Jams Music Player is an Android app for… playing music. It’s got a few nifty features including a 9-band equalizer, the ability to download album art from the internet, unofficial support for streaming music from Google Play Music, and a rather attractive user interface that seems inspired by Google’s new Android L Material design language. […]
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lowRISC wants to design a fully-open processor and development board
Free and Open Source Software has earned quite a following since the first Linux kernel was released in 1991. But for the most part FOSS software runs on hardware that’s not entirely open. Even the popular Raspberry Pi computer which is designed to help students learn to program with the help of inexpensive hardware and Linux-based software […]
OpenPandora releases open-source hardware, case designs for handheld game system
The OpenPandora is a handheld, Linux-based game system with the guts of a low-power PC and the ability to emulate classic video game consoles. It’s based on open source software… and now the hardware designs are also open source. The designers of the printed circuit board (PCB) and case have released schematics and other details […]
Tizen 2.3 Alpha source code released, with support for wearables
The developers of the open source Tizen operating system have released the source code for Tizen 2.3, and it’s not just for smartphones and tablets anymore. Tizen 2.3 includes support for wearable profiles. While Tizen was originally developed as a platform for smartphone and tablets, there are no phones or Tizen tablets shipping yet. That could […]
Novena open laptop raises $700 thousand through crowdfunding
Hardware hackers Bunnie Huang and Sean Cross wanted to design a laptop that didn’t rely on any proprietary hardware or software, so they created the Novena open laptop. At first they figured there was a market for exactly two of these systems in the world… but when they started talking about the project, plenty of other […]
Jolla releases Sailfish OS for the Google Nexus 4
Want to try out Jolla’s Sailfish operating system without buying a Jolla phone? Now you can run a developer preview version of the software on a Google Nexus 4. Jolla has released an official Sailfish OS image for Google’s last-generation Nexus phone, along with instructions for installing the software. Sailfish is an open source, Linux-based […]
MS DOS and Word for Windows source code released
Microsoft has just released the source code for one of its operating systems… but don’t worry. Hell hasn’t frozen over. It’s just that a lot of time has passed and the software isn’t really all that useful anymore. Working with the Computer History Museum, Microsoft is making the source code for MS DOS 1.1 and […]
Allwinner joins Linaro Digital Home Group, commits to open source chip support
Allwinner manufactures ARM-based chips used in tablets, TV boxes, and other low-power devices. While most of those products ship with Google Android software, developers have been porting Ubuntu and other Linux-based operating systems to run on devices with Allwinner chips for years, and the chip maker has been providing some source code and documentation to […]
Raspberry Pi gets true open-source graphics drivers
The Raspberry Pi is a single-board computer that sells for as little as $25 and which can be used for everything from learning to code to surfing the web to operating as a cheap home media center. Since launching 2 years ago, the Raspberry Pi has been popular with open source software enthusiasts, since the […]
Jolla’s Sailfish web browser is now open source
Sailfish OS is a Linux-based operating system built on the bones of MeeGo. The folks at Jolla have been building the software for a while, and the first Sailfish phones recently went on sale in Europe. But while the operating system is based on open source software, the apps that run on Sailfish are another […]