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For those curious about how the system performance is impacted by applying compiler optimizations to the AMD A10-6800K "Richland" APU, here's some benchmarks of GCC 4.8.1 on Ubuntu Linux...

Description: BASIS is a Linux-based operating system made with OpenSuSe 12.3 and also the GNOME 3 shell. Built using SuseStudio, this independent Linux distribution... 32 bit...

The second testing release of Parsix GNU/Linux 5.0, code name 'Lombardo', is available now. This version ships with the GNOME 3.8.3 desktop environment and Linux kernel 3.8.13 built on top of the rock-solid Debian 'Wheezy' (7.0) platform. Most of the GNOME 3.8 packages have been upgraded to the latest versions and the look and feel is now complete. Also new updates from Debian 'Wheezy' repositories have been merged with the Parsix APT repositories. Updated packages: X.Org Server 1.12.4, GNU Iceweasel 21.0, Chromium 25.0, LibreOffice 3.5.4, glibc 2.13, GParted 0.12.1, Empathy 3.8.3, GIMP 2.8.2, Grisbi 0.8.9, VirtualBox 4.1.18, VLC 2.0.6, xFarDic 0.11.7.

The paste command, by its definition, is used to merge lines of files. This is a useful tool for merging a single file and also set of files. In this articles, we will see how to use the paste command for handling both a single file and multiple files.

LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on an Ubuntu 13.04 server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support.

Xfce 4.12 still hasn't been released yet and it's running months behind schedule. Xfce 4.12 will be a major update to the lightweight desktop that's becoming an increasingly used alternative to Unity and the GNOME Shell. Here's an update on some of the completed features.

A Qt Labs project in years prior was QtOpenCL, a Qt module to provide extension classes for QtCore and QtOpenGL to take advantage of OpenCL GPGPU posssibilities. QtOpenCL though hasn't been touched in a couple years and is still living in a Qt4 world. Fortunately, work on QtOpenCL may be restarted.

Launched in May was the Qt for Tizen project to bring the vibrant Qt5 tool-kit to the Tizen open-source Linux platform. After its first alpha release last month, the Qt for Tizen developers have made a heck of a lot of progress and already released Qt for Tizen Alpha 2. The Qt for Tizen Alpha 2 release was done today and is now based upon the Qt 5.2 Alpha and is recognized by the Qt community as an official community-based work-in-progress Qt port.

That's it folks Half-Life 2 and it's episodes are officially out of Beta to join Portal on the Linux platform, it looks like my predictions could be a little off. I predicted here what I think will happen with the Valve Linux ports but it seems I was wrong since a lot more games are now out of Beta which is usually a sign that a new port is incoming!

Hotline Miami 2 has been confirmed by their official teaser video to be heading over to Linux, which is sure to please many of you!

3089 the sequel to the odd indie game 3079 by Phroot has gotten some major updates recently including a new trailer to show it off!

This article is a review of the Cinnamon edition, and starts by taking a look at the installation program. Keep in mind that all Linux Mint editions share the same installation program, so everything that’s written here for the Cinnamon edition also applies to the MATE edition. And also to the KDE and Xfce editions, though the final editions of those are yet to be released.

The Elive team is proud to announce the release of development version 2.1.52. This version includes some miscellaneous features, such as: automated cooling for newer Intel CPUs by decreasing the CPU clock when the temperature gets high; Vim colorscheme changed to elive an own colorscheme that focuses on intuitiveness; Internet configurator now automatically pops up with a list of available connections; Enlightenment 17 fix - language and keyboard are not correctly saved; Enlightenment 17 fix - application menu no longer freezes your environment.

Platform as a Service (PaaS) is a category of cloud computing services which offers a way to support the complete lifecycle of delivering web applications and services via the cloud. Along with Software as a Service (SaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), PaaS is a service model of cloud computing.

The Linux Mint project and CompuLab announced an updated version of their MintBox mini-PC, which comes with Linux Mint pre-installed. The MintBox 2 switches to a faster Intel Core i5 processor, doubles the storage to a 500GB HDD, adds a second gigabit Ethernet port, and bumps the price up to $599.

The next release of Ubuntu, version 13.10, will have the new display server Mir as the default, according to Olli Ries, the engineering director for Ubuntu and Mir.

German antivirus company Avira is discontinuing its Linux products in order to focus more on developing its Mac OS X and Windows lines. The company says small businesses and consumer systems "almost exclusively rely upon Windows or Mac operating systems" and that "Linux installations have been declining steadily for years".

Just a day before Ubuntu announced that it would be making its Mir display server the default from the next release, in October, the chief Kubuntu developer, Jonathan Riddell, announced that Kubuntu would not be using Mir or XMir.

Out of band authentication — communicating with a customer outside of his mobile banking app to verify his identity or a specific transaction — is a generally respected means of deflecting mobile banking fraud. But RSA's Anti-Fraud Command Center on Monday found and reported on a Trojan called Bugat that has been updated to hijack out-of-band authentication codes sent to bank customers via SMS.

Android malware really is everywhere, but you can keep yourself safe by following some simple rules. It's weird. Linux, which is Android's foundation, has almost no malware to speak of. Trend Micro, however, predicts that there may be as many as a million Android malware threats by the end of the year. What's going on here?