Recruitment

• Linux geezers need fresh meat

  The foundation thinks that a natural way of promoting the participation of younger people in the Linux kernel development is to reach out to colleges and universities to host training activities where students and faculty learn the ropes of how to contribute to the kernel.

• The Linux kernel community learns how to grow more penguins

Version 3.13

• Linux 3.13 Supports The Neonode zForce

  There’s many exciting Linux 3.13 kernel features already, but we have another one to talk about today. In the input subsystem update for 3.13, support for the Neonode zForce has been added, an interesting touch-screen technology based on infrared light fields.

• KVM Pushes Linux Virtualization Forward In Linux 3.13

  The Kernel-based Virtual Machine updates for the Linux 3.13 kernel were filed today and includes a fair amount of improvements for virtualization on PowerPC hardware, but there’s also some x86 improvements too.

• 13 Reasons Linux 3.13 Is Going To Be Very Exciting

  While the merge window for the Linux 3.13 kernel isn’t even over yet, this next major kernel update is already looking to be rather exciting with a number of new features.

• F2FS File-System Major Linux 3.13 Enhancements

  For those in need of a high-performance specially-optimized file-system for flash storage devices, the F2FS file-system developed at Samsung has seen more “major enhancements” queued up for the Linux 3.13 kernel.

• The Linux 3.13 Kernel Is Already Super Exciting

  The merge window hasn’t even officially opened yet on the Linux 3.13 kernel but it’s already super exciting and I can’t wait for the new code to start hitting mainline and to benchmark these massive changes to the Linux kernel. Here’s just a few things to expect so far but it’s already gearing up to be a super exciting release and perhaps the best of 2013.

More Development

• AMD Publishes Cryptographic Coprocessor Linux Code

  AMD has just published a new set of Linux kernel patches, revealing Linux support for a Cryptographic Coprocessor (AMD CCP).

• Btrfs-Progs Changes Meta-Data Block Size

  The btrfs-progs user-space component to the Btrfs file-system has seen a number of commits in recent weeks. Beyond lots of code improvements and bug-fixes, the default meta-data block size was changed for the Btrfs mkfs command.

Events

• Video: Question at LinuxCon Leads Linus Torvalds to Consider Bug-Fix Release

  The 3.12 Linux kernel release this week brought with it many new features including multi-threaded RAID5 support in the MD subsystem, the addition of render nodes, and TSO sizing.

• Three Ways to Follow LinuxCon and CloudOpen Europe Live From Edinburgh

• LinuxCon Europe Next Week Hosts 14 Co-located Events with First-Ever CloudOpen Europe

  The Linux Foundation is preparing to host its third LinuxCon Europe and this year for the first time will also host CloudOpen in Europe. The combination of the two events along with a variety of other co-located events taking place next week represents the largest gathering of Linux and open cloud professionals in Europe. From KVM Forum & oVirt Workshop to Xen Project Developer Summit and Yocto Developer Day to the Open Compute Engineering Workshop, there is something for everyone.

• “SysAdmin Super Star” Winner Aims to Share Knowledge with Co-Workers

  Linux Foundation Training scholarship winner Abdelghani Ouchabane is a senior software developer at eZono, a medical device startup in Germany that uses Linux to build its software and systems. He’s worked on a range of Linux projects over the past five years in this job, including kernel module and driver configuration, system and server configuration, and networking, he said. He’s also contributed to many open source projects including Fedora, CentOS, Ubuntu, Meego, Tizen and Debian.

Graphics Stack

• NVIDIA, Mentor Graphics May Harm GCC

  Yesterday there was news that OpenACC 2.0 parallel programming support was coming to GCC complete with GPU acceleration support for NVIDIA GPUs. While it was exciting on the surface, it appears that this work may be poisonous and could have a very tough time making it upstream.

  The news yesterday was about Oak Ridge, Mentor Graphics, and NVIDIA working to add OpenACC 2.0 parallel programming support to the GCC compiler for C and Fortran. GCC right now doesn’t have any support for OpenACC, even the older versions of the specification, and the patches thus far haven’t fully exploited the GPU potential besides converting OpenACC to OpenCL or another implementation that just runs OpenACC over OpenMP on the CPU. Mentor Graphics is now responsible for bringing OpenACC 2.0 with NVIDIA GPU support to the GNU Compiler Collection.

