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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.

The SparkFun ESP8266 Thing is a breakout and development board for the ESP8266 WiFi SoC – a leading platform for Internet of Things (IoT) or WiFi-related projects.   Features: All module pins broken out On-board LiPo charger/power supply 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi Direct (P2P), soft-AP Integrated TCP/IP protocol stack Integrated TR switch, balun, LNA, power amplifier … Leggi tutto

The Meizu MX4 Ubuntu Edition is currently only being sold in Europe as a promotional competition model.

Rifiuti elettronici: che fine fanno gli smartphone e i tablet che non usiamo più? Magari potessero “autodistruggersi” evitando così la pericolosa spirale di inquinamento (e dei traffici illegali) che, con la fine del loro utilizzo, viene inevitabilmente a crearsi.

Addio alle apnee notturne? Arriva ApneaApp, una app per dire stop alle apnee nel sonno. Si tratta di un nuovo passo avanti della tecnologia che potrebbe essere di grande aiuto a chi è soggetto ad apnee notturne.

Tutto ruota intorno a un kit che porta la produzione dell’idrogeno direttamente nelle automobili.

Bulldozer is the codename for a microprocessor microarchitecture developed by AMD for the desktop and server markets. It was released on October 12, 2011 as the successor to the K10 microarchitecture. Bulldozer-based implementations built on 32nm SOI with HKMG arrived in October 2011 for both servers and desktops. The server segment included the dual chip … Leggi tutto

Qt 5.5 release plan Phase Original plan Updated plan Realized Feature Freeze 9th Feb 2015 16th Feb 2015 16th Feb 2015 Branch 5.5 from dev 9th Feb 2015 16th Feb 2015 24th Feb 2015 Alpha Release 17th Feb 2015 17th March 2015 17th March 2015 Beta Release 12th March 2015 As soon as possible 15th … Leggi tutto

Diamond About DBS Over the past several years there’s been a revolution in the way people store, distribute, and access digital media (in real time), including photos, movies, and, of course, music. No longer dependent on physical media, our media is often data that’s moved from multiple devices to multiple locations. For audio applications and … Leggi tutto

…Italo Vignoli. Italo has over 30 years of experience in marketing and communication for high-tech companies in Italy and at international level. He was a founder of The Document Foundation and has worked for them since 2013.

…Natron, an application that models itself on established compositing conventions and leverages existing initiatives for an open VFX landscape such as openeffects.org, opencolorio.org, and opencv.org.

The eighty-fourth maintenance release of the LTS (Long Term Supported) Linux kernel 3.10 has been announced by its maintainer, Greg Kroah-Hartman, and all users are urged to update as soon as possible.

When your Linux machine starts up it will first run some “built-in” code, loaded from the BIOS or UEFI first, followed by the bootloader, which according to its configuration loads a Linux kernel. The kernel loads up drivers, and as its very first job starts up the init process, which being the first gets PID … Leggi tutto

QMPlay2 has a bunch of features, including an equalizer, YouTube integration, customizable interface (allowing you to change the arrangement and position of widgets), playlist support, Internet radio, visualizations, OSD and video filters.

The latest list of the world’s fastest supercomputers, Top500 June 2015, shows the fastest of the fast growing ever more powerful. It also shows Linux is still number one with a bullet when it comes to supercomputing. Tianhe-2, the world’s fastest supercomputer [chinese], runs, like almost all other supercomputers, Linux.

Now that 64-bit ARM processors are starting to generate some interest inside the data center, providers of Linux distributions like Suse are starting to get in line. AMD’s Opteron A1100 development platform, built for ARM (Photo: AMD)

Samba is an open-source software solution for accessing shared Windows folders over a network.

Larry Wall is a fascinating man. He’s the creator of Perl, a programming language that’s widely regarded as the glue holding the internet together, and mocked by some as being a “write-only” language due to its density and liberal use of non-alphanumeric characters.

