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Embedded Linux video repositories
Developers of embedded Linux- and embedded Android-based system software are well aware of the benefits of open-source software and its collaborative community of developers. One key resource is the growing abundance of free video tutorials and demonstrations amassed on the websites and YouTube channels of embedded-Linux and embedded-Android oriented projects, organizations, and companies.
Linux Kernel 3.8.6 Is Now Available for Download
Greg Kroah-Hartman announced a few minutes ago, April 5, the immediate availability for download of the sixth maintenance release for the stable Linux 3.8 kernel series.
Alienware X51 deploying with Ubuntu!
It's the Alienware X51. No doubt it will come to many as a shock, as it did to myself. It would seem Dell wants to get serious with Linux gamers, and more specifically with Ubuntu gamers. This is great news!
Windows 7 & Windows 8 vs. Ubuntu 13.04 & Fedora 18
Last month Phoronix published Intel OpenGL benchmarks showing Windows 8 outperforming Ubuntu 13.04 with the latest Windows and Linux drivers from Intel. I also showed that even with the KDE and Xfce desktops rather than the default Unity/Compiz desktop to Ubuntu, Windows 8 still was faster on this Intel "Ivy Bridge" platform. The new benchmarks to share today from this Intel Ultrabook are the Windows 8 and Ubuntu 13.04 results but also with performance figures added in from Microsoft Windows 7 Professional Service Pack 1 x64 and Fedora 18.
LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities has been found and corrected in sudo:
A flaw exists in the IP network matching code in sudo versions 1.6.9p3
through 1.8.4p4 that may result in the local host being matched
even though it is not actually part of the network described by the
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Open payment system for Firefox OS
Mozilla has released an early draft version of a payment service API, enabling Firefox OS app developers to process purchases. The API design is in part based on Google Wallet, but the WebPayment API will remain open to being used for a wide range of payment service providers.
Debian gets served by Bytemark
The Debian Project has announced that Bytemark Hosting has donated a fully populated 16 server blade HP BladeSystem with HP Modular Storage Arrays containing 57TB of storage. The new server, which will make its home at Bytemark's new data centre in York, is said to be worth £150,000 per annum in commercial terms. Bytemark said that they have relied on Debian on their servers since they started the company in 2002 and said it "was always an embarrassingly good deal".
Apache OpenMeetings hits first Open Source Top Level Project Release
This week the Apache OpenMeetings project released version 2.1 of its open source web conferencing platform. The OpenMeetings 2.1 release is the first release of the project since it graduated from the Apache Incubator to become a topApache OpenMeetings level project, in December of 2012.
5 Links for Developers and IT Pros 4-5-13
This week, we explore why your code could work and still suck, define the open source cloud, and offer 10 BYOD best practices.
The Linux Inside Stigma
Linux Advocate Dietrich Schmitz highlights the success of the Google Chromebook to underscore in his view a serious Linux brand image problem.
Rackspace takes the patent fight to a troll
The cloud and hosting company says that IP Navigation has wrongfully accused it of infringing three patents and broken agreements over disclosure of what those patents actually were
Gift One, Get One - Redux
Fantasy author Thomas A. Knight brings back his Gift One, Get One promotion for his birthday this year, and adds a number of other great fantasy novels to the pool. Give any one of these great fantasy novels as a gift, and get one free, and we all love getting something for free, right?
OASIS Breaks the Traditional Standards Accreditation Barrier
On Tuesday, OASIS - the standards group that developed the OpenDocument Format - made an extremely rare announcement for an information technology consortium: that it has successfully completed the process of becoming accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI).
How to use Facebook chat with Pidgin
Pidgin is the default chat client of many Linux distros like Mint, Fuduntu, Solus ... It supports many protocols, like Yahoo, Google, MSN and of course, Facebook. Here is how you set up and use facebook chat with Pidgin.
Acquia open sources Drupal iOS app
Acquia, the support and services company run by Drupal lead developer Dries Buytaert, has open sourced Drupal Create, an iOS application that allows Drupal users to post content to their site from their mobile devices. Buytaert says open sourcing the application is "kick-starting development of mobile content publishing apps for Drupal." The open source Drupal content management system (CMS) runs a number of high profile web sites from the official web site of the White House to the web sites of Stanford University and General Electric.
Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast and Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy Source Code Released
Raven Software has released the source code to Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast and Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy under the GNU General Public License.
Installing And Using OpenVZ On CentOS 6.4
In this HowTo I will describe how to prepare a CentOS 6.4 server for OpenVZ. With OpenVZ you can create multiple Virtual Private Servers (VPS) on the same hardware, similar to Xen and the Linux Vserver project. OpenVZ is the open-source branch of Virtuozzo, a commercial virtualization solution used by many providers that offer virtual servers. The OpenVZ kernel patch is licensed under the GPL license, and the user-level tools are under the QPL license.
The Open Book (Free Stuff Friday!)
The Open Book is an essential reference point for those interested in the culmination of a global movement for change in a time of rapid social progress.
Firefox 20 Officially Lands in Ubuntu
Canonical announced a few hours ago, April 4, that they've updated the default web browser, Mozilla Firefox, to version 20, on all their supported Ubuntu operating systems.
Fehlstart: a simple, quick application launcher written in C
Fehlstart, I believe, is a relatively unknown little gem. A real beauty if your looking for nice but truly lightweight launcher. Fehlstart is a German word meaning “false start” also defined as an “early start”. The author wrote Fehlstart because gnome-do and others do way more than what he needed; gnome-do runs on mono which requires too many resources to perform a simple task like application launching.
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