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Twelve keynote videos from LinuxCon 2013

The Linux Foundation held its LinuxCon North America conference in New Orleans this week. This post provides short summaries and links to videos from 12 keynote sessions videos featuring luminaries including Linus Torvalds, Google’s Chris DiBona, and Valve’s Gabe Newell, Raspberry Pi’s Eben Upton, and more. LinuxCon is the Linux Foundation’s major public conference, and […]

Driving Continuous Integration from Git

  • Dr. Dobb's Open Source Articles (Posted by bob on Sep 21, 2013 4:50 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
Testing, code coverage, style enforcement are all check-in and merge requirements that can be automated and driven from Git.

Google Is Exploring an Alternative to Cookies for Ad Tracking

  • New York Times; By Claire Cain Miller (Posted by bob on Sep 21, 2013 2:55 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story, Security
Google, the biggest online advertising company, is considering a new way to help advertisers track people across the Web and consolidate its power in the industry. Google could create an anonymous identifier, tied to users of its Chrome browser on a specific device, that advertisers would use to target ads, according to a person briefed on the plan

Guerilla Improvement: Getting Started in DevOps Without Buy-In

  • Dr. Dobb's Open Source Articles (Posted by bob on Sep 21, 2013 1:01 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
DevOps need not be a top-down mandate to succeed. With these steps, developers and operations staff can lead the way implementing DevOps techniques and later show the organizational benefits to management.

Tesla autopilot system likely to include Linux

  • LinuxGizmos (Posted by bob on Sep 21, 2013 9:12 AM CST)
  • Groups: Linux; Story Type: News Story
Tesla Motors announced plans to produce an autopilot feature within three years for its Model S electric car, which currently offers a Linux IVI and telematics system. Tesla’s system falls short of being a fully autonomous car, a la Google’s Linux-based Prius systems, and will only handle control of the car for “90 percent of […]

Fedora 20 Alpha status is Go

  • Fedora; By Jaroslav Reznik (Posted by bob on Sep 20, 2013 6:31 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Fedora
At the Fedora 20 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting #2 that just occurred, it was agreed to Go with the Fedora 20 Alpha by Fedora QA, Release Engineering and Development.

Exploring the Samsung ARM Chromebook 3G

Back in late 2010, Google announced a "Chromebook"—a low-cost, entry-level netbook that would run Google's own operating system, ChromeOS. Google's vision of ChromeOS, although based on Linux, basically would be a giant Web browser, with all the apps on the machine running in the browser.

NC Datapalooza 2013: Why publicly available data is innovative

  • opensource.com (Posted by bob on Sep 19, 2013 8:04 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
If you live in the southeastern US (aka the Bible Belt) as I do, you’ve probably been to a church revival or two (or twenty). Revival is an event intended to light a fire under the 'faithful,' as opposed to the newcomer. As I sat at NC Datapalooza last week, I felt that I was in a revival, without the obvious religious overtones, of course. I was amazed at how far the Raleigh area has come in terms of understanding and accepting open data principles.

Open source Android fork Cyanogen becomes $7m company

Plans to build 'world's largest' mobile OS contender Independent Android firmware project CyanogenMod has become a company, thanks to a $7m Series A financing round led by Silicon Valley venture firms Benchmark Capital and Redpoint Ventures.

Walking around LinuxCon 2013

  • ZDNet | Linux And Open Source Blog RSS (Posted by bob on Sep 18, 2013 4:51 PM CST)
  • Groups: Linux; Story Type: News Story
What it's like at a LinuxCon? Join me in a virtual walk about the North America LinuxCon 2013 in New Orleans.

State-Sponsored Hacker Gang Has a Side Gig in Fraud

An elite group of nation-state hackers running roughshod through the financial sector and other industries in the U.S. has pioneered techniques that others are following, and has used sophisticated methods to go after hardened targets, including hacking a security firm to undermine the security service the company provided its clients.

Raspberry Pi Is Running Well On Wayland/Weston

The low-cost low-end Raspberry Pi ARM development boards are running quite happily now with Wayland and using its Weston compositor. The performance is better than with an X.Org Server and Raspberry Pi's Eben Upton has called it the future of Linux desktop graphics...

