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Ubuntu 15.04 Will Attempt To Better Update CPU Microcodes
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Monday 16th of March 2015 01:42:45 AM Filed under
Dimitri John Ledkov of Intel has added support to the Ubuntu-Drivers-Common framework for having CPU family detection and being able to install the appropriate CPU microcode update packages depending on the reported processor family. It's basically just making sure the right CPU microcode packages are installed rather than having them not installed or having all of them in place.
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Why We Need Free Digital Hardware Designs
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Friday 13th of March 2015 04:03:57 AM Filed under
To what extent do the ideas of free software extend to hardware? Is it a moral obligation to make our hardware designs free, just as it is to make our software free? Does maintaining our freedom require rejecting hardware made from nonfree designs?
Free software is a matter of freedom, not price; broadly speaking, it means that users are free to use the software and to copy and redistribute the software, with or without changes. More precisely, the definition is formulated in terms of the four essential freedoms.
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Raspberry Pi 2 review
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Friday 6th of March 2015 11:55:07 PM Filed under
The new Raspberry Pi 2 proclaims that it is 6x faster than the original Pi, taking the original machine to a new level. The big leaps focus on the processor and memory, with the machine now replacing a single core CPU with a quad core Broadcom BCM2836 CPU. The RAM has jumped to a very respectable 1GB.
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Using a Samsung Xpress C460FW with Gentoo Linux and Android KitKat for printing and scanning
Submitted by Fitzcarraldo on Tuesday 24th of February 2015 05:26:04 PM Filed under
A work colleague has just received a Samsung Xpress C460FW MFP (laser printer, scanner, copier and fax machine) for small print jobs. It is possible to connect to it via USB, Direct USB, wired network, wireless network, Wi-Fi Direct and NFC; that’s impressive for a MFP that can be purchased for GBP 270 in the UK.
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Toshiba Laptops To Have Improved Support In Linux 3.20
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Thursday 19th of February 2015 07:10:11 PM Filed under
The platform-drivers-x86 pull request has been filed for the Linux 3.20 kernel and it includes some prominent additions.
First up, the Toshiba ACPI driver (toshiba_acpi) is closer to feature-parity with its Windows counterpart. The Linux Toshiba ACPI driver now supports USB Sleep & Charge functions, USB Sleep functions under battery, USB Rapid Charge, USB Sleep & Music, support for keyboard functions mode, support for Panel Power On, support to enable/disable USB 3, etc. There's also driver clean-ups and other improvements for this ACPI laptop driver specifically for Toshiba hardware.
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Intel now No. 1 sponsor of Linux contributions
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Wednesday 18th of February 2015 05:53:22 PM Filed under
Intel, one of the world's largest computer hardware companies, is now also among the biggest contributors to open-source software.
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Raspberry Pi 2 vs Creator 120
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Saturday 7th of February 2015 08:38:26 AM Filed under
The Creator 120 and the Raspberry Pi 2 are single-board computers designed for developers and hobbyists.
The Creator C120 was announced in late 2014, but started shipping at about the same time that the Raspberry Pi 2 was announced/starting shipping, which was just last week.
I haven’t purchased a Raspberry Pi 2 yet, but I received a Creator 2 from the manufacturer this week. It was a prize I won in December and the first prize I ever won on the Internet. I’ve been playing with it all day and find it to be a very capable single-board computer. Out of the box, it’s mostly a plug-and-play device.
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Review: 2015 Dell XPS 13 (9343) Running Linux
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 5th of February 2015 06:50:23 PM Filed under
When and if Eric reads this he’s just going to shake his head. For two years in a row now I’ve been lured by the wonders of new laptops announced at CES, and in both years I’ve been disappointed. He tells me I’m stupid for ordering the “new shiny” and expecting it to work, but I refuse to give up my dream.
Luckily this isn’t a huge issue for me since my main machines are desktops, but my second generation Dell XPS 13 “sputnik” is getting a little old. I am really looking forward to a slightly larger screen. The pixel density isn’t great on my laptop, especially compared to what is out now, and I am finding myself a little cramped for screen real estate.
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Attention Linux gamers: Valve, Khronos to reveal next-gen OpenGL successor at GDC
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Wednesday 4th of February 2015 10:37:29 PM Filed under
It's a great time to be alive if you're a fanatic about the particulars of various performance-boosting graphics APIs. AMD's Mantle is here, Microsoft's DirectX 12 is coming with Windows 10, and at GDC in early March we'll hear the first news about a successor to the open-source, cross-platform OpenGL API.
That's not necessarily huge news if you're using a Windows machine—unless this OpenGL successor is really special, most games will probably stick with DirectX 12 in a perpetual love/hate relationship. If you're a Mac or Linux gamer, however, the next-generation OpenGL is potentially a huge deal.
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Hands-On: RaspberryPi NOOBS 1.3.12
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Wednesday 4th of February 2015 10:31:49 PM Filed under
There's plenty of excitement in the Raspberry Pi world this week: the big news is the announcement of the Raspberry Pi 2 hardware - the long-awaited and much-anticipated successor to the immensely popular original unit, which will now be known as the Raspberry Pi 1.
But that's not the only news: there is also a new release of the Raspbian operating system and the NOOBS (New Out Of Box Software) package. I am just back from a week in Amsterdam, and will be leaving in a few days for a short trip to Iceland, so I just have time to download and install the new software on my two Raspberry Pi 1 units (Model B and B+), and I have ordered a RPi 2 so I hope that will be waiting for me when I return. At least, the Swiss Pi-Shop says that it will be available on 3 February so I am keeping my fingers crossed - because almost all of the excitement is about the Raspberry Pi 2.
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