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Rolling-release testing
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Tuesday 14th of October 2014 09:16:10 AM Filed under

At the time of writing each operating system in my trial has been up and running for a few days. About once a week I will update each system and take note of what does or does not work. At the moment I plan to focus on whether each system is still able to boot after an update, whether I will be able to login to a graphical desktop and browse the web using Firefox and edit documents using LibreOffice. I am open to suggestions as to other tests readers may want me to perform. During this trial I will be posting observations on events as they happen on my Twitter feed as regular updates seem appropriate for a trial involving rolling-release distributions. I will also post updates on the experience here on weeks when something of significance happens.
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3.8 Million Raspberry Pi Linux Computers Sold - Oh My!
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Tuesday 14th of October 2014 05:01:04 AM Filed under
I own three Raspberry Pi's (two B's and one B+) and many people I know also own one or more Pis. All those Pi add up and now the Raspberry Pi Foundation says that it has sold 3.8 million units.
That's a whole lot of Pi.
The Raspberry Pi was never supposed to be a massive volume seller. It was supposed to be a teaching and educational tool to help get kids (and adults) interested in development and maker culture.
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Now, Zen Mobile to launch low cost Firefox smartphone in October
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Tuesday 14th of October 2014 04:54:45 AM Filed under

Just few weeks into the unveiling of the first Firefox OS device in the the Indian market, Mozilla announced further partnerships with popular mobile device brands and app partners in India to launch new smartphones and content services.
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CAINE Linux Distribution Helps Investigators With Forensic Analysis
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Tuesday 14th of October 2014 01:07:37 AM Filed under
There is no shortage of Linux distributions to serve specific markets and use cases. In the security market, a number of Linux distributions are widely used, including Kali Linux, which is popular with security penetration testers. There's also CAINE Linux, which is focused on another area of security. CAINE, an acronym for Computer Aided INvestigative Environment, is a Linux distribution for forensic investigators. Instead of penetration testing tools, CAINE is loaded with applications and tools to help investigators find the clues and data points that are required for computer security forensics. Among the tools included in CAINE are memory, database and network analysis applications. CAINE is built on top of the Ubuntu Linux 14.04 distribution that was released in April. Rather than use the Ubuntu Unity desktop environment, CAINE uses the MATE desktop. The CAINE 6.0 "Dark Matter" operating system was first released on Oct. 7 and includes new and updated applications to help forensics investigators. CAINE can be run as a live image from a CD or USB memory stick and can also be installed onto a user's hard drive. In this slide show, eWEEK examines some of the key features of CAINE 6.
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Machine vision COM and cameras go Linux
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Tuesday 14th of October 2014 12:59:12 AM Filed under
Vision Components has launched two Linux-based, smart machine vision cameras and a COM built around a Xilinx Zynq SoC, each supporting up to 4.2MP video.
Over the last decade, smart cameras for machine vision have been transitioning from DSPs to systems that combine DSPs or FPGAs with ARM or x86 processors running Linux. The latest to join the Linux camp is Ettlingen, Germany based machine vision manufacturer Vision Components, which with its latest “VC Z” cameras has switched from a DSP-based system to a tuxified ARM/FPGA combo. Thanks to the Xilinx Zynq, the company was able to accomplish this with a single system-on-chip. The VC Z is available in a VCSBC nano Z computer-on-module, which also appears to act as the foundation for the new VC nano Z and VC pro Z cameras.
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And Now for Something Completely Different
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Monday 13th of October 2014 09:10:01 PM Filed under

Similarly, "there is no answer better than, 'any distro that works for you, has more than two users and has good information and forums online,'" suggested Google+ blogger Gonzalo Velasco C.
For fans of free and open source software, "the present year has been one of philosophical questioning about the future of GNU/Linux, freedom of choice and 'market' share," he pointed out. "So, the answers will reflect this."
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Scientific Linux 7.0 x86_64 released
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Monday 13th of October 2014 07:32:59 PM Filed under
Fermilab's intention is to continue the development and support of
Scientific Linux and refine its focus as an operating system for
scientific computing. Today we are announcing the release of Scientific
Linux 7.
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Wind River Linux taps Yocto 1.7, adds binary option
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Monday 13th of October 2014 06:52:02 PM Filed under
Wind River announced a new version of Wind River Linux based on Yocto Project 1.7 code, and featuring new binary deployment and security assessment options.
Intel subsidiary Wind River announced Wind River Linux 7 at the Linux Foundation’s combination LinuxCon + CloudOpen + Embedded Linux Conference Europe, being held this week in Düsseldorf, Germany. The latest version of the leading commercial Linux distribution was upgraded to version 6 with Yocto Project 1.5 a year ago at the same event.
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Is the TouchWiz successor, Iconic UX coming to Android and Tizen ?
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Monday 13th of October 2014 06:26:17 PM Filed under

There is no confirmation that this new UX is headed to Android and some even say that it is destined for the Tizen OS. Either way, as a strategy going forward it would make sense having the same UX on both platforms, making it easier for your Google Android customers to come across to the Tizen platform, and become your customers, paying you a share of the apps, music and videos that they purchase, sounds very nice indeed.
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[GIT PULL] xfs: updates for 3.18-rc1
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Monday 13th of October 2014 06:20:29 PM Filed under
Hi Linus,
Can you please pull the current XFS updates from the tree below?
The changes outlined in the tag description include everything that
is not in your tree, but I has a question about that because there
are commits in the branch that are already in your tree.
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