Issue #140 / Jul 2012

A little over a year ago, I wrote a column about a Nokia memo that appeared a little over a year ago. The famous “Burning Platform” memo made the case for Nokia bailing out of the open source MeeGo project as a last-ditch effort to save the company.

This month’s emphasis is on hardware. We look at video acceleration, smartphone security, and new life for old devices.

This month's DVD comes with Kubutu 12.04 LTS.

Cloud News
• CloudStack moves toApache
• Red Hat Data Grid 6 beta released
• News Bites

Kubuntu Sponsored
• Blue Systems sponsors Kubuntu
• IBM PowerLinux Solutions
• Spyrus Pocket Drive

Ubuntu News
• Ubuntu 12.04 LTS for desktop launched
• Ubuntu 12.10 flies with Quantal Quetzal
• Coverity 6.0 released

Red Hat Announces OpenShift Origin

OpenMAMA 2.1 Now Available

Tizen Association Releases Larkspur

Yocto Project 1.2 Released

Improve video performance with hardware video-accelerated decoding using the video Acceleration APi.

The still experimental but promising SEAndroid framework offers SELinux-like mandatory access control for the Android universe.

Don’t despair over your out-dated Palm hardware. Open source software can bring new life to these devices, give you modern functionality, and save you a boatload of money.

Embedded Linux doesn’t have to be rocket science, which the Gnublin board clearly shows. If you want to learn how to read sensors, flip switches, and switch LEDs on ARM Linux, this tiny machine is perfect for your research.