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Cross-platform mobile development business now pitches to Java developers. Xamarin, the company co-founded by Mono inventor Miguel de Icaza to enable cross-platform mobile development with C#, has acquired RoboVM.…

Aaeon unveiled an “OMNI” line of rugged, Linux-ready panel-PCs with modular I/O add-ons, starting with a Bay Trail “OMNI-2155” with a 15.6-inch touchscreen. The OMNI-2155 is the first in a line of modular, customizable OMNI touchscreen panel-PCs from Aaeon, an embedded focused subsidiary of Asus. Like Aaeon’s recent 10.1-inch ACP-1104 panel-PC, the 15.6-inch OMNI-2155 runs […]

Several versions of self-encrypting hard drives from Western Digital are riddled with so many security flaws that attackers with physical access can retrieve the data with little effort, and in some cases, without even knowing the decryption password, a team of academics said.

Advantech’s “UNO-1252G” is a rugged IoT gateway that runs Linux on an Intel Quark, and offers isolated serial and DIO ports, plus mini-PCIe expansion.

Picat is a new logic-based programming language. In many ways, Picat is similar to Prolog, especially B-Prolog, but it has functions in addition to predicates, pattern-matching instead of unification in predicate heads, list comprehensions and optional destructive assignment.

The Linux-dominated home automation business is still a fragmented free-for-all, but it’s also beginning to consolidate, with far fewer startups in 2015 compared to recent years. This month we saw several major product announcements from established players related to Linux. First, Google’s Nest Labs announced the first device partners for its Weave home automation protocol […]

While I read Opensource.com article "Goodbye Henry Ford, hello open organization," a line describing traditional organizational structures as "rigid and slow to adapt" with "silos and lack of communication" caught my eye. Those words could well describe the PK-12 education sector, where I spent many years. read more

Time to get serious with LXD Canonical has kicked out its container management architecture for the suits with Ubuntu 15.10.…

Are you interested in using Docker to change the way you develop and package Linux application? You're not alone. read more

This tutorial will show you how to control the pins of the parallel port of your PC on Linux from within a small C program. In this example, we switch just a few LED's on and off, but the same technology can be used to control relays to switch devices with high power consumption on and off for home automation.

Because "cloud" means different things to different people, and because OpenStack tries to be all those things, individual OpenStack deployments can look very different from one another depending on many criteria. The "big tent" conversation, which has been ongoing in the OpenStack community for some time, strives to provide all of the answers for all of OpenStack's large audience. read more

Limitless beta service due in production, erm, well, last month Docker has hoovered up container hosting outfit Tutum, creating what the cash-packed buyer claims will be a complete platform to build, ship and run distributed applications.…

KDE and ownCloud developer Jos Poortvliet speaks to the DoBots creator about their latest smart home tech

If you're writing a web application from scratch, you'll want to select a framework to make your life easier and reduce development time. Java, one of the most popular programming languages out there, offers plenty of options. read more

Congatec has launched a COM Express Type 6 Basic module with AMD’s 12-35W R-Series SoCs, with Linux support and up to 32GB DDR4 RAM with optional ECC. COM Express Type 6 is typically the first form-factor chosen by embedded vendors when debuting new x86 processors. When Intel announced its 6th Gen Skylake Core processors, Congatec […]

CompuLab announced a $68 “Fit-Uptime” UPS that offers up to three hours of 12V DC backup, designed for its Fit-PCs, Intel’s NUCs, and other mini-PCs. CompuLab developed its Fit-Uptime uninterrupted power supply for its AMD-based, Linux-ready FitPC mini-PCs, especially when used for mission-critical applications in which power outages are not an option. It also works […]

[Updated: 1:00PM] — AMD’s first SoC version of its R-Series family offers a 25 percent faster CPU, 22 percent faster graphics, plus 12W TDPs, DDR4, and fully open Mentor Linux.

I'd like to share my experiences with Free Software Melbourne, its free software workshop, and, more importantly, what has happened since then because it's kinda cool—it's not what I expected. read more

Red Hat and Black Duck want to make sure that when you run a container, it's really the container you want to run and not a rogue package.

In this tutorial, I will show you how to install mod_security for the fast Nginx web server on Ubuntu 15.04. I will configure ModSecurity as a standalone module and then build Nginx from source to include ModSecurity.