“Because I can …..” The above phrase has never made sense to me, doing something just because you can or even climbing a mountain because its there. But in the Technical sphere the above picture is a thing of beauty, Nokia N9 Charging off the Nokia N900. Technical hardware not conforming to the norm. People doing what they want with their devices, dare [...]

    Overview This is an awfully dry post; dry due to the sheer logistic nature of it. This functionality exists and is quite straight forwards to stumble upon. This blog exists in order to draw your attention to it and hopefully minimize the stumble time. You have a device: 1) Running an ssh server 2) With gdbserver You also have: 1) A functional tool [...]

    Below are the release notes for the latest version of OS for the WeTab v2.4.1 Version 2.4.1 (19/01/2012) Upgrade to kernel version 3.2 with support for more external devices Optimized power settings functionalities Increased graphics and video performance Improved G-Sensor rotation Increased WIFI and Bluetooth network stability General improvements on performance and stability Bugfix for “forgotten password” problem Several other bugfixes Version 2.4 [...]

    In 1999, Linux founder Linus Torvalds joked about plans for world domination. But as the Linux kernel celebrated its 20th birthday this year, Linux, and open source in general, have achieved a limited version of world domination. As we reported in August, Linux in its many forms now powers a majority of the world’s supercomputers. Apache web servers running on Linux and other [...]

    Over the past year, we’ve been working on a number of projects to help those who want to more closely participate in the Linux community, but don’t know where to start. First, there’s the Linux Foundation Training program. We’ve continued to add courses as new needs arise, and have had the opportunity to give on-site training to many companies over the past year. [...]

    Happy Holidays! Today we release the Qt 4.8 libraries for those of you that target Windows, Mac and Linux/X11. The stand-alone download of the Qt 4.8 libraries will be followed, in January, by a full Qt SDK update including the updated Qt 4.8 libraries as well as further improved Symbian and Nokia N9 targets based upon Qt 4.7.4. So for those of you [...]

  This Article is from Karoliina’s N9 Development Blog: This has been available for some time, but in case you have not noticed it, the new software release really worths installing as it significantly improves the performance of the device. You can see that for example the scrolling smoothness will be improved after updating from. Latest software release for Nokia N9 via Nokia page is [...]

    Now that MeeGo will no longer be progressed by Intel or the Linux foundation and without MeeGo tablet devices in market, the AppUp developer program will not be accepting MeeGo tablet app submissions for validation, effective December 2011. However MeeGo Netbook app submissions will continue for AppUp. MeeGo’s replacement Operating System Tizen will initially support MeeGo netbook applications but it is thought this [...]

  Something that I’ve been wanting to get into gPodder for a long time has finally landed in our Git repository: Common prefix elimination. We apply this to all episode titles that we show in GUI lists (e.g. in the Gtk UI and the QML UI), and it really helps to show you more information that is useful to you, especially on mobile devices:   [...]

    Plasma Active is innovative technology for a smarter mobile user experience…the latest member of the Plasma Workspaces family from KDE. The touchscreen interface is more than just an application launcher. Rather than the commonplace grid of applications, an Activity view shows a single project, task or idea, gathering all related documents, people, web sites, media and widgets. By creating multiple Activities, a mobile [...]

    We are impressed by the speed, depth and breath of the response to our call for Qt 5 on Raspberry Pi projects. We have more than 400 candidates for the 400 boards we expect to have as soon as the Raspberry Pi Foundation is ready! The list is growing, and if you have an idea in mind we still encourage you to apply. But your question is: [...]

  Nearly 125 years ago, German inventor Karl Benz introduced his Patentmotorwagen Number 1, the world’s first automobile designed to be propelled by a motor. Twenty years ago, Finnish computer science student Linus Torvalds posted on the Internet…Ok, ok, you know the rest. But fast forward to November 28, 2011, in a conference center overlooking picturesque Yokohama Bay (in Yokohama/Japan and not on Oahu/Hawaii for [...]

    New members hail from Brazil, Japan, Canada and the U.S.; each focused on advancing Linux for next-generation computing SAN FRANCISCO, November 15, 2011 – The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced that four companies are joining the organization: DENSO Corporation, Integrated Computer Solutions (ICS), ProFUSION Embedded Systems and Savoir-Faire Linux. These companies are joining The [...]

    BMW, Nissan and Toyota are among the companies keynoting at this first-time event SAN FRANCISCO, November 14, 2011 – The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced its program for the first-ever Automotive Linux Summit taking place November 28, 2011 in Yokohama, Japan. The Automotive Linux Summit will bring together the brightest minds from the automotive [...]

    “Secure boot” is a technology described by recent revisions of the UEFI specification; it offers the prospect of a hardware-verified, malware-free operating system bootstrap process that can improve the security of many system deployments. Linux and other open operating systems will be able to take advantage of secure boot if it is implemented properly in the hardware. This document is intended to describe [...]