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An Intel developer has committed an improved platform command to LLVM's debugger for improved interfacing with remote machines...

Drop-in replacement for GCC promises better performance Intel has released the Intel C++ Compiler v13.0 for Android OS, its first attempt at delivering an optimizing C/C++ compiler designed specifically for Google's mobile platform.…

The Flash Friendly File System (F2FS) is a file system created by Samsung. It was released with Linux kernel 3.8 in February 2013. The free space is stored in a bitmap file. The bitmap file is a set of bits, each representing a block of the storage unit. If the block is unused, the bit is set to show it is unused. When a block is used, the bit is set to show its status as used. The files and directories are tracked in a table.

Aaeon announced the availability of a Linux-friendly PC/104-Plus single board computer based on the AMD 615MHz G-Series T16R processor. The PFM-HDS supports up to 4GB of DDR3 RAM, offers dual-display support at up to HD resolutions, provides interfaces including gigabit Ethernet, USB, serial, SATA, and CFast, and runs on 10 Watts, says the company. The […]

Slackel 4.0 Openbox has been released. Slackel is based on Slackware Linux and Salix OS. Includes the Linux kernel 3.10.9 and lots of updates from Slackware's 'Current' tree. Slackel 4.0 Openbox includes the Midori 0.5.0 web browser, Claws-Mail 3.9.2, Transmission, SpaceFM, OpenJRE 7u40, Rhino, IcedTea-Web, Pidgin 2.10.7, gFTP 2.0.19, wicd. AbiWord 2.8.6, Gnumeric 1.12.2 and ePDFViewer office applications are included. Whaaw! Media Player is the default movie player, Exaile 3.3.0 is the application to use for managing your music collection, Asunder CD ripper, Bracero for writing CD/DVDs and more. In the graphics section Viewnior 1.3, GIMP 2.8.6 and Scrot the snapshot utility.

Access to the service is available after a free registration at cloud.sagemath.com. William Stein, a professor of mathematics at the University of Washington, is the principal author of Sage and is also responsible for the hosted service.

Chef and Puppet are great DevOps programs. But say you want something even easier, at an even higher level, to set up and manage your cloud, then give Ubuntu's Juju a try.

Today in Open Source: Linux turns 22! Plus: A review of Elementary OS, and did Bill Gates fire Steve Ballmer?

A Samsung executive confirmed to The Korea Times that it will unveil its Galaxy Gear smartwatch on Sept. 4, along with the Galaxy Note 3 phablet, but quashed rumors of a flexible display. The Android-powered smartwatch, rumored to include a dual-core processor and a camera, will be the first of many Samsung and Apple smartwatches that will lead a surging 36 million unit a year market by 2018, predicts Juniper Research.

The nominations are in, and now it's time to cast your votes below for the 2013 Readers' Choice Awards! Voting ends September 22, 2013. You are not required to vote in every category (skip over any questions you like). Please also feel free to write in your choice if you don't see it listed for any question.

LinSSID – Graphical wireless scanning for Linux

The Hierarchical File System (HFS) was introduced in September 1985 by Apple Computers. The maximum volume size supported by HFS is 2 TB with a maximum file size of 2 GB. The maximum file name length is 255 characters, but the older Apple systems only used 31 characters.

As a Gmail user, you may want to maintain a separate backup of all email messages in your Gmail account for personal archiving purpose. Email back up is also useful in case you want to change your Gmail address to a different one, or switch to a completely different email provider. This tutorial describes how to back up and restore a Gmail account on Linux with Gmvault.

(Sacramento and Portland, OR, USA: August 27, 2013) - The Linux Professional Institute (LPI: http://www.lpi.org), the world's premier Linux certification organization, announced that DetaCloud (http://www.detacloud.com), a provider of enterprise cloud solutions built on OpenStack®, has joined LPI's Corporate Membership Program. DetaCloud will collaborate with LPI on accelerating Open Source Cloud technologies adoption and experiential training.

Enjoy this next article in the Linux Kernel series. We will continue configuring the PCI features following the most important characteristic of computers - networking.

Nagios provides a menu that can be modified to fit individual needs. In order to facilitate changes in the menu, you will need to modify the code which is in the PHP pages. This means that the menu may reflect the style and changes you want but it also means that you will need to copy any changes to prepare for updates which may revert back to the standard installation.

sshpass supplies password to ssh prompt using a dedicated tty , fooling ssh to believe that a interactive user is supplying password.

Shai Reshef dreams of making quality education affordable and accessible to everyone, and he sees the Internet as the road to get there. Reshef is the founder of University of the People (UoPeople), which bills itself as the world’s first tuition-free, degree-granting, non-profit online university.

The popular open-source virt-manager utility for managing virtual machines (commonly Linux KVM instances) now has a user-interface for finally dealing with VM snapshots...

As Microsoft's (MSFT) board seeks a new CEO to succeed Steve Ballmer, here are 10 ways the software and cloud giant must change under a new leader.