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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 […]

CyanogenMod, which develops and distributes popular Android mods for hundreds of smartphones and tablets, has morphed from an open source project into a fully-funded startup. Following a $7 million funding round, CyanogenMod Inc. is readying a much-improved installer and plans to add security and user-customization features, and it hinted it may get into services and even mobile hardware.

The final version of the default wallpaper for the upcoming Ubuntu 13.10 (Raring Ringtail) operating system has been leaked earlier today on the Launchpad website.

A new section of Steam's website has opened with a countdown that will end on Monday with the first of three announcements for Steam in the living room.

A roundup of what is happening in KDE.

Today in Open Source: Pear OS 8 takes cue from iOS 7. Plus: A US government backdoor into Linux? And the openSUSE 13.1 beta.

Canonical’s Ubuntu Project confirmed it would release the first stable build of the Ubuntu Touch mobile OS on Oct. 17, as part of the release of Ubuntu 13.10. Ubuntu Touch will not only be available for Nexus smartphones, including the GSM Galaxy Nexus and Nexus 4, but also for the Nexus 7 and Nexus 10 tablets.

A tutorial to produce a Quantum basic RDO setup (grizzly) with original LAN as external on Fedora 19.

Valve has launched a new part of the website where they have initiated a countdown timer for "The Steam Universe is Expanding in 2014."

"Linux is awesome." That was just one of the compelling observations that were made during the annual LinuxCon North America event, which ran from Sept. 16 to 18 in New Orleans. In this slide show, eWEEK takes a look at the sessions and events that defined the LinuxCon North America 2013 conference.

Nautilus file manager has removed many features to simplify the application. Some of the features that have been removes are the tree view and being able to edit the file path. This tutorial is how to install the Nemo file manager from Cinnamon and set it as default in Ubuntu. The following will install and configure Nemo which is a full featured file manager in Ubuntu.

Dave Stokes has worn a lot of hats in his career, from network engineer to CTO and beyond. He's someone eager to learn and who values communication, so he jumped at the chance to become a community manager for Oracle's MySQL project, a role he's now held for nearly four years.

This week, we look at the software developer's guide to world domination, why application security is so hard and worldwide developer salary comparison.

As it's been nearly one year since we last put out some reference benchmarks of Amazon's EC2 Cloud, or compared the different operating system's in Amazon's cloud, it's time to kick off a new round of cloud performance benchmarks. Coming out today are new benchmarks of Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud when benchmarking various on-demand instance types.

Flickr has not released an official Linux client yet. So if you want to upload images to Flick on Linux, you have two options; use either Flickr’s web interface or third-party Linux Flickr uploaders. This tutorial explains how to upload pictures to Flickr by using a GUI-based Flickr upload tool called Postr.

Many of the most important precepts for managing an open-source community, according to Puppet Labs community lead Dawn Foster, are contained within the pages of science-fiction and fantasy literature. In a presentation given Tuesday at LinuxCon in New Orleans, Foster said that Dr. Who’s TARDIS (a powerful time-travel device) works well as a metaphor for open-source communities, which may be more complicated than meets the eye.

Kontron announced a Linux- and Android-ready Pico-ITX single board computer with extended temperature support, built around a Texas Instruments Sitara AM3874 system-on-chip. The KTAM3874/pITX provides up to 2GB RAM and 16GB flash, supports HDMI/LVDS dual displays, runs on less than 5 Watts, and offers I/O including Ethernet, USB 2.0, serial, CAN, and SATA, plus mini-PCIe and microSD expansion.

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NEW ORLEANS. Three years after Oracle left the Open Solaris and its open source implementation of the ZFS storage filesystem for dead, OpenZFS is alive and well... Shortly after Oracle acquired Sun in 2010, both OpenSolaris and the open source implementation of ZFS were abandoned by Oracle. That didn't mean the end of an open source ZFS, however, as multiple efforts were born at the time to help keep the technology alive.

At the LinuxCon meeting in New Orleans, Linus Torvalds was asked if he had ever been approached by the US government to insert a backdoor into the Linux kernel. Here's his characteristic answer: Torvalds responded "no" while shaking his head "yes," as the audience broke into spontaneous laughter.

Obviously, it's hard to tell from that whether he really meant "yes" or "no". But the question does touch on an important issue: whether open source might be less vulnerable than traditional applications to tampering by the NSA or other intelligence organizations.