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Subsequent to the introduction of the Graphics Execution Manager earlier this year, Intel had introduced a new acceleration architecture. UXA, or the UMA Acceleration Architecture, was developed as a temporary solution based upon the EXA architecture but with support for the kernel-driven GEM memory management. How though does the UXA performance compare to that of EXA? In this article we have ran some benchmarking looking at the Intel graphics performance.

Here you will find some great apps and tools that will generally improve your experience on your preferred Linux desktop, though it is geared to the Ubuntu user (that’s my current distro) any of the below is available for all distros

By the time you read this, Christmas will be over. Thanks to the staggered posting system we have here, this joke is post-dated. Despite that, however, we here would like to have wished you and yours a Merry Christmas and/or Happy Holidays.

If you run a lot of terminal tabs or scripts that all need to make OpenSSH connections to the same server, you can speed them all up with multiplexing: making the first one act as the master and letting the others share its TCP connection to the server. If you don't already have a config file in the .ssh directory in your home directory, create it with permissions 600: readable and writeable only by you.

If you haven't found a gift for the Linux Community yet, why not head over to a forum and see how many people you can help out?

I haven't tried ZenWalk in a very long time, but I'm thinking about it. When I first started using Linux in early 2007, ZenWalk was one of the systems I played around with. I had a nice install at one point, and that particular machine would boot and install the old version of ZenWalk at the time but not the new version. As a last-ditch effort/experiment, I tried to upgrade the old system, but since ZenWalk had stopped supporting my old system but kept everything in the same repository, the upgrade bricked the install. Morale of that story: Always put /home on its own partition so you can do a reinstall. Be that as it may, ZenWalk is a super-fast system with excellent hardware detection and less geeky pain than in Slackware, upon which Zenwalk is based.

Subsequent to the introduction of the Graphics Execution Manager earlier this year, Intel had introduced a new acceleration architecture. UXA, or the UMA Acceleration Architecture, was developed as a temporary solution based upon the EXA architecture but with support for the kernel-driven GEM memory management. How though does the UXA performance compare to that of EXA? In this article we have ran some benchmarking looking at the Intel graphics performance.

I realize it's a touchy subject, but some of us prefer unmodified Firefox -- including the standard Firefox icon -- to Debian's Iceweasel alternative. Here's a 3-step way to substitute Firefox for Iceweasel on a fresh Lenny install.

The creation and management of user-space processes in Linux® have many principles in common with UNIX® but also include several unique optimizations specific to Linux. Here, review the life cycle of Linux processes and explore the kernel internals for user process creation, memory management, scheduling, and death.

Wizzard Software, a provider of speech technology applications, has announced the availability of version 4.2 of AT&T Natural Voices Text-to-Speech for Linux. The software includes a new streamlined architecture that is said to make it easier for application and web developers to deploy high-performance speech systems.

Open source software can offer functionality well beyond its price, but it doesn't come without costs. Deborah Moynihan of Progress Software looks at some of the perils of using open source software and offers some solutions that address those problems.

There's no question that the open source community is a passionate one -- and one with significant influence on technology directions and options. We're way past the days when people asked if Linux or Apache was safe to depend on in business. Open source is now a mainstream part of the technology fabric. Nucleus Report: Who's ready for SMB? - read this white paper. Yet it remains connected to its roots around a passionate community working together to solve problems and share the fruits of their labors with others. Any endeavor based in community is bound to spark passionate debate. After all, without contention, how else to determine the best way forward?

Yesterday I filed a pro bono amicus curiae ("friend of the court") brief with the United States Supreme Court in support of the Federal Trade Commission's petition for writ of certiorari in its suit against Rambus Technologies. I'm pleased to report that 19 standard setting organizations (SSOs), representing over 13,300 members, joined as amici curiae supporting this brief; the list of participants appears later in this blog entry.

There is a way to make money from Linux even in a down economy -- it's called subscription revenues. Linux vendor Red Hat yesterday reported growth in income and revenues on the back of renewal rates for its Linux support subscriptions. Revenues for the company's third fiscal quarter for 2009, which ended Nov. 30, hit $165.3 million, an increase of 22 percent over its third-quarter fiscal 2008 performance a year ago.

Talk about tempests and teapots. Yesterday had quite the controversy as reports swirled around the Intertubes that Garmin would be releasing an Android handset. This all started when website DigiTimes posted that Garmin would launch Android handsets during the second half of 2009. Immediately, everyone started speculating whether the upcoming Nuvifone would be Android based. Apparently not. Garmin responded with a press release disputing the DigiTimes report and saying the story contained "a number inaccuracies in both sales figures and product rollout schedules."

Hot on the heels of a mobile device browsing tip, I see that Mozilla has outed the next alpha version of their Fennic browser. Fennic is the mobile version of Firefox that’s currently targeted at the Nokia Internet Tablet line, but that’s likely just the beginning of device support considering the vast amount of mobile phones out on the market.

Google Maps gives you a quick and easy way to add maps to your Web site, but when you're using Google's API, your ability to display other data is limited. If you have your own data you want to display, or data from sources other than Google, OpenLayers, an open source JavaScript library, can give you more options.

SATELLAR Digital System with TCP/IP-capabilities and Linux can run software applications as well as operating system, IP-router, and web configuration server. Different units can be combined to construct radio modem with functionalities for specific location; radio unit (basic building block) can be used to access RS-232-based devices or act as a radio repeater, while central unit, with TCP/IP-capabilities and Linux platform, can be added to locations where more functionality is needed.

In order to attract some interest for certain slow, but extremely important projects I’ve picked out a few attractive apps which could become powerful contributors to the widespread adoption of the Linux desktop.

Lately I've been reading a lot of bad news about Ubuntu. Saying that they aren't giving back to the community, and how they are going to be charging for non free software. I don't know specifics here but I know the Debian community is pissed off with Ubuntu because they don't give back to the community as much as other distros do. The truth is though. Ubuntu has given a lot back to the Linux community as a whole. They are helping set a new standard of sub par distros. There is a reason why they are number one in the community right now. The huge reason is that Ubuntu is user friendly. Although a bit constricting at times, but still much more customizable and user friendly for the first time user.