Facebook’s Open Compute Project has been one of the most talked about developments in the world of data center hardware over the past couple of years, and interest in the first ever open source hardware design community and its output has only grown. While there are some individual success stories, however, there has been little public information…
Free Software Foundation statement on the new iPhone, Apple Pay, and Apple Watch
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Today, Apple announced new iPhone models, a watch, and a payment service. In response, FSF executive director John Sullivan made the following statement: It is astonishing to see so much of the technology press acting as Apple’s marketing arm. What’s on display today is widespread complicity in hiding the most newsworthy aspect of the announcement…
Git Bounty Wants To Help Open-Source Programmers Get Paid For Bug Fixes
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If you’re using open-source software, you’ve probably come across a bug that you want to fix but don’t have the expertise to do it yourself – and the original author isn’t all that interested in fixing it. With Git Bounty, which was dreamed up by a team of French Canadians from Montreal at our Disrupt…
gphoto2 0.8.0
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It is built using SWIG to automatically generate the interface code. This gives direct access to nearly all the libgphoto2 functions, but sometimes in a rather un-Pythonic manner. Source: Tech
Bluefish444 Introduces Epoch|4K Neutron & Epoch|Neutron at IBC 2014
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Low profile half length uncompressed 4K/2K/HD/SD SDI I/O video cards immediately available. Windows/Linux/Mac OSX Bluefish444, manufacturer of the industry’s highest-quality uncompressed 4K/2K/HD/SD SDI video cards, introduced and announced the immediate availability of the Epoch The Epoch Neutron cards adopt an all new form factor, allowing for integration into a wide range of chassis. Source: Tech
Popcorn Time for Mac and Windows updated to beta 4.4 with better VPN, …
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Popcorn Time has proudly announced the launch of beta 4.4 for Windows and Mac users, including much better VPN, Chromecast, Airplay and codec support. The release is the first cross platform desktop version from the team, and it has all been built in C++ for Mac, Windows and Linux. Source: Tech
For a sweet desktop, try Mint with Cinnamon
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If Red Hat’s specialization is enterprise application, development and hosting, and Ubuntu ‘s is anything that moves, then Linux Mint is carving only one niche: desktop dominance. Linux Mint 17 continues in a line of Linux desktop-focused releases, and in testing we found it’s become more mature. Source: Tech
FSF and Debian join forces to help free software users find the hardware they need
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While other databases list hardware that is technically compatible with GNU/Linux, h-node lists hardware as compatible only if it does not require any proprietary software or firmware. Information about hardware that flunks this test is also included, so users know what to avoid. The database lists individual components, like WiFi and video cards, as well…
Air-Control brings instant updates to apps
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LONDON, 5th September 2014: Air-Control, the innovative tool for updating apps, has launched on Kickstarter to drive support for the further BETA development of the product. Air-Control allows app developers or app owners to instantly update their apps without submitting changes to an app store.Through Air-Control’s mirror screen technology, live updates can be made to…