Today the Raspberry Pi Foundation announced that the Raspberry Pi 2, the new version of their credit card sized computer, is on sale for . The new devices are backward compatible with the previous generation but more powerful, with a faster ARM Cortex-A7 processor and twice more on-board memory. Source: Tech
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Digital Jersey Holds it's First Open Source Day
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Digital Jersey in partnership with Collaborate.je will deliver Jersey’s first Open Source Day, sponsored by E-scape, on Wednesday 11th February, 10.00am to 4.00pm, at the Digital Jersey Hub. The day will showcase Open Source solutions and technology, which offer an alternative to proprietary systems more commonly used by businesses. Source: Tech
Does open source power your entertainment media center?
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Open source media center solutions have really taken off in the past few years, and there are now many more approaches to using both open source software and open hardware to power entertainment on your television. If you’re consuming media with the help of open source, we’re curious: how are you doing it? Are you…
Zimbra gets back to open source roots
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The open source market landscape is growing by leaps and bounds, and it’s at a time like this that it’s important for Zimbra, a provider of collaboration software, to reinvigorate its open source roots. Here’s how we plan to encourage increased participation in community open source projects in 2015. Source: Tech
Dell Precision M3800 Mobile Workstation gains 4K, Thunderbolt 2 and Ubuntu Linux options
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Dell makes damn good consumer computers, but the company really shines in the enterprise. Along with HP and Lenovo, the firm makes very solidly built and dependable workstations. Source: Tech
MapR Offers Free Hadoop Training
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MapR Technologies just offered a big gift to IT employees who have been looking to improve their big-data skills. The company, which provides a top-ranked distribution of Apache Hadoop, announced Tuesday that it would begin offering free, on-demand training for the open-source software framework for developers, analysts and administrators. Source: Tech
Ex-Opera chief launches Vivaldi browser for 'power tab' rockers
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FORMER OPERA CEO Jon von Tetzchner has launched a browser called Vivaldi designed for people “who have problems” fitting all their open tabs onto one screen. A bare bones technical preview of the browser, named after composer Antonio Vivaldi, is available for Windows, Mac and Linux. Source: Tech
pompei 0.1.03
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Pompei is a python package and command line utility to generate photo mosaics from movie frames, like this one: It is an open-source software originally written by Zulko and released under the MIT licence. Source: Tech
SAP Asks Microsoft, Apple to Share Hacker-Fighting Intelligence
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SAP SE is trying to marshal business technology’s biggest suppliers to gather hacker-fighting intelligence following a spate of security problems with open-source software. The biggest maker of business applications has contacted companies includingMicrosoft Corp. and Apple Inc. about sharing information on analyses of the weaknesses in open-source code, which is generally free to run and…
In open source, no one cares if you're a dog
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On the Internet, no one cares if you’re a dog, the saying goes. In open source, no one cares if you’re a jerk. Source: Tech