Just like Google Chrome and Opera, Vivaldi is based on the open-source Chromium project, which means that it inherits most of its technologies, offering users the same level of quality and stability while bringing some unique features to the table, some of which we’ve listed below for your reading pleasure.
he OTA-10 update for the Ubuntu mobile OS has finally arrived today, April 6, 2016, as officially announced by Canonical just a few moments ago, for all supported Ubuntu Phone devices, as well as the first ever Ubuntu Tablet.
WhatsApp has enabled end-to-end encryption across all versions of its messaging and voice calling software, according to a Tuesday announcement on the company’s website. Given that WhatsApp is already in use by over 1 billion people worldwide, as users upgrade to the latest version, it will become the most widely used end-to-end crypto tool.
Home Automation software is software that lets you control and monitor common home and office appliances using a computer. Home automation used to be confined to turning on and off lights and appliances. But the possibilities are much wider letting users build a wireless network, automate TV and hi-fi, monitor pets when you are away, … Leggi tutto
SAN DIEGO — For the first time, Linus Torvalds has spoken at an embedded Linux conference, the Linux Foundation’s 2016 Embedded Linux Conference & OpenIoT Summit. It’s not that embedded Linux hasn’t been important before. Your DVRs and Wi-Fi routers almost certainly run Linux. What has changed is that the Internet of Things (IoT) is … Leggi tutto
Shashlik is basically a set of software components that allow Linux users to install and run Android APKs right on their GNU/Linux distribution
pulseaudio-dlna is a lightweight streaming server that makes it easy to stream audio from a Linux computer that uses PulseAudio, to a DLNA / UPnP or Chromecast device in the same network.
The Astro carrier expands upon Nvidia’s Jetson TX1 computer-on-module, which launched last November to showcase the Nvidia Tegra X1 system-on-chip. The Tegra X1 combines four Cortex-A57 cores with four Cortex-A53 cores, but the standout firepower here comes from the 256 Maxwell GPU cores. The Jetson TX1 can generate 1 teraflop of performance, drive 4K 60Hz … Leggi tutto
Ubuntu-based distros can install this easily: sudo apt install python-pygame
RabbitMQ is a messaging broker – an intermediary for messaging. It gives your applications a common platform to send and receive messages, and your messages a safe place to live until received.
Today, April 2, 2016, the Debian Project proudly announced the release of the Debian GNU/Linux 8.4 and Debian GNU/Linux 7.10 “Wheezy” maintenance releases for existing users.
Microsoft released the new version of Internet Explorer, and this time it is specifically for Linux
Today, we’re introducing our new acoustic monitoring feature called CloudSound. CloudSound brings the ambient, meditative sounds of datacenters to the DO control panel. Users can now spin up Droplets to the calming hum of their servers running in the background.
You all know the drill by now – another week, another rc. I’d say that things look fairly normal at this point: it’s not a big rc2, but that’s been true lately (rc3 tends to be a bit bigger – probably just because it takes time for people to start noticing issues). The patch statistics … Leggi tutto
Makeblock’s “Codeybot” is a dancing, singing, laser-shooting robot that runs OpenWrt Linux, and teaches kids how to program using mBlockly.
MIT Media Lab, that 30-year-old tech innovation factory that has had a huge hand in churning out everything from LEGO MindStorms to the Guitar Hero video game, has now wowed the open source and free software crowd.
Qt v5.6 is Qt’s first “LTS” release since 2011, offers tighter alignment with Yocto Project, and is said to make “Boot to Qt” stack customization easier. The Qt Company released version 5.6 of its cross-platform application and UI development framework, bringing Qt’s “Boot to Qt” embedded Linux platform into greater alignment with Yocto Project tools. … Leggi tutto
This is the first stable release of the Samba 4.4 release series.
Support for over a dozen new ARM SoCs and other platform additions and improvements! The new mainline ARM support in Linux 4.6 is quite great. There are also ARM 64-bit architectural improvements as well.
This release adds a first version of a Vulkan wrapper to make the Vulkan API accessible to applications running in Wine. The work was started by Erich E. Hoover and later finished by other Wine Staging maintainers. The code translates the Windows specific surface extensions to the corresponding X11 / XCB extensions and passes the … Leggi tutto
Release highlights of KDE Plasma 5.6 include support for color schemes to the Breeze theme, an improved task manager with support for displaying the progress of tasks, media controls in both the Plasma panel and the tooltips, the implementation of the Folderview in the Panel, and multiple KRunner improvements for a smoother look.
We are excited to announce the release of GNOME 3.20. This latest version of GNOME 3 is the result of six months of development and includes 28,933 changes, made by approximately 870 contributors.
I’m happy to announce that Qt 5.6.0 has been released today! This release has taken a bit longer to finish than we originally expected, mostly because we put a lot of new infrastructure in place, allowing us to make Qt 5.6 a Long Term Supported (LTS) release.
Wine 1.9.6 does not appear to be a significant snapshot, and the release highlights include better detection of graphics cards when using the Mesa 3D Graphics Library, support for Shader Model 5 shaders, as well as improvements to the C++ exception handling.