Need a slim-line work environment? We recommend the best. Screenshots Linux long ago reached parity with Windows and OS X. That’s great for the average user looking to make the switch from either platform to Linux. Indeed distros like Ubuntu, with its Unity desktop, make switching relatively painless.   Openbox Crunchbang++ SparkyLinux (with Openbox) DIY Debian/Arch … Leggi tutto

Wine (Wine Is Not an Emulator), a software which allows Linux users to run Windows applications, has reached version 1.7.47, bringing changes such as text drawing support in Direct2D or the introduction of an implementation for HID (Human Interface Devices). The main changes in this release, according to the changelog: Text drawing in Direct2D. Support … Leggi tutto

After having announced the release of Linux kernel 4.1.2 LTS, Linux kernel 3.10.84 LTS, and Linux kernel 3.14.48 LTS, Greg Kroah-Hartman has published details about the eighth point release of the stable Linux 4.0 kernel. Here’s what’s new in Linux kernel 4.0.8 As mentioned, Linux kernel 4.0.8 brings numerous improvements to the ARM architectures, as … Leggi tutto

The June 2015 edition of the Top500 Supercomputer list is now out and once again the top speed is 33.86 petaflop/s which is achieved by China’s National University of Defense Technology’s Tianhe-2 supercomputer. While that’s an impressive figure, the Tianhe-2 first hit number one on the Top500 list in June of 2013, with the exact … Leggi tutto

The English Channel isn’t just the body of water that separates Great Britain from its European neighbors, it’s also something of a yardstick in aviation. Need to prove that your new flying technology is ready for prime time? Flying the 20.6 miles (33.1km) from Calais to Dover will do that. The first person to reach Great … Leggi tutto

“The International Cable Protection Committee (ICPC) has reviewed records of cable faults worldwide, and together with an assessment of the video, conclude that much of the media hype was incorrect. Essentially, sharks and other fish were responsible for less than one percent of all cable faults up to 2006. Since then, no such cable faults … Leggi tutto

Features The notable features of Sbackup are listed below. It creates both compressed and uncompressed backups ; It can split uncompressed backups into multiple parts ; It support of multiple backup profiles. You can create and edit the profiles as per your requirement, but you can’t delete the default profile ; It has various useful … Leggi tutto

… yesterday Canonical declared the launch of Ubuntu in India on Lenovo Thinkpad L450.  Ubuntu Istiqbal/Swagat hai! (We welcome Ubuntu). … Dell™ XPS™ 13 laptop, developer edition and Dell Precision M3800 mobile workstation, developer edition being shipped preloaded with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.

With all the madness that prevails the Linux audio engines and complex inter-related frameworks and subsystems, it is very easy to get lost and overwhelmed when you want to do something as simple as to record yourself playing an electric musical instrument.  

by Microsoft standards, donating to the non-profit OpenBSD Foundation isn’t a big deal. The company’s gold donation would be between $25,000-50,000. This move came after years of requests for Windows to support Secure Shell (SSH) protocol. Microsoft added SSH to PowerShell in June 2015. The program they ported to Windows to do it? OpenSSH.

Whats new in Virtualbox 5.0 Paravirtualization Support for Linux and Windows Guests: Significantly improves performance of Linux guest operating systems by leveraging built-in virtualization support. Improved CPU Utilization: A set of CPU instructions to the guest OS, allowing application to use newest hardware instructions sets for better performance. Support of USB 3.0 Devices: Guest OS … Leggi tutto

Trinket’s got a big sister in town – the Pro Trinket 5V! Pro Trinket combines everything you love about Trinket with the familiarity of the common core Arduino chip, the ATmega328. It’s like an Arduino Pro Mini with more pins and USB tossed in, so delicious. Adafruit Industries is an open-source hardware company founded by … Leggi tutto

Pololu is an electronics manufacturer and online retailer serving education, maker, and professional engineering industries with products ranging from sensors and motion control electronics to motors and wheels to complete robots. Pololu building at 920 Pilot Road in Las Vegas, Nevada. Pololu was founded in 2000 by three students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. … Leggi tutto

A wireless, BT bone-conduction audio device that transmits sound directly to the inner ear through the skull. Audio for the deaf & disabled.