• Freedreno Graphics Driver Reaches Version 1.0

  The xf86-video-freedreno X.Org driver for providing support for Qualcomm’s Adreno/Snapdragon graphics hardware has reached version 1.0 in its first stable release.

• Sub-Surfaces Support Added To Wayland Protocol

  After the support has been within Wayland’s Weston reference compositor for several months, developers have now added sub-surfaces support to the Wayland core protocol itself. Wayland sub-surfaces can make for efficient use of video players and windowed OpenGL games on Wayland.

• Alt-Tab Support, Exposay For Wayland’s Weston

  Interesting in the Wayland camp this week has been lots of discussions about the XDG-Shell proposal but besides that, a patch-set just appeared that finally adds alt-tab support to Wayland’s Weston compositor and also updates the exposay feature.

• AMD Wants Mantle On Linux, OS X, Mobile Devices

  As part of the recent Radeon Rx 200 series and Hawaii GPU launch, AMD also unveiled Mantle as a new graphics rendering API to compete with OpenGL and Direct3D. AMD claims Mantle is easier, faster, and all-around better than OpenGL for game engines and other purposes. This week AMD has renewed their push that they want to see Mantle on Linux and other platforms.

• Intel X.Org Driver Released With New Stability Fixes

  The xf86-video-intel 3.0 driver is still on the way and Intel OTC’s Chris Wilson has put out today its latest development release that has stability fixes, including further TearFree updates.

• NVIDIA GeForce GT 610 On Linux

  If you are after a low-end graphics card for use on Linux, up for review today is the Zotac GeForce GT 610 Synergy 1GB graphics card that sells for less than $50 USD. The results in this Linux hardware review compare the GT 610 to a range of other AMD Radeon and NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards using the proprietary drivers under Ubuntu Linux. Even if you’re not interested in the GT 610, this article makes for a nice 12-way Linux graphics card comparison with the very latest AMD/NVIDIA GPU drivers.

• Video Showing Off Hawaii Desktop Running On Wayland

  If you’re curious about the state of the Qt5-powered Hawaii Desktop running natively on Wayland, a new video has been uploaded that nicely shows off this new Linux desktop alternative that’s designed around Wayland.

Benchmarks

• 13-Way AMD GPU Open-Source Linux Driver Comparison On The Source Engine

  For your viewing pleasure today is a 13-way AMD Radeon graphics card comparison when testing out the open-source Radeon Gallium3D drivers on the wide spectrum of ATI/AMD GPUs while looking at the performance for Valve’s Source Engine with Counter-Strike: Source and Team Fortress 2. Given the imminent arrival of Steam Machines and SteamOS to push Linux gaming into its long-awaited spotlight, is AMD’s open-source Linux graphics driver capable of delivering a reasonable level of performance?For your viewing pleasure today is a 13-way AMD Radeon graphics card comparison when testing out the open-source Radeon Gallium3D drivers on the wide spectrum of ATI/AMD GPUs while looking at the performance for Valve’s Source Engine with Counter-Strike: Source and Team Fortress 2. Given the imminent arrival of Steam Machines and SteamOS to push Linux gaming into its long-awaited spotlight, is AMD’s open-source Linux graphics driver capable of delivering a reasonable level of performance?

• AMD Radeon R9 290 Benchmarks On Ubuntu Linux

  Last week AMD released the Radeon R9 290 “Hawaii” graphics card. The R9 290 is a cut-down R9 290X and sells for just $399 USD. Here are the first Linux benchmarks of the AMD R9 290 using Ubuntu 13.10!

• 5-Way Amazon EC2 Cloud Linux OS Benchmarks

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4, Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09, Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS, Ubuntu 13.10, and SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 have been pitted against each other in Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and the Linux performance benchmark results are now available.

• 8-Way AMD Gallium3D vs. Catalyst Ubuntu GPU Benchmarks

  This testing isn’t too different from other open vs. closed-source GPU driver benchmarks run recently on Phoronix but is a fresh look and with some different tests. The Catalyst driver in use was the latest publicly available (Catalyst 13.11 Beta 6 – OpenGL 4.3.12614 – fglrx 13.25.5) and the open-source version was Mesa 10.0-devel with an xf86-video-ati Git snapshot. The Linux 3.12 kernel was used throughout all testing and DPM was enabled for the Radeon Linux driver.

