Kdenlive Delivers Near-Pro Video Editing – If You Have the Right Stuff

By

-

October 3, 2013

Kdenlive is a multitrack, nonlinear video-editing suite packed with some of the most recent video technologies. This application can be a great tool if you have serious video work to do, but you need to fully test it before attempting any mission-critical editing tasks. Kdenlive takes some effort to learn. That’s especially the case if you have little experience with other video-editing software. Kdenlive might be too much to take on as an entry-level editing tool.

What are the Major Opportunities in Open Hardware and Makers industry?

By

The Linux Foundation

-

October 3, 2013

As you would have probably noticed, the open hardware industry is gaining traction and relevant opportunities are showing up.

An evident trend shows that open hardware is relevantly gaining importance into the professional and business realm and thanks to a growing cross-fertilization between the different customer segments of professionals and consumers (as, increasingly, hobbyist also held a relevant role in industry related ventures) we can reasonably expect a growing penetration of the open hardware concepts in the overall hardware industry.

Well, this is a very good news and a lot of different opportunities are showing up for makers and the community around them: the impression in that all this landscape just shown a little of its disruption potential.

Garrett: The state of XMir

By

LWN

-

October 3, 2013

Matthew Garrett has posted an assessment of where XMir development stands. “This is an unfortunate situation to be in. Ubuntu Desktop was told that they were switching to XMir, but Mir development seems to be driven primarily by the needs of Ubuntu Phone. XMir has to do things that no other Mir client will ever cope with, and unless Mir development takes that into account it’s inevitably going to suffer breakage like this. Canonical management needs to resolve this if there’s any hope of ever shipping XMir as the default desktop environment.“

How To : Configure Ubuntu as a Router

By

YourOwnLinux

-

October 3, 2013

INTRODUCTION

If you are having two network interface cards or some other component that connects you to the internet along with a network interface card installed in your ubuntu system, it can be transformed into an immensely powerful router. You can establish basic NAT (Network Address Translation), activate port forwarding, form a proxy, and prioritize traffic observed by your system so that your downloading stuff do not intervene with gaming. This article will explicate setting up your ubuntu system as a router which can later be configured as a firewall with prior knowledge of ‘IPTables’. The resulting setup will help you to control traffic over ports and make your system less vulnerable to security breaches.

Red Hat Leads Way to Certify OpenStack Pros

By

ZDNet

-

October 2, 2013

Efforts are underway to provide system administrator and developer certification for OpenStack professionals

Read more at Enterprise Open Source Toolkit

Ex-Microsoft Privacy Advisor: I Don’t Trust Microsoft, Thanks to PRISM

By

ZDNet

-

October 2, 2013

The former chief privacy adviser to Microsoft has said the NSA scandal has left him distrustful of the Redmond giant.

Read more at Enterprise Open Source Toolkit

16-Way Graphics Card Comparison On Open-Source Linux

By

Phoronix

-

October 2, 2013

To get October off to a good start, in this article are benchmark results of sixteen Intel HD, AMD Radeon, and NVIDIA GeForce graphics processors all being tested from the latest open-source Linux graphics driver stack. The test setup is powered by the Linux 3.12 development kernel and the Mesa 9.3.0-devel OpenGL drivers.

Simplify Processes Before Automation to Reduce Cost

By

ZDNet

-

October 2, 2013

Organizations looking to automate their business processes should first attempt to reduce and simplify these processes, so the overall cost of automation can be lower.

Read more at Enterprise Open Source Toolkit

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.10 Released

By

Phoronix

-

October 2, 2013

Red Hat has announced the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.10…

Samsung, LG Vie to Unveil Flexible Display Smartphones

By

CNET

-

October 2, 2013

LG’s phone would offer a 6-inch flexible display, according to ZDNet Korea, while Samsung is readying a flexible version of its Galaxy Note 3 Active. [Read more]