Wireless Aside, Cr OS Linux Delivers the Best of Two Worlds

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September 11, 2013

The Cr OS Linux distribution is an interesting blend of the Cinnamon desktop with a special edition of the Chromium Web browser. The approach Cr OS Linux (pronounced “Cros Linux”) takes gives you a taste of Linux Mint with a chaser of a not-quick pure Google Chrome OS. Cr OS is a fully functional Linux distro. It has its own repository and package manager to provide software updates. I was generally pleased with Cr OS. Its lightweight design does not have many of the advanced features that tend to bog down Linux Mint.

Motorola: The Moto X Sells at a Profit; Custom Orders ‘Substantial’

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CNET

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September 11, 2013

The company says that the Flextronics plant is capable of producing “tens of millions” of phones per year, but only 100,000 Moto X units are leaving the plant each week. [Read more]

Welcome to Piksi, the Ultra Precise GPS Receiver for Autonomous Vehicle Systems

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The Linux Foundation

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September 11, 2013

This device, particularly designed for applications in autonomous vehicle systems, has been recently funded on kickstarter.

An RTK (Real Time Kinematic) GPS system gives positions that are 100 times more accurate than commercial receivers (down to centimeters)

What is Piksi?

Piksi is an RTK GPS receiver with open source software that costs one tenth the price of any other available RTK system.

Let’s Talk About Continuous Delivery

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The Register

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September 11, 2013

Skilful driver required: avoid bumps in the road

Continuous delivery is defined as a process in which software development teams focus on deployment and refinement over and above any imperative to work on new features.…

Company Culture at Red Hat Through the Eyes of the 2013 Summer Interns

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OpenSource.com

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September 11, 2013

Every year, a select group of university students and recent graduates join Red Hat’s North American summer intern program. The application and interview process is vigorous. In 2013, we received more than 5,800 applicants and hired only 71. But for those chosen, a Red Hat summer internship offers unique opportunities to learn, grow, and network.

Mellanox FDR InfiniBand Speeds Apps on Ivy Bridge

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insideHPC

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September 11, 2013

This week Mellanox announced that its end-to-end, FDR 56Gb/s InfiniBand interconnect solutions provide industry-leading performance for compute-intensive applications running on the new Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v2 product family. With up to 30 percent better performance, applications running on Ivy Bridge processors and Mellanox’s FDR 56Gb/s InfiniBand solutions do more, faster, thereby lowering product design […]

IDF 2013: From Quark to Xeon, Intel Wants to Be Inside Everything

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ZDNet

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September 11, 2013

We expected the new low-power Haswell chips and Bay Trail Atoms for tablets. But on the first day of its annual conference, Intel offered a few surprises too including working 14nm Core processors and a new Quark chip family for tiny devices.

Read more at Enterprise Open Source Toolkit

A Glitch in the 3.12 Merge Window

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LWN

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September 11, 2013

In case anybody wonders why the merging of patches for the 3.12 kernel appears to have come to a stop: Linus has run into a disk failure. “If worst comes to worst, I’ll just do the last next days of the merge window on the laptop that I was planning on finishing it off with anyway, since I have travel coming up. At least this didn’t happen at the very beginning of the merge window…“

Intel Finally Unleashes Ivy Bridge-E Core i7 Desktop Processors

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ZDNet

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September 10, 2013

The three new high-performance CPUs include the six-core i7-4960X Extreme Edition for $999, but lack the improvements from the company’s recent Haswell microarchitecture.

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Samsung Kicks Off March of ARM’s big.Little Architecture

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ZDNet

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September 10, 2013

Samsung is pushing ARM’s big.Little architecture, which utilizes a combination of cores to maximize power savings while boosting mobile computing power.

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