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Mini-PC taps RPi Compute Module and supports RPi 2

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Sunday 22nd of February 2015 08:50:03 AM Filed under
Linux

For almost a year, the Raspberry Pi Compute Module has served the needs of professional embedded vendors looking to ship commercial devices based on the Raspberry Pi SBC. However, this computer-on-module (COM) version of the RPi Model B can be tricky for less experienced hardware developers. On Kickstarter, U.K.-based Wireless Things has successfully funded an “OpenPi” mini-PC based on the module designed primarily for software developers.

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[Video] Samsung Launch 2015 Tizen Smart TV in Africa

Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Sunday 22nd of February 2015 12:57:33 AM Filed under
Linux

Samsung Electronics has introduced several of its products to the African market at the sixth annual Africa Forum in Antalya, Turkey which is a three-day forum. The main Interest for us here at Tizen Experts is the Samsung SUHD TVs that is being showcased there, as from 2015 onwards all Samsung TVs will run Tizen which is a HTML5 web standards open source platform.

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Linux Kernel 3.2.67 LTS Improves Support for Several RISC Microprocessor Architectures

Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Saturday 21st of February 2015 10:48:03 PM Filed under
Linux

Ben Hutchings, the maintainer of the Linux 3.2 kernel branch, had the pleasure of announcing the immediate availability for download and upgrade of a new maintenance release for Linux kernel 3.2, version 3.2.67, urging users to update to it as soon as possible. Linux 3.2.67 kernel is a long-term supported version mostly used on very stable environments or embedded systems.

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PCLinuxOS, A User Friendly Linux Distribution

Submitted by Mohd Sohail on Saturday 21st of February 2015 08:05:38 PM Filed under
Linux
PCLOS
Reviews


PCLinuxOS Linux distribution

PCLinuxOS is one of the many distributions that exist in the world of Linux, but this caught my attention when I installed it on my computer. Let's take a look at PCLinuxOS, a distro that is user friendly.
 

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Fully sandboxed, cross-distro Linux apps are almost here

Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Saturday 21st of February 2015 07:17:33 PM Filed under
GNU
Linux

Right now, you get most of your Linux software from your distribution’s software repositories. Those applications have to be packaged specifically for your Linux distribution, and you have to trust them with full access to your Linux user account and all its files.

But imagine if developers could distribute applications in a standard way so you could install and run them on any Linux distribution, and if those applications ran in a “sandbox” so you could quickly download and run them without the security and privacy risks.

That’s not just a dream. It’s the goal of the GNOME desktop-affiliated Sandboxed Applications project, and the first fully sandboxed application is already here. A preliminary version of this project is planned to be released in GNOME 3.16, which should be in the next release of Fedora—Fedora 22.

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How To Create QR Codes In Ubuntu/Linux Mint

Submitted by Mohd Sohail on Saturday 21st of February 2015 05:34:43 AM Filed under
Linux
Ubuntu
HowTos


Install QR Code in Ubuntu/Linux Mint

QR, stands for 'Quick Response' are the types of hyperlinks that can be physically distributed and users can easily access the url/text that is behind that QR Code. The QR code can encode upto 4,296 characters. QR codes can easily be created as a .png image on Linux machines with the program called QR Code Creator.
 

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Linux clockpocalypse in 2038 is looming and there's no 'serious plan'

Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Friday 20th of February 2015 11:12:29 PM Filed under
Linux

The year 2038 is still more than two decades away, but LWN.net editor and longtime Linux kernel chronicler Jon Corbet believes software developers should be thinking about that date now, particularly in the Linux world.

Corbet raised the issue at his annual "Kernel Report" talk at the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit in Santa Rosa, California this week. "Time to start worrying," he said.

The issue is similar to the dreaded Y2K bug, in that a longstanding deficiency in the way some computers record time values is due to wreak havoc in all manner of software, this time in 2038.

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Why you should consider cloud-hosted Linux desktops

Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Friday 20th of February 2015 11:07:09 PM Filed under
GNU
Linux

With all the licensing troubles that can come with hosting Windows desktops in the cloud, some companies -- and vendors -- are looking to Linux operating systems instead.

VMware plans to offer a Horizon View client for Linux, and Horizon DaaS, formerly Desktone, has had a hosted Linux option for years. Citrix is planning a similar strategy for XenDesktop and XenApp with Linux Virtual Apps and Desktops. These two big-name virtualization vendors putting attention on Linux shines a spotlight on the OS.

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Intel Quark SoC x86 Platform Support For Linux 3.20/4.0?

Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Friday 20th of February 2015 08:33:55 PM Filed under
Linux

Ingo Molnar has asked Linus Torvalds to pull the x86 platform support for Intel Quark SoC systems for the Linux 3.20/4.0 kernel.

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Also: Code Merged This Week For Linux 3.20/4.0 Is Just As Exciting As Last Week

Wayland/Weston 1.7.0 Make It For Ubuntu 15.04

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Raspberry Pi, oh my: From classrooms to the space station

Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Friday 20th of February 2015 08:16:43 PM Filed under
Linux

Well, this is starting to look sort of like "Jamie's Mostly Raspberry Pi Stuff", but that's not intentional. There are just a lot of interesting things going on with the RPi at the moment, so that's where I seem to be spending a lot of my time right now.

The big news, of course, was the announcement and immediate availability of the Raspberry Pi 2 hardware two weeks ago. The new hardware needs updated software to really make the most of its capabilities, so there was also a new Raspbian and NOOBS release (1.3.12) made at the same time.

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