The first feature release for the LLVM powered Rubinius improves performance and adds support for dbm
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Atom-based 3.5-inch board offers PCIe expansion
Axiomtek announced a 3.5-inch embedded board that can be fitted with Intel’s Atom N450, D410, or dual-core D510 processors. The Capa800 offers up to 1GB of DDR2 memory, CompactFlash and PCI Express expansion, dual gigabit Ethernet ports, eight USB ports, and four serial ports, says the company….
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Linux Desktop PC on Steroids From ZaReason
I asked independent Linux OEM vendor ZaReason for a high-end super-powered Linux desktop PC to review, and they delivered 8-core madness.
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Red Hat’s Fortunes Rise on Cloud, Virtualization
Linux vendor Red Hat reports a healthy balance sheet for its second quarter of fiscal 2011 buoyed by solid revenue from its emerging cloud-computing and virtualization businesses.
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Intel’s Atom E6xx Makes it Onto a 3.5-inch SBC
Avalue announced a 3.5-inch SBC (single board computer) powered by Intel’s Atom E6xx processors. The ECM-QB has 1GB of onboard DDR2 RAM, four USB 2.0 ports, five serial ports, two gigabit Ethernet ports, plus microSD, CompactFlash, and PCI Express Mini Card slots, the company says….
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Cloud Storage Startup Box.net Launches Android App; BlackBerry App In The Works
Cloud-based storage and sharing application Box.net has bet big on iOS apps so far, and has seen considerable traction with its iPad and iPhone apps. Since launch, Box.net has seen 200,000 downloads of its iPhone and iPad apps, and topped 1 million content previews on mobile in the second quarter of 2010. Today, Box is expanding beyond the iOS platform to offer users a free Android app, which is now available on the Android Marketplace.
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Hands-on: Reading e-Books on Android with Aldiko
Although pocket-sized touchscreen devices are arguably not the most comfortable way to read copious amounts of text, modern multifunction smartphones offer a convenient alternative to dedicated e-book devices such as Amazon’s Kindle. With the right third-party software, an Android handset can transform into a capable e-book reader whenever you have a spare moment to dive into a novel.
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VideoEgg Acquires Movable Type Blogging Software
Video advertising expert VideoEgg has purchased Six Apart, creator of the Movable Type blogging tool, for an undisclosed sum
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Can Academia ‘Release Early, Release Often?”
A few months ago, opensource.com ran a story on a textbook for college students learning programming (Can Professors Teach Open Source?, Greg DeKoenigsberg, Apr 6 2010). The textbook, “Practical Open Source Software Exploration,” was created the open source way on the Teaching Open Source wiki. (Read Greg’s article for more on what we mean by creating the textbook “the open source way”.)
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Red Hat Boosts Revenue
Premier Linux distributor Red Hat continues to show strong performance with an increase in revenue for the second quarter of its fiscal year 2011 of 20% over the same quarter last year
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