AllSeen to Shine a Light on Internet of Things

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eWeek

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October 8, 2014

The IoT consortium has formed a working group that will develop an open standard for smart lighting.

Data Recovery Techniques on Linux

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Falko Timme

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October 8, 2014

Data Recovery Techniques on Linux

When one of my friends called telling me that he had accidentally deleted some important files from his drive, his exasperation was understandable. It happens to everyone at some point of their computer-using lives. Unfortunately, in his case, those were some extremely important documents that, had he not recovered them, could have proven very costly.

Open Definition 2.0

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LWN

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October 8, 2014

Version 2.0 of the Open Definition has been announced. The Open Definition seeks to define the meaning of “open” in the context of data, content, and more. “However, these benefits are at significant risk both from quality problems such as ‘open-washing’ (non-open data being passed off as open) and from fragmentation of the open data ecosystem due to incompatibility between the growing number of ‘open’ licenses. The Open Definition eliminates these risks and ensures we realize the full benefits of open by guaranteeing quality and preventing incompatibility.“

AMD Moves Forward With Unified Linux Driver Strategy, New Kernel Driver

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Phoronix

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October 8, 2014

Alex Deucher of AMD has taken the floor at XDC2014, which got underway today in France to provide an update on the company’s new unified open-source driver strategy. Compared to what I originally reported earlier in the year when breaking the news, there’s some notable changes but overall this is an exciting endeavor for AMD Linux customers with the open and closed source AMD GPU drivers going to share the same (open-source) Linux kernel driver.

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TYAN Launches Its First OpenPOWER Reference System

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Phoronix

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October 8, 2014

Our hardware friends at TYAN have announced their first customer reference system built around OpenPOWER, the collaboration around IBM’s Power Architecture with the Power ISA and other technology being opened up. TYAN’s “Palmetto System” is promoted as being innovative, collaborative, and open…

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Linux 3.18 To Add Support For Firmware Core Dumps To User-Space

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Phoronix

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October 8, 2014

Besides Greg KH sending in the USB changes for Linux 3.18 he also sent in the driver core changes for the 3.18 merge window. With the driver core patches this time around is a notable change for benefiting developers to ultimately better debug wireless and GPU driver issues…

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Open Compute Project Spurs HPC Innovation for Large and Small Organizations

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insideHPC

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October 8, 2014

In this special guest feature, Penguin Computing Chief Technology Officer Phil Pokorny writes that Open Compute Project has great potential to spark HPC innovation. In just three and a half years since Facebook announced the Open Compute Project (OCP), the cooperative industry effort is showing exceptional progress toward delivering significantly more efficient hardware into the […]

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Behind the Scenes with CTO Michael DeHaan of Ansible

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OpenSource.com

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October 8, 2014

Michael DeHaan is CTO and co-founder of the configuration management tool Ansible. In my interview with him prior to the All Things Open conference in October where he’ll be speaking, Michael tells me about what it’s like to work in open source tech.

Understanding More Of AMD’s Open-Source HSA Plans

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Phoronix

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October 8, 2014

On Monday I wrote about AMD adding native object code support to their Radeon Gallium3D drivers and Clover. Besides being a huge performance win for OpenCL kernel compile times, this work is also instrumental as part of AMD’s open-source HSA Linux plans…

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What Network Function Virtualization Means for OpenStack and Open Source

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OpenSource.com

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October 8, 2014

Last week’s launch of OPNFV is a good opportunity to think about a simmering debate in the OpenStack developer community for a while nowâ€”what exactly does NFV (Network Function Virtualization) have to do with OpenStack, and is it a good thing?