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This Is What Started AMD's Open-Source Strategy

While AMD's open-source strategy was announced on Phoronix on 7 September 2007, it was on 17 September of the same year that the Novell/SUSE developers did their first public release of their xf86-video-radeonhd driver. This was the X.Org driver created by the Novell Linux engineers in months prior for R500 and R600 GPUs. Here is some special reading -- a letter that was volleyed from Novell to AMD that kicked off this entire process -- to celebrate what would have been the fourth birthday of this open-source Linux driver.

Arch Linux – "It is what you make it"

Many Linux distributions have taken the path of easy GUI-based installation, in order to appeal to a broader mix of users. But not Arch Linux, which emphasises simplicity of technical complexity over general usability. Richard Hillesley explains.

Something Gnome3 and Unity could Stand to Learn from Windows 8

In the Linux world the releases of the Gnome 3 and Unity desktops have been pushing a touch-geared interface not only to touch-screen devices, but also the large screen of your home PC! Mac's OSX followed this line of thinking and it appears Microsoft's Window 8 will be no different...

Getting what you want on Arch and Slackware - AUR and Slackbuilds

Package management on Linux systems has always been the subject of endless discussions, flamefests and bickering. Nonetheless, regardless of what one prefers, there's something for everyone, if not in distro X, then maybe in distro Y. Some swear by binary package management, others say that the only true way is compilation from source. Today we will focus on two distributions that offer the best of both worlds : Arch Linux and Slackware.

Revisited: Fuduntu 14.10.1

  • Das U-Blog by Prashanth (Posted by PV on Sep 17, 2011 4:32 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: Fedora, GNOME
It's just as good as before, and it's rolling-release now too, meaning it's super-good! Yay!

New Release: 0 A.D. Alpha 7 Geronium

The awesome Wildfire Games have unleashed another Alpha of 0 A.D.

How to add Facebook events to Google Calendar with Chrome

  • www.my-guides.net; By axel (Posted by axel on Sep 17, 2011 2:38 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial
Add your Facebook events to your Google Calendar with a simple extension for the Chrome browser.

Cloud Databases: Connectivity and Platform Options

If you plan to host databases in the cloud, you should be attuned to platform differences

The Proposal For Nouveau GPU Command Scheduling

After presenting this week at XDC2011 Chicago about TimeGraph, an open-source GPU command scheduler, and PathScale's GPGPU run-tiume, Shinpei Kato has now taken to the Nouveau list with his proposal...

Parallel JavaScript will turbo-charge web apps, Intel says

Intel released an open source engine for JavaScript that will let the language tap into multi-core CPUs and their vector extensions. Code-named & River Trail,& the Parallel Extensions for JavaScript will extend browser-based apps into new areas, such as photo and video editing, physics simulation, and 3-D gaming, according to the company....

This Week's Developer Reading List

Oracle APEX, HTML5, Force.com Cloud Apps, and CoffeeScript

A Native Enlightenment EFL Port To PlayStation 3

The Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL) have been natively ported to the Sony PlayStation 3 console...

Prepaid Android 2.3 phone features 1GHz processor, QWERTY keyboard

Prepaid phone provider Boost Mobile announced a mid-range Samsung smartphone with a QWERTY keyboard and a $230 no-contract price tag. The Samsung Transform Ultra runs Android 2.3 on a 1GHz processor, and offers 3G, Wi-Fi, GPS, a three-megapixel camera, a front-facing VGA webcam, and Android Market support, the mobile provider says....

New Games, Books and Magazines in Ubuntu Software Center

  • Softpedia; By Marius Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Sep 17, 2011 4:38 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Ubuntu
Canonical announced that lots of new games, books and magazines will be available in the Ubuntu Software Center for all Ubuntu users.

Openindiana- The revolution continue | Screenshots Tour

"OpenIndiana oi_151a has been released, this release comes exactly one year after the first release, oi_147. This build brings a wide variety of enhancements,openindiana including being the first build based on Illumos. Notable changes to the kernel and core userland since OpenIndiana's oi_148 release includes KVM

The Tails Project's The Amnesic Incognito Live System (Tails)

Making delirious dictators worldwide quake in their boots, the Tails Project recently announced numerous improvements to its anonymity-obsessed Linux distro, The Amnesic Incognito Live System, aka Tails. more>>

More Linux Site Hacks, ReactOS Ready to Go, Obama Signs 'America Invents Act'

On Monday the BBC reported that Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has been asked to push 1 million euros into development of ReactOS, the open source Windows clone. Evidently, the request came from a student at a high school where the president was visiting.

Top 10 GNOME Shell Themes

GNOME Shell is at the very beginning of its long treacherous journey. As we saw in our earlier post, it is now possible to easily install GNOME Shell in Ubuntu 11.10 Oneric Ocelot, whose final release is scheduled to happen next month itself. Meanwhile, I have been using GNOME Shell in Ubuntu Oneric beta for sometime now and one thing I am really unhappy about is its default theme. But third party GNOME Shell themes are already pouring in. Here is a collection of top 10 GNOME Shell themes(installation instructions towards bottom of this post).

Atom-based 3.5-inch SBC features touchscreen controller

Aaeon announced a 3.5-inch single board computer (SBC) with dual display support and a touchscreen controller. The GENE-LN05 Rev.B offers a choice of Intel Atom N455 or dual-core, 1.8GHz D525 processors with up to 2GB or 4GB of DDR3 memory, respectively, and features CompactFlash, SATA, gigabit Ethernet, USB, serial, Parallel, and expansion interfaces, says the company....

VMware juices Roo for big Java clouds

Hypervisor hammering in the Cloud Foundry VMware's SpringSource unit has released Java tooling making it faster and easier to build big clouds using its parent's Cloud Foundry project.…

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