Tag Archives: embedded

Looking for a simple GPS receiver

Dear Lazyweb, I am looking for a simple GPS receiver for my laptop. Ideally, it would disappear into one of the PCMCIA or SD slots, but I am having a tough time finding something like this. Alternatively, if Bluetooth is … Continue reading

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Ubuntu goes mobile too!

Right before we launched the GNOME Mobile & Embedded Initiative, Intel went public with their sexy Mobile Internet Device prototypes, running Red Flag and Ubuntu. They’re Linux based, and use Nokia’s Hildon interface architecture, developed for the N770 and N800 … Continue reading

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Major GNOME announcement next Thursday

If you were wondering what this obtuse, xkcd-inspired stream of numbers meant… Now I can reveal a little more, as per www.gnome.org… If you love GNOME, and you’re near Santa Clara next Thursday, come and see us!

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Spooks dig GConf

At the recent SE Linux Symposium, James Carter of the NSA spoke about using GConf as a user space object manager. The paper covers the application of Flask principles (and SE Linux in particular) to user configuration, and is well … Continue reading

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A Stream of Numbers

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Missing you at BOSSA

Unfortunately I’m not in Brazil for BOSSA this week due to illness — not even healthy enough to argue with my doctor about it. Missing Brazil again! Gah. I wouldn’t normally announce my non-presence at a conference here, but it … Continue reading

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QoTD: Emmanuele Bassi

“So, waiting for Project Ridley to come to the rescue is not going to cut it anymore: if you are proposing to move some functionality from a library to GLib or GTK+ be prepared to work on the whole code … Continue reading

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Im in ur Javur, releasin ur codes

Java is Free. Crack now. Analysis later.

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Clutting Edge

OpenedHand have dropped another love bomb on the GTK+/GNOME embedded scene — Clutter, a simple scenegraph/canvas API for doing pimped-out, full screen, kiosk/television style user interfaces with GTK+, GStreamer and GL. Take a look at the examples included in the … Continue reading

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