• Linux Performance Monitoring Tools

• Five free Gmail-friendly email desktop clients

• BleachBit 1.0

• Wine 1.6.1 Lands 58 Bug-Fixes

  For those still having to rely upon Wine to run your favorite Windows games or other applications, the 1.6.1 stable release is now available if you’re not running Wine 1.7 for all the latest goodies.

• Make the solid state drive (SSD) plunge with Linux

• How to add a new context menu item in Nautilus file manager

• oVirt 3.3 hackery on Fedora 19

• How to create desktop shortcut or launcher on Linux

• How to draw flowchart or diagram on Linux

• How to manually install Android 4.4 KitKat – Nexus 7 (2012/2013) WiFi, Nexus 10

• Install Synaptic in Ubuntu 13.10

  Synaptic is a package manager that gives you the same control that you get using apt-get in a terminal window in Ubuntu 13.10. Here’s how you can install it.

• Time-Saving Tricks on the Command Line

• FreeMat—Yet Another MATLAB Replacement

  Many programs exist that try to serve as a replacement for MATLAB. They all differ in their capabilities—some extending beyond what is available in MATLAB, and others giving subsets of functions that focus on some problem area. In this article, let’s look at another available option: FreeMat.

  [...]

  The main Web site for FreeMat is hosted on SourceForge. Installation for most Linux distributions should be as easy as using your friendly neighborhood package manager.

• Red Hat Puts Out Ceylon 1.0 Language, Compiler

  Red Hat is out this week with their first production release of Ceylon, a modular, modern, and statically-typed programming language for Java and JavaScript Virtual Machines. Ceylon 1.0 consists of a language specification, compiler, and Eclipse IDE integration.

• Leadwerks: GDB Is Annoying; Editor Using GTK

  Leadwerks, one of the recent commercial game engines that’s being ported to Linux following a successful Kickstarter campaign, has shared more of their Linux game engine progress from a developer’s perspective.

• Leaf: A New “Soon To Be Great” Programming Language

• GNU Awk 4.1: Teaching an Old Bird Some New Tricks, Part II

• Intro to Clojure on the Web

  Lisp is one of those languages that people either love or hate. Count me among the Lisp lovers. I was brainwashed during my undergraduate studies at MIT to believe that Lisp is the only “real” programming language out there, and that anything else is a pale imitation. True, I use Python and Ruby in my day-to-day work, but I often wish I had the chance to work with Lisp on a regular basis.

• C++ Gtkmm Tutorial 4

• 25-30 November is Europe Code Week!

  Want to get involved in a cool new initiative to promote it across Europe?

  My Young Advisors are a talented group of people advising and supporting me in my work. And they’ve been hard at work themselves. They’ve come up with a great idea: Europe Code Week – a week of initiatives at the end of November (25th-30th) with a focus on coding – workshops, teaching, or just raising awareness.

• Rygel 0.20.2 Media Server Supports Milliseconds in Renderer

  The second maintenance release of the stable Rygel 0.20 media server has been officially release a few days ago, as part of the GNOME 3.10.2 incremental update of the popular desktop environment.

  Rygel 0.20.2 supports milliseconds in the renderer, adds Next and Previous functions to CurrentTransportActions, returns a proper error if the media is not seekable, and prevents a critical warning on missing MIME-types.

• Install Tweak Tools in Ubuntu 13.10

• How to create desktop shortcut or launcher on Linux

• Unix: Sending signals to processes

• 10 basic examples of linux netstat command

• How to Install and Configure OpenSSH Server In Linux

• Polari IRC Client 3.11.1 Introduces Experimental Pastebin Integration

  Florian Müllner had the pleasure of announcing that the first development release of the upcoming Polari IRC client for the GNOME 3.12 desktop environment is now available for download and testing.

• Step By Step Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander) LAMP Server Setup

• Your visual how-to guide for SELinux policy enforcement

• SSHFS(Secure SHell FileSystem): Securely Mount remote filesystem over ssh

• How to configure keyboard layouts in Xfce, Cinnamon, MATE

• How to install minimal Ubuntu desktop

  If you want to set up a stripped down Ubuntu desktop, a clean approach is to first install Ubuntu server on your hardware, and then manually add desktop component to it.

