Raspberry Pi as an Audio/Media Center: The Best Linux Distros

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April 2, 2014

Probably, the best use you could do with a Raspberry Pi would be turning it in a full-fledged media center. With some tuning, a Raspberry Pi can become indeed a device that audiophiles will love, or a tiny board that can empower you television to become a 2014-like smart TV. All you need is some […]

Data Recovery from Accidentally Deleted Files or Crashed Drives in Redhat, CentOS and Fedora Linux

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Falko Timme

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April 2, 2014

Data recovery from accidentally deleted files or crashed drives in Redhat, CentOS and Fedora Linux

This tutorial will help you to recover data from accidentally deleted data from Linux-file systems. This is a very drastic mistake by any user/admin which costs for huge penalties. This script will be a boon for newbies/expert for data management. I will be using TestDisk for data-recovery. Here I have simplified the task with the help of a script.

Linux 3.15 Squeezes In More ACPI / PM Improvements

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Phoronix

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April 2, 2014

Besides suspend and resuming much quicker, the Linux 3.15 kernel also has many other ACPI and power management improvements…

Intel Plans to Launch $100m Fund for Smart Devices

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ZDNet

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April 2, 2014

The Intel Smart Device Innovation Center in Shenzhen will be granted a $100m cash injection for investment within China.

Read more at Enterprise Open Source Toolkit

Organizations with Innovative IT Departments Value Collaboration

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OpenSource.com

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April 2, 2014

In the open source community, we know the value of collaboration. It’s at the core of everything we do. Some of us are lucky to work for organizations that understand and embrace the power of collaboration. Yet, the silo mentality runs rampant in many organizations where collaboration and internal crowdsourcing is not valued. (Opensource.com readers who are pursuing open source projects on the side, but spend their days working at companies with silos are likely very familiar with this).

Universal Plane Support Set For Linux 3.15

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Phoronix

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April 2, 2014

Landing a few hours ago into the drm-next code-base for merger into the Linux 3.15 kernel in the days ahead is the universal/primary plane support for the Direct Rendering Manager drivers…

How to Setup MariaDB Galera Cluster 5.5 in CentOS, RHEL & Fedora

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Rahul Kumar

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April 2, 2014

MariaDB Galera Cluster is an synchronous Active-Active multi-master cluster of MariaDB databases. Which keeps all nodes synchronized. MariaDB Galera cluster provides synchronus replication which is always highly available (there is no data loss when one of the nodes crashes, and data replicas are always consistent). Currently it only supports XtraDB/InnoDB storage engines and available for Linux platform only.

Read complete article at How to Setup MariaDB Galera Cluster 5.5 in CentOS, RHEL & Fedora

MIPS-Based Newton Module Takes on Intel’s Edison in Wearables

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LinuxGizmos

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April 1, 2014

Ingenic unveiled a tiny MIPS-based “Newton” COM for wearable and IoT devices that runs Android or Linux on an its Xburst SoC, and offers WiFi and sensors. The Newton computer-on-module development platform was announced both by Beijing-based semiconductor company Ingenic Semiconductor and by Imagination Technologies, which licenses MIPS intellectual property to Ingenic. While Imagination’s announcement […]

Ubuntu To Make Amazon Product Results ‘Opt-In’ (OMG!Ubuntu)

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LWN

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April 1, 2014

Ubuntu’s Unity dash search has come under fire for sending search terms to Amazon (and including those results) by default. In future versions of Unity users will explicitly need to opt-in, reports OMG!Ubuntu. “In Unity 8 the search paradigm has shifted towards refinement. Gone is a central ‘home scope’ that tries to do ‘all the things’, at all times, from as many places as possible. Instead, online searches are conducted through a the (rather ridiculously named) “Scopes Scope”. When entering a query here, Unity will recommend Scopes that it thinks can deliver results pertinent to the query. This is the crucial difference: it gives you the choice of Scopes to search; it doesn’t search them for you.” Unity 7 will be used in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS so Amazon searches will still be on by default when that version ships later this month. (Thanks to Paul Wise)

Free Linux MOOCs: Live Twitter Chat April 3, 8 a.m. PST with edX CEO and Linux Foundation Executive Director

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Libby Clark

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April 1, 2014

Zemlin-Agarwal-chat Starting this summer, The Linux Foundation’s Intro to Linux training course will be available for free on edX, the online learning platform founded by Harvard and MIT.

The course has already attracted nearly 100,000 registrations since it was announced three weeks ago, making it one of the fastest-growing courses in edX history.

This pioneering partnership will make basic Linux training materials available to anyone, anywhere, who has Internet access and a desire to learn Linux. It will also be one of the first non-university courses offered on edX and one of the first MOOCs (massive open online courses) devoted to Linux.

To help spread the word about this free training opportunity and to answer your questions about MOOCs, Linux training, or anything else you want to know about it, edX and The Linux Foundation will hold a live Twitter chat this Thursday, April 3 from 8 a.m. – 9 a.m. PST.

To participate, log into Twitter and send your questions using the hashtag #edXLinuxChat. Jim Zemlin, Linux Foundation Executive Director (@jzemlin), and Anant Agarwal, edX CEO (@agarwaledu), will be on hand to answer in real time.

“Clearly, people around the world want to understand Linux and seek to tap into its massive community to advance their careers and their understanding of how today’s technology is built,” said Anant Agarwal in a blog post on Linux.com following the announcement last month. “The fact that Linux is now offering its basic Linux class as a free MOOC — normally costing $2400 — to our learners is a wonderful opportunity, and we know that there will be continued interest in this course and others the Linux Foundation will offer on edX.org.”

Join us on Thursday to learn more.