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Submission + - KDE's Aaron Seigo introduces Improv – Raspberry Pi's big brother (muktware.com) 1

Submitted by sfcrazy
sfcrazy writes: KDE's Aaron Seigo just announced a board called Improv. Improv has better hardware than Raspberry Pi. It has a dual core 1Ghz Cortext-A7 CPU with Mali400 GPU, 1Gb RAM and 4GB NAND flash which makes it a far, far more powerful device than Raspberry Pi which has a single 700Mhz ARM 11 with a far weaker GPU. In the memory department Pi only has 512MB of RAM and no NAND flash at all. It's available for $75 in North America and Europe.

Submission + - Have we seen the first death of the "post anti-biotic era"? Scary (wired.com)

Submitted by Lasrick
Lasrick writes: In September, Dr. Thomas Frieden, the director of the CDC, cautioned: “If we’re not careful, we will soon be in a post antibiotic era. And, in fact, for some patients and some microbes, we are already there.” Maryn McKenna considers what losing the effectiveness of antibiotics would mean

Comment good news (Score 2) 152

by ssam (#45483073) Attached to: MATE To Make It Into Debian Repositories

This is good news. GNOME2/MATE is a very nicely evolved traditional desktop, that I am sure has more person hours of testing than all the other linux desktops put together (being the default in most major distros for years).

Having it in the official repos, saves having to hunt down the addresses of the repos when installing. A strength of debian is how broad the repos are. Thanks for the hard work folks.

Submission + - RHEL 7 will be a KDE Desktop

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: At the 2013 linux Kernel summit Redhat spokesperson Lisa Truman revealed that the upcoming RHEL 7 will be based on the KDE Software Compilation desktop environment. "As you know we have been working on implementing Gnome 3 classic mode for RHEL 7. But after early feedback from our customers we have decided to switch to a KDE/QT based desktop for our flagship product". On what feedback Redhat received from their customers, Ms. Truman responded: "We at Redhat appreciate that many of our customers use non accelerated or legacy hardware for their workstations, and software rendering with llvmpipe may not fit the bill for them". "Also gnome-classic-mode is an emulation of a classic desktop and is lacking many important areas". When Ms. Truman was asked if the switch to KDE is the reason for the delay in the release of RHEL 7 she stated: "We are still on track to release RHEL 7 by the end of 2013".

Comment Re:Pardon my ignorance but... (Score 2) 273

by ssam (#45200221) Attached to: USB Implementers Forum Won't Play Nice With Open Hardware

Collisions are a real problem. As an example, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/devicekit-power/+bug/507247 Ubuntu recognises a whole bunch of things as a power meter, because they all use the same usb-serial chip, and so have the same IDs. Here they all use the same low level driver, but programs that try to talk to the device over that serial link have issues.

Submission + - Open-Source Intel Mesa Driver Now Supports OpenGL 3.2 (phoronix.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Mesa and its open-source Intel graphics driver now are in compliant with the OpenGL 3.2 specification. It took four years for Mesa to get up to GL 3.2 / GLSL 1.50 compliance and supporting the other Mesa drivers aren't too far behind, but they're still years behind in supporting OpenGL 4. Supporting a major new OpenGL API has resulted in Mesa 10.0 being called the next release and it has many other features too like performance improvements and new Gallium3D features. OpenGL 3.3 support might also be completed prior to the Mesa 10.0 release in November.

Submission + - Kickstarter Project Hopes For Million Dollar Open-Source 2D/3D GPU (phoronix.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: In light of recent Linux binary GPU driver problems and other issues, an open-source GPU driver project has launched. Silicon Spectrum is hoping to open-source their verilog and other code for an FGPA GPU under the LPGPLv3 license when reaching $200,000 USD in crowd-funding. Their design has reportedly been used for digital picture frames and avionics equipment. For stretch goals, 3D support would be worked on while at one million dollars the company would write a brand new shader graphics design. Backers to the Open Source Graphics Processor Kickstarter won't receive any hardware as they'll be left to setting up the FPGA hardware themselves, but they will get early access to the LGPLv3 verilog and other data.

Submission + - Kickstarter for open source GPU (kickstarter.com)

Submitted by eekee
eekee writes: The targets are high, but so is the goal: developing Verilog source code for a GPU implementation. The source will be open source, LGPL-licensed, and suitable for loading onto an FPGA. The first target is for a 2D GPU with PCI interface; perhaps not terribly interesting in itself, but the first stretch goal is much more exciting: full OpenGL and Direct3D graphics.

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