• Switching Monitor Profiles

  It’s funny, when your home office is your couch, you tend to forget how nice it can be when you dock a laptop and have all the extra screen real estate a monitor brings. For many years, I left my work laptop docked at work, and when I worked from home, I just VPNed in with a personal laptop. Lately though, I’ve recognized the benefits of splitting personal life and work, so I’ve taken to carrying my laptop with me when I go to and from the office. Because we invested in a docking station, it’s relatively simple to transition between a laptop on my lap and a laptop on a desk with an extra monitor—except for one little thing: my external monitor is in portrait mode.

• ttyrec: Record Terminal Session in Linux

• Making Linux More Accessible

  A startling fact is that there are in excess of a billion people who have some type of disability. That represents approximately 15% of the world’s population with a physical, sensory or mental limitation that interferes with their ability to move, see, hear or learn. 350 million people in the world are partially sighted or blind. The faster computer technology evolves, the more excluded these individuals would become without development in computer software that seeks to address their needs.

• Excellent Calibre eBook Conversion Software Reaches Version 1.10

• Make sense of a lot of messy text with TreeLine

• GIMP review: This free image editor is no longer a crippled alternative to Photoshop

  Whether you are actively considering a move away from Photoshop, or simply hoping there is a non-proprietary tool for reading your Photoshop images if you ever decide to stop subscribing to Adobe’s cloud, you’ve probably wondered about GIMP. A free, open-source, image editor, the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) has been a go-to tool for Linux users for years, but has a reputation for being hard to use and lacking many of Photoshop’s features. The reality has changed dramatically over the last couple years. GIMP now has a very competent user interface, as well as an extensive and powerful set of features. Its openly extensible nature means that in some areas, like running well-known image processing algorithms on your photos, it actually outshines Adobe Photoshop.

• LightWorks Catches Up With GNU/Linux

  I was disappointed with the “beta” release for GNU/Linux. It seemed “alpha” to me and was very awkward to install. There’s news of a new release for December, synchronized for That Other OS and GNU/Linux. It should be smoother this time. Perhaps I’ll really get to do something with it.

• Fight the Good Fight with SmokePing

  With past ISP problems, I’ve been able to run a continuous ping to an outside IP address and show the tech-support representative that I have packet loss. Unfortunately, a running ping command doesn’t give a history of when the packets are lost. With SmokePing, not only is there a record of when packets are lost, but there’s also a graphical representation of how many packets were lost, and from several IP addresses to boot.

• How to Back Up Data on Your Android Smartphone

• How to Add Linux Host to Nagios Monitoring Server Using NRPE Plugin

• How to write Raspberry Pi image to SD card

• How to put in pause any process in Linux

• How to write your book using Linux

  I spent the past year writing The Librarian’s Guide to Academic Research in the Cloud, a book which focuses on using and thinking about cloud services in an academic research context. I’m fortunate enough to belong to a union that negotiated research leave for new faculty, and that leave made the book possible.

• Best Journaling Tools for Linux

  Keeping a daily journal is one of the best ways to keep your thoughts organized. Not only can it help you think more clearly, it can also help you reflect on your past actions. After writing for a while, you’ll get used to putting your thoughts in text form and reflecting upon them. Journaling isn’t something new, though. The act of writing a journal has been practiced for centuries. However, it is now that this lost art form is regaining its popularity.

• Building my new HTPC…

  We cut the cord a couple of years ago, the need to get TV over traditional TV Ariel was no longer needed and services such as TV Catchup, iPlayer and the other UK Catchup TV Channels streamed over the net to my TV were all we needed.

• How to install web-based real time collaborative document editor on Linux

• How to measure packets per second or throughput on high speed network interface

• Ubuntu’s Saucy Salamander is a Slick but Spiritless Upgrade

  Ubuntu 13.10′s new Scopes feature is fed by heuristics to offer matches to your accumulated browsing and search requests gleaned from Github, reddit, Wikipedia, Flickr, Google News, The Weather Channel and Yelp. I find this level of search invasion too intrusive. If I wanted that approach to marketing, I would just bypass Ubuntu completely and grab a Kindle or rely more fully on the Google search engine.

• Ubuntu 13.10: A desktop tour (Slideshow)

  The most new-user friendly of all Linux desktop distributions, Ubuntu has a new, better release: Ubuntu 13.10, Saucy Salamander.

