Intel’s Tablet Challenge: How Israel Helped Lay the Foundations of its Samsung-Led Fightback

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ZDNet

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July 9, 2013

In just two years, Intel’s Jerusalem team paved the way for the company’s challenge in an industry dominated by ARM.

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Linux and Android VoIP Dev Kits Work with BeagleBones

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LinuxGizmos

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July 9, 2013

Adaptive Digital Technologies announced a pair of VoIP reference kits based on TI’s Sitara AM335x Cortex-A8 system-on-chips that work with BeagleBone SBCs. The new VoIP Engine/SIP Reference Kits are offered in Linux-based LnxVoice and Android-based AnVoice models, and support SIP and peer-to-peer VoIP communications, HD acoustic echo cancellation, and the wideband G.722 codec. The software-based […]

Software Has Become a Spoilt Brat Grown Fat Suckling On the Teats of Chip Industry Innovation

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ZDNet

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July 9, 2013

Hardware technologies have provided an incredible innovation platform but it won’t last forever. Where are the advances in software?

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That Wayland Fork Doesn’t Seem To Be Thriving

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Phoronix

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July 9, 2013

The widely talked about fork of Wayland and Weston no longer seem to be advancing…

Shuttleworth: Two Weeks with Mir

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LWN

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July 9, 2013

Mark Shuttleworth defends the development of the Mir display server on his blog. “Of course, there is competition out there, which we think is healthy. I believe Mir will be able to evolve faster than the competition, in part because of the key differences and choices made now. For example, rather than a rigid protocol that can only be extended, Mir provides an API. The implementation of that API can evolve over time for better performance, while it’s difficult to do the same if you are speaking a fixed protocol.“

A New & Exciting OpenGL 3 Benchmark To Run

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Phoronix

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July 9, 2013

There’s finally a new and visually exciting OpenGL benchmark to try out for Linux, OS X, and Windows users alike. The benchmark also supports OpenGL 3.x contexts for making testing more exciting with regard to the Linux graphics driver stack…

Distribution Release: Clonezilla Live 2.1.2-20

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DistroWatch

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July 9, 2013

Steven Shiau has announced the release of Clonezilla Live 2.1.2-20, a new stable build of the project’s specialist live CD designed for disk cloning tasks: “This release of Clonezilla live (2.1.2-20) includes major enhancements and bug fixes: the underlying GNU/Linux operating system was upgraded, this release is based….

Xen 4.3 Releases Today with ARM Server Support

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The H

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July 9, 2013

The latest release of the open source hypervisor brings a technology preview of support for ARMv7 and ARMv8 platforms and security improvements to the virtual Trusted Platform Module (vTPM)

Distribution Release: SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP3

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DistroWatch

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July 9, 2013

Yesterday SUSE released the third service pack for SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 “Desktop” and “Server” editions, a set of commercial enterprise-class distributions for desktops and servers: “SUSE today announced the general availability of SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Service Pack 3. This latest service pack brings additional industry-standard hardware….

The Extraordinary DRM Pull Request For Linux 3.11

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Phoronix

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July 9, 2013

David Airlie has submitted the DRM subsystem pull request for the Linux 3.11 kernel that is of monster size. The Radeon DRM kernel driver is now perhaps the single biggest Linux kernel driver by code size after the merging of its huge dynamic power management code addition…