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It's been a long-time coming, but the Linux port of the award-winning high-end Lightworks non-linear video editor is moving along.

Nvidia showcased its first “fully integrated” 4G LTE mobile processor at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last month. The Tegra 4i packs four 2.3GHz ARM Cortex-A9 r4 CPU cores, 60 Nvidia GPU cores, a “battery-saver” core, and an LTE modem within a single component. The highly-integrated Tegra 4i SoC (system-on-chip) contains five times the number [...]

For a fair amount of time now there's been work on client side decorations for Wayland so that the Weston compositor with GTK+ can do the window decorations on the client-side rather than server-side as done with the X.Org Server. That work has now been merged to master...

Linus Torvalds put out the Linux 3.9-rc3 kernel on Sunday afternoon...

If you're shopping for a new mobe on a two year contract and like the look of a Windows Phone, chances are you'll be compelled to undergo an OS upgrade or face using a handset that's not supported by the end of your deal. The Reg offers this advice with a tip of the hat to Italian site Plaffo, which pointed out a Microsoft support document that says Windows Phone 8 support ends in July 2014, just 16 months from now.

Annabooks, a long-time provider of Windows Embedded training and books, has just published a book on using UEFI, Yocto, and other open software to embed Linux on Atom-based devices. In this guest post, the book’s co-author introduces the book and explains why he and Annabooks decided to venture into the alien Land of Linux. A [...]

Valve's hardware/software survey for Steam that shows details about their user-base, is now showing a lot more Linux distribution details...

It looks like there will be open-source Linux driver support from launch-day for AMD's forthcoming "Richland" Fusion APUs. AMD's Richland APU is expected to be released in the next month or two and is a revised/updated version of last year's Trinity APUs. Richland is to be manufactured on a 32nm process with dual or quad Piledriver CPU cores with AMD Radeon HD 8000 series graphics. Richland is basically an improved version of Trinity.

Many of the cool things in Linux Journal require the use of the command line. For us Linux users, that's generally not a big deal, because we have a terminal window readily available. Some of the time, however, it's helpful to have a shell account on an Internet host somewhere.

LinuxSecurity.com: Glance could be made to expose sensitive information over the network.

Jose Fonseca is seeking comment from Mesa developers about possibly taking advantage of C language thread primitives that were introduced in the new C11 standard...

LXLE, the Lubuntu Extra Life Extension, is a respin of LXDE-based Lubuntu, aimed at ageing computers. Based on the last LTS release (12.04) of the official Ubuntu derivative Lubuntu, it retains drivers and utilities for older graphics and audio hardware that have been dropped from newer releases. The developers say that with the normal Lubuntu releases, "support is sometimes lost too quickly with a 6 month core release cycle" and that LXLE is designed to bridge the gap between LTS releases.

The Embedded Vision Alliance is holding a one-day technical forum for hardware and software developers interested in integrating visual intelligence into electronic systems. The Embedded Vision Summit will be held April 25 in San Jose, Calif., in conjunction with the Embedded Systems Conference. The event will include how-to presentations, seminars, demonstrations, and opportunities to interact [...]

Next month marks five years already since Intel released their Atom "Silverthorne" processors for netbooks and nettops in conjunction with the Intel "Poulsbo" SCH bearing PowerVR-derived GMA 500 graphics. To this day, aging Intel hardware with PowerVR-based graphics continue to be a big problem for the Linux desktop...

From the stage of the South by Southwest festival (SXSW), Code for America Founder and Executive Director, Jennifer Pahlka, announced they are now accepting applications for the 2013 Accelerator and 2014 Fellowship.

Sonos, a well-known maker of Linux-powered, WiFi-mesh networked, streaming audio systems, has added an HDTV soundbar to its line. The “Playbar” aims to bring “immersive HiFi sound” to home entertainment centers — not just from TV content, but streamed from Internet and local sources as well. Sonos offers a broad family of high-quality devices capable [...]

Last month I delivered extensive benchmarks of Ubuntu Linux on the Google Nexus 10 using the recently released Ubuntu Touch Developer Preview. In that article were benchmarks from the Samsung Exynos 5 Dual (Cortex-A15) tablet against a range of ARM Cortex and Intel/AMD x86 systems. This article builds upon those earlier Ubuntu Linux x86/ARM results by now adding in the results from Ubuntu on the Google Nexus 7 plus more comparison processors have been tossed into the mix as well. This article offers Ubuntu Linux performance results for a dozen different Intel, AMD, and ARM systems. The ARM SoCs represented are from Texas Instruments OMAP, NVIDIA Tegra, and ARM Exynos families.

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OwnCloud has released version 5.0 of its locally installable cloud services. The update features a reworked user interface, checks files for viruses and includes a number of improvements to its calendar and address management

Netflix wants its open source software to become the preferred platform for massive cloud-based applications, so it has launched a cash-conferring contest to generate developer enthusiasm for its technology. The Netflix OSS Cloud Prize was announced by the company at an event in Los Gatos, California, on Wednesday evening. The procrastination king has set aside $200,000 across ten prizes to reward developers for pushing the limits of its massive cloud platform.