Streaming of Satellite Channels into a LAN
Nowadays the main source of digital TV channels is receiving them from satellites using DVB-S technology. This method is notable for simplicity of deploying and variety of multimedia content on…
Halluc II the Transformer tank robot runs on Linux
Halluc II a robot developed by Japan's Chiba institute of technology has 8 wheels and a lot of sensors. It can move in six mysterious ways, including going forward, sideways, up steps and slopes.…
Linux Foundation Names Markus Rex as CTO
The Linux Foundation (LF), the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux , today announced that Markus Rex, a long-time Linux executive at SUSE Linux AG and Novell, will…
Intel Releases Threading Library Under GPL 2
Intel Threading Building Blocks (TBB) offers a rich and complete approach to expressing parallelism in a C++ program. It is a library that helps you leverage multi-core processor performance…
Seven RFID Organizations Support Open-Source
A group of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology organizations today announced their support for the open-source development of EPCglobal-compliant Low-Level Reader Protocol (LLRP)…
Why desktop Linux fails in big organizations
I believe that the key reason Unix hasn’t taken over the generic office desktop has nothing to do with the technology and everything to do with the people and processes involved.
Thus the…
iPlayer faces petition pressure
An e-petition on the Downing Street website has called on parliament to stop the BBC launching its iPlayer to a Windows-only audience.
More than 10,000 people have signed the petition which…
Intel PR honcho puts spin on OLPC relationship
Earlier this month, Intel and the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project announced that Intel has joined the OLPC board -- a surprise given the previously reported acrimonious relationship between…
Russian government to finance Linux version for schools
Russian Ministry of Finance approved RUR 3 bln financing from state budget for software on school computers. 1,9 bln from that would be spent on patented software, like Microsoft's and Adobe's…
How package management changed everything
What’s the single biggest advancement Linux has brought to the industry?
It’s an interesting question, and one that in my opinion has a very simple answer: Package management—or, more…