Docker’s recent acquisition of Unikernel Systems has sent pulses racing in the microservice world. At the same time, many people have no clue what to make of it, so here’s a quick explanation of why this move is a good thing.
In mid-1993 Ian Murdock announced the creation of Debian. In March 1995 Debian 0.93R5 was released and each programmer started maintaining their own packages. At the time of this writing (mid February, 2016), Distrowatch reports 349 distributions have been created based on Debian with 127 of them still active.
Today, Adam Jackson of X.Org Foundation has announced the release and immediate availability for download of the first maintenance build in the X.Org Server 1.18 stable series.
Updated images are available for NOOBS (1.6.0) and Raspbian (2016-02-03).
Calligra 2.9.11 is only a bugfix release, and it is here to improve the overall performance and compatibility of the office suite used by numerous GNU/Linux users on their KDE desktop environments.
For those that don’t know: “Alpine Linux is a security-oriented, lightweight Linux distribution based on musl libc and busy box.” The latest version of Alpine Linux v3.3 weighs in at a whopping 5MB. Not bad for a full blown Linux OS considering 5MB is same size as the Windows Start button.
iRobot will focus on its Roomba empire, leaving bomb disposal to a separate company.
With SRS-ZR5 and SRS-ZR7, is there finally another major player in the multi-room game?
Competition between species is “ultimately a matter of numbers,” the authors write. Where one species thrives, the other is reduced to zero. Modelling this interaction is a matter of boiling it all down to numbers: creating two mock “populations” in a computer model, giving them certain characteristics, and seeing what circumstances lead to one population … Leggi tutto
This article will focus on how to resize EXT4 root partition without unmount.
Here are links to events of interest to embedded Linux developers.
ODROID-C2 specifications: SoC – Amlogic S905 quad core cortex-A53 processor with 3+2 cores Mali-450 GPU System Memory – 2GB DDR3 SDRAM Storage – eMMC module socket with 8, 16, 32, or 64GB module by Toshiba or Sandisk + micro SD slot supporting UHS-1 SD cards. Video Output – HDMI 2.0 Connectivity – Gigabit Ethernet (Realtek … Leggi tutto
The specifications of the device are: 10.1 inch multi-touch screen MediaTek Quad Core MT8163A processor up to 1.5GHz High capacity Li-Po battery (7280mAh) Full HD (1080p) camera for super-sharp video recording 2GB RAM and 16GB internal memory MicroSD slot for extra storage (up to 64GB) 12 megapixel camera with autofocus and dual flash Frontal … Leggi tutto
Maru Desktop brings you true multitasking and desktop productivity in a lightweight package. Peek under the hood and you’ll find rock-stable Debian Linux, so you can customize it to your heart’s content.
The Odroid-C2’s will be available in March for $40 price Specifications Amlogic S905 (ARM® Cortex®-A53(ARMv8) 2Ghz quad core CPU) 2Gbyte DDR3 SDRAM ARM Mali™-450 MP3 GPU (OpenGL ES 2.0/1.1 for Linux and Android) HDMI 2.0 4K/60Hz display H.265 4K/60FPS and H.264 4K/30FPS capable VPU Gigabit Ethernet 40+7pin GPIO port eMMC5.0 HS400 Flash Storage slot / … Leggi tutto
On February 4th, Canonical announced its launch of the first Ubuntu tablet: the Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Edition tablet. This tablet will be available in March through BQ’s online store. This tablet will be available in March through BQ’s online store, It will have the following specs: 10.1 inch touchscreen with 1080p video MediaTek quad-core MT8163A … Leggi tutto
Open-source single-board computer Quad-core 1.6HHz Allwinner H3. Hardware specification CPU H3 Quad-core Cortex-A7 H.265/HEVC 4K GPU ·Mali400MP2 GPU @600MHz ·Supports OpenGL ES 2.0 Memory (SDRAM) 2GB DDR3 (shared with GPU) Onboard Storage TF card (Max. 64GB) / MMC card slot , up to 2T on 2.5 SATA disk 16GB EMMC Flash Onboard Network 10/100/1000M Ethernet RJ45 Onboard WIFI Realtek … Leggi tutto
Firefox 44 follows Firefox 43, which was released Dec. 15 and provided improved tracking protection for users. With Firefox 44, Mozilla is adding in the ability for users to get push notifications from sites by making use of the Web Push W3C standard.
The Ubuntu Touch team at Canonical announced earlier the release schedule for the upcoming OTA software updates for Ubuntu Phone devices, and we promised to give you guys more info on the whereabouts of the OTA-9 update. OTA-9.5 to arrive on February 10
After the release of Linux kernel 3.2.76 LTS, the kernel developers have announced the immediate availability for download of the fourth maintenance release of Linux kernel 4.3. Linux 4.3.4 From: Greg KH Date: Sat Jan 23 2016 – 11:48:42 EST Next message: Greg KH: “Re: Linux 4.3.4” Previous message: Greg KH: “Re: Linux 4.1.16” Next … Leggi tutto
After announcing the release of Linux kernel 4.3.4, kernel maintainer and developer Greg Kroah-Hartman has proudly informed users about the immediate availability for download of Linux kernel 4.1.16 LTS. Linux 4.1.16 From: Greg KH Date: Sat Jan 23 2016 – 11:48:05 EST Next message: Greg KH: “Re: Linux 4.1.16” Previous message: Greg KH: “Re: Linux … Leggi tutto
Aligning marketing automation with a content strategy is just one key to successfully implementing marketing automation. You know marketing automation is a hot area of enterprise software and you know which companies are the leading market automation providers.
