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ShiraTech announced an SODIMM style computer-on-module (COM) running Linux on an ARM Cortex-A5-based Atmel SAMA5D3 processor. The AT-51 COM integrates interfaces for TFT LCD display, gigabit Ethernet, USB, CAN, SDIO/MMC/SD, audio, image sensing, serial, analog, and digital I/O, and features low power drain and wide temperature operation.

Today we learned just how determined the patent troll Lodsys is to avoid a ruling on the merits of its claims. When software security company Kaspersky Lab refused to surrender, Lodsys settled for nothing (yes, you read that right—absolutely nothing) rather than take its claims to trial.

Matriux is primarily designed for security enthusiasts and professionals, but it can also be used by any Linux user as a desktop system for day-to-day computing. Besides standard Debian software, Matriux also ships with an optimised GNOME desktop interface, over 340 open-source tools for penetration testing, and a custom-built Linux kernel. Features: custom Linux kernel 3.9.4 (patched with Aufs, Squashfs and xz file system mode, includes support for wide range of wireless drivers and hardware), includes support for alfacard 0036NH; USB persistent; easy integration with VirtualBox and VMware player even in live mode.

LinuxCareer.com analyses the Linux job market in terms of demand for IT skills. This report aims to extend the study of the IT Skills Watch by identifying which skills are grouped together in IT job advertisements. By employing cluster analysis LinuxCareer.com identifies 10 relatively different groups of skills that can be linked to IT job categories. The winner set of IT skills is also identified, which suggests the most popular, in terms of demand, IT qualification.

This version of Parted Magic includes a new GUI for Secure Erase, a GUI for ddrescue, it now boots normally on Windows 8 machines with Secure Boot enabled, a completely new layout for the panel menu, and many updated programs. The new Parted Magic Secure Erase GUI has been the main focus over the past few months and it very well may be the easiest-to-use and most powerful ATA Secure Erase program on the planet. There is also a very nice GUI for ddrescue written by Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty. You no longer need to disable Secure Boot on Windows 8 machines to use Parted Magic. New programs: ddrutility and mprime.

TRI is a first-person puzzle exploration adventure game where you place corner points onto walls to build walkable triangular platforms. Find a way through the towers and dungeons in sophisticated levels.

There are quite a few exciting new additions in the 4.2 release across storage, compute and networking, Chip Childers, vice president of the Apache CloudStack project, told eWEEK.

Let’s take a moment to appreciate the heritage of this influential operating system, and the many ways it has bettered our world.

Some days ago Valve announced it’s new, and not so secret, project SteamOS : “Thousands of games, millions of users. Everything you love about Steam. In short, soon there will be a new Linux distribution tailored to get the max from Steam and its games.

I spent last year writing a book using Linux (with a little bit of VirtualBox thrown in for good luck). The process was painless and shows that Linux is a powerful, flexible, convenient tool for knowledge work.

The big reason the French Gendarmerie made the Linux move? It saved them 40 percent in total cost of ownership over Windows.

Today in Open Source: The French police move to desktop Linux. Plus: Google Chrome 30 released, and a review of Knoppix 7.2

Free/Libre and Open Source software versus closed and proprietary software doesn’t matter. It’s not the answer to solve all our problems. It’s not the question we need to ask anyone and everyone either. It simply doesn’t matter. Well, it might matter to you and I…but it doesn’t matter to most people out there.

Meld is a visual diff and merge tool that can compare files, directories, and any version controlled projects. Meld offers two- and three-way diff and merge, as well as supports simple commands of major version control systems (e.g., SVN, Git, Mercurial, Bazaar). This tutorial describes how to diff and merge files and directories on Linux by using Meld.

Debugging is a major software development activity, which as an application developer, you cannot avoid. Effective debugging can not only shorten the software development cycle, but can also save costs. This article introduces techniques for locating bugs in user-space C/C++ and Java(TM) applications and describes some of the debugging tools available on Linux(TM) for POWER(TM) architecture.

WD (Western Digital) today unveiled a hard drive that acts as a personal cloud, offering password-protected access to data over the Internet via any mobile or desktop device.WD's My Cloud drive runs on Linux and comes with management software that is compatible with iOS, Android, Windows or OS X. The My Cloud software also allows users to organize digital content from all of their devices and set up automated cloud backups.

The desktop market is shrinking and they have no market share to speak of in mobile. Windows 8 hasn’t yet worked out well for them. So far, their biggest growth in smartphones and tablets seems to be in selling patent protection for Android devices from the likes of Samsung and HTC. This comes as they’re attempting to create the perception that their attitude toward open source has changed. The Microsoft FUD machine has been relatively quiet for some time and it’s been years since Mr. Ballmer publicly referred to open source as “communist” or claimed Linux to be “a cancer.”

Everyone needs cloud-savvy administrators, but there aren't enough to go around. Worse still, if someone does come to you and they say they know OpenStack like the back of their hand, how do you know they do? Or, flipping it around, if you're a smart system administrator who wants to pick up mad OpenStack cloud skills, how do you do that?

MEN Mikro announced a rugged, Linux-ready box-PC for use on trains, buses, airplanes, and construction and agricultural vehicles. The BL50W comes with single- or dual-core AMD G-Series APUs, provides dual full-HD DisplayPort outputs, expands via SD, mSATA, and Mini PCIe slots, offers gig-E, WiFi, GPS, and cellular connectivity, and supports wide temperature fanless operation.

Userland Frontier was an object-based (outline-based?) scripting environment that moonlighted as a content management system. Or, perhaps it was a scriptable content management system. Or, perhaps it was an outliner, and it grew into a content management system that you could script. I'm sure someone out there will have an opinion or definition that's more accurate, but I think that the outliner freaks in the audience will all agree that it was an impressive outlining and (ultimately) web publishing system. (I don't know if it was as good an outliner as MORE, but my goal isn't to start an outliner-flame-war here...)