SparkFun ESP8266

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

Bulldozer (microarchitecture)

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

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

RJ/E Ethernet – Diamond

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

A look at what’s on the horizon for LibreOffice

…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.

What is an init system?

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 Gets a New Release, Mostly Fixes

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.

Five lightweight Linux desktop worlds for extreme open-sourcers

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

Linux Kernel 4.0 to Reach End of Life Soon, Users Urged to Move to Linux Kernel 4.1

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

first battery powered crossing of the English Channel

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

It’s official: Sharks no longer a threat to subsea Internet cables

“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

Sbackup: A Simple Backup Solution For Linux Desktop

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

Ubuntu To Ship On Lenovo Thinkpad L450 In India – Welcome Ubuntu

… 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.

How to record from JACK with Ardour on Linux

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.  

Microsoft becomes OpenBSD’s first gold contributor

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.

VirtualBox 5.0 Released

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

Boards / Trinkets / Adafruit Pro Trinket – 5V 16MHz

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 Robotics & Electronics

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

Hackaday’s Interview with Arduino CEO [Massimo Banzi]

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

The Long Slow Death of IPv4

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

OpenSSH 6.9 released June 30, 2015

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

Qualcomm DragonBoard 410c 96Boards 64bit Quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 development board

  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

Processors

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.

Linux Kernel 4.2 may be the biggest release

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

Canonical and Intel collaborate on IoT gateways

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

linuxfoundation.org

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.  

First Open Automotive Grade Linux Spec Released

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

Shutter vs Hotshots. Which Linux screenshot tool is better?

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

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

Calibre

Calibre is an open source e-book library management application designed for the 21th century, for the digital world that were are living in right now. It lets users to manipulate digital books in any way possible. It helps users to easily read ebooks on their personal computer, convert ebooks from one format to another, create … Leggi tutto