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We would like to announce the general availability of CentOS Linux 7 (1511) for 64 bit x86 compatible machines. This is the third major release for CentOS Linux 7 and is tagged as 1511, derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 M.el Khamlichi December 15, 2015

OSWAP ZAP OSWAP ZAP can help a system administrator find malicious codes embedded in a Web application. Zenmap Maybe you already know Nmap, a security scanner used to discover hosts and services on a computer network.  Scapy Scapy is a tool which permits to interactively decode and inject packets and get answers. BeEF BeEF (Browser … Leggi tutto

For using Tor service you can use diffrent tools like Tor browser, Foxyproxy and other things, some download managers such as Wget or Aria2 can’t get Tor socks directly and start downloading anonymously with that so we need some tools to change Tor socks to http and then download with that.

These top open source android apps are all vetted by F-Droid, the volunteer project that culls through Android apps to find the best.  

The discussion was started a while back by Mark Shuttleworth, who estimated that by 2015 there will be 200 million Ubuntu users.

Snapdragon 410 Processor Designed with both 32-bit and 64-bit CPU support, the Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 410 processor supports both multi-SIM multimode 4G LTE for worldwide smartphones and versatile power efficiency for embedded applications. CPU Up to 1.2 GHz quad-core (4x ARM® Cortex™ A53) GPU Qualcomm® Adreno™ 306 GPU DSP Qualcomm® Hexagon™ DSP Camera Up to 13.5 … Leggi tutto

Specifications 64 bit ARM SOC – A53 EU RoHS Compliant Supported Device: Snapdragon 410 Supported Device Technology: Application Processor and SOC CAN: 0 Ethernet: 0 I2C: 4 RS232: 0 SATA: 0 SPI: 1 UART: 2 USB: 4 ADC: 0 Daughter Cards: Yes Display Interface: HDMI GPIO: 12 Maximum Clock Rate (MHz): 1200 Operating Systems:  Android … Leggi tutto

Wearable electronics have exploded in the past year. Countless small devices are now on the market for not only fitness tracking, but posture improvement, sunscreen reminders, muscle-sensing gesture control, and much more. As technology on the body becomes more pervasive than ever, having open source tools for developing wearable technology is more important than ever, … Leggi tutto

The Allwinner A64 is comprised of the less-powerful Cortex-A53 cores, supports H.264/H.265 video decoding, and is widely talked about as being the “$5 ARM SoC.”  

PINE A64 is the world’s first 64-bit expandable Quad Core 1.2Ghz supercomputer, tablet, media center, and more… starting at just $15.

1. Linux is free 2. More Secure 3. It’s easy to use 4. It runs Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) 5. It’s Versatile 6. Compatibility 7. Software repository 8. Regular Linux updates 9. Drivers already included in Linux 10. Big Linux Community Support

Companies 20 years ago built monopolies on licensed software; today, free and open–source code fertilizes economic growth. The way to win at tech is no longer to own code, but to serve customers — and service has open source at its roots.

Le schede compatte con processore permettono di creare dispositivi snelli con i quali interagire attraverso internet. Schede adeguate allo scopo possono essere quelle  con CPU ARM quali Allwinner A20, doppio core ad 1GHz, o Broadcom BCM 2836, quattro core a 900 MHz.  Sono stabili, poco costose, con dimensioni minime, ben collaudate e documentate. Esiste per … Leggi tutto

In 2014, a lot changed for both the Gnome desktop and the Foundation that supports it. There were reports of financial difficulty, and the continuing struggle to bring the new desktop up to functional parity with the previous desktop. But the Gnome team is winning the war. The latest releases have been well received and … Leggi tutto

Wine (Wine is not an emulator) 1.7.55 is now out, and it comes with quite a few major fixes that are sure to draw some serious attention. The Wine development release 1.7.55 is now available. What’s new in this release: Pulse audio driver. Various fixes for Microsoft Office 2013 support. Some more implementation of the … Leggi tutto

La tecnologia ARM ha indicato la nuova strada fin dal 2012. Finalmente è possibile scegliere tra diversi modelli di  CPU ed avere un sistema completo, ovvero hardware, distribuzione, applicativi ed ambienti di sviluppo, e stabile. Per dire, solo da poco  Raspbian Jessie ha permesso di usare senza complicazioni  Qt 5, altrimenti si cadeva nel 4.8 … Leggi tutto

Bcache is, for all intents and purposes, a Kernel module that allows a SSD to cache all writes if writeback mode is enabled, or caching blocks read from the main backend drive.