A look at some of the most interesting examples of open source Big Data databases in use today.
1. Large enterprise technology vendors will muscle in at the expense of the smaller standalone mobile solution providers 2. Cloud vendors come out in force 3. The year of the Internet of Things (IoT), or not 4. The voice of lines of business in mobile decision-making gets louder
A survey of the open source data mining tools gaining adoption in today’s growing Big Data market.
A lineup of open source business intelligence tools that are leading the way in today’s Big Data market.
IoT Made Easy Open Source IoT Data Platform with the wide range of device integration options.
Each day more and more devices are coming online, adding to the ever-growing Internet of Things (IoT). Analysts agree the IoT will grow to many billions of devices over the next decade. The challenge for the IoT ecosystem is to ensure these emerging IoT devices can connect securely and reliably to the Internet and to … Leggi tutto
A time series is a sequence of data points, typically consisting of successive measurements made over a time interval. Examples of time series are ocean tides, counts of sunspots, and the daily closing value of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. What does that mean intuitively? It means that if you were to plot the points … Leggi tutto
A visual tool for wiring the Internet of Things
Kinoma integrates KinomaJS support into Blockly as an on-ramp to writing JavaScript for embedded devices and mobile.
Framework the bridge from devices to applications M2MLabs Mainspring is an open source application framework for building machine to machine (M2M) applications such as remote monitoring, fleet management or smart grid.
Eclipse IoT provides open source implementations of the standards, services and frameworks that enable an Open Internet of Things.
Welcome to openHAB – a vendor and technology agnostic open source automation software for your home. Build your smart home in no time!
Take control of things Your life and your house went from one computer to an Internet of things. From tablets to lightbulbs, from sensors to media boxes, everybody gets their own Internet. Today, you have to fight your things. They don’t talk to each other, the apps don’t work, it’s a tower of babel. Our … Leggi tutto
Visualize the Internet of Things. Ridiculously simple dashboards for your devices.
An open source kit for exploring the possibilities of internet-of-things printing.
After an initial partnership with IBM & Intel via Joe Speed (IBM’s IoT Leader, now Director IoT at The Linux Foundation) to create an open source connected Rally Fighter to demonstrate Internet of Things capability, Local Motors is now embarking on an IoT mission with the AllSeen Alliance, using the Rally Fighter as an initial … Leggi tutto
From a busy workshop in North Vancouver, Canada, Phil Nuytten, a former competitive diver, is helping us discover some of the last undiscovered places on Earth The Exosuit’s hinged sawtooth blade suggests that a diver wearing one would make a formidable opponent if he ever found himself in an underwater knife fight
A musical “dot comedy” (see what they did there?) about tech rivals Steve Jobs and Bill Gates will open on Broadway later this year. The show, cringingly called “Nerds,” will chronicle the rise of Jobs and Gates and the subsequent rivalry between their two companies. Jobs famously declared Microsoft had “no taste,” of course, and … Leggi tutto
Today is Wikipedia’s 15th anniversary. The digital, collaborative encyclopedia has grown quickly and today boasts articles in hundreds of languages. Those articles are managed by 80,000 volunteers who make 15,000 edits an hour according to the site’s own statistics.
Pirandello, Balzac, Jerome (notoriamente spiritoso e arguto), Edgar Allan Poe, per citarne alcuni, opportunamente saccheggiati per fornire un campionario di prose incantevoli. Autori sensibili, introversi, indagatori dell’animo umano e, quindi, portati ad isolarsi. Gente di questo temperamento ha spesso (sempre) un feeling speciale con i gatti, in particolare quelli neri, tenerissimi, con cui stabilisce un … Leggi tutto
Alexander Wolf from Stellarium, the world’s best free, open source and cross-platform planetarium software, has proudly announced today, January 8, 2016, the release and immediate availability for download of Stellarium 0.14.2 for GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows operating systems.
Daqri has upgraded its augmented reality Smart Helmet, which now runs Linux on a 6th Gen Intel Core M7 processor, and includes an Intel RealSense camera.
PowerUp Toys has launched a smartphone controlled airplane drone with an open Linux SDK on Kickstarter, letting you stream video to a Google Cardboard HMD
Building upon a complex network connecting billions of devices and humans into a multi-technology, multi-protocol and multi-platform infrastructure, the Internet-of-Things (IoT) main vision is to create an intelligent world where the real, the digital and the virtual are converging to create smart environments that provide more intelligence to the energy, health, transport, cities, industry, buildings … Leggi tutto
2016 is going to be the Year of Relevance. 1. Relevance of Automation. 2. Relevance of Innovation. 3. Relevance of Integration. 4. Relevance of Cloud. 5. Relevance of Technology.
“Approval of the 802.11ah standard is expected in mid-2016,” Kevin Robinson, VP of Marketing at the Wi-Fi Alliance, told Enterprise Networking Planet. The target deployment spectrum from 802.11ah is the lower-power 900 MHz spectrum. The lower-power spectrum means a reduction in bandwidth but an increase in range.
The routers with DD-WRT support include WRT1900AC, WRT1200AC, and the recently launched WRT1900ACS Dual-band Gigabit Wi-Fi.