On March 8th, 2021 with 82 comments
MIPS Technologies, the company that had been synonymous with the MIPS processor architecture, will now be developing processors based on RISC-V architecture....
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On February 28th, 2021 with 32 comments
"Maker Andreas Spiess talks about the Open Source that really goes into a RISC-V chip and the ESP32-C3," writes
Slashdot reader nickwinlund77 — sharing a...
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On January 10th, 2021 with 202 comments
"With the runaway success of the new ARM-based M1 Macs, non-x86 architectures are getting their closeup," explains a new article at ZDNet.
"RISC-V is getting...
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On November 30th, 2020 with 118 comments
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has released a tiny $5 fan combined with a small heatsink for the Raspberry Pi 4. TechCrunch reports: It works with the official...
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On November 24th, 2020 with 246 comments
Yes, Torvalds said he'd love to have one of the new M1-powered Apple laptops, but it won't run Linux and, in an exclusive interview he explains why getting...
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On October 16th, 2020 with 120 comments
The official public repository for CUPS, an Apple open-source project widely used for printing on Linux, is all-but dormant since the lead developer left Apple...
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On October 5th, 2020 with 35 comments
Nvidia has debuted the Jetson Nano 2GB, a new developer kit for students and hobbyists with an interest in robotics. ZDNet reports: The Jetson Nano 2GB is...
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On September 25th, 2020 with 18 comments
New submitter kyubre writes: Seagate has unveiled CORTX, an open-source S3-compatible object storage software, today at their Datasphere virtual event. The...
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On July 17th, 2020 with 44 comments
Microsoft-owned GitHub has finally moved its snapshot of all active public repositories on the site to a vault in Norway. ZDNet reports: GiHub announced the...
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On May 1st, 2020 with 48 comments
New submitter jsicolo shares a report: Nvidia Chief Scientist Bill Dally has released an open-source ventilator hardware design he developed in order to...
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On April 23rd, 2020 with 20 comments
watha2020 writes: Spot, the four-legged robot made famous by its YouTube dance video, is being tested as a remote triage system at Boston's Brigham Women's...
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On November 20th, 2019 with 24 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Forbes: Denver-based PC manufacturer and Pop!_OS Linux developer System76 plans to follow-up its custom Thelio desktop...
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On October 10th, 2019 with 29 comments
System76, the Denver-based Linux PC manufacturer and developer of Pop OS, has some stellar news for those who prefer their laptops a little more open. Later...
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On September 29th, 2019 with 21 comments
The NLNet Foundation is a non-profit supporting privacy, security, and the "open internet". Now the open source Libre RISC-V hybrid CPU/GPU is applying for...
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On September 5th, 2019 with 74 comments
Samsung has announced a new prototype key-value SSD that is compatible with the first industry standard API for key-value storage devices. "Earlier this year,...
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On June 2nd, 2019 with 75 comments
The NLNet Foundation is a non-profit supporting privacy, security, and the "open internet". Now the group has approved funding for the hybrid Libre RISC-V...
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On April 21st, 2019 with 30 comments
"Big changes are here," writes the official blog for Bluecherry:
In 2010 we released our multi-port MPEG4 video capture card with an open source driver...
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On March 28th, 2019 with 147 comments
prpplague writes: Despite Linus Torvald's recent claims ARM won't win in the server space, there are very specific use cases where ARM is making advances into...
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On December 16th, 2018 with 60 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: The year was 2010 and the future of mobile computing was looking bright. The iPhone was barely three...
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On December 1st, 2018 with 92 comments
"The Linux Foundation and RISC-V Foundation announced yesterday a joint collaboration project to promote open source development and commercial adoption of the...
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On November 26th, 2018 with 19 comments
Amazon is launching AWS RoboMaker, a cloud-based service that utilizes the open-source software Robot Operating System (ROS) to offer developers a place to...
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On July 28th, 2018 with 95 comments
An anonymous reader quotes IEEE Spectrum:
[W]hat's so compelling about RISC-V isn't the technology -- it's the economics. The instruction set is open source....
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On March 11th, 2018 with 232 comments
An anonymous reader writes:
Last month Eric S. Raymond complained about his choices for a UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply), adding that "This whole category...
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On January 20th, 2018 with 179 comments
Linux kernel developer (and LWN.net co-founder) Jonathan Corbet recently posted an essay with a tantalizing title: "Is it time for open processors?" He cited...
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On October 28th, 2017 with 42 comments
"MakerBot just announced a new Open Source initiative called 'MakerBot Labs'," writes Slashdot reader szczys. "It is a small move, centering around some new...
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On October 8th, 2017 with 161 comments
"SiFive has declared that 2018 will be the year of RISC V Linux processors," writes Design News. An anonymous reader quotes their report:
When it released its...
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On October 7th, 2017 with 49 comments
Slashdot reader mmiscool shares some videos about "the next step in 3D printing":
Autodrop3d is an open source system that solves the problem of needing a...
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On September 3rd, 2017 with 188 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Salon: Released in 2009 by Palm -- the same company that popularized the PDA in the 1990s -- WebOS pioneered a number...
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On May 21st, 2017 with 95 comments
An anonymous reader writes:
Steam and Slack are now both included as Flatpak applications on the Endless OS, a free Linux distribution built upon the decades...
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On May 6th, 2017 with 73 comments
angry tapir shared this news from Computerworld:
An open-source chip project is out to break the dominance of proprietary chips offered by Intel, AMD, and...
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