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New Ubuntu Phone Flash Sale Confirmed for February 26

Dear all, the time has come for a new flash sale of the BQ Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition smartphone, as BQ had the pleasure of announcing on their Twitter account a few minutes ago. The new Ubuntu Phone flash sale will take place tomorrow morning, February 26.

If you didn’t had the chance to buy an Ubuntu Phone device from the previous flash sales, now it’s the perfect time. Make sure that you create a free account read more)

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Microsoft Office on Your Android Tablet? Not Yet – If Intel’s Inside

Office for Android doesn’t yet run on devices with an Intel processor. Here’s a list of tablets to avoid if you need to use Office right now.

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Wayland’s Weston Gets A Surface-Shooting API

One of the early additions past the recent Wayland 1.7 release to the Weston reference compositor is a surface-shooting API to be used for debugging…

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More Proof That Allwinner Is Violating The GPL

Allwinner has been accused multiple times in the past of violating the GPL license by not providing Linux/Android kernel source code or U-Boot source, along with using LGPL-licensed code within their binary blobs, etc. Today there’s new “definitive proof” of Allwinner’s GPL violations…

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DragonFlyBSD Radeon Driver Ported To Linux 3.10 Level Of Support

Last month the Intel DRM driver on DragonFlyBSD was ported to match the upstream Linux 3.10 level of support and features after being based on Linux 3.9 previously in their porting of this open-source Intel graphics driver to BSD. The Radeon DRM driver is in the process of a similar bump with the DragonFlyBSD kernel catching up to this AMD Radeon kernel graphics driver from its Linux 3.10 state…

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3 Key Elements That Define Every Open Source Project

Open source has come a long way in the past 30 years and is entering the consciousness of most modern cultures. When thinking of open source projects, people categorize them several ways: governance structure, type of product platform, programming language, utility, technical details (language written in), industry sponsored or fully independent, and more.

But what truly defines any open source project, making it a unique entity different from all other open source projects? I would propose that there are three key elements of any open source project that frame, define, and differentiate that project from all others: the code, the community, and the brand.

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Open Source Control Tower for Drones, by 3D Robotics

Last 10th of February, 3D Robotics launched on Play Store their app to control copter and plane drones, Droidplanner: “3D Robotics, the largest U.S.-based drone manufacturer, announced the launch of its open-source Tower flight control app for drone copters and planes on Android phones and tablets. The app gives users a few new ways to […]

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How to Limit the Network Bandwidth Used by Applications in a Linux System with Trickle

Have you ever encountered situations where one application dominated you all network bandwidth? If you have ever been in a situation where one application ate all your traffic, then you will value the role…

 
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Tails 1.3 Out Now, Introduces the Electrum Bitcoin Wallet

Tails, the Amnesic Incognito Live CD distribution of GNU/Linux based on Debian and used by Edward Snowden, has reached version 1.3 on February 24, 2015. This release introduces new applications, updates core components, and fixes annoying bugs from previous releases of the product.

According to the official release notes, Tails 1.3 introduces Electrum, an open… (read more)

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Distribution Release: KaOS 2015.02

Anke Boersma has announced the release of KaOS 2015.02, a brand-new version of the project’s rolling-release Linux distribution featuring the Plasma 5 desktop: “KaOS is very proud to announce the availability of the February release of a new stable ISO image. This release brings the end of KDE….

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