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Spacewalk is an open source configuration management tool sponsored by Red Hat. Spacewalk is alternate of Redhat network satellite server on Centos / Fedora / Scientific Linux. Spacewalk is the upstream project for the source of Red Hat Network Satellite.

Linux crept up slightly in the EE Times 2013 Embedded Market Study,” representing 34 percent of current projects while Android showed the greatest growth, jumping to 16 percent, for a total of 50 percent for Linux-based platforms. Meanwhile, ARM processors continue to attract more embedded developers.The results should be seen as a general, but imperfect, guide to trends in the immensely broad and varied world of embedded development.

Here's a very quick and terse update on where we are with hardware for the long-awaited (by me if no-one else ;) Vivaldi tablet hardware: SoC PCBs: done; Mer: booting'; Plasma Active: starts; X11: running, still toying with opengl; Still waiting on a pair of drivers; Casework being tweaked to smooth out some rough edges; Screen components: sourced and ready. Which means we are finally, after months of unexpected delays (it's amazing how many different ways a PCB can be done in not-quite-the-right way ...) (where) we have production designs in the box. We're not quite at the point where we can send them shuffling of the production line into little boxes to send to you, but we actually have a device that works and whose design we own so that our ability to deliver is in our own hands.

MediaTek announced its first quad-core system-on-chip aimed at tablets. The MT8125 integrates four 1.5GHz Cortex-A7 cores with Imagination Technologies’ PowerVR Series5XT GPU, enabling 1080p video recording, 1920 x 1200 resolution, and a 13-megapixel camera, and offers integrated 3G HSPA+, 2G EDGE, and WiFi communications.

'Let's focus on our own excellence, not someone else's product'. Ubuntu headman and part-time astronaut Mark Shuttleworth has declared victory over Microsoft's domination of the PC industry, noting that the competitive landscape today is far different from what it was when Ubuntu launched in 2004.…

During development of Plasma Active, I resurrected an idea that a couple of us had tinkered with a year or two earlier: creating an open content store. We have ended up creating something fairly different than what is available out there right now and none of these differences are accidental. Before launching into a description of what this system is and how it works, I thought I'd start with a short blog entry describing the things we were not happy with in the state of the art of app stores.

Ubuntu’s SABDFL (“self-appointed benevolent dictator for life,” as he’s known) Mark Shuttleworth just added comment No. 1834 to Ubuntu’s Bug No. 1 — “Microsoft Has a Majority Market Share” — and closed the bug.

This is the default desktop. According to sources from deep inside the Linux Mint team, this is the best desktop background ever designed by man, or woman. That’s why it will be the default desktop on all releases of Linux Mint or Linux Mint Debian from now till Thy Kingdom Come.

SolydK is pretty amazing, and so is SolydX. Both are recommendable to newbies.

In this tutorial i will show you how to install local repository in Ubuntu 13.04 server in two methods. If you use external hdd then it will your portable repository. You can use it in multiple locations other than your LAN. Both are easy to install and configure, finally pick one of them for your requirement.

The choices offered on the poll were Symbian, Ubuntu, Android, Windows, Firefox OS, iOS, MeeGo, Mer, Blackberry 10 and Other. Voters were allowed to choose only one operating system and those choosing Other were provided a text box to enter their choice. Voters were blocked from taking the poll multiple times by IP address. A total of 238 people took this poll.

Dietrich Schmitz of linuxadvocates.com asked the question about Canonical's financial solvency. I look into the matter to see if there's more to the story.

In this post, I will try to provide enough resources for you to get started on mobile application development using QT Meta Language (QML). Although QML is not Ubuntu specific package, there will be some libraries and convention used in this tutorial that is specific for Ubuntu. However, you could easily use resources mentioned in this post to port your application to the platform of your choice.

Many Linux applications allow users to customize a program’s appearance. These alternate looks are skins (themes for individual applications); themes are another term (for example, themes used in Firefox). Below are three common media players that users may want to customize.

For seeing where the current OpenGL driver performance stands for Intel's open-source Linux graphics driver on Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge processors, the very latest Linux kernel and Mesa development code were tested across four different processors to stress the HD 2000, HD 2500, HD 3000, and HD 4000 graphics capabilities atop Ubuntu.

But Paypal refused to pay. Why? At 17 years of age, Robert Kugler, according to Paypal, does not meet the age-related eligibility requirement for participating in the program. Curiously, that specific requirement is not stated in the publicly available description of the program, which is available here.

Per Aaron Seigo, the once-hotly anticipated –and still hotly-anticipated-by-me — Vivaldi tablet is in the very final stages of design. Many of the necessary components are in place and the new design belongs almost entirely to the Plasma Active team.

Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth announces that Ubuntu Linux bug #1 -- "Microsoft has a majority market share" -- is closed. Rather than simply boasting of Linux's victory, Shuttleworth offers an olive branch.

Linux Mint 15 is a good release. It’s very similar to Debian in a sense that it really achieves what it sets out to do as a Linux based operating system.

LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on a Debian Wheezy server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support.