HP to Join Chromebox Fray with Mini-PC Available in Four Color Choices

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February 7, 2014

Due in the spring, the small-form-factor desktop will include a Core i7 processor, but pricing has not yet been announced.

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Intel Atom Bay Trail NUC Kit On Linux

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Phoronix

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February 7, 2014

With the early Atom “Bay Trail” hardware being disastrous for Linux, when Intel recently announced their Bay Trail based NUC Kit we were anxious and decided to give this unit a go. The Intel NUC Kit DN2820FYK packs an Intel Celeron N2820 Bay Trail CPU and motherboard supporting up to 8GB of DDR3L system memory and 2.5-inch HDD/SSD in a 116 x 112 x 51 mm form-factor. In this article is a rundown of the Phoronix experience so far for this Atom NUC Kit and how well it’s running with Ubuntu Linux.

What’s the Best Entry Point for Women in Computing? Open Source.

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OpenSource.com

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February 7, 2014

Leslie Hawthorn is the new community manager at Elastic Search, an open source real time data and analytics company, and a member of the program committee for the Grace Hopper conference that is held each year to increase “visibility for the contributions of women to computing.”

OpenDaylight OpenStack Integration with DevStack on Fedora 20

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The Linux Foundation

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February 7, 2014

NetworkStatic | Brent Salisbury’s Blog The following is a walk through of the OVSDB project within OpenDaylight for OpenStack integration. There are a couple of bugs so it is not for the fient of heart. It is intended for those looking to get their development environment up and running. We will have videos and what not walking through the installation and code reviews of the …

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Lightworks Video Editor Pulls Plenty of Weight

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LinuxInsider

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February 7, 2014

Lightworks is a professional-grade nonlinear video editor now available for Linux. It is a cross-platform editor from a well-known player in the media market, so this first-time Linux release could be a big thing. Lightworks version 11.5 for Linux was released late last month. It took the company nearly three years to get this product beyond beta, but the fully functional free — as in not completely open source — version may not be as feature-rich as the Pro version.

Another Init System: Sinit – The Suckless Init System

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Phoronix

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February 7, 2014

While in-fighting continues within the Debian camp over what should be the default init system in Debian, a developer has shown off his own tiny “sinit” init system project…

I-Nex – An Advanced Tool to Collect System/Hardware Information in Linux

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Tecmint

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February 7, 2014

It’s very daunting task to extract complete hardware information available on your system. I came across of this tool and found to be the best to get system information like CPU-Z in windows. We TecMint team would like to thank you I-Nex team for wonderful tool wherein we can collect…

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Google Spins Chromebox for Enterprise Video Conferencing

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ZDNet

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February 7, 2014

Chromebox for meetings fuses two of Google’s most collaboration-friendly products: Google+ Hangouts and Google Apps.

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Big Data Analytics: The Enterprise’s Next Great Security Weapon?

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ZDNet

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February 7, 2014

The number of companies using big data analytics for at least one security or fraud detection use case will triple in the next two years, bringing some much-needed context to all the monitoring clutter.

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Medical Device Dev Platform Runs Linux on DaVinci SoC

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LinuxGizmos

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February 7, 2014

eInfochips announced a development platform for medical imaging device designs, based on two tiny COMs that integrate TI DaVinci DM816x and DM814x SoCs. About two years ago, eInfochips came out with its first Andromeda Reference Platform for video processing, videoconferencing, and video surveillance applications built around its own computer-on-modules (COMs). The COMs, in turn, were […]