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Herb Sutter dives into the repercussions of parallel's reach from mobile devices, to the desktop, to clusters, and — at the highest level of granularity — to the cloud. This welter of different parallel implementations presents significant challenges for programming. The free lunch of sequential programming is well and truly over.

Opera Widgets, unlike most other browser plugins, can be downloaded to serve as browser-independent desktop widgets. These are managed through Opera Widget Manager, so the Opera process remains open (without running the browser). This tutorial explains how to use Opera Widgets as desktop widgets on Ubuntu 11.10.

These two distributions have recently partnered together for future development and resources, so they will probably converge in some way. For now, though, Netrunner stands out.

Alex Fiestas has restarted working on a project called AppMenu Runner which implements the same ideas of Unity's HUD. 'Actions Lookup' as Alex Fiestas named it more than a year ago (the blog was posted on December 22, 2010) can be a very useful tool, if it can be integrated with krunner. He has made another attempt at Actions Menu (which he now calls AppMenu Runner) and has published the code.

An East Texas patent case that has attracted the attention of the technology world came to a screeching halt Thursday as the jury ruled that the key patent in the case is invalid. Eolas, a patent troll that has been shaking down technology companies for the better part of a decade, now faces the prospect of losing the patent.

When I play a game that runs full screen on Linux but still want to have things running in the background I'd like to check on here and there without closing my game I typically launch my game into a new Xserver instance.

"Open your source, Open your mind" is the motto of the Sabayon Linux which is based on Gentoo Linux released its version 8 with many updated software packages by default. It comes with many environment like GNOME, KDE, LXDE, Xfce, Fluxbox, Openbox. It is first Extreme-Rolling release with automated Entropy Matter.

PC-BSD offers you a fully functional desktop environment based on rock solid FreeBSD technology, which makes it the perfect operating system for your first steps with BSD…

VGEM, the Virtual GEM provider for the Linux kernel, is still being developed and a new version has been published.

Everyone's been in this situation at least one time. You find a song on YouTube love, want to download it to keep it for future uses only to find there's no real way. There's those websites that convert videos for you, but out of the few that actually work they place restrictions on you too. Plus, what's the fun in letting someone else do the work for you? I mean, we are using Linux after all.

Stella is a remix of CentOS with a desktop focus. It is available as installable live media and contains standard CentOS software, the GNOME 2 desktop and some multimedia and desktop additions. Stella 6.2 Screenshot Tour

Lots of front-page bad news about Android malware, but instead of giving into FUD, educate yourself and more importantly educate your users about security fundamentals. And that's true no matter what mobile device you're using.

Nearly all of the X.Org/Wayland coverage from last week's FOSDEM 2012 event is available on Phoronix. There's one other Phoronix point to make from FOSDEM 2012... For those that don't know, openSUSE is in the beer business. Yes, the Linux project does really sell openSUSE beer...

The polls are closed and the results for the 2011 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards are in.

Barcelona, it was the first time that we met Microsoft will unveil Windows 8 at Mobile World Congress, says an invitation sent out today.…

How to fix Adobe Flash and Gnome 3 performances with ATI Catalyst.

Until quite recently, the Linux world had, for the most part, only two major desktop environments: GNOME 2 and KDE. Fast forward to the present, however, and there’s an immense litany of different choices, all vying to become the new face of your open source operating system. To me, this shift signals a new paradigm in the world of free software — a turn that could have major consequences throughout the channel. Here’s why.

The third Release Candidate version of the upcoming Linux kernel 3.3 is available for download and testing, as Linus Torvalds announced a few minutes ago, February 9th.

Rooting an Android phone is a simple process but is not without risks. Find out what to do if something goes wrong.

Netrunner, the KDE distribution based on Kubuntu, has released its 32bit and 64bit version upgrades to their 4.x Dryland series.