• Mark Shuttleworth Apologizes for the Trademark Infringement Letter Sent to Fixubuntu.com

• Mark Shuttleworth Regrets the “Tea Party” Remarks and Other Canonical Mistakes

• Mark Shuttleworth Sends Out Apologies

• Ubuntu 13.10 – meeting the Saucy Salamander

  Looking back on my time with Kubuntu 13.10 the thing which stood out the most was that not much stood out. Apart from having some network issues which slowed things down during my first installation attempt, my time with the distribution was quite good. The installer is nicely laid out, the KDE 4.11 desktop is quite polished, providing a clean, feature-rich environment. I like that Kubuntu comes with a guest account for those odd times people wish to borrow my computer. I’m also happy to see there is an option in the KDE System Settings panel to turn off the guest account for people who see the guest account as a security concern. The new user account manager is slick and easy to use, I’m quite happy to see it included in this release. So far I’m tentatively happy with the new Discover software manager. It looks pretty and it seems to work well enough. The software manager’s interface is a little busy for my taste, but otherwise I have no complaints. I think most people will take to it and those who don’t can fall back on the older package manager. Overall, Kubuntu 13.10 feels like a stable, mature release that has some nice new features, but nothing ground shaking that would put off existing users. I’m actually sorry this version is not a long-term support release and will only receive security updates for nine months, the short support cycle seems to be the only weak point in an otherwise excellent desktop operating system.

• A review of “Instant Ubuntu”

  I try to write articles for the readers on this site that I hope they will find useful and so I agreed to write the review on the basis that if it is a great book then I can share that knowledge and if it isn’t then I can also share that knowledge.

• Install Everpad 2.5.6 in Ubuntu 13.10

• Install Cairo Dock 3.3.2 in Ubuntu 13.10

• Valve’s SteamOS will not be based on Ubuntu

  Today in Open Source: SteamOS will not be based on Ubuntu. Plus: Metro Last Light out for Linux, and the Tuxmachines site has been sold

  [...]

  Tuxmachines Site Sold
  Foss Force is reporting that the Tuxmachines site has been sold. Here it is in case you missed it last month.

  One of the most popular Linux sites, Tuxmachines.org, announced on October 28th that it has been tentatively sold for $1,000.

  When Ms. Linton, who has also been involved with DistroWatch, started Tuxmachines it quickly grew to be an important destination on news about Linux and other open source projects.

  More at Foss Force

  It’s sad that the site is changing hands, but hopefully the new owner will keep it going for a long, long time.

• Installation and disk partitioning guide for Ubuntu 13.10

• How-to configure keyboard layouts in Ubuntu Unity (video)

• Install Ubuntu 13.10 using a USB key from Window or another Linux distribution

  A USB key or thumb drive or USB stick is the best device to use in installing your favorite Linux distribution. It’s not just because it’s reusable forever (unless you mess it up), but the system runs much faster than if you used a CD or DVD disc for installation.

• Grsync : Graphical rsync backup tool on Ubuntu ( 12.10 / 13.04 / 13.10)

  grsync is a graphical rsync tool in ubuntu linux. It provides a graphical user interface to backup or sync important files & directories to remote machine or in local machine using rsync. It currently supports only a limited set of the most important rsync features, but can be used effectively for local directory synchronization.

• Flavours and Variants

  • Pear OS 8 Has Been Officially Released

    The highly anticipated Pear OS 8 Linux distribution has been officially released today, November 9, by David Tavares, the father of the Pear Linux Project.

    There’s no official announcement for Pear OS 8, but we can tell you that the distribution boasts a new iOS 7 design, created by Ivan Matias Suarez. Moreover, the brand-new Pear OS 8 distribution features a set of pre-installed applications, including Pear Cloud, Clean My Pear 2, MyPear 6, as well as more than 3,000 downloadable packages from its generous software repository.

  • Pear OS 8 Could Arrive for Microsoft Surface Tablet

    David Tavares, father of the Pear Linux project, has just announced that he started a crowdfunding campaign for a new project, called Pear OS 8 Tablet Edition, a version of the Pear OS 8 Linux operating system for the Microsoft Surface tablet.

  • Taming The Iguana…..

    So we found ourselves on unsure footing. While I am sure that the developers of Mint and Zorin are confident in their longevity within the the community…..

    It’s simply a risk we cannot take. They are both some of the best examples of what Linux is and should be on the desktop. Both of these distributions will be used in our Reglue computers, as each of them has a specified purpose, depending on the power and size of the computer being installed.

