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OpenSSH 6.8

Thursday, March 19 2015 @ 14:09 CET
Contributed by: tingo
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OpenSSH 6.8 has been released. Announcement.
(via LWN.net)

Prey

Tuesday, March 10 2015 @ 11:55 CET
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 646

The article How to integrate Prey into the security posture of your Linux PC from LinuxBSDos.com says: "Prey is a cross-platform (Android, Linux, iOS, Mac OS X, and Windows desktop) anti-theft tracking software that, when installed and activated on a supported device, makes it possible to remotely locate, lock, wipe and recover it, if it’s stolen or missing."

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Libreboot project

Friday, February 27 2015 @ 20:11 CET
Contributed by: tingo
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Libreboot is a free (libre) BIOS/UEFI replacement for your computer. Based on coreboot, the aim is to distribute low-level boot firmware that is 100% free software. The project is aimed at users, attempting to make coreboot as easy to use as possible.

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MediaDrop

Friday, February 27 2015 @ 19:40 CET
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Views: 626

MediaDrop bills itself as "The Web' Open Source Video Platform".

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Bees and people

Monday, February 23 2015 @ 22:58 CET
Contributed by: tingo
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Open Source Beehives is interesting, as well as Flow Hive Honey (IndieGogo).

Home Assistant

Monday, February 02 2015 @ 21:12 CET
Contributed by: tingo
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Home Assistant is an open-source home automation platform, running on Python 3.

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Coherent has been open sourced

Tuesday, January 13 2015 @ 22:02 CET
Contributed by: tingo
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Coherent, along with other source code from Mark Williams Company has been released under an open source license. MWC Sources.

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IOduino

Sunday, December 28 2014 @ 15:01 CET
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 582

IOduino is a firmware for the Arduino which enables it's pins to be controlled remotely (over serial RS232). Analog/digital reads and writes are all possible. It comes bundled with a C++ library (IOduino.h) and a Python library (ioduino.py) which allows easy control from a computer running Linux. Interesting.

Arduino - optiboot

Sunday, December 28 2014 @ 13:10 CET
Contributed by: tingo
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If you work with Arduino, optiboot might be of interest. It is compatible with 168 and 328 Arduinos including Lilypad, Pro, Nano. OptiLoader looks like a nice way to put optiboot on a bunch of Arduino's quickly. Or Nick Gammon's Atmega bootloader programmer,

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Firmata and microcontroller communication

Sunday, December 28 2014 @ 12:52 CET
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 630

Firmata (wiki - unmaintained) is a protocol for communicating with microcontrollers from software on a computer (or smartphone/tablet, etc). The protocol can be implemented in firmware on any microcontroller architecture as well as software on any computer software package (see list of client libraries below). Implementations for Arduino and Spark exists.

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