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Overview of the complications behind implementing natural sort order in C, introducing natsort

One of those desktop environments is Cinnamon, a new desktop environment built atop GNOME 3 technologies, so installing it will not take up too much disk space on the system, as most of the required components are already installed on the system.

Today on the interwebs I read an interview with a certain Free software project leader who stated that they were making: The world's premier and, in fact, only truly free software operating system. Ignoring that it doesn't actually hold up to scrutiny (there have been many "truly free software operating systems"), this brought to mind a spectacular feature of freedom: it abhors singularity. Indeed, monopoly positions are exceedingly rare in free systems.

The drm-intel-testing Git branch has been updated with new code that's ready for testing and eventual merging into the Linux 3.10 kernel...

Ola, guys. Let us review Sabayon 11. This time though, I will be deviating from my usual KDE experience and check whether this semi-monster Gentoo-based distro can deliver equally fun results when blessed with a less mainstream desktop environment. Anyhow, my past reviews with Sabayon have gone from stupendous to buggy to somewhat boring. My feeling is that the distribution has lost its passion and momentum, and that is now merely trying to make Gentoo more presentable, while wallowing in lost identity. That's what version 8 has taught me. So let us see what version 11 can do.

With yesterday's release of GCC 4.8.0, here are some new benchmarks. For this first roundabout are comparative benchmarks between GCC 4.7.2 and GCC 4.8.0 for an Intel Core i7 990X "Gulftown" system running Ubuntu Linux...

Looking out over the countryside beyond the office windows and I see, finally, the first fingerprints of spring. With the turning of the seasons will come growth and renewal, making Spring perhaps my favorite time of the year. When looking over the KDE landscape this week I was felt a similar Spring feeling in the air.

I almost feel tempted to start with a quote from the Wheel of Time series, something like there are no beginnings and ends, but it was a beginning. Indeed, the guys behind the elementary OS have created their own version of what the next, future desktop for Linux ought to be. There is not much detail about Pantheon going about the Internet, and it does not seem to have drawn much attention since being launched. Which does not bode well for this young project. Still, I decided to see whether this lightweight and modular environment written in Vala and GTK+ can bring fresh merit to the Linux world. Let us see indeed.

Keeping a diary of your daily life is an activity that is held dear by many people. It represents a good way of storing personal or business information on a day-to-day-basis. Keep track of notes and thoughts through the day, organize and secure memories, ideas, business transactions, emails, accounts, future plans, contact lists, and even secret information.

It seems suing for trademark infringement is really a prevalent game in the business world. Oko International, the maker of a wide range of watches and timepieces sold under the brand name 'Android,' is suing the giant Google for trademark infringement.

Aside from the Urban Terror game update, there's also a new version of Red Eclipse this weekend...

5 handy tips with GIMP everybody should know

UbuntuKylin is an official Ubuntu subproject whose goal is to create a variant of Ubuntu that is more suitable for Chinese users using the Simplified Chinese writing system. The project provides a delicate, thoughtful and fully customised Chinese user experience out-of-the-box by providing a desktop user interface localised into Simplified Chinese and with software generally preferred by many Chinese users.

It is almost weekend and you want to try another Linux distribution? We’ve got you covered! The Linux ecosystem is a varied one with hundreds of distributions, each having their unique set of abilities and limitations. Some compile the source on your system, others let you choose between init systems, try to be as small as possible, experiment with security solutions and more. There is also variation in governance: some are strongly top-down organized, others decide in a meritocratic way or vote. Some have strong corporate sponsor pushing decisions – others don’t. Some care to collaborate, others don’t value the wider ecosystem much and go their own way.

Programmers love to optimize their code and their tools. Why then is there so much slow and bloated code and so many arcane and fragile tool chains? Because programmers aren’t always optimizing for efficiency. There are many things programmers can optimize for, and a team can quickly end up working at cross purposes when everyone is optimizing for something different.

Is the market becoming flooded with too many OpenStack distributions and services? There are observers who are concerned that the market is now becoming overwhelmed with distributions and companies supporting them, which could become a detriment to those who deploy them later. In five years, it's unlikely that we'll see so many distributions being supported.

I personally believe that open source is a better methodology for building, procuring and deploying software. However I also know full well that when it comes to security, configuration choices and implementation often make the difference between being breach and being safe.

The developers of GParted have released version 0.15.0 of their open source partitioning tool and the accompanying GParted Live distribution. GParted 0.15.0 includes a number of significant changes that allow users to get status information on running processes and also make the tool twice as fast, according to the developers. Work has gone into making it easier to cancel running operations as well. GParted allows users to change their partition layout, recover and resize partitions and create new ones.

Numantian Games have announced Lord of Xulima, a turn-based rpg in the good old 2D isometric style. It will appear on windows first and after that on mac & Linux. From the screenshots it appears the outside world is like 2D isometric like Baldurs Gate while the combat appears to be more even older school with loads of mobs facing your party.

If you are in search of an alternative for Google Reader, this article offers a list to choose from. They have been listed under three categories – Desktop, Self-hosted, and Web service. Three are under each category, and are the ones I’ve either used in the past, or have read about.