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In a year of high-profile controversies and failures for IT, people still found ways to use technology to make life better for others. You may recognize some of these folks; others might surprise you.

We have policies. Now what? In recent years, news of open source or open standards policies dominated our news feeds. Each new policy was hailed as a victory by advocates of open source. While there has been no shortage of successful news stories around open source implementations this year, we’ve marked a growing, uncomfortable trend. Governments, even those who’ve established excellent open technology policies, are still struggling to put those policies into practice. The current government policy landscape, for me, is best summed up in this article by Paul Brownell:

At the beginning of 2013 I wrote about an ambitious Linux distribution that set out to create what its lead developer called would be the most robust, beautiful, and performant Linux operating system out there and ultimately aspired to take on Ubuntu. Well, that distribution is now a matter of the past...

An open-source Christmas present for Wayland users this year is the release of Hawaii 0.2.0, the fresh desktop powered by Qt5 and Wayland...

We look into how one of the world's oldest car brands is using Google Glass, Pebble smartwatches, and Nest thermostats to make its vehicles smarter.

While Wayland 1.4 is set to be released next month with many new features and has seen contributors from many different companies, the Mir Display Server for Ubuntu continues to be developed exclusively by Canonical...

For those that may have extra time this holiday season to devote to open-source tasks, the GIMP graphics program still has many features they're after and aren't yet up to their v2.10 release...

This year was a great one for seeing open source affect new and exciting aspects of our lives. We saw open source reach from science to gadgets, from music to gaming, and much more. Here are some of our favorites from the Life channel in 2013.

Intel Broadwell support continues to be tidied up within the Intel Mesa DRI and DRM kernel drivers to hopefully make for a smooth launch of Intel's next-generation processors within a few months time...

Powering all of this and more (keep reading) is Valve's SteamOS software. This Debian-based operating system slices out much of the overhead from separate OS tasks like you would expect to find in a normal gaming setup and gets straight to Steam. Valve has made the beta version free to download, so let's take a look at the steps to set it up.

I thought that would be fairly straightforward. Not so much. I thought there would be some utility I could run that would count syllables for me, then I could run /usr/share/dict/words through it, print out all the 6-syllable words, and find one that fit. Turns out there is no such utility.

But Python has a library for everything, doesn't it?

The ODroid-XU contains 8 CPU cores in a big.LITTLE configuration where four of the cores are active at any time. The Single Board Computer comes with 2Gb of RAM, USB 3, a microHDMI connector able to output 1080p, 10/100 network connectivity, a microSD slot, and the ability to connect up to 64Gb of eMMC flash memory to the system.

LXer Feature: 17-Dec-2013

Fedora 20 is officially released today with a lot of signficant additions, improvements, and bleeding-edge things to get cut on.

Chaining of Linux commands means, combining several commands and make them execute based upon the behaviour of operator used in between them. Chaining of commands in Linux, is something like you are writing short shell scripts at the shell itself, and executing them from the terminal directly. Chaining makes it possible to automate the process.

The nation’s mobile phone carriers received more than 9,000 requests last year for cell-tower dumps, which identify every mobile phone at a particular location and time, often by the thousands. The revelation, revealed in a congressional inquiry, underscores that domestic authorities, from the FBI to the local police, are performing a massive amount of surveillance on Americans on domestic soil, sometimes without probable-cause warrants.

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: Device notifier works in Plasma 2, Power Devil ported to KF5/Qt5 Gwenview gains RAW preview In KIPI, new GoogleDrive and Dropbox export plugins are available New option in configuration Appearance->Borders->Scrollbars Visibility controls scrollbar visibility in Kate Work continues on urlbar in rekonq There are many new optimizations: Akonadi database structure changes, memory usage in Trojitá, mail directories accesses in KMail Akonadi removes unneeded Strigi and ODBC/Virtuoso backends support. Read the rest of the Digest here. Dot Categories: Developer

I was extremely pleased to be introduced to Jack the (DVD) Ripper, a 3d printed, Raspberry Pi-powered device that pulls a DVD from a stack, drops it into a drive, and, when the drive opens after ripping is finished, picks it up again and puts it in another pile.

Rights warriors enraged by ad giant's 180-degree spin on permissions filter Privacy campaign group the Electronic Frontier Foundation is more than a little miffed at Google – after the Chocolate Factory pulled an Android tool that let users pick control the information apps can harvest.…

Keith Packard has been working on an X.Org Server clean-up of the aging code-base and he's managed to reduce the number of generated warnings down to zero...

iWave tipped a Linux-ready Qseven module called the iW-RainboW-G17M-Q7, using Altera’s Cortex-A9/FPGA Cyclone V SX SoC and offering HSMC and PCIe expansion. Altera’s 28nm Cyclone V system-on-chip (SoC) has been out a year now and has appeared in an SODIMM-style Critical Link MityARM-5CSX COM and the Sockit Development Kit single board computer from Terasic. Like […]