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Slackware 14.0 is officially released

  • http://www.slackware.com/ (Posted by notbob on Sep 29, 2012 3:23 AM CST)
  • Groups: LXer
Pat Volkerding is finally satisfied and has released his latest offering. Slackers rejoice!

Samsung wins reconsideration of Galaxy Tab sales ban

However, the jury found that Samsung had not violated the patent that was the basis for the tablet injunction and Samsung argued the sales ban should be lifted. U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh said she could not act because Samsung had already appealed.

EMI:Legitimately Afraid That Aliens Might Listen To The Beatles Without A License

Ah, life imitating art (or art accidentally imitating life). Earlier this year, we had Rob Reid post an excerpt and discuss his new novel, Year Zero, concerning aliens listening to Earth music for free, without a license... and then realizing that they've been infringing our copyrights for years, and owe the record labels more money than exists in the galaxy. Funny story, right?

Except... as Joe Betsill points out, apparently at least EMI really was afraid that aliens might listen to music without a license.

Open webOS 1.0 Released

After being in beta for a while, HP's Open webOS has a new release: version 1.0...

5 Useful Alternatives to the Top Utility

  • LinuxLinks.com; By Trevor James (Posted by sde on Sep 28, 2012 11:46 PM CST)
  • Story Type: Reviews, Roundups
The top utility will need little introduction to seasoned Linux users. top is a small utility that offers a dynamic real-time view of a running system. It allows users to monitor the processes that are running on a system.

Tizen 2.0 Alpha SDK With Source-Code Released

An alpha release of the Tizen 2.0 SDK with source-code was released this week...

Joomla 3.0: Major version jump for the open source CMS

The Joomla developers have released version 3.0 of their open source CMS. Many new features, and new standard templates for the web site and administrator areas that also work on mobile devices, justify the major version jump

First Look: GNOME 3.6

As part of a facelift, the Nautilus file manager has gained and lost a number of features. The Boxes VM tool and the GNOME Disks utility, which are also of interest for Cinnamon and Unity users, have matured. The account manager now allows programs to access Facebook friends and Microsoft's SkyDrive

Firefox's birthday present to us: Teaching tech titans about DIY upstarts

A decade of real choice - there's no app for that Open ... and Shut It's hard to believe it now, but not too long ago the web was dangerously close to being owned by one vendor: Microsoft.…

AMD CodeXL For Heterogeneous Compute

AMD released a new development tool suite this week called CodeXL that focuses upon heterogeneous compute support across GPUs, CPUs, and APUs...

I still need Xfce's Gigolo, even in GNOME

Gigolo -- Xfce's "mounts anything" file-manager-helper utility -- has an unfortunate moniker. But what's really annoying is continually losing my ftp bookmarks in Nautilus. This never happens in Gigolo. It may be awkward, poorly designed and cringe-inducingly named, but it does what it says.

Android control code issue affects almost all manufacturers

Smartphones from nearly every manufacturer are exposed to an Android control code vulnerability which can kill a phone's SIM card. The causes of the problem have now been identified

5 Links for Developers and IT Pros 9/28/12

This week we look at 2013 CIO priorities, how some companies are missing the mark with Agile and bringing Android mobile apps to Windows.

MartUX: OpenIndiana Reviving Sun SPARC Hardware

MartUX is a new OpenIndiana/Illumos-based Solaris distribution for reviving SPARC hardware support. MartUX_OpenIndiana is based upon OpenIndiana oi_151a, which was released for x86 hardware one year ago, but this LiveDVD distribution release is focusing upon SPARC hardware support. This is the first SPARC release of an OpenIndiana / Illumos distribution.

Parallella, A $99 Supercomputer Running Ubuntu

  • Ubuntu Vibes; By Nitesh (Posted by Dart on Sep 28, 2012 1:04 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Linux
The Parallella is a new pocket sized computer based on the Epiphany multicore chips developed by semiconductor start-up Adapteva.

OpenGL Profiling Improvements With APITrace

There's new improvements within the wonderful open-source APITrace utility for better profiling OpenGL games/applications...

Adapteva announces Raspberry Pi competitor

  • Linux User & Developer; By Gareth Halfacree (Posted by russb78 on Sep 28, 2012 11:10 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
Semiconductor start-up Adapteva has announced its kickstarter plan to create an open-source experimentation board with a massive amount of parallel processing power.

GCC 4.5 Through 4.8 For AMD's Bulldozer

While the new AMD Trinity APUs are what's exciting and being benchmarked at the moment, here are some updated compiler tests from earlier this month on an AMD FX-8150 Bulldozer system...

pfSense - Squid + Squidguard / Traffic Shapping Tutorial

  • HowtoForge; By Kyle Hartigan (Posted by falko on Sep 28, 2012 8:49 AM CST)
  • Story Type: Tutorial
In this tutorial I will show you how to set up pfSense 2.0.1 up as an Internet Gateway with Squid Proxy / Squidguard Filtering. I will also show that you have to configure some extra features of pfSense like traffic shapping with squid. This type of configuration would be useful for people who want to set up wireless hot spots or Internet cafe's etc.

Android Development Environment Setup

This tutorial describes how to create Android applications with Eclipse. It is based on Eclipse 4.2 (Juno), Java 1.6 and Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean). The great thing with Android programming is that all needed tools are free and you can use Linux, Windows or Mac operating systems. We're going to install and configure the following software in order to start Android programming:

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