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Linux is blessed with some excellent mature music players. My favorites are Amarok, Audacious, Banshee, and Tomahawk. Awesome open source applications. In particular, I have been a devotee of Banshee for a decade, using it as my main media player. But I am keen to explore potential replacements and have tried almost all available music … Leggi tutto

Among the big new features in Linux 4.6 is full support for the USB 3.1 protocol, which offers the promise of up to 10 Gbps for USB link speeds. In contrast USB 3 provides 5 Gbps, while USB 2.0 topped out at 480 mbps.

It’s just as well I didn’t cut the rc cycle short, since the last week ended up getting a few more fixes than expected, but nothing in there feels all that odd or out of line. So 4.6 is out there at the normal schedule, and that obviously also means that I’ll start doing merge … Leggi tutto

Today, May 11, 2016, renowned kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman announced the release of the fourth maintenance build in the latest stable and most advanced Linux 4.5 kernel branch.

The “Pigeon RB100” is a rugged automation controller that runs Linux on a Raspberry Pi Compute Module and offers optoisolated inputs, CAN, 1-wire, and more.

Cars are more than engines and good looking bodies. They’re also complex computing devices so, of course, Linux runs inside them.

Ones to watch: Influential women in open source

The Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) daily build live ISO images have been made available for download immediately after the April 21st release of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus), for early adopters, but most, if not all, of the packages, have the same versions as those in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, including the kernel. But it looks … Leggi tutto

Security is paramount. Security involves defense in depth. Approaching security one step at a time, with consistency and rigour, you can mitigate threats, and keep intruders at bay. pfSense Powerful firewall and routing platform based on FreeBSD ClearOS Dedicated firewall and Internet server/gateway Untangle Quality open source alternative to SonicWALL and WatchGuard IPFire Distro with … Leggi tutto

Debian Development team announced on May 07, 2016. Stating that they are going to drop the i386 architecture support on Debian 9 (stretch) release cycle. It was decided on last year to increase the minimum CPU features for the i386 architecture to 686-class. This means dropping support for 586-class and hybrid 586/686 processors[1].(Support for 486-class … Leggi tutto

So here’s rc7, because while things were really quiet there for a while, it nefer got *so* quiet that I would decide that there’s no point to making the traditional last rc. But this is it, unless something surprising happens.. There’s nothing particularly odd in here, and the appended shortlog is small enough to skim … Leggi tutto

Pi Camera Module special also has tutorials on how to perform experiments with Sense HAT, use NeoPixels with Raspberry Pi  

The Raspberry Pi might have been to space, but it’s also proving its worth back on Earth, where in a muddy field an RFID hacked Pi is being used to tag sheep

Make use of the Raspberry Pi 3’s brand new Bluetooth capabilities to play audio and/or music over a wireless speaker, without using a dongle!   sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get dist-upgrade sudo apt-get install pi-bluetooth blueman sudo apt-get install pulseaudio pavucontrol pulseaudio-module-bluetooth

The MagPi 45

RPI-BC: for protecting your Raspberry Pi computer and safely mounting it on a DIN rail. You can connect several Raspberry Pi computers or I/O modules easily via HBUS to form a system. Realise additional circuits in the same housing with optional perfboards.

Pidgin is a popular cross-platform IM that enables you to connect to multiple instant messaging services simultaneously without any obstruction. For Ubuntu and derivatives/Debian systems $ sudo apt-get install libpurple-dev libjson-glib-dev cmake gcc $ git clone git://github.com/EionRobb/skype4pidgin.git $ cd skype4pidgin/skypeweb $ mkdir build $ cd build $ cmake .. $ cpack then install: $ sudo … Leggi tutto

Given the recent stable release of GCC 6 (GCC v6.1.0), here are some fresh compiler benchmarks on an Intel Debian x86_64 system when comparing the GCC 4.9.3, GCC 5.3.0, and GCC 6.1.0 compiler releases.

The Ubuntu Online Summit 2016 for Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) has ended. As expected, Canonical and Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth had his Q&A session. The Unity 8 interface will be installed by default in Ubuntu 16.10.

For as many plaudits as Tesla has received for its cars, plenty of its success must lie with that network of Superchargers. The far-sighted idea to build out the recharging infrastructure necessary to make road trips possible in an electric vehicle has surely done much to win friends, particularly among those vocal drivers for whom … Leggi tutto

A “Linux Embedded Development Environment” (LEDE) fork of the lightweight, router-oriented OpenWrt Linux distribution vows greater transparency and inclusiveness.  

SSL is a protocol developed by Netscape in 1995, which quickly became the preferred method for securing data transmissions across the Internet. SSL certificate provides four distinct features: encryption, integrity, authentication and non-repudiation.

