A chance to earn from coin for writing Atom aps..."At the Intel Developer Forum, Intel announced an exciting new opportunity for developers to earn money by writing netbook applications via the Intel Atom Developer Program community, and selling their applications through future application stores. Developers were told to look for a software development kit (SDK) to help them develop applications and components for netbooks.
As the world economy began tanking last fall, a small group of open source developers decided to get together to try to build a better mousetrap--in this case by using a more efficient compiler.Their idea was simple--if you create code that is compiled more efficiently, then the programs can execute and run faster, saving energy, conserving computing resources and giving more bang for the buck for cash-strapped businesses that rely on open source applications in their IT infrastructures.... [more]
Novell bets on Moblin for embedded..."Intel and Novell on Thursday announced a deal to push Moblin, the open source Linux platform designed to work with the chip giant’s Atom chip. Intel cooked up Moblin and then handed it off to the open source community." [Read more at Between the Lines]
Submitted Community Manager on Fri, 05/08/2009 - 12:00.
Keith Packard analyzes the state of Linux graphics drivers..."This week, we finished up our 2009 Q1 release of the Intel driver. Most of the effort for this quarter has been to stabilize the recent work, focusing on serious bugs and testing as many combinations as we could manage.
Submitted Community Manager on Mon, 04/27/2009 - 13:55.
The Linux Foundation today announced it will host the industry’s most advanced and open Linux-based mobile project, Moblin.Created in 2007, the Moblin project will be supported by the Linux Foundation. With technical support from the industry’s highly respected kernel developers and a neutral, third party host, the Moblin project is primed to be the most advanced and open mobile Linux platform.
Submitted Community Manager on Thu, 04/02/2009 - 16:28.
The answer to the question might surprise you..."Exciting news from the LinuxDNA project, which earlier this month successfully compiled a recent Linux kernel with the Intel C/C++ compiler (ICC). This is not just a compile without errors, this is — for the most part — a fully bootable, compatible Linux kernel that can boot into a full Linux system. The full system is based on Gentoo Linux, and utilizes kernel version 2.6.22.
Submitted LinuxJournal on Thu, 02/26/2009 - 14:20.