the model. This is one of the last models designed and actually produced by IBM before it was sold to Lenovo – a good old IBM X31. I am also a dedicated Mandriva user since those times when it was known as Mandrake. Why did I decide to try Mageia?

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There's A Linux 3.1-rc9 Kernel Release

While it's rare for there to be more than seven or eight (weekly) release candidates before a new major Linux kernel release, this evening Linus Torvalds has tagged 3.1-rc9...

Ripping An MP3 CD On Linux Mint 11

  • HowtoForge; By Christian Schmalfeld (Posted by falko on Oct 5, 2011 9:41 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Linux, Ubuntu
This article describes how to rip music off an audio CD in acceptable shape with a moderate bitrate and in MP3 format on Linux Mint 11. There are are numerous ways of ripping a CD on Linux, but not all of them provide the standard comfort one should have, for instance a fairly high bitrate for your music, so that it does not sound like hammering on a trashcan with an iron spoon, or automated fetching of disk and track information from the internet, so you do not have to do it all manually. The way I describe should provide all these things, however it may be that if you are ripping a rather unknown audio disk, there is no data about it on the CD database.

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