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ARM announced a free edition of its Eclipse-based development toolkit that's aimed at Android developers. ARM Development Studio 5 (DS-5) Community Edition (CE) helps create performance- and power-optimized native software by integrating a graphical debugger for code generated for the Android Native Development Kit (NDK) and a version of the ARM Streamline Performance Analyzer, the company says....

Kontron has added AMD's G-Series processors to its line of ETX computer-on-modules (COMs). The ETX-OH offers LVDS, VGA, and DisplayPort graphics interfaces, has two SATA ports, accepts up to 4GB of RAM, and features an optional TPM (trusted platform module), according to the company....

Ibase announced a network security appliance based on a dual-core Via Nano X2 processor clocked at 1.2GHz. The FWA7404 includes four gigabit Ethernet ports, a serial console connector, two USB 2.0 ports, a 2.5-inch drive bay, plus CompactFlash and Mini PCI Express slots, according to the company....

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The final version of Linux Mint 12 (& Lisa& ) was released, with & MGSE& extensions to GNOME 3.2 that let users create a more GNOME 2.3x-like environment. Based on Ubuntu 11.10 and Linux 3.0, Linux Mint 12 features upgrades to Firefox 7.0, LibreOffice 3.4.3 and Thunderbird 7.0.1, and introduces a new DuckDuckGo default search engine....

There comes a time in a network or storage administrator's career when a large collection of storage volumes needs to be pooled together and distributed within a clustered or multiple client network, while maintaining high performance with little to no bottlenecks when accessing the same files. That is where Lustre comes into the picture.

Message to Ellison: no more JavaFX reboots Open-source Java: Part Three Sun Microsystems in 2007 announced a re-imagining of GUI platform Swing with JavaFX. Swing, Sun said, had reached an architectural dead-end and need a reboot to compete on modern, Rich Internet Application (RIA) platforms.…

Turned to Microsoft and Google? Open-sourcers are taking Ubuntu Linux in the direction of Google TV and Microsoft's Xbox 360.…

Presumably they will all be supping on Silicon Roundabout milkshakes soon IT and computer science in schools is in serious need of reform, the creative industries minister Ed Vaizey said today, thereby indicating that changes to the school curriculum were on the agenda.…

GNUstep, the leading free software implementation of Apple's Cocoa Objective-C libraries and related Mac OS X components, has reached a new version. GNUstep runtime 1.6 is this new version with many new features after being in development for more than one year...

For those interested in the GTK3 tool-kit on Windows, improvements are forthcoming...

Don't let touts cloud your judgement Open ... and Shut The software risk silly season is upon us again. Every so often a big trend washes over the industry, and soon afterwards well-intentioned people start telling us why we should be afraid to dip our toes into the water. Or perhaps they are not so well-intentioned...…

German boffins have pulled off a successful attack on HDCP copy protection – using cheap hardware and a lot of clever coding. Intel's HDCP (high-bandwidth digital content protection) allows the encrypted transfer of high definition video signals via DVI, HDMI, DisplayPort and other connectors and between TVs and Blue-ray discs or set-top boxes. The HDCP master key was leaked last year but there was no easy way to exploit this.

Earlier this month I showed the Intel graphics performance hasn't improved much in the Linux 3.2 kernel (but there might be a boost when RC6 is flipped on), but how is this new kernel shaping up for NVIDIA hardware owners wishing to use the open-source and reverse-engineered Nouveau driver? In this article are some benchmarks of the Nouveau DRM driver from recent Linux releases.

From the 'Not so relaxing news' files: An interesting mailing list posting caught my eye the other day titled, EOL for couchdb. At first I did a double-take, couchDB is hitting end-of-life? How could that be? As it turns out it is the CouchDB support that Ubuntu has that is going EOL and that's very bad news for CouchDB in my opinion. Long story short is that Ubuntu - with UbuntuOne and other efforts - is the reason that I first ever even heard of the CouchDB and now Ubuntu is giving up on it.

The KDE community is proud to announce that next year's Akademy will be held in Tallinn, Estonia from the 30th of June to the 6th of July. Akademy is the annual world conference held by the KDE community to celebrate the Free Software desktop and work towards the future of KDE. Akademy 2011 in Berlin ended a few months ago. It was part of the Desktop Summit, which was a great success. Next year's Akademy awaits us in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. read more

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest we have included a feature on updates in Plasma Active from Marco Martin. In addition, the usual list of updates: Window Thumbnail support for QML in Plasma Workspaces Mouse cursor size is now configurable, Oxygen mouse cursors (pseudo) scalable Basic routing activity added in Marble read more

One year after the Radeon and Intel drivers supported precise vblank timestamps, there's a new patch for enabling this support in the open-source NVIDIA (Nouveau) driver...

Linus Torvalds has issued a Thanksgiving Linux kernel update for those not in a food-induced coma from this American holiday. The delicacy is the Linux 3.2-rc3 kernel...

Hey, TV is like orgasms - not something you do solo Something big is cooking in portable TV in the US. It's possibly the equivalent of a Hulu (in that it is owned by content owners), but from a group of broadcasters who have already identified themselves as being behind the ATSC M/H Mobile DTV services: but this time the subject is both social TV and over the top (OTT) content.…