Samsung, Intel, Dell Form Open Interconnect Consortium

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July 8, 2014

The consortium will seek to define connectivity requirements to ensure the interoperability of billions of devices projected to come online by 2020.

Inside the LG G Watch and Samsung Gear Live Smartwatches

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July 8, 2014

The iFixit team have their hands on an LG G Watch and a Samsung Gear Live smartwatch, and the teardown reveals some similarity between the two devices â€” an inside dominated by a Li-Ion battery, and a design that’s surprisingly easy to open.

For small devices, the LG G Watch and a Samsung Gear are surprisingly easy to pop open to repair, earning them a repairability score of 9 and 8 out of 10 respectively (where 10 is the easiest to repair). There are no thick goopy adhesives or tamper-resistant screws to deal with â€” although if you’re thinking of delving inside you must be prepared to handle some tiny screws.

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NVIDIA 340.24 Linux Driver Has G-SYNC Support, FXAA Control

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July 8, 2014

Succeeding last month’s NVIDIA 340.17 Linux driver beta is now the first official release in the 340.xx driver series for Linux / Solaris / BSD. The NVIDIA 340.24 driver was released this morning with new features but is heavier on the fixing side…

Distribution Release: IPFire 2.15 Core 79

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July 8, 2014

Michael Tremer has announced the release of IPFire 2.15 Core 79, the latest stable release of the project’s specialist Linux distribution for firewalls: “IPFire 2.15 Core Update 79 is finally arriving with many bug fixes and enhancements. Among the big changes with this update are lots feature enhancements….

Interview: Designing DNA Sequences in Synthetic Biology with HPC

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July 8, 2014

Unfolding the mystery behind DNA sequences is hugely important in ultimately designing synthetic microorganisms for alternate fuel sources. Penn State University Assistant Professor, Howard Salis Ph.D., leveraged Amazon Web Services (AWS) to offer an online HPC portal to bring supercomputing to scientists the world over for this project. We sat down with Dr. Salis to learn more [â€¦]

Distribution Release: SparkyLinux 3.4 “GameOver”

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July 8, 2014

Paweł Pijanowski has announced the release of SparkyLinux 3.4 “GameOver” edition, a Debian-based distributions designed for gaming enthusiasts: “SparkyLinux 3.4 ‘GameOver’ is out. It has been built on the top of SparkyLinux 3.4 ‘Annagerman’ and it’s fully compatible with Debian’s ‘testing’ repository. ‘GameOver’ is a special edition of….

First release of KDE Frameworks 5

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July 7, 2014

The KDE Community has announced the release of KDE Frameworks 5.0. “Frameworks 5 is the next generation of KDE libraries, modularized and optimized for easy integration in Qt applications. The Frameworks offer a wide variety of commonly needed functionality in mature, peer reviewed and well tested libraries with friendly licensing terms. There are over 50 different Frameworks as part of this release providing solutions including hardware integration, file format support, additional widgets, plotting functions, spell checking and more. Many of the Frameworks are cross platform and have minimal or no extra dependencies making them easy to build and add to any Qt application.“

Mobile Phone Management Made Easy

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Steve Emms

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July 7, 2014

Mobile phone users should not regard their computer only as the means of recharging their phone, or transferring files to and from the phone’s storage. There’s a lot more than you can do with your Linux box. This article illustrates some good open source tools that let you manage your mobile phone.

This roundup selects 4 of my favourite mobile phone management tools; all of them are released under an open source license.

CentOS 7 To Be Released Shortly, Project Lead Says

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July 7, 2014

The “official” Red Hat Enterprise Linux clone CentOS is releasing its next major version today.

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Linux Lands on NSA Watch List

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eWeek

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July 7, 2014

Visiting a popular Linux Website could make an individual a target of government scrutiny.