Massimo Banzi at the Shenzhen Maker Faire to talk about manufacturing in China. The big news from Arduino at SZMF is a new partnership with Seeed Studio to manufacture theGenuino. This is an official Arduino board manufactured in China for the Chinese market. Knowing that the board is official and connected to the founders is … Leggi tutto

Sports car with a social conscience: Ars reviews the BMW i8

Sweeping rebranding campaign underway, but not for the company’s whole portfolio.

In February of 2011, there was an official ceremony in Miami that was supposed to mark the end of IPv4. At that time, ARIN and others declared that the free pool of available IPv4 addresses were officially depleted. Yet here we are four and half years later and IPv4 is very much alive and ARIN … Leggi tutto

The following is a list of OpenSSH features: Open Source Project Free Licensing Strong Encryption (3DES, Blowfish, AES, Arcfour) X11 Forwarding (encrypt X Window System traffic) Port Forwarding (encrypted channels for legacy protocols) Strong Authentication (Public Key, One-Time Password and Kerberos Authentication) Agent Forwarding (Single-Sign-On) Interoperability (Compliance with SSH 1.3, 1.5, and 2.0 protocol Standards) … Leggi tutto

Berlin, June 30, 2015 – The Document Foundation (TDF) announces LibreOffice 4.4.4, the fourth minor release of the LibreOffice 4.4 family, with over 70 fixes over LibreOffice 4.4.3.

  The DragonBoard 410c is designed to support rapid software development, education and prototyping, including the next generation of robotics, cameras, medical devices, vending machines, smart buildings, digital signage, casino gaming consoles, and much more. At Maker Fair Shenzhen, Qualcomm is showing off how easy it is to get going with development using their new … Leggi tutto

Here is a list of different processor families, with miscellaneous notes for development information: See also Hardware Hacking for a list of systems that include these processors.

Five weeks ago Microsoft announced Office for Android phone preview. Now it’s officially available.

Not even halfway through the merge window, but I suspect that by the end of day today I will have merged more commits for 4.2 than we had during all of the 4.1 release. 4.0 was pretty small (by our modern standards, which is to say it was still a lot of changes), 4.1 was … Leggi tutto

On June 2, Canonical had the great pleasure of announcing that they would join forces with Intel, one of the world’s biggest hardware manufacturers, to collaborate on Intel’s IoT (Internet of Things) gateways and Canonical’s Snappy Ubuntu Core operating system for IoT devices. The IoT gateway device developed by Intel and powered by Ubuntu Snappy … Leggi tutto

The Linux Foundation is a non-profit consortium dedicated to fostering the growth of Linux. Founded in 2000, The Linux Foundation sponsors the work of Linux creator Linus Torvalds and is supported by leading Linux and open source companies and developers from around the world.  

Since its inception, the Linux Foundation’s Automotive Grade Linux project has promoted itself as a collaborative open source project. With the release of the first AGL Requirements Specification for Linux-based in-vehicle infotainment (IVI), AGL has earned that description more than ever. Automotive Grade Linux (AGL) is a Linux Foundation Workgroup dedicated to creating open source … Leggi tutto

Project Time Sheet is a time tracking spreadsheet designed for independent or personal projects. The time sheet automatically tracks your time for each project you are working on so that you can know how much time you spend on you different projects. This time sheet is especially useful for people who work from home, bloggers, … Leggi tutto

Not too long ago I did a short post on the Linux screenshot tool Shutter. While I still find Shutter to be a fantastic screenshot tool, I recently found myself wanting for some additional features. This led me to discover some nice alternative screenshot tools for Linux, namely Hotshots and Kaption. While I found Kaption … Leggi tutto

OpenShot is a free, simple-to-use, feature-rich video editor for Linux. The brainchild of programmer Jonathan Thomas, OpenShot has garnered a large and enthusiastic following for many reasons, one being Thomas’s responsiveness to user feedback. To quickly see the best uses of OpenShot, check out the beautifully created music videos of Verity and Gersom de Koning-Tan, … Leggi tutto