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Xen Orchestra 3.4 Plays Two New Features

The Xen Orchestra open-source software that provides a web GUI to Xen Server and the XAPI is out with a significant update…

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What Will openSUSE 13.2 Default Wallpaper Look Like?

 

Eppur si muove! Even though we sometimes feel there’s a sort of a standstill once first major bugs are fixed in a new release and it settles on our machine, that’s not the case by any viable metric. The openSUSE team works diligently on delivering a new release (openSUSE 13.2) ever since 13.1 was released, and among them, we find the artwork team, which is brainstorming the creation and subsequent selection of the new default wallpaper of the next openSUSE release (the awesome picture your desktop defaults to after installation).

Though this is just an initial brainstorming phase, there are a few hints to show us where the default wallpaper appearance is heading.

 

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Windows OS “Replaceable” by Chinese Counterparts

The ban on Windows 8 by China’s central government presents great opportunities for Chinese-originated operating systems, and the key issue now is to build up an ecosystem to feed the growth of these Chinese OSes, reports Xinhua the official news agency in China.

How to Take a Screenshot from the Command Line on Linux

There are various flavors of Linux screenshot utilities, including desktop-specific screenshot programs (e.g., KSnapshot for KDE, gnome-screenshot for GNOME, Screenshooter for Xfce), or general screenshot utilities (e.g., Shutter). One of unique screenshot utilities is Scrot (short for “SCReen shOT”), which is a command-line screenshot utility. While its interface is minimalistic, Scrot is, feature-wise, as powerful […]

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    A Cryptocurrency to Support Open Source Development

    Devcoin is an open source project designed to support open source projects through the use of a dedicated crypto currency.

    Crypto currency is a new form of digital money which is decentralized and runs on a distributed network of computers. Cryptographic techniques are used to secure the network and each individual’s funds, while open source code provides the shared protocol through which each wallet or service communicates with the public “block chain” where information on all transactions is stored. The most famous example of this is, of course, Bitcoin.

     

     
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    Other Ways To Optimize Your Linux Battery Life

    After writing recently about the PowerTOP 2.6 release and mentioning that some new power consumption/efficiency tests were in the works at Phoronix, a few readers wrote in asking about other ways to extend their battery life under Linux…

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    Blue Pup Distro: Pride of the Puppy Linux Litter

    It had to happen sooner or later. It turned out to be sooner. It is here. The Blue Pup Linux distro brings the Metro view to the Linux desktop. This arrangement is not a true Metro interface the likes of the much criticized Windows 8. Instead, it is a Puppy Linux derivative distro, or Pupplet, built around the Chromium Web browser with a Chrome extension. Blue Pup version 3 was released in late April. It uses a run-or-raise feature activated by toggling the left or right Windows key.

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    The Abnormally Long Linux 3.15-rc6 Kernel Released

    The sixth test release to the Linux 3.15 kernel is now available after more time than usual lapsed since the 3.15-rc5 release…

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    How Nebula Is Growing a Turnkey OpenStack Cloud Business

    VIDEO: The CEO of Nebula as well as the company’s founder discuss how they plan on scaling the business in an increasingly competitive market.

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    Top 10 Open SBC Survey Results, 2014

    Which are your 1st, 2nd, and 3rd most favorite open source SBCs?

    Note: For each ranking, if your SBC choice is not available in the drop-down list, select “other” from the bottom of the drop-down list and then enter your SBC choice in the text box below. If you have more than one unlisted board, please indicate which is your 1st, 2nd and 3rd choice by number.

