Car Camera Open Source with Linux!

stanford2 Stanford University has decided to enter the world of photography with a minor revolution: an open source camera.
The idea is to create a platform where anybody can expand the functionality by simply modifying the firmware or downloading updates from the network as already happens for systems like the iPhone.
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This post was written by admin on September 7, 2009

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World of Goo: ALSO a great game for Linux!

worldofgoo-2008-02-18-17-01-27-22 Whenever we talk about video games for PC automatically you think windows systems, but this morning I receive a message from a Ninja tells me that these three words: World of Goo!
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This post was written by admin on February 27, 2009

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Linux on iPhone

It is several days that the DevTeam has announced that it has managed to do a port of Linux on the iPhone . In reality, for now is only an attempt, a classic proof of concept because they have "only" created a new boot loader called Openiboot and ported Kernel 2.6. The system still does not recognize all the hardware of the phone, but we can say that is a great start!
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This post was written by admin on December 2, 2008

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Types of Kernel

Often those new to Linux Kernel hear about but do not really know what they are looking on the internet and an explanation of "simple" we run into disputes between monolithic kernels and microkernels or complicated explanations where those who wanted only three lines to give " face to a name ", he finds himself confused and more confused than before. Let me try to explain simply what is a kernel and kernel flavors are there.

The Kernel is the core operating system, where you carry out basic operations such as assignment of hardware resources between different applications that request it.
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This post was written by admin on November 27, 2008

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Create an Access Point with a Linux laptop

It can happen that you have a cable connection but no WiFi or because he is absent or because security policy for the people outside can not access them. But now it is customary to have a PDA or smartphone that once connected to a wifi network uses the highest of their performances. How so?
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This post was written by admin on November 26, 2008

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SuperTuxKart: another game for linux and EeePC

Taken by the curiosity to try other games on eeepc, I downloaded and installed SuperTuxKart famous game that hints at Mario Kart , basically a nice game of cars where the aim is obviously to get the first (obvious?), but with the ' incentive to "bother" for bonuses to be used during the race: missiles to knock down his opponents and things like that.
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This post was written by admin on November 20, 2008

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Linux distributions: the map

Talking about Linux is how to speak the Italian language is one, but every country, province and region has its variant, its dialect.
Linux is no exception, of course its variants affect the distributions, all are based on the work of Linus Torvalds in the kernel, but then everyone has taken a different route by creating their own distro, which is a customization of the software package that will be included in the cd / dvd.
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This post was written by admin on November 18, 2008

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How to make a penguin

I am always astonished when I find online tutorials that I'm looking for something, because I see a living community that grows and generates more and something useful, in short, that will solve the problems.
Sometimes the network are also "rules" that if followed, allow the work to get compliant, which can be exchanged with other users and allow anyone who comes into possession of a continuity of development and / or modification.
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This post was written by admin on November 17, 2008

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Eeepc, Linux and games

Put these three words in the same sentence, without any denial is heresy to many.
We know that talking about games and Linux, well leave things as they are, but there are obviously games are few and often relegated to a niche of pure entertainment for five minutes.
Talking of eeepc, well many people still think that we are facing a "Clementoni 'a bit' too grown up, but that certainly is not worth anything.
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This post was written by admin on November 17, 2008

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Login Screen for Linux

Often the uninitiated to imagine a Linux operating system flat, graphically poor without appeal! While we know that this is not true, indeed, with Beryl the graphical environment of Linux is one of the coolest things you could ever see. Linux is fully customizable and there are two sites on the net that are the benchmark:

Gnome Look and KDE Look .

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This post was written by admin on November 13, 2008

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