As of the 3.18-rc6release, 11,186 non-merge changesets have been pulled into the mainline repository for the 3.18 development cycle. That makes this release about 1,000 changesets smaller than its immediate predecessors, but still not a slow development cycle by any means. Since this cycle is getting close to its end, it’s a good time to look at where the code that came into the mainline during this cycle came from.
While I delivered some OS X 10.10 Yosemite preview benchmarks back in August, here’s my first tests of the official release of Apple OS X 10.10.1 compared to Ubuntu 14.10 Linux. Tests were done of OS X 10.9.5 and OS X 10.10.1 against Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn when running the benchmarks under both GCC and LLVM Clang compilers.
Your anti-malware system does you no good if it’s successfully compromised. Few security suites use ASLR and DEP in all their executables.
While we’ve been quite excited to get our hands on Cherry Trail hardware after the great encounters with Bay Trail on Linux, it looks like we’ll be waiting a few more months…
The first release candidate to the Qt 5.4 tool-kit is expected later this week while out today are some preliminary test packages…
Kickstarter is showing an $899, Android-based “Mind4″ follow-me drone that tracks you entirely by computer vision, and interprets full-body gestures. Like fellow Kickstarter drone projects AirDog and Hexo+, as well as 3D Robotics’s Iris+, AirMind’s Mind4 quadcopter is designed as a “follow-me” drone for recording videos of a moving target. Unlike these products, however, which […]
Last week Amazon started shipping their new Fire TV Stick device to compete with the likes of Google’s Chromecast. I’ve been trying out the Fire TV Stick since its launch date last week and have been happy with the device, especially considering its low cost…
We don’t see Google too often as an upstream generator of ideas, much less of designs, but it looks like the new Material Design concept that has been implemented in the latest Android 5.0 Lollipop is making quite an impression.
So much so that a developer is determined to build a Linux distribution that is able to fit in the strict guidelines of the project, which have been carefully outlined by Google.
Read more at Softpedia.
Playing with Raspberry Pi is a lot of fun, but what happens when you want to get some real work done? While it’s not difficult to make a RaspPi board do cool stuff, getting it to communicate with the wider world is a bit of a challenge. That’s why Ryo Koyama, Mike Johnson, and Doug Olekin made Weaved.
While the goal is a bit broad – “Weaved is looking to enable Internet of Things for everyone, and sees a vision where IoT capabilities are a feature onto all electronic devices,” said Koyama – the idea is fairly simple. By giving a RaspPi Internet of Things capabilities, you can expand the scope of the hardware immensely.
Read more at TechCrunch.
A new survey released Wednesday shows that more IT professionals are embracing open source software, with control and business continuity outweighing the cost savings as factors.
The Ponemon Institute polled nearly 1,400 IT professionals in the U.S. and in 18 countries in Europe, the Middle East and Africa about their perceptions of open source software versus proprietary programs. Nearly three-quarters of U.S. respondents (74 percent) said open source applications allow for better control and continuity with an organization’s overall IT practices.
Read more at FedScoop.