Among the changes, we can mention that Linux kernel 4.1.13 LTS brings numerous improvements to the ARM and ARM64 architectures, but also fixes a couple of issues for the x86 and PowerPC (PPC) platforms. Moreover, there’s a fix for a bug in the Btrfs file system, and a couple of mm and sound updates are … Leggi tutto

Canonical says that LXD, its container-based virtualization solution for Ubuntu, is now the “world’s fastest hypervisor” with the release of Linux Containers (LXC) version 2.0, which appeared a few days ago. The ability of containers to provide performance improvements over traditional virtualization is one of the main selling points of LXD, as well as competing … Leggi tutto

I refuse to bother with the whole security circus in that I think it glorifies – and thus encourages – the wrong behavior. It makes “heroes” out of security people, as if the people who don’t just fix normal bugs aren’t as important. In fact, all the boring normal bugs are _way_ more important, just … Leggi tutto

SolidRun launched a Linux-supported “ClearFog” sandwich-style networking SBC with an Armada 38x-based COM, six switched GbE ports, and MikroBus expansion.

Most people have heard of the MP3 format. It’s an example of two things: First, it is not an open format, as a number of organizations claim patents on it. And second, it is a “lossy” format. Lossy formats compress the original signal by throwing out some of the signal components. The original rationale for … Leggi tutto

Back in September, The Register’s networking desk chatted to a company called Teclo about the limitations of TCP performance in the Linux stack. That work, described here, included moving TCP/IP processing off to user-space to avoid the complex processing that the kernel has accumulated over the years. It’s no surprise, then, to learn of other … Leggi tutto

Recently, Linus Torvalds, Linux’s inventor, spoke at LinuxCon Europe in Dublin and said, “I’m happy to see that ARM is making progress. One of these days, I will actually have a machine with ARM. They said it would be this year, but maybe it’ll be next year. 2016 will be the year of the ARM … Leggi tutto

Calculate Linux 15 has the Linux 3.18 kernel, KDE 4.14.12, Mesa 10.3.7, GCC 4.8.5, LLVM 3.5.0, and X.Org Server 1.16.4 by default on an EXT4 file-system. Calculate Linux 15 was tested on the same Intel Haswell Xeon + AMD FirePro system as used in the other Linux distributions, of course.

Some languages pride themselves on providing many ways to accomplish any given task. Python, instead, tends to focus on providing a single solution to most problems. There are exceptions, though; the creation of formatted strings would appear to be one of them. Despite the fact that there are (at least) three mechanisms available now, Python’s … Leggi tutto

The Linux Standard Base (LSB) is a specification that purports to define the services and application-level ABIs that a Linux distribution will provide for use by third-party programs. But some in the Debian project are questioning the value of maintaining LSB compliance—it has become, they say, a considerable amount of work for little measurable benefit. … Leggi tutto

12 technologies that tick off Linux creator Linus Torvalds Linus Torvalds is considered one of the greatest living programmers, and for good reason, having written some of the most widely used software, such as the Linux kernel and the Git revision control system. He’s also known for not being shy about sharing his opinions on … Leggi tutto

The HVAC automation system uses Raspberry Pi devices The Cube-Controls team, through Maarten Ectors, has the great pleasure of informing users about a new device called Pi-Cubes, which is an app-enabled HVAC (Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning) control system powered by Snappy Ubuntu Core. “Pi-Cubes I/O Modules are easy accessible from Raspberry Pi just using … Leggi tutto

Sometimes you might have network or firewall issues in an internal that require a network scan to find which IP addresses are in use. For that purpose, we can use ready-made tools such as nmap, zmap or angryIP. But if we have no internet access to download these tools we can do the scan by … Leggi tutto

It was 25 years ago, when the 802.11 WiFi specifications were first defined, back in 1997. Since then WiFi has helped to reshape the world we live in, making pervasive wireless data connectivity the norm and giving birth to a new era of mobility and connectivity. The latest market deployed WiFi standard is 802.11ac which … Leggi tutto

Here’s a big shout-out to “ISO Master” and Andrew Smith. I had an old Mac Mini that simply absolutely would not install any of the newer Linux distributions, because they now support that abomination called EFI – and while EFI tries to be a “better BIOS”, it’s actually worse in just about all respects.

