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OSADL describes SIL2LinuxMP as “the first community-based Linux certification project of its kind.” The group’s strategy is to certify the “base components” of an embedded Linux RTOS (real-time operating system) running on commercially available board-level computers having single- or multi-core processors. “Base components” refers to the system’s Linux kernel, bootloader, root filesystem, and C library bindings for kernel access; “user space” applications are not included within the project’s scope, other than a limited set of system utilities, such as for system inspection, file management, and self-diagnostics,

Our latest benchmarks at Phoronix of the Linux 3.9 kernel are looking at the performance of the Intel DRM driver when handling an Intel Core i7 "Ivy Bridge" processor with HD 4000 graphics. The Intel OpenGL Linux graphics performance with this forthcoming kernel was compared to the earlier Linux 3.8, 3.7, 3.6, and 3.5 kernel releases.

We're delighted to announce that KDE has been accepted as a mentoring organization in Google Summer of Code 2013 (GSoC), for the ninth consecutive year. GSoC has been valuable in bringing new developers into the KDE Community and other free and open software projects. And it has been successful at achieving the goal of creating quality code for the use and benefit of all.

Developer Break – catch up on the smaller but important notes for developers, from libraries to APIs and from people to postings. In this edition: Go, PHP, jQuery, CouchDB, Metasploit, PhoneGap, TIOBE, OASIS, App Engine, Amazon Web Services and Intel's latest SDK.

The latest Aurora and Beta releases of the open source Firefox browser show privacy features are at the top of the feature list for the browser. Currently in Beta, Firefox 21 now includes a new user interface for the Do Not Track (DNT) system and Firefox 22, available in the Aurora test channel, has the new cookie policy, announced in February, implemented.

Just six weeks after the close of its successful Kickstarter campaign, RunRev has released the first open source version of its cross-platform development environment LiveCode. LiveCode 6.0 also includes performance improvements with better image caching, autocomplete for message boxes and a new Project Browser interface, as well as a number of minor updates and bug fixes.

It seems as though all the cool kids are addicted to Evernote. I'm not quite that cool, but I have been trying hard to convert to a paperless lifestyle. Evernote admittedly is a great tool for archiving information. When I bought my Nexus 7, I also bought a subscription to Evernote Premium. I'm still not completely sold on the Evernote lifestyle, but because I spent money, I'm far more inclined to give it a solid go.

From now on the help text for shown during configuration will indicate if a kernel feature is experimental. Linux now has the ability to "suspend freeze" and can throttle Intel CPUs with power napping. The KVM hypervisor now supports ARM cores.

MSC Vertriebs has introduced a quick-start kit for embedded Linux system designs using AMD’s single- and dual-core Embedded G-Series APUs. The kit includes one of three MSC Qseven COMs (computer-on-modules), a baseboard, bootable Linux in flash, and (optionally) an XGA-resolution LCD.

What does "su" mean to you? super user switch user substitute user subshell Other (tell us in the comments) Do you still prefer using the command line to accomplish tasks on your Linux or UNIX based system? For some, navigating the filesystem and firing off commands in a terminal window can be extremely productive. SSHing from one machine to another or running scripts in the background are everyday occurences for system administrators.

Do you routinely make changes to more than a dozen machines at a time? Read this article to find out about a tool to make that task much easier. I'll be honest. Even though this library is fully five years old, I hadn't heard of Fabric until about six months ago. Now I can't imagine not having it in my digital tool belt. Fabric is a Python library/tool that is designed to use SSH to execute system administration and deployment tasks on one or more remote machines. No more running the same task, machine by machine, to make one change across the board. It is a simple fire-and-forget tool that will make your life so much simpler. Not only can you run simple tasks via SSH on multiple machines, but since you're using Python code to execute items, you can combine it with any arbitrary Python code to make robust, complex, elegant applications for deployment or administration tasks.

Samsung developers last week provided patches for a new cpufreq governor dubbed "LAB", or the "Legacy Application Boost", for the Linux kernel. The Legacy Application Boost cpufreq governor uses historical cpuidle usage information for determining the number of currently active processor cores and uses that with the number of idle CPU cores for determining the next frequency dynamically.

Are you thinking about rolling your own Linux-powered device as part of a start-up, or through a Kickstarter project? Before you go that route, it’s best to understand what’s ahead of you, suggests Opengear co-founder Tony Merenda in this LinuxGizmos guest column.

The Linux Foundation has announced that it has founded the OpenDaylight Project, which will create an open source framework for software-defined networking (SDN). Joining as founding Platinum members of the project are Big Switch Networks, Brocade, Cisco, Citrix, Ericsson, IBM, Juniper Networks, Microsoft and Red Hat. NEC and VMWare join as Gold members and Arista, Dell, Fujitsu, HP, Intel, Nuage Networks and Plumgrid join as Silver members. Platinum and Gold founding members are expected to donate software and engineering resources to build OpenDaylight; in the case of Platinum members that includes a commitment to allocate the equivalent of ten engineers to the project.

The 15th anniversary of Mozilla also saw moves in the browser ecosystem that are laying out the technical future of the web. But where next for Mozilla asks Glyn Moody    

Someone claiming to be a "1337 hacker" has defaced programming projects hosted by SourceForge.net Web pages for the network utility Angry IP Scanner and other open-source software hosted by the online coding vault were altered by the infiltrator. The individual responsible claimed the websites were "hacked" using a "backdoor", and darkly warned he or she could have supposedly caused far worse damage.

Dell has doubled up on its range of PCs which run Ubuntu, following up its Ubuntu Ultrabook release with a Ubuntu-running desktop PC aimed at gaming – Dell subsidiary Alienware, which specialises in gaming hardware, is now selling its X51 series desktop PC in the US with Ubuntu 12.04 pre-installed.

At age 18, Kenyan students take a nationally-standardized test, the results of which determine not only their eligibility for university education, but also the school they will attend as well as their area of concentration. This transition is associated with a lot of stress and depression, since students believe that their entire future relies on filtering sequentially through the formal education system. This doesn't have to be the case. Our non-profit organization, Tunapanda (Swahili for "we are planting"), believes that due to the high rates of growth projected in ICT, technologically savvy individuals will be in high demand regardless of whether or not they are in possession of an advanced degree. We want to provide a means of technology learning that is both useful and accessible. And, we believe that open source holds the key to making this a reality.

When it comes to public key cryptography, most systems today are still stuck in the 1970s. On December 14, 1977, two events occurred that would change the world: Paramount Pictures released Saturday Night Fever, and MIT filed the patent for RSA. Just as Saturday Night Fever helped popularize disco through its choreography and soundtrack, RSA helped popularize cryptography by allowing two parties to communicate securely without a shared secret.

Curious how NVIDIA Corp and Valve Software brought the Source Engine to Linux and their game porting lessons learned? Earlier this week I wrote about the NVIDIA and Valve sharing their lessons in porting Source to Linux. That article drew a fair amount of interest from the many Linux enthusiasts and Linux gamers reading Phoronix. Questions were raised whether there was a video recording of the presentation to shed additional light on the matter.