01.07.14
Posted in News Roundup at 11:30 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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It’s getting smaller. The brand new Intel Edison is a full blown SOC (System On a Chip), the size of an SD card.
The Edison was demonstrated at Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2014 by Intel CEO Bryan Krzanich. It runs on an DDR2 RAM and the recently announced dual-core Quark processor, which is roughly one-fifth the size of Intel Atom.
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Freescale has unveiled a tiny, open, Android-based wearable reference platform based on an i.MX6 ARM SoC and supported by a Warpboard.org community site.
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We live in an age where more and more devices are being run by operating systems, and are being connected to the internet that can seemingly be found all around us. The latest of such is a Belkin Smart Slow Cooker. As you might have guessed, the Slow Cooker is powered by WeMo, which is based on Linux and powers a multitude of other home based devices. This crock-pot is able to be controlled remotely via the WeMo app for Android or iOS and will be sure to have an edge on other slow cooking challengers. Mums no longer need to stay at home and wait for the cooking to be done. This functionality is huge and will surely make huge strides in 2014.
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Roku’s set-top boxes which were known for being cheap and simple to use have now been rooted thanks to hackers from GTVHacker.
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Sales of the open source BeagleBone Black SBC, which began shipping in May, have surpassed 100,000 units according to BeagleBoard.org.
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A Russian startup has produced a Linux-based WiFi controller board for remote control and video observation applications, and has demonstrated its use in a remote controlled car.
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People have been loading Ubuntu and other Linux distributions onto Android TV sticks for about as long as these cheap ARM-based devices have been available. But the Rikomagic MK802 IV LE is one of the first models to come with Ubuntu pre-loaded.
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Posted in News Roundup at 11:22 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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After almost one year of hard work, David King was proud to announce this past weekend that version 2.1.9 of his EasyTAG open source tag editor software, which supports MP3, FLAC and Ogg Vorbis audio files, is now available for download with numerous new features and bugfixes.
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Music streaming services have fundamentally altered the way that people access music. Sales of CDs have been steadily falling year on year although they continue to remain the dominant format for music purchases. Digital music sales have also been decreasing. These falls have come at the same time as a profound surge in popularity of music streaming services. Competition in this field is fierce, with music providers such as Spotify, Google Play Music All Access, XBox Music, Rdio, and Pandora all offering a convenient way to access a huge library of music without having to store physical discs or wait for music to synchronise with devices.
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Posted in News Roundup at 11:21 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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Posted in News Roundup at 11:20 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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The swap device – you probably have one, and you may have used it, but you may not know precisely what it is or whether you actually need it. Once upon a time, when a typical computer had only a few hundred megabytes of RAM, swap devices were critical to a machine’s performance and stability. But are swap devices still necessary? What exactly do they do?
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01.06.14
Posted in News Roundup at 11:48 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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01.05.14
Posted in News Roundup at 7:05 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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Valve recently released an early-access preview of its future strategy for game distribution: the Steam Machine, and the SteamOS operating system that runs it. The company has developed a beta reference platform, but the really interesting part is SteamOS: an open OS with fairly flexible hardware specs that anyone can download and play with.
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It will be interesting to follow Linux share as more and more games get ported / released for Linux.
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Terasology is an open-source survival and discovery game with influences from Minecraft, Dwarf Fortress, and Dungeon Keeper. The game is in a pre-alpha state, but it’s already fun to play!
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01.03.14
Posted in News Roundup at 12:44 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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Valve recently released its Beta version of SteamOS, based on the Debian distro of Linux. Naturally, we were intrigued by its release and wanted to take the new OS for a test run. We’ve put together a guide on how to install the operating system.
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Starbound is currently available through Steam’s Early Access program. That means the game is still in active development. It’s a beta test that you can pay to take part in. This isn’t a review of the final product, but one writer’s thoughts after playing several hours of the game in beta.
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Posted in News Roundup at 12:43 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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The DarkTable open-source photography workflow software has seen a major update to end out 2013. Version 1.4 of DarkTable brings a host of new features.
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BusyBox 1.22 is now available as the latest unstable release of “the Swiss Army Knife of the Embedded Linux.” With BusyBox 1.22 comes many changes and improvements.
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At the start of this year I posted about eAndora, a Pandora Internet Radio client I was working on that is written in Python and Elementary. Today I’m happy to announce that eAndora is finally feature complete enough for me to stamp something as a “1.0″ release.
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Some days ago there was an update released to VideoLAN’s libbluray Blu-ray library that began supporting BD-J Java and other new functionality. Making news now is another but separate open-source Blu-ray news.
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