Ukrainian Linux Kernel Developers group

Samsung Electronics announced its much-anticipated Android consumer tablet, due to ship in Europe in mid-September. The Samsung Galaxy Tab runs Android 2.2 on a 1GHz Cortex-A8 processor, and offers a seven-inch, 1024 x 600 capacitive touchscreen, a three-megapixel camera, a front-facing videocam, 802.11n, GPS, Bluetooth 3.0, and 3G with voice telephony, says the company....

HP and Hynix Semiconductor announced they've entered into a joint development agreement on a memristor technology called ReRAM, claimed to be up to 100 times faster than flash memory while using 1/10th the energy. ReRAM devices could start replacing random access memory (RAM) and flash within three years, and may eventually replace CPUs, too, say the companies....

Immersion Corp. announced technology designed to enable touch feedback effects for tablets and other devices running either Android or Windows 7. The & TouchSense 2500& solution has already been built into Toshiba's dual-screen tablet, the Libretto W100, the company adds....

HP has revamped two of its 10.1-inch netbooks to include Intel's recently announced, dual-core Atom N550 processor, along with optional Broadcom video accelerator chips. Both netbooks are available with Windows 7, but the Mini 210 also offers a Linux-based & QuickWeb& fast boot option, and the Mini 5103 is available with a full SUSE Linux installation....

Motorola announced two new 3.7-inch Android phones, set for a fourth-quarter release in Europe. The Defy is a ruggedized dust- and water-resistant smartphone that runs Android 2.1 and MotoBlur, and the Milestone 2, available with Android 2.2 and a slider keyboard, is almost identical to the Verizon-destined Droid 2, but adds 720p video recording....

Mistral announced two Linux-ready daughtercards for Texas Instruments (TI) evaluation modules (EVMs), the latter already available with the chipmaker's ARM9-based Sitara AM1x and OMAP-L1x SoCs (system-on-chips) on board. The UART Expansion Module offers interfaces for soft UART, hard UART, and soft DIR, while the CAN Expansion Module provides soft CAN, and hard CAN bus interfaces....

Free Software Magazine: "This is my story about searching for Japanese pop music under a free culture license. It's a little tricky, because the best sites for this are of course, in Japan, and not well advertised on the English web"

Djere Web Services: "As a web page designer, programmer, and host it is very useful to know the popular Php programming/scripting language."

What types of apps will developers create for Google TV?

If the end of the year is a good time to take stock of all that's passed in the preceding 12 months, then why not the end of the summer? That, indeed, is just what Linux bloggers have been doing over the past week or so, thanks to a recent...

Das U-Blog by Prashanth: "I mentioned in my review of Kubuntu 10.04 Trinity that while the Trinity revival of KDE 3.5.11 has huge potential as a new contender in the field of DEs for old computers (competing with Xfce and LXDE, among others), KDE 3.5 looks pretty bad."

Desktop Linux Reviews: "This time around though, we've gotten a delightful surprise from the Linux Mint developers. A Debian version of Linux Mint! Yes, there is now a rolling release Linux Mint distro!"

Linux Pro Magazine: "Mozilla Labs announced its newest initiative, a gaming platform appropriately named Mozilla Labs: Gaming. The goal of the platform is to create browser-based games built on Open Web standards."

LinuxDevices: "Navigation device manufacturer Rydeen Mobile Electronics announced a seven-inch, Android-based tablet called the "gPad GCOM701" at last weekend's IFA show in Berlin."

linux-next: next-20100909 2010-09-09 [Patch] [View Patch] [Gitweb]

Xen Virtualization on Linux and Solaris: "In meantime Xen 4.0.1 is available via rawhide repositories . Been installed along with 2.6.32.21 pvops kernel and the most recent libvirt 0.8.3 on top of F14 (rawhide) via just several yum install commands,it doesn't require any longer to build xen rpms using corresponding xen-4.0.1-1.f14.src.rpm."

Linux Journal: "The Red Hat board of directors announced a new chairman Monday, August 30, to replace outgoing Matthew Szulik. Henry Hugh Shelton, retired Special Forces general, has been serving on the board since 2003 after leaving the elite Army division."

LinuxPR: Instead, every piece of technology was chosen from the open source community. Here is the story of the technology behind stock photo agency YayMicro.com.

Conceivably Tech: "Following Qualcomm, Samsung is also close to be launching a new smartphone processor with two cores. Based on ARM architecture, the new processor promises five times the graphics performance of current chips and enable 1080p video recording and playback."

Standards Blog: "I've been re-working The Alexandria Project in preparation for approaching a literary agent. One thing I'm toying with is whether the book needs to get to a quicker, edgier start than the original first chapter provides - such as what follows below. What's your opinion?"