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    86Duino and 86Duino One A10-OLinuXino-Lime A20-OLinuXino-Micro APC Rock Arndale Board-K Arndale Octa Board BeagleBone Black Banana Pi BD-SL-i.MX6 (SABRE Lite) Cosmic+ Cubieboard2 CubieTruck (Cubieboard3) Galileo Gizmo Hackberry A10 IGEPv5 Community Edition Improv i.MX6 Rex MarsBoard RK3066 MinnowBoard Odroid-U3 Odroid-XU Parallella PhoenixA20 Radxa Rock Raspberry Pi Model B RIoTboard SAMA5D3 Xplained Sockit Development Kit Udoo Quad Wandboard Quad ZedBoard Other (See below) Response
    Count
    1st choice 2.1% (16) 4.0% (30) 2.6% (20) 0.0% (0) 0.3% (2) 1.2% (9) 20.4% (154) 2.4% (18) 0.7% (5) 0.0% (0) 2.8% (21) 4.8% (36) 1.5% (11) 0.8% (6) 0.9% (7) 0.1% (1) 0.0% (0) 0.4% (3) 0.1% (1) 0.8% (6) 5.0% (38) 2.1% (16) 4.2% (32) 0.3% (2) 2.5% (19) 32.2% (243) 0.3% (2) 1.2% (9) 0.0% (0) 2.5% (19) 2.0% (15) 0.4% (3) 1.5% (11) 755
    2nd choice 3.6% (26) 2.8% (20) 2.5% (18) 1.0% (7) 0.1% (1) 1.0% (7) 19.1% (138) 5.7% (41) 0.6% (4) 0.3% (2) 3.7% (27) 3.9% (28) 4.2% (30) 0.7% (5) 1.9% (14) 0.3% (2) 0.4% (3) 1.2% (9) 0.3% (2) 1.4% (10) 4.3% (31) 3.7% (27) 2.2% (16) 0.0% (0) 2.6% (19) 20.5% (148) 0.7% (5) 1.0% (7) 0.3% (2) 3.3% (24) 3.3% (24) 1.4% (10) 1.9% (14) 721
    3rd choice 3.1% (21) 1.2% (8) 2.1% (14) 2.1% (14) 0.1% (1) 0.9% (6) 11.2% (76) 7.3% (50) 0.4% (3) 0.3% (2) 6.0% (41) 4.3% (29) 6.2% (42) 1.2% (8) 2.3% (16) 1.2% (8) 0.6% (4) 2.3% (16) 1.0% (7) 3.2% (22) 2.6% (18) 2.1% (14) 5.3% (36) 0.7% (5) 1.5% (10) 16.3% (111) 0.1% (1) 0.9% (6) 1.0% (7) 3.4% (23) 2.3% (16) 2.1% (14) 4.7% (32) 681
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    Count
    1st choice 72.9% (535) 27.1% (199) 734
    2nd choice 46.1% (321) 53.9% (375) 696
    3rd choice 33.1% (215) 66.9% (435) 650
    Other (please specify)
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    How important were each of these factors to your favorite SBC choices?
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    CPU/graphics performance 29.3% (223) 35.9% (273) 26.0% (198) 8.8% (67) 761
    Onboard memory/storage 26.3% (199) 43.9% (333) 24.4% (185) 5.4% (41) 758
    Networking/wireless I/O 43.1% (328) 44.2% (336) 12.1% (92) 0.7% (5) 761
    Multimedia I/O 15.1% (114) 32.7% (247) 38.3% (289) 13.9% (105) 755
    Data acq & control I/O 28.4% (214) 35.2% (265) 29.5% (222) 6.9% (52) 753
    Other I/O (USB/serial/etc) 36.3% (274) 44.6% (336) 17.2% (130) 1.9% (14) 754
    Modularity 21.6% (161) 34.0% (253) 34.1% (254) 10.2% (76) 744
    Low power 33.6% (255) 31.9% (242) 26.8% (203) 7.7% (58) 758
    Low cost 47.1% (359) 32.6% (249) 17.7% (135) 2.6% (20) 763
    Open source hardware info 53.6% (405) 26.9% (203) 16.8% (127) 2.8% (21) 756
    Open source software support 72.2% (547) 20.7% (157) 6.2% (47) 0.9% (7) 758
    Community ecosystem 57.7% (440) 30.1% (229) 10.9% (83) 1.3% (10) 762
    Other significant factor (optional)
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    For what type of applications are you most likely to use your favorite SBCs?
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      Response
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    Response
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    Education
    51.5% 391
    Home automation
    61.9% 470
    Special function servers
    45.7% 347
    Other consumer electronics
    23.2% 176
    Arts or entertainment
    26.6% 202
    Robots or automated vehicles/crafts
    38.2% 290
    HMI/industrial
    16.2% 123
    Other data acquisition and/or control
    20.4% 155
    Other (please specify)
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    Which best describes the nature of your expected SBC projects?
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    Maker/hobbyist
    74.9% 573
    Commercial (prototyping or production)
    20.3% 155
    Other (please specify)
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    4.8% 37