#98 Linux Ubuntu 15.10 Finally Released, Download Year’s 2nd Biggest Release

PoweTech & Powertechmation: Linux Ubuntu 15.10, this year’s second Ubuntu release is finally here. You can find the download link below or check for the update on you already Ubuntu 15.04 running system.

Canonical has finally unwrapped the Linux Ubuntu 15.10 distro. Ubuntu 15.10 is also referred to as the Wily Werewolf and it follows the Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid Vervet release of April 23.

The Linux Ubuntu 15.10 comes with the latest OpenStack cloud computing platform and two new Canonical technologies: Autopilot tools for managing OpenStack deployment and LXD for containers.

The Linux Ubuntu 15.10 is based on the Linux kernel 4.2 that was unveiled on August 20th. Ubuntu 15.10 comes with new security and bug fixes and 9 months support.

You can grab the official ISO image of Linux Ubuntu 15.10 from the links below or look for the upgrade in already running Ubuntu 15.04.

Download Ubuntu 15.10

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#60 World’s First $9 Computer CHIP is Shipping Today

If you found $35 a lot to spend on a Raspberry Pi for a computer, you would have loved the $9 computer CHIP. CHIP houses a 1GHz All winners R8 single-core processor, 4GB on-board storage and 512MB DDR3 RAM coupled with WiFi and Bluetooth built-in.

Earlier this year, Next Thing Co. launched a kick-started campaign to fund this project, and now its team has announced that the first CHIP computers are shipping to the Kernel Hacker Backers.

The world’s first $9 computer is an innovative open hardware project, powered by an open source software. The specifications of an entry-level computer and the price tag of $9 makes it one the best platforms for developers.

Currently, Next Thing Co. is shipping the Alpha CHIP and its shipping without any firmware. However, there are detailed instructions for flashing the software onto the CHIP.

If you’ve backed the project earlier at the Kernel Hacker Backer level on Kickstarter, you’ll be getting two CHIP computers. The second batch of CHIP computer will ship in mid-October.

Apart from the earlier mentioned hardware specifications, CHIP features a composite video port, a USB port, a micro USB port and other developer pins for hooking up hardware.

If you’ve missed the chance of grabbing a CHIP on the Kickstarter campaign, you can pre-order CHIP from the Next Thing Co. website.

#56 Turn Anything Into A Phone Using RePhone – World’s 1st Open Source Modular Phone

Recently, we saw the advent of RePhone kit that reminds me instantly of Google’s much-awaited Project Ara modular phone. RePhone is developed by Seeed Studio and it has launched a KickStarted campaign to get the funding for this project.

RePhone helps you to create your phone in few minutes with its slim modules, customizable phone enclosures and accessible software. With the help of open source components like RePhone Core GSM + BLE module or RePhone Core 3G model, you can add cell connections to your phone.

Apart from these core modules, there are 8 more modules – a 5×7 LED board, an NFC board, a GPS board, a 1.54-inch touch screen, an audio board, an Arduino-compatible microcontroller, a GSM breakout board and a basic sensor board. 

You can hook up these modules together with a varied choice of connectors ranging from soldered wires and FPC ribbon cable to conductive thread. You can even just breadboard them.

RePhone comes with a rich library for hooking into Arduino IDE, Lua and JavaScrip, along with detailed examples to teach everyone develop things easily. They also provide a complete SDK based on Eclipse IDE for C/C++ developers to work with complex applications. 

If you are not into programming, no problem. There is an easy drag and drop feature for files. Just download them online and put them in your RePhone.

With the RePhone modular smartphone kit, you get its cool Kraft paper foldable case that has DIYing written all over it in bold letters. You can make your RePhone, call your friends, listen to music and by connecting it to IFTT, you can setup logic to convert it as an IoT device.

The KickStarter campaign of RePhone was launched this week and we hope to see RePhone as a great DIYing tool in near future.


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