When people freely share, it makes things better for everyone

Joshua Holm is the kind of guy you want to have on your chat list if you’re ever looking for an open source tool to tackle a task. That’s because he actively keeps up with the latest open source tools and projects because much of his work involves helping people find the right software tool to meet their needs. So if you’re looking for an open source version of something, chances are Joshua can make a recommendation. At opensource.com, Joshua is a frequent commenter, regularly doling out insights based on his open source and real world experiences. He also recently wrote a post highlighting Ren’Py, the open source tool for developing visual novels. Beyond evangelizing for open source tools and resources, Joshua also enjoys academic research and providing technical assistance to job seekers. Learn more about how Joshua uses open source tools in his life in this Community Spotlight interview.

Open source hardware holds the same promise as software

  • opensource.com (Posted by bob on Sep 18, 2013 9:11 AM CST)
  • Groups: Embedded; Story Type: Interview
This article is part of an interview series highlighting the speakers of the upcoming All Things Open 2013 conference in Raleigh, NC I see SparkFun Electronics mentioned often in my social media stream, so I jumped at the chance to interview Chris Clark, the company's Director of Information Technology. From their website: SparkFun is an online retail store that sells the bits and pieces to make your electronics projects possible. Our ever-growing product catalog boasts over 3,500 components and widgets designed to help you unleash your inner inventor... Through our Department of Education, SparkFun offers classes and online tutorials designed to help educate individuals in the wonderful world of embedded electronics... We believe an open market is a healthy market and we open source all of our product designs. SparkFun subscribes to the belief that open source tech encourages innovation and creativity, while helping empower individuals to build the projects they want. In this interview with Chris

Open source to bridge the global digital divide

I vividly remember my first experience using the Internet in 2000. The amount of information I was hit with by typing my first search term, university, was far beyond my wildest imaginations. This plethora of knowledge filled my mind with wonder, excitement, and enlightenment. I suddenly had the power to read, analyze, and learn about anything and anyone. The knowledge created by some of the greatest minds in the history of mankind was at my disposal, free of cost and just one single click away. I felt empowered.

IBM proffers $1bn for Linux development on Power

Rising open source tide carries all boats, IBM hopes After opening up its Power chips to bit fiddlers through an ARM-style licensee model, IBM is pouring $1bn into Linux development on the architecture.…

Bountysource CEO talks open source crowdfunding and bounties for developers

  • opensource.com; By Ginny Skalski (Posted by bob on Sep 17, 2013 3:58 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
Nearly a decade ago, two friends set out to create a full project management platform for open source software called Bountysource. The year was 2004 and the friends were Warren Konkel and David Rappo, and their vision included creating code repositories, file hosting, issue tracking, and bounty support.

Gabe Newell talks about Linux as the future of gaming; teases "Steam Box" hardware

  • opensource.com (Posted by bob on Sep 17, 2013 2:14 PM CST)
  • Groups: Linux; Story Type: News Story
The gamers among us waited... very... patiently... for Steam to come to Linux. This week, Valve co-founder Gabe Newell came to LinuxCon to talk about Linux, gaming, and how important open source is to the future of gaming, which given the audience, he described as "sort of like going to Rome and teaching Catholicism to the Pope." In even better news, he also strongly hinted at a Steam Box announcement next week. A company built on Linux sees the future of gaming

Expandable Mini-ITX SBC runs Linux on 1.8GHz Atom

Acrosser announced a Fedora Linux-ready Mini-ITX single board computer (SBC) equipped with a dual-core 1.86GHz Intel Atom D2550. The AMB-D255T3 supports up to 4GB of DDR3 RAM, can run dual displays via VGA, HDMI, or 18-bit LVDS interfaces, and offers both PCI and Mini-PCIe expansion. The Intel Atom D2550-based “Cedar Trail” platform has been a […]

NSA ‘Follow the Money’ branch spied on Visa customers, SWIFT transactions – report

The NSA has been widely monitoring international banking and credit card transactions, a new report says referencing Edward Snowden’s leak. The agency targeted Visa customers and global financial service SWIFT and created its own money flows database.

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