Open source electronics firm Liquidware has released a kit for attaching a 4.4-inch Liquidware BeagleTouch OLED touchscreen to a BeagleBoard to construct a Linux-based, tablet device. The Beagle Embedded Starter Kit also incorporates a BeagleJuice battery module and a 4GB SD card.
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Python 2 series reaches last update
Python 2.7, the last in the legacy Python 2.x dynamic language line, moved closer to general availability earlier this month when developers of the language put out a release candidate.
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Mozilla 64-bit on GNU Systems Available for the First Time
"...It is being made available for testing purposes only, and is intended for web application developers and our testing community..."
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Tor 0.2.1.26-stable released
Tor is free software and an open network that helps you defend against a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security known as traffic analysis.
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10 Git Tips and Tricks for Beginners
Like many technologies, Git's shallow learning curve encourages adoption, yet it offers so many features and options that it can easily overwhelm beginners.
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Eclipse Study Shows Major Gains for Linux Among Developers
Developers and programmers are always the earliest adopters of technology, paving the way for the rest of us. And nowhere is that more evident than with Linux. Over the last 10 years, developers have brought Linux in through the back door and sold its benefits up the corporate flagpole. And successfully so.
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Development Release: Kongoni GNU/Linux 1.12.3 Alpha 2
Kongoni GNU/Linux is a Slackware-based, desktop-oriented GNU/Linux distribution and live CD. Its main features include a graphical installer, a Kongoni Integrated Setup System (KISS), and an easy-to-use Ports Installation GUI (PIG).
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Making emacs insert a user provided HTML tag pair
A small but useful HTML function for emacs text editor. An elisp function that, when invoked with a key combination, asks the user for the root of an HTML pair (such as 'em' or 'strong' or 'blockquote'), and then wraps the selected text or the word the cursor (point) is on in the code.
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My Top 5 Bash Resources
Over the course of writing The Linux Command Line and this blog, I've had frequent need of good reference resources for command line programs including the shell itself. Here is my list of the ones that stand out:
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25 Best Free Linux Graphics Softwares For Designers & Developers
Linux is a very strong platform for budding artists, photographers, animators, and designers. With inexpensive hardware, free software, and a modicum of talent and inspiration, anyone can create professional-looking computer graphics.There is a huge range of Open Source software available to create, modify and convert 2D and 3D computer graphics.
Read more »Quickly helps you create software programs (and other things) quickly
You can select from a set of application templates and use some simple quickly commands to create, edit code and GUI, and publish your software for others to use. Quickly's templates are easy to write. So if you are a fan of language foo, you can create a foo-project template. Or if you want to help people making plugins for your killer app, you can make a killer-app-plugin template.
Read more »Nokia to open Qt even more by opening up governance
Since the beginning, Qt C++ development framework has been a product that has collaborated with and embraced its developer community as much as possible. Nokia believes the time has come to take this model forward again and to empower the community even more by changing the way Qt is governed – by moving to an even more open governance model.
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If Or When Will X12 Actually Materialize?
The first version of the X protocol for the X Window System emerged in 1984 and just three years later we were at version 11. However, for the past 23 years, we have been stuck with X11 with no signs of the twelfth revision being in sight.
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Kernel Log: Linux 2.6.35 taking shape
Linux 2.6.35 will deliver better network throughput, support the Turbo Core functionality offered by the latest AMD processors and de-fragment memory on demand. On LKML, a discussion on merging several patches developed by Google for Android is generating large volumes of email
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How I sped up my server by a factor of 6 (with one linux command)
It occurred to me that I was running 3 CPU-bound processes on the same machine and that the processes might be stepping on each other's toes. It's possible that if the server is running on core 4 one second and the producer is running there the next, the level 1 cache of that core could be ruined for the server the next time it ambles over there.
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