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Gnome Disks (aka gnome-disk-utility) hasn’t even bump to version 3.7 but it has an impressive development and all credits go to David Zeuthen (on the left) which he is also senior maintainer at udisks.

There are already many new features like multiple-selections, the re-designed RAID creation and others, but it also very buggy at the moment.

The latest ARM Cortex-A15 benchmarks on Phoronix is an extension of the earlier compiler testing from this modern ARM CPU found on the Samsung Exynos 5 Dual within the Samsung Chromebook. In this round of performance testing, the LLVM/Clang compiler performance is compared to recent releases of the GNU Compiler Collection on this latest-generation ARM hardware.

A handful of memory-related issues were plugged up yesterday in Mesa thanks to the Coverity static code analysis tools...

While this week saw the release of the Doom 3 BFG source-code and word that a Sauerbraten update and a major Alien Arena advancement advancement are forthcoming, what's the state of the impressive XReaL open-source game engine and the similar OpenWolf engine?..

Well, well, well... what do you know, after all the fuss about the GNOME Fallback mode being removed from the upcoming GNOME 3.8 desktop environment, it looks like the GNOME developers decided to implement a similar mode for all you GNOME 2 nostalgics out there.

Here's some interesting comments from Ryan "Icculus" Gordon about the latest state of Linux gaming and what's ahead...

Matthew Garrett, ex-power management and mobile Linux developer at Red Hat, proudly announced last evening, November 30, that a usable release of the Secure Boot bootloader is now available for download.

IndieCity, a software client similar to Valve's Steam and Desura, will soon be making its way to Linux boxes...

I'm pleased to say that a usable version of shim is now available for download. As I discussed here, this is intended for distributions that want to support secure boot but don't want to deal with Microsoft. To use it, rename shim.efi to bootx64.efi and put it in /EFI/BOOT on your UEFI install media. Drop MokManager.efi in there as well. Finally, make sure your bootloader binary is called grubx64.efi and put it in the same directory.

Most Linux users know how to set scheduled automatic shutdowns using cron. Did you know you can also set automatic wakeups? Most motherboards built after 2000 support real-time clock (RTC) wakeups, so you can have your computer turn itself on and off on a schedule.

In the week ending 1 December - Fedora 18 got a beta with added desktops, Piwik analytics got its installation file backdoored, cheeky phishers asked Germans to photograph their TAN lists, and Linux 3.7 is nearly here

While born originally at Google as projects for LLVM, AddressSanitizer and ThreadSanitizer have been ported to GCC and will be part of the forthcoming GCC 4.8 compiler release. Back at Google, they're onto developing MemorySanitizer for LLVM...

Matthew Garrett has shared that he's finally published his shim boot-loader for dealing with UEFI SecureBoot that makes it easier for the smaller Linux distributions to deal with this "secure" technology. Using this shim boot-loader is already signed with a Microsoft key so the smaller Linux distributions and other independent parties don't have to worry about obtaining a key from Microsoft...

With a number of commits made to the mainline Mesa repository recently that concern the LLVMpipe Gallium3D driver for pushing OpenGL onto the CPU, here are benchmarks of the very latest Mesa Gallium3D development code from and AMD FX-8350 Vishera Eight-Core CPU when using both LLVM 3.1 and LLVM 3.2 SVN.

Kristian Høgsberg has announced the 1.0.2 releases of Wayland along with the Weston reference compositor...

With November coming to a close, here's some statistics on the most popular content on Phoronix this month...

Free prototype units for ten lucky developers The makers of the hotly anticipated Ouya Android-based gaming console say they're on track to ship their first development consoles by the end of the year, and a few lucky developers will be able to get their hands on them for free.…

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Patrick Verner announced a couple of hours ago, November 30, the immediate availability for download of the Parted Magic 2012_11_30 Linux operating system for partitioning tasks.

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