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Earlier this month we found out NVIDIA was bringing their driver to ARM -- following an announcement that NVIDIA would begin licensing Kepler graphics to SoC vendors -- and now they have done their first public release of the ARMv7 binary NVIDIA Linux graphics driver.

Is Hadoop secure, fast and reliable enough to meet the production Big Data needs of enterprises around the world? Some vendors, such as RainStor, seem to think Hadoop may still be a little immature. But MapR made its alternate viewpoint clear this week at the Hadoop Summit in San Jose, where it announced significant performance benchmarks for its Hadoop distribution and flouted its widespread adoption by big-name companies around the world.

Since Valve's Linux gaming announcements last year, many game modders have been looking for Source SDK to be supported under Linux. Valve today released Source SDK 2013 and it now supports Linux as well as OS X.

The Source SDK for creating new mods and whole games based on the Source engine has finally added support for Linux amongst other things!

Beyond the exciting Radeon DRM driver changes that includes the long-awaited dynamic power management support and also initial support for the HD 8000 "Sea Islands" hardware, there will also be a new DRM driver to premiere with the Linux 3.11 kernel.

Firewalld and Ufw, the Uncomplicated FireWall, are two firewall management applications installed in some of the most popular Linux distributions. Ufw is the default firewall application installed in distributions based on Debian and Ubuntu, while Firewalld is the default in Fedora, where it replaced the old firewall application when Fedora 18 was released. It is a project of the Fedora development team. This short tutorial shows how to replace Ufw with Firewalld in Linux Mint 15, the latest stable edition of the popular desktop distribution.

Windows RT and Windows Phone 8 aren't doing well, but Microsoft can still make out with some help from Intel and Windows 8.1 If its great ARM experiment doesn't work out, supporting Microsoft's key applications on Android and iOS won't hurt. This is not your dad's Microsoft. In the last few months Microsoft has been refocusing on Web services and devices instead of its mobile operating systems, Windows RT and Windows Phone 8 (WP8). Neither OS have been cutting the mustard in the market.

A new report finds that if you don't pay attention to mobile, you will lose your mobile audience very quickly, and in some instances you won't get a second chance.

Originally Canonical was planning to ship their Mir Display Server by default in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS on the desktop and in Ubuntu 13.10 still be using an X.Org Server outside of mobile devices. However, it's been announced today that with Ubuntu 13.10 they will now be using Mir by default...

Being a Linux admin user I have always used both sudo and su. As a system admin, it is very important for you to know the difference between two. For those who do not have basic idea about the difference between these two or are always confused between the two, here is a list of 13 Q&A that are aimed to make you understand the intricacies of both sudo and su.

Originally slated for inclusion in Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu will be providing Mir by default in the very next release, Saucy Salamander.

This is an article on how to install and use mod_geoip2 in cpanel. The short version is that you download it, extract it into the easyapache custom modules directory, then run easyapache to enable it. Read on for the detailed version.

Japanese firm Systena Corp. announced the first Tizen-based tablet, which also appears to be the first Tizen product of any kind. The unnamed Systena Tizen tablet offers high-end features including a 1.4GHz, quad-core Cortex-A9 system-on-chip, 2GB of RAM, and a 10.1-inch, 1920 x 1200-pixel display. The Systena tablet offers robust specs that come close to matching the most powerful Android tablets currently on the market.

Jordan Hubbard, the open source developer that helped to co-found the FreeBSD Project back in 1993 is leaving Apple. Hubbard had been at Apple since 2001 and his most recent title was the Director of UNIX Technology. Mac OS X after all has strong roots in FreeBSD and Hubbard's employment at Apple was a key part of that. Hubbard is now set to join iXsystems as CTO effective July 15th.

Yes, the long wait is finally over and a new stable and awesome release of Linux Deepin, version 12.12, is ready for you. After a year of hard work, we are happy to bring you a free operating system with the unique Deepin touch - stable, easy and elegant. Linux Deepin 12.12 features a brand-new desktop environment, called DDE or Deepin Desktop Environment, an enhanced Deepin Software Center, as well as DMusic, DPlayer and DSnapshot.

More Mir news today besides the surprise announcement that Canonical is now planning to use the Mir Display Server by default in Ubuntu 13.10, there's some other interesting news involving Mir benchmarking, the Mir 0.0.5 release, and Kubuntu avoiding Mir/XMir and reaffirming their commitment to X.Org and Wayland.

There are a lot of Android applications listed on Google Play, perhaps nearly 1 million already. When there are obviously many useful apps, there are also a myriad of useless and plain bizarre ones. In this articles, I will enumerate some of the weirdest and most useless Android apps available on Google Play that I know.

Leisure Suit Larry –the Super Mario of filthy Sierra adventure games from the 80?s & 90?s –has returned, but not as you might expect.

Back in olden times when I was growing up, in the days before cell phones, when a vacuum tubed Univac computer with enough RAM to hold a thousand words filled an industrial sized room, when telephones were absolutely always land lines and were nearly always connected to the Bell System, you had two major choices when you ordered phone service. You could either get a private line, which is what everybody pretty much has today, or a party line, which means you shared your phone service with who knows how many of your neighbors.

Today marks the official release of DreamStudio 12.04.3