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Customizing your Linux desktop is a waste of time: Here's a better way to get what you want

Linux is famously customizable, and when you hear its perks discussed, you'll usually see mentions of "flexibility" and "personalization" in the conversation. Despite those strengths, I've gotten ...

Game Modding Becomes Much Easier on Linux With New Wine Update

Wine has released version 11.6, introducing updates aimed at improving the experience of running Windows applications and ...
EDN

Building a custom embedded SoC platform for embedded Linux

There are strong technical and business reasons to consider using Linux for your next embedded application project such as diverse hardware support, performance, scalability, high reliability, and ...
Network World

For $50, you can build a custom Android or Linux mini-computer

Gumstix, a company that has been selling small system boards – about the size of a “gum stick” – for years, is now offering crowdfunding for hardware that users can design themselves. (Stick with me ...
EDN

Built-to-Spec custom Linux distributions offered for $499

Timesys Corp. has an offer that no sane embedded developer who wants to get started with open source Linux can refuse: built-to-spec custom Linuxdistributions for device designs based on the PowerPC, ...
Electronic Design

Choose Your Custom Linux

TimeSys' subscription service, LinuxLink, delivers a custom, royalty free Linux platform and toolset for a range of embedded platforms. It is available for a range of target platforms including those ...
ZDNet

How to customize the Linux bash prompt (and why you should)

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