Thawte è stata fondata nel 1995 da Mark Shuttleworth. Il progetto di partenza era di creare un server sicuro, non vincolato dalle restrizioni crittografia imposte dagli Stati Uniti. Il server, Sioux, era un adattamento del più noto Apache, a cui poi è stato integrato quando Thawte ha iniziato ad occuparsi di certificazioni. Nel 1999 la … Leggi tutto

Qualcomm announced a deep learning toolkit for implementing neural processing and other AI functions directly on devices that integrate Snapdragon 820 SoCs. …solutions should come in handy in medical, automotive, drone, robotics, and other applications in which fast, reliable response time and privacy are prioritized.

Sharing something (like a line of software code, your favorite recipe, or an idea) is a prerequisite for making it open. A group of people working together will always produce a better result than any one person working in isolation. To work together, groups must share their ideas, insights, suggestions, and failures.

Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format created by Adobe Systems in 1993 for document exchange. The format includes a subset of the PostScript page description programming language, a font-embedding system, and a structural storage system. Zathura Highly customizable and functional document viewer Evince Multi-page document viewer MuPDF Lightweight PDF and XPS viewer okular … Leggi tutto

Today, April 26, 2016, Canonical, through Matthias Klose, has announced that the upcoming Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) Linux kernel-based operating system is now officially open for development.

Proxmox Server Solutions GmbH, a renowned company developing the Proxmox VE (Virtual Environment) server virtualization operating system based on the Linux kernel, announced the release of Proxmox VE 4.2.

Today, April 28, 2016, Oracle has announced the release of VirtualBox 5.0.20, yet another maintenance version of its acclaimed open-source and cross-platform virtualization software.

A few moments ago, Frank Karlitschek, founder, maintainer and CTO of ownCloud, Inc., announced on his Twitter account that he is leaving the company to pursue new opportunities.

Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth has always provided colorful codenames in alphabetical order and the 16.10 release, due out in in October 2016 will be no exception. Last week, Ubuntu 16.04 the Xenial Xerus, debuted so its now time to pick the ‘Y’ name.

Meizu Pro 5 5.7inch 1080p screen with a re-tuned delta cool color AMOLED screen Corning Gorilla Glass 3 with improved damage resistance and toughness 21.16 megapixel rear-facing camera with PDAF phase laser-assisted focusing and LARGAN 6P lenses for improved resolution 5 megapixel front-facing camera Hi-Fi Sound 32GB of internal memory 3GB RAM 8 core Exynos … Leggi tutto

Ubuntu Core, also known as Snappy, is a stripped down version of Ubuntu, designed to run securely on autonomous machines, devices and other internet-connected digital things.

This project will show you how to create a laser toy for your cat which is controlled over the web with a Raspberry Pi. The project demonstrates using a web application to control servos with the Raspberry Pi and an excellent way to keep your cat exercising when you’re umm busy playing minecraft.

female:pressure is an international network of over 1700 female artists from 66 countries in the wider fields of electronic music & arts and exists since 1998. Inspired by Björk’s Pitchfork article in January 2015

The MusicMachine 3 (MM3) by Maximilian Büsser and Friends is a modern music box that has Star Wars fans in mind.

For decades, Lucas Abela played turntables hooked up to all sorts of objects, from swords to meat skewers to amplified trampolines.

Nick Pourfard is 22-year-old artist, musician, and skateboarder currently combing his multiple talents into one package: guitars built from reclaimed skateboard decks.

Photographer Stephen Orlando (previously) captures the nearly imperceptible movement one makes when quickly sliding a bow along strings, the senses typically drawn to the sounds rather than appearance of the instrument being played.

Late at night in Great Britain’s National Museum of Computing in Bletchley Park, some of the world’s oldest computers awoke from mechanical slumber.

The instrument features row upon row of wooden “keys”, each of which plays a different note.

The main idea of the installation is the reference to the Wave as the basis of all audiovisual art. The project draws from the theory of Wave–particle duality which considers the light to be a particle and a wave at the same time.

Sound has a history, from the first sound ever, to the first sound heard by an animal, to the first recorded by a human being.

MICKEYPHON (pl: MIKIFON) is an interactive audiovisual kinetic sculpture, inspired by Mickey Mouse, created for Disney.

A spectacular display of drone technology by Intel Corporation (USA) involving 100 small aircrafts being launched skywards in formation has earned a new world record title for the Most Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) airborne simultaneously.

Solid Vibration from StudioVanBroekhoven on Vimeo.  

Photos, GIFs, Arduino code, PCB layouts and 3D drawings for a HiFi passive preamplifier.

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