96Boards.org’s SBC specs gained two SBCs this week: the Consumer Edition-style uCRobotics “Bubblegum-96,” and the Enterprise Edition-style “LeMaker Cello.” The Bubblegum-96 is a Consumer Edition (CE) SBC that showcases the quad-core, 64-bit Actions S900 SoC, and the server-oriented LeMaker Cello is the world’s first 96Boards Enterprise Edition board.
Date Sun, 13 Mar 2016 21:53:34 -0700 Subject Linux 4.5 From Linus Torvalds <> So this is later on a Sunday than my usual schedule, because I just couldn’t make up my mind whether I should do another rc8 or not, and kept just waffling about it. In the end, I obviously decided not to, … Leggi tutto
https://youtu.be/OIV1XeH2HGw Dakar 2016: 5.0 V8 aspirati.
Linux kernel 4.4.3 LTS is a fully loaded release that promises to add better support for various hardware architectures, among which we can mention ARM, ARM64 (AArch64), m32r, PowerPC, and x86. Multiple drivers have been updated as well, in particular for things like iiO, IOMMU (I/O Memory Management Unit), NVDIMM, Phy, SCSI, iSCSI, TTY, and … Leggi tutto
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has officially announced the launch of the Raspberry Pi 3, which is the first Pi to come with built-in wireless capabilities and a 64-bit processor.
A Raspberry Pi 3 with WiFi and Bluetooth LE has been spotted on an FCC site. Meanwhile, a MagPi cover advert says the Pi 3 advances to a 1.2GHz 64-bit SoC.
Wireshark 2.0.2 is a major release that patches a significant amount of security issues discovered since the first maintenance release, such as a DLL hijacking vulnerability, a DNP dissector infinite loop, and a SPICE dissector large loop. Additionally, multiple crashes have been addressed, in particular for the X.509AF, ASN.1 BER, HTTP/2, HiQnet, LBMC, RSL, LLRP, … Leggi tutto
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Consuming only 4 mA in suspend with a 3.7V Li-Po The DART-SD410 is based on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 (APQ8016), 1.2 GHz quad core Cortex-A53™ processor. The DART-SD410 offers the perfect combination of high performance and low power consumption, packed in a tiny 25x 43 mm package. This unique combination, makes this SoM an ideal … Leggi tutto
Приветствие от Брюса Момжиана https://pgconf.ru/media/2016c/Moscow_intro.mp4 PGConf 2016 is the annual international PostgreSQL Conference taking part in Moscow, Russia. The conference is organized by Russian PostgreSQL community and supervised by PostgreSQL Europe. PostgreSQL developers and experts from different countries are invited to speak at the conference. This event is intended to cooperate russian and foreign contributors, … Leggi tutto
The Mezu PRO 5 will be the fifth Ubuntu smartphone launched in the last twelve months. Canonical claims, with reason, that it will be “the most sophisticated and feature-rich Ubuntu phone in the market.” … a quad-core 1.5 GHz Cortex-A53 and quad-core 2.1.0 GHz Cortex-A57. The new high-end Ubuntu smartphone will also sport a … Leggi tutto
Mobile World Congress 2016 Barcelona 22-25 feb 2016
Intel and Canonical are collaborating around Intel® IOT Gateways and Snappy Ubuntu Core. The Intel® IOT Gateway will come with support for Snap Stores. The Snap Store supports a model where a range of applications will be deployed to a gateway. In this model, the gateway becomes a platform for multi applications (home, health, media, … Leggi tutto
Canonical and Meizu have just revealed that Meizu PRO 5 Ubuntu Edition will be available for pre-order during Mobile World Congress 2016.
Battery Life – A Stop Motion Film from Battery Life on Vimeo.
A Thousand Hands Ago from S Ensby on Vimeo.
In Italia il robot è denominato Bimby.
We’re at the start of what should be a big year for Star Trek. The franchise will celebrate its 50th anniversary this fall, but 2016 also brings a new movie (Star Trek Beyond), the recovery of long-lost documents belonging to Gene Roddenberry, and the development of (finally!) a new series set to launch in January … Leggi tutto
At the end of October 2014, something very important came to an end. After 15 years of changing the way people communicated forever, Microsoft closed down its MSN Windows Live service. Microsoft’s acquisition of Skype for £5.1 billion in 2012 meant it was only a matter of time before it was finally closed. China was … Leggi tutto
The Maru project promises to bring an Android-based one for the phone that transforms into a Debian-based operating system when connected to a PC. Its developer has just announced that he’s making the entire project open source.
Build five awesome Raspberry Pi Zero projects from start to finish (and much more) in the February 2016 issue…
new Snapdragon X16 modem, which together with the WTR5975 transceiver boasts Category 16 LTE download speeds of up to 1Gbps. Most of today’s phones top out at 300Mbps or 450Mbps, and the upcoming Snapdragon 820 will only go up to 600Mbps. The X16 will also support upload speeds of up to 150Mbps, which is equal … Leggi tutto
Il mese di aprile di questo nuovo anno ci porterà una nuova release LTS di Ubuntu, la 16.04 battezzata con il nome in codice Xenial Xerus.