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Intel is preparing its summer 2011 xf86-video-intel driver update. The xf86-video-intel 2.16 driver brings several new features to the Intel DDX, which is now available for testing in form of a release candidate...

In this previous part of this article we learned about types of shells . In most of the Linux distributions , bash shell is the default shell. So we are going to discuss the working of bash shell in this article . Fasten your seat belts and get ready for the bash ride Normally we think that when we type a command, shell looks for the command in all the directories defined in the PATH environment variable. But in real it goes through the following sequence to reach the above step. Redirection Aliases Expansion Shell Function Shell Builtin Hash table PATH variable

What's 'texture memory'?

While recently there was the merging of Mesa pipe-video to master. most of the recent video decoding work going on within the Gallium3D world has been into the ATI/AMD R600 Gallium3D driver for XvMC and now VDPAU support too. This is after the R300 support matured a fair amount, but the first one to the Gallium3D video decoding party was Nouveau. Worked on several years ago as part of the Google Summer of Code was Nouveau Gallium3D video coding. Fortunately, some of this work has been resurrected...

If you've ever needed to edit one or more files to make quick changes, you've no doubt found that doing it using a text editor can be a slow slogging process. Linux, thankfully, has a number of tools that make it easy to do this non-interactively. One of the best is sed, a "stream editor" that can help you make quick work of filtering and transforming text. This weekend, take a few minutes to introduce yourself to sed.

The most recent releases of GNU Emacs have been found to be in violation of the GPL in that a handful of binary files in a Collection of Emacs Development Environment Tools have been distributed without their relevant source codes....Steps are being taken to resolve the matter very rapidly.

Welcome to the 158th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!

A turn-based strategy (TBS) game is a strategy game (usually some type of wargame, especially a strategic-level wargame) where players take turns when playing. This is distinguished from real time strategy where all players play simultaneously.

Years ago this was the most common type of strategic games, but there are still a lot of nice games turn-based, and today we’ll see some games of this type.

Finnix is designed for system administrators. It can be used to mount and access hard disks and partitions, probe networks and more. It’s small enough to fit on a single mini-CD, doesn’t include a GUI, office tools or sound support. However, it does seem like it would be a useful distro to keep around, just in case. Bill Dwyer has posted a review of this distro.

Anyway, they’re in the record books now, and I’ve got a new trivia question to throw at some of my know-it-all techie friends.

It’s taken more than 25 years to develop but the Hurd operating system may soon be released. It’s been more than 25 years in the making and yet most people have never heard of it. Now the Free Software Foundation’s Hurd operating system may finally get to show what it has to offer.

In a sign that the 3D printing industry is taking off, the world’s first ‘printed’ aircraft has soared the skies over UK’s Wiltshire Downs, north of Stonehenge. Engineers at the University of Southampton have developed an unmanned air vehicle (UAV) whose entire structure has been printed, including wings, integral control surfaces and access hatches.

July was a month packed with variety for the Android Market. At the risk of sounding cliched, there really was something for just about anyone. We picked the ten we liked the most and hope you do too.

In our previous article we wrote about Helena reaching the final stages of production and we went into what we were going to be working on to wrap up production. This time around I wish to tell you guys what our successes and failures have been over the past few weeks.

Lots of people have have adopted Dropbox for convenient online storage. But with the security and privacy issues raised recently you may be looking for a different service. SpiderOak does backups, sharing, and sync; what follows is a walkthrough on getting it set up on your Linux box.

If you're an e-book reader, chances are you already use the wonderful Calibre software. If not, see Dan Sawyer's article in the April 2011 issue. Like many avid readers, however, I still find something soothing about a book made from dead trees. Unfortunately, it's easy to lose track of all the books I own. If you're the type of person who lends books out, it can become even more complicated. Enter Alexandria.

Android represented a whopping 46.4 percent of global smartphone shipments in Q2 2011, with 34 percent of Android's total coming from Samsung, putting it a close second behind Apple, says ABI Research. The research firm also released a teardown analysis of the HTC Sensation and its highly integrated smartphone processor -- the dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8260.

Last year, there was a lot of handwringing about Firefox's continuing loss of market share. This was only by relatively small amounts, but people wondered whether Firefox had peaked and was in trouble. As I pointed out at the time, the reason Firefox's share was more or less static was that Google Chrome was experiencing a rapid uptake, and Microsoft's latest incarnation of Internet Explorer had improved in terms of open standards compliance, and so more people were using it.

On Linux there is a way to set/change the priority of processes, the user can act to give greater or lesser priority to its own processes. For example you are running a backup with rsync or doing a tar, but you do not want these processes use all your CPU, in these cases you can make use of the nice command.

The Open Cloud Initiative made its debut at OSCON this week. The organization is set up to provide a common set of standards cloud providers can adhere to in order to let clients know their clouds are easy to migrate into and out of. Open cloud systems must represent all user data and metadata in open standard formats and expose all functionality through open standard interfaces.

I found a listing of 60,000 documented UFO sightings, hmm interesting! I started thinking I could crunch on this data in some useful and fun way, what about finding the most commonly spotted UFO shapes. What about crunching on this data on the cloud using Ubuntu and it's very new Ensemble technology. Check out how I did it