• Qseven COM runs Linux on AMD G-Series SoC

  Hectronic will soon begin sampling a Linux-compatible Qseven computer-on-module based on AMD’s dual-core, 1GHz G-Series SoC. Claimed as the first Qseven COM to use the new AMD SoC, the H6069 is equipped with 2GB of soldered DDR3 RAM and an optional 32GB SSD, and features dual display support, 12 Watt power consumption, and optional industrial temperature range operation.

• Setting up a Raspberry Pi as a home server

• ARM/FPGA hybrid SoC taps Cortex-A53, 14nm process

• Your car is about to go open source

  Automakers want to standardize on a Linux-based OS that would make vehicle infotainment systems act more like smartphones

• Automotive-oriented hypervisor taps ARM TrustZone

• AMD Gizmo SBC gains open source bootloader

  Sage Electronic Engineering, has released a free board support package for AMD’s community-backed Gizmo SBC equipped with the open source, Coreboot-based SageBIOS bootloader. SageBIOS BSP for Gizmo further supports the $189, G-Series-based Gizmo board with “free payloads and drivers to enable peripherals,” says the company.

• Qt embedded GUI supports Android and Linux

  Digia announced an Android and Linux-targeted embedded version of its cross-platform Qt GUI framework called Qt Enterprise Embedded that combines a Qt Creator based IDE with a new embedded Boot to Qt stack. The Digia-backed Qt project also released the beta of Qt 5.2 with a new Scene Graphic renderer and the first production-ready support for Android and iOS.

• Wind River Linux adds 64-bit ARM, adopts Yocto 1.5

  Wind River announced Wind River Linux 6, featuring Yocto Project 1.5 Linux kernel and toolchain, and expanded multi-architecture hardware support including 64-bit ARMv8. Wind River also announced a faster new Yocto-compatible version of its carrier-grade Wind River Open Virtualization software.

• Yocto Project Adds Mac and Windows Cross-Compiler for Intel’s Linux-Based Galileo Board

  But the less obvious engineering feat was achieving cross compatibility between the board’s custom Linux OS and Arduino’s application development software necessary to port C code to the device from Windows and Mac, as well as Linux.

• 3 Embedded Linux Projects Built With the Yocto Project

  In August Intel launched the Yocto Project Innovation Challenge to help showcase developers who are building – or simply imagining — Yocto-based embedded Linux applications and devices.

• Multi-core MIPS SoCs add Linux support

  Wind River announced Wind River Linux support for Cavium’s newly shipping Octeon III system-on-chips. Aimed at high-end networking applications, the 28nm-fabricated Octeon III SoCs offer as many as 48 MIPS64 cores clocked up to 2.5GHz, support MIPSr5 architecture features like hardware virtualization, and integrate accelerators for deep packet inspection (DPI), packet processing, security, search, and QoS.

• Trio of Bay Trail-I boards includes Nano-ITX SBC

  Portwell announced a computer-on-module along with a pair of single-board computers built around Intel’s new embedded-specific Atom E3800 (Bay Trail-I) system-on-chips. The three Linux-friendly boards include a Type 6 COM Express Compact COM, a Mini-ITX style embedded motherboard, and an SBC implemented in the rarely seen Nano-ITX form factor.

• How to attend a robotics show robotically

  Suitable Technologies is offering $50 rentals of its “Beam” mobile telepresence robot, so 50 robotics enthusiasts can remotely attend the RoboBusiness conference in Santa Clara, Calif. on Oct. 23-25. The Ubuntu- and ROS-based Beam will be available to the first 50 applicants, letting them explore the show at up to 1.5 meters/sec and interact with others via video conferencing.

• Tiny SBC runs Linux on 2GHz TI OMAP SoC

  ISEE announced a highly compact single board computer powered by a 2GHz dual-core Cortex-A15 based Texas Instruments OMAP5432 system-on-chip. The IGEPv5 SBC ships with a Yocto-built Linux stack, but also supports Android, and is packed with I/O including five USB ports, mSATA, microSD, HDMI, DisplayPort, audio in/out, gigabit Ethernet, WiFi and Bluetooth wireless, and more.

• PicUntu 4.5 installer loads Ubuntu onto Rockchip RK3188 devices

• 3 Embedded Linux Projects Built With the Yocto Project

  In August Intel launched the Yocto Project Innovation Challenge to help showcase developers who are building – or simply imagining — Yocto-based embedded Linux applications and devices.