In today’s open source roundup: Linus vents his frustrations about people who design “new and improved” interfaces. Plus: Ten Linux dream jobs. And five open source alternatives to Gmail Date Wed, 9 Sep 2015 16:23:17 -0700 Subject Re: incoming From Linus Torvalds <> On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 3:34 PM, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote: … Leggi tutto

The Linaro 15.07 release is now available for download! See the detailed highlights of this release to get an overview of what has been accomplished by the Working Groups, Landing Teams and Platform Teams: – Highlights of this release Linux Linaro 4.2-rc3-2015.07 is released (CARD-788): based on v4.2-rc3 linaro-android topic updated to 4.2-rc3 and recent … Leggi tutto

Also, according to the changelog, the u-boot build now comes from the denx.de mainline git tree, the Linux kernel has been updated to version 3.19.1-12-generic-bcm2709, I2C has been enabled by default in this build, and the settings from config.txt are now respected and used as described upstream. You can download the second Snappy Ubuntu Core … Leggi tutto

ODROID-C1+ specifications: SoC- Amlogic S805 quad core Cortex-A5 processor with a quad core Mali-450MP2 GPU System Memory – 1GB DDR3 Storage – eMMC 4.5 HS200 module socket for up to 64GB storage, and UHS-1 SDR50 micro SD slot Video & Audio Output – Type A HDMI port with CEC support Connectivity – Gigabit Ethernet USB … Leggi tutto

The Wine development release 1.7.49 is now available for download, as announced by Alexandre Julliard (project leader for Wine). This release offers better video support, and various bug fixes.

OpenSSH 7.0 has been released, just a month after OpenSSH release 6.9. This release mainly contains security improvements/fixes.

The Long Term Support (LTS) version of the Ubuntu operating system for desktop PCs and laptops, Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS comes with five years of security and maintenance updates, guaranteed. “Together we have the opportunity to bring real technological freedom to every part of the world, across multiple devices and the cloud, and clothed in an … Leggi tutto

The Document Foundation released LibreOffice 5.0, which offers better compatibility with documents from Microsoft Office and Apple iWork, among other improvements. LibreOffice is a cross-platform office suite with applications for word processing, creating spreadsheets, databases, presentations, and more. It is available for various desktop operating systems and the mobile operating systems Android and Ubuntu Touch. … Leggi tutto

Olio founder Steve Jacobs anounced Olio’s latest product; the Model One. This is a smartwatch that runs on a homegrown, Linux-based OS. MATERIAL 316L Stainless Steel Case Natural Finish, Black PVD, 24-karat Gold, or 18-karat Rose Gold Brushed with hand polished accents High-impact Ion-Exchange glass or Sapphire crystal cover Guilloché textured cover artwork Olio’s signature … Leggi tutto

The Open Source Hardware Summit takes places once a year in different location each year. It was at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2013, in Rome, Italy last year, and this year the event will be hosted in Philadelphia in the US, and the organizers just released the program. DropBot is an open-source … Leggi tutto

LeMaker Bass adopts Actions S900 SoC which integrated 4 * ARM® Cortex-A53 up to 1.4 GHz CPU and Imagination PowerVR G6230 up to 600MHz, 2GB DDR3. It’s an ideal product for the one who demands a higher performance of t he SBC. The powerful GPU can show up to 4K supper HD display effect.  

LeMaker has now designed a new version of the AllWinner A20 development board called “Banana Pro” that’s somewhat similar to R-Pi B+ board layout, with a 40-pin header, and similar connector placement, minus a few differences, such as using two USB ports instead of four, and the addition of a Wi-Fi module.   Banana Pro … Leggi tutto

While choosing a new mobile phone to buy, you must consider all different available options. Earlier I’ve written about the differences between Ubuntu Touch, Android OS, and Windows Phone. Today I’m going to add another contender in the list – the Firefox OS – and I’ll discuss how is Firefox OS different from others.

Adobe Flash has been in the news a lot lately, and not for any positive reasons. Flash has been roundly criticized in the media for various security flaws. This has led some folks to call for the removal of Flash from people’s computers, but is it practical to remove Flash from your Linux system?  

BQ Aquaris E4.5 running Ubuntu 15.04.

On July 27, the Debian Project, through Joerg Jaspert, announced the effective removal of support for the SPARC hardware architecture from the Debian GNU/Linux operating system.

E’ possibile acqusitare Microsoft Windows 10.