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Nearly every week, if not every day, there are more and more open source and open educational resources available and accessible to us. It's impossible to ignore. It also seems impossible to keep pace with the sheer volume.
Despite this, I will attempt here to give a comprehensive listing of many helpful, accessible, amazing open education resources. (There will inevitably be some left out, but here goes!)
Software adds motion-awareness to TV STBs
Movea’s motion-processing software now supports TV set-top boxes (STBs) built with STMicroelectronics “Orly Platform” STB SOCs (system-on-chips). The “SmartMotion Server” software can add gesture-based user interface features to TV STBs running Linux and Android. The SmartMotion Server motion-processing software is intended to ease the process of developing intuitive motion-based user interfaces for TV STBs and [...]
Facebook's HipHop 2.0 Virtual Machine Is Very Fast
Released last month by Facebook was their open-source HipHOp "HHVM" 2.0 virtual machine. Benchmarks of HHVM at Phoronix show that the code does live up to Facebook's performance claims...
Systemd 201 Ushers In New Features
The systemd init/service manager is now up to version 201. With systemd 201 comes new features and improvements...
Closing the Door on Hackers
LinuxSecurity.com: FOR most of my teenage years, I made a hobby of hacking into some of the world's largest government and corporate computer systems. I was "lucky" enough to be raided by the F.B.I. when I was 17 years old. After that wake-up call, I eventually started a software security company and now find myself helping to plug security holes, not exploit them.
Why Canonical Is Using Android Drivers For Ubuntu Mir
With Canonical's Mir Display Server for future releases of Ubuntu Linux, they are supporting Android's graphics layer and drivers rather than inventing their own solution, trying to push X.Org drivers, or demanding mobile graphics drivers modelled after the desktop Linux graphics stack. Why did they do this? Here's an explanation...
DarkTable 1.2 Handles JPEG2000, Profiled Denoising
DarkTable, one of the leading open-source programs for dealing with photography workflow and RAM image handling, has reached version 1.2. DarkTable 1.2 brings with it many features to benefit the open-source photographer...
Spearmint, Macwerks/Watermint Engines Still Running
The Spearmint Game Engine, which aims to be a more impressive and feature-rich version of ioquake3, as well as Watermint, a "realistic" fork of Spearmint, are still actively being pursued...
Is Valve's Steam Client Bad & Damaging For Linux?
When I exclusively reported last year that Valve would be releasing their Steam client for Linux and Source Engine, most Linux desktop users and gamers were filled with joy. However, now that the Steam client is out in the wild and more and more games are coming to Linux via this digital distribution system, it seems not everyone is happy...
LLVM/Clang 3.3 Very Competitive To GCC 4.8
Benchmarks for sharing this weekend are looking at the performance of GCC 4.7, GCC 4.8, LLVM/Clang 3.2, and the latest LLVM/Clang 3.3 development code. How does the performance of the newly released GCC 4.8.0 compare to the yet-to-be-released LLVM/Clang 3.3? It's interesting.
PHP Slowly Progresses For GLib, Cairo, Pango
While the PHP-GTK project has basically been dead for years, to provide GTK2 bindings to the PHP programming language, there have been several other projects worked on in more recent times to advance the GNOME support for the PHP programming language...
Open-Source Doom 3 Projects Aren't Cultivating
While ioquake3 projects continue to thrive as open-source projects spun off from the id Tech 3 game engine, when it comes to the open-source Doom 3 (id Tech 4) engine, there is barely any public activity...
OpenChrome Driver Is Far From Feature Complete
The OpenChrome VIA Linux graphics driver is far from being feature complete...
Embedded Linux video repositories
Developers of embedded Linux- and embedded Android-based system software are well aware of the benefits of open-source software and its collaborative community of developers. One key resource is the growing abundance of free video tutorials and demonstrations amassed on the websites and YouTube channels of embedded-Linux and embedded-Android oriented projects, organizations, and companies.
Windows 7 & Windows 8 vs. Ubuntu 13.04 & Fedora 18
Last month Phoronix published Intel OpenGL benchmarks showing Windows 8 outperforming Ubuntu 13.04 with the latest Windows and Linux drivers from Intel. I also showed that even with the KDE and Xfce desktops rather than the default Unity/Compiz desktop to Ubuntu, Windows 8 still was faster on this Intel "Ivy Bridge" platform. The new benchmarks to share today from this Intel Ultrabook are the Windows 8 and Ubuntu 13.04 results but also with performance figures added in from Microsoft Windows 7 Professional Service Pack 1 x64 and Fedora 18.
LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities has been found and corrected in sudo:
A flaw exists in the IP network matching code in sudo versions 1.6.9p3
through 1.8.4p4 that may result in the local host being matched
even though it is not actually part of the network described by the
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Rackspace takes the patent fight to a troll
The cloud and hosting company says that IP Navigation has wrongfully accused it of infringing three patents and broken agreements over disclosure of what those patents actually were
Inside Mantis: a 2-ton hexapod robot with a Linux brain
After four years of development, Micromag Systems has finally completed the Mantis Hexapod Walking Machine, claimed to be the world’s largest all-terrain operational hexapod robot. The device stands nearly three meters tall, weighs just under two tons, and is controlled by a PC/104 module stack running embedded Linux. The Mantis Hexapod Walking Machine is the [...]
Intel Ultrabook: Fedora 18 vs. Ubuntu 13.04 Tests
Our latest benchmarks from the ASUS S56CA-WH31 Intel Ultrabook is comparing the performance of this Ivy Bridge laptop between Fedora 18 and a recent Ubuntu 13.04 development snapshot under various workloads...
KDE releases April stabilisation update
KDE 4.10.2 improves the desktop environment's Personal Information Management (PIM) application, Kontact, and its window manager and compositor, KWin. In total, the updated fixes 107 bugs