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Earlier this week there was the news of Intel contributing their OpenMP Runtime to LLVM in order to advance the open-source compiler project. Now to end off the week is news that Apple, who continues to invest significantly into LLVM and employs many of the key contributors, has open-sourced their stack unwinder for the project.

Linux is not for everyone, just the way not everyone likes roses; some like lilies. Since an operating system is not a flower it’s less about preferences and more about what gets your job done in the best possible manner. An operating system is a very powerful tool which assists us in getting things done.

ISEE is shipping one of the tiniest Linux-enabled SODIMM style computer-on-modules we’ve encountered. The IGEP Aquila COM is based on TI’s popular, industrial-focused Sitara AM335x ARM Cortex-A8 system-on-chip, offers 3D-accelerated video, Ethernet, USB OTG and Host ports, serial, CAN, and numerous other interfaces, and is supported with a compact baseboard and Yocto-built embedded Linux.

In the most incalculably ironic twist of fate ever devised by the computer gods, the iPhone 5S with iOS 7 is afflicted by a bug that results in a random Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) and then a complete reboot. While the iPhone BSOD lacks the mumbo-jumbo of mostly useless information that’s present on the Windows BSOD, the similarities between the iPhone 5S/iOS 7 and Windows BSODs are shocking — even the shade of blue is virtually the same.

Mad Catz announced $250 pre-orders for its Nvidia Tegra 4-based Android game console. The MOJO Micro-Console for Android ships with 2GB of RAM, 16GB of storage, USB and Ethernet ports, and a separate gamepad controller with multiple modes for playing games on TVs, PCs, or other Android devices.

Irina Blok may have drawn one of the most recognized logos in the world, but her association with the green Android has not made her famous. Blok can think of only one incident when she garnered the public’s attention for designing it. In 2010, she and her 6-year-old daughter were in a movie theater waiting for “Alice in Wonderland” to begin when an Android logo flashed on the screen. Her daughter, Blok recalls, suddenly stood up and yelled, “My mommy invented that!” Everyone in the row in front of them turned around to stare. Blok was so embarrassed, she says, that she sank down behind her tub of popcorn.

VIDEO: Allan Clark, Chair of the OpenStack Foundation explains what the organization is now doing as it prepares for its new Havana release.

Prey is an open source device tracking app that supports not only iOS and OS X but also Android, Linux, and Windows.

Alexandre Julliard has just announced a few hours ago, October 11, that another development release of the powerful Wine software is now available for download and testing.

[Updated Oct 10] — Intel unveiled a family of embedded-specific Atom E3800 (Bay Trail-I) system-on-chips based on its 22nm Silvermont architecture, featuring TDPs ranging from 5 to 10 Watts, and offering interoperability with its Quark SoCs. The Intel Atom E3800 SoCs have already been tapped by a handful of companies for new computer-on-modules (COMs) and single-board computers (SBCs) of various shapes and sizes.

Today in Open Source: The death of Medibuntu. Plus: A slideshow of Ubuntu 13.10, and Cinnamon 2.0 released

Back before the iPhone came along, when netbooks running GNU/Linux were threatening Redmond’s monopoly, it was said the company was allowing OEMs to install XP on the economy devices for as little as seven dollars, which was practically giving the OS away in those days. That may soon seem like a king’s ransom. If the likes of Bloomberg are to be believed, now Microsoft might be offering Windows Phone to HTC for gratis.

With Microsoft and Intel becoming "outright competitors," Hewlett-Packard sees most of the PC growth happening outside the Windows market. That means Android, Chrome, and Ubuntu.

Unlike commercial operating systems such as Windows or Mac OS X, Linux stands alone because of its unique nature. One of the major benefits of using this OS is that it is open source, meaning that the underlying source code may be used, modified, and distributed as its users see fit.

Every six months, my world gets thrown into a state of pure, blissful chaos.

Alex Preston’s Kickstarter for Hyper Light Drifter has been a runaway success. Having asked for only $27,000, he has –at the time of this writing– matriculated past the $500k mark. He is now working towards closing $600k to secure a well-earned masters degree in Kickstarter. Having backed 7 other Kickstarters himself, he is no stranger to the indie scene.

In what is a poignant statement about the state of Android tablet apps, Twitter has announced the first tablet-optimized version for the platform. It’s been 3 years since the iPad hit and Android tablets have blown up in the meantime, but this is the first time they’re being served with a real app.

The Neptune team is proud to announce the release of Neptune 3.3. This release features Linux kernel 3.10.12 and is exclusively meant to run on 64-bit CPUs. The KDE Plasma Desktop ships with version 4.11.2. Chromium was updated to version 29, VLC to 2.1 and LibreOffice to version 4.1.2. We ship with the latest and greatest multimedia codecs pre-installed, as well as the Flash player. For wireless diagnosis we ship Wireshark, Aircrack-ng and kismon. We made a lot effort in cleaning up the system and removed Eclipse as well as the Muon software center and qapt-deb-installer. We removed pavucontrol which is no longer used as we don't ship PulseAudio. Linux kernel 3.10.12 comes with patched zram to prevent freezes. We also added a renewed quick installation manual.

There are several web-based database management tools available on Linux. Among them is Adminer which is a PHP application. Adminer can fully support the administration of various databases including MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, SQLite, and Oracle. This tutorial describes how to set up a web-based management system with Adminer, and how to manage databases in web interface.

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