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Most folks who have been around Linux and/or open source software for awhile are aware of what GTK and QT are - tool kits for building applications. Something that not as many may be aware of is that there is another open source tool kit out there - the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries. These serve as the building blocks not only for the Enlightenment desktop, but also for a growing number of applications.

Today I am going to provide a quick round up of applications written utilizing the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries.

This is fantastic news, GOG.com are finally going to open up their store to penguin lovers of the Linux family!

In today's open source roundup: The Steam Controller gets analog buttons in place of its touchscreen. Plus: SteamOS is officially a Debian fork, and an interview with a Linux Lite developer.

I am just wondering what is going to happen when by the end of 2014 similar "packstack multinode setup via standard prepared answer-files" will run on RHEL 7 & CentOS 7 (F19 based systems) servers landscapes. This slides http://oddbit.com/rdo-hangout-multinode-packstack-slides/ would work for almost any sysadmin, even has no idea what OS is really on top of OpenStack and what Juju is.

Jason Kridner is the co-founder of BeagleBoard.org, where he has helped create open source development tools such as BeagleBone Black, BeagleBone, BeagleBoard, and BeagleBoard-xM. Kridner is also a software architecture manager for embedded processors at Texas Instruments (TI).

Without solid storage, the data of the cloud lives only in the moment. Within OpenStack, storage comes in two flavors: object storage, which stores chunks of information, and block storage, which is more analogous to the traditional idea of a disk drive image. Block storage in OpenStack is handled by Cinder, which provides the infrastructure for managing volumes and sharing them with the other components in OpenStack.

Here’s a close look at the technique and code for console handling in Standard (i.e., ISO/ANSI) C/C++. In the latter part of the article readers are encouraged to write their own code for the clrscr, getch, gotoxy, text color, and text background functions.

GOG releases on Linux this Autumn with the digital distributor testing a selection of their titles on Ubuntu and Linux Mint

Congatec’s 84 x 55mm COM Express board uses an Atom E3800 SoC, and offers multiple display, SATA, GbE, and USB ports, PCIe expansion, and optional 64GB SSD. The “Conga-MA3″ computer-on-module supports the tiny (84 x 55mm) COM Express Mini Type 10 form-factor, which uses a single 220 pin A-B connector. In October, Congatec announced a […]

Earlier this year, I shared my story about open source designs and my 3D printed prosthetic hand to a room of 4,600+ at Intel’s Annual International Sales Conference in Las Vegas. I joined Jon Schull on stage, the founder of e-NABLE, an online group dedicated to open source 3D printable assistive devices. The reaction we got from our talk was unexpected—and it was one of the most awkward and exhilarating experiences of my life.

Unnamed co-founder and spurned engineer put on leave GitHub is investigating allegations of sexism and inappropriate behaviour towards its female employees after one code jockey quit and went public on Twitter.…

One crypto policy to bind them Red Hat is planning a significant change to how its Fedora Linux distribution handles crypto policy, to ship with the due-in-late-2014 Fedora 21 release.…

(Be sure to check out the mouse-over text, which refers most particularly to the 'sudoers' man page...)

Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered and corrected in webmin.

Mark Shuttleworth has called for an end to ACPI (the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) and other executable firmwares that could prove to be attack vectors on PCs, phones, and other devices.

This is pretty big and awesome news, Gauntlet the action/RPG game similar in style to games like Diablo is getting a reboot thanks to Warner Bros teaming up with Arrowhead Game Studios who developed Magicka.

When it comes to taking notes, a simple text editor may do for some. However, Linux offers a wide range of specialized programs for this task, some of them shipping advanced features and powerful formatting and organizing tools.

AIS has launched a 7-inch, WSVGA multitouch panel PC that runs Android or Linux on TI’s Sitara AM3354 SoC, and offers a camera and PoE support.

I am reporting the Linux project activity for the past two months in this article. Blame it on me being heads down to get some development work done. Without further ado, let's get started on catching up.

When you first time boot cloud instance (RDO Havana) via `nova boot ..` or via Dashboard associated with ssh keypair , the default MTU value for eth0 of instance has been built would be 1500. The last one in case of GRE tunnelling makes useless attempt to connect to instance via ssh.