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Keith Packard Outlines "DRI-Next" Plans

Keith Packard has outlined plans for "DRI-Next", the improvements to the Direct Rendering Infrastructure that were brewed earlier this month at XDC2012 Nürnberg...

Intel Driver Update Brings Back XvMC, Fixes Bugs

Chris Wilson has released yet another xf86-video-intel 2.20.x driver. This time around, the 2.20.9 point release brings back X-Video Motion Compensation (XvMC) and also fixes a critical bug...

Linux is Full with Educational Software

If you are having problems with getting good educational software that is affordable, then think again because Linux is here for you. Okay what a lot of people are not aware of is that there is a lot of wonderful educational software that can be used on the Linux operating system. Of course Linux as you may already know is open source and freely distributed, which means that it is also free. Now here is a list of the different educational software that you can use on the Linux operating system.

Oh my! Open webOS running on an HP TouchSmart PC

  • LinuxBSDos.com; By finid (Posted by finid on Sep 29, 2012 8:23 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
Yes, that is an operating system that started life on mobile devices running on a desktop computer.

How to Install Firefox Beta on Ubuntu Linux

The following tutorial will teach Ubuntu users how to install the latest Beta release of the popular Mozilla Firefox web browser on their systems.

Unity 6.6: Still Regressing On Performance?

With the recent release of the Unity 6.6 desktop for Ubuntu 12.10 Beta 2, benchmarks were done to see how the OpenGL gaming performance compares to that of Unity 6.4 from the earlier beta state of the Quantal Quetzal, plus the respective Compiz versions. At least for Intel Ivy Bridge graphics under some workloads, it looks like the Unity/Compiz updates are slowing down the GL performance even further.

LPI Announces Linux Essentials for North America

  • Linux Professional Institute; By Scott Lamberton (Posted by scottl on Sep 29, 2012 4:34 PM CST)
  • Story Type: Press Release; Groups: LPI
(Columbus, OH and Sacramento, CA, USA: September 29, 2012) The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), the world's premier Linux certification organization (http://www.lpi.org), announced during Ohio LinuxFest 2012 in Columbus, Ohio (OLF: http://ohiolinux.org) that LPI's Linux Essentials program measuring foundational knowledge in Linux and Open Source Software is now available in North America. Linux Essentials was initially released as a pilot program in Europe, the Middle East and Africa but due to popular demand has now expanded to North America.

Wine 1.5.14 released

The Wine development release 1.5.14 is now available.

Ubuntu App Charts for August 2012

Ubuntu Developer Center monthly publishes a list of the most downloaded commercial and free applications from the Ubuntu Software Center. In August, to no surprise, the majority of the applications in the list were games.

Wine 1.5.14 Improves Shader Compiler, GIF, JavaScript

It's time for another bi-weekly development Wine release for running Windows binaries on Linux and other operating systems...

ASRock’s OMG provides parental control straight from the motherboard

  • LinuxBSDos.com; By finid (Posted by finid on Sep 29, 2012 1:22 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
From a security perspective, the most interesting feature of the UEFI Setup Utility is OMG (the Online Management Guard). It is a parental control system built into the motherboard. Neat.

Unity WebApps Available In The Ubuntu 12.10 Official Repositories

  • WebUpd8; By Andrew Dickinson (Posted by hotice on Sep 29, 2012 12:25 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Ubuntu
The Unity WebApps feature has been available in Ubuntu 12.10 for some time, but besides the Amazon and Ubuntu One Music Store webapps which are installed by default, no other webapps were available for installation. Today, the webapps that were available in the preview PPA are available in the official Ubuntu 12.10 repositories, but as separate packages so you can install only the webapps you want and use.

Slackware 14 Released!!!

That's right, the long wait is finally over and a new stable release of Slackware has arrived! Since our last stable release, a lot has changed in the Linux and FOSS world.

Patches Arrive For DRM2 Render Nodes Support

Taking a brief break from his direct work on Wayland, Kristian Høgsberg has published his "Render Nodes" work for DRM2 following the recent DRM2 proposal...

OpenSUSE Made Good Progress This Summer

Thanks to the Google Summer of Code, the openSUSE distribution made progress on several fronts...

Slackware 14.0 Linux Released

Today's been quite a busy news day for a Friday, but it's not over yet. Slackware 14.0 was released today after being in development for more than one year...

The $99 supercomputer: Adapteva turns to Kickstarter for funding to get its massively parallel, fully open Raspberry Pi killer off the ground

The bright, shining light in open source hardware -- software-wise anyway, as the hardware ain't all that open -- has been the $35 Raspberry Pi single-board computer that runs Linux, sips power and has a great deal of the world busy crafting enclosures, fine-tuning OS images and basically geeking out. Not that there's anything wrong with that. But there will be competitors. Others that want to take the throne.

Intel Valley View Support Continues To Mature

While it's been a number of days since mentioning anything on Intel's forthcoming Valley View Atom SoC, the open-source graphics driver support continues to mature...

Former Copyright Boss: New Technology Should Be Presumed Illegal Until Congress Says Otherwise

As you hopefully recall, Aereo is the online TV service, backed by Barry Diller, that sets you up with your very own physical TV antenna on a rooftop in Brooklyn, connected to a device that will then stream to you online what that antenna picks up. This ridiculously convoluted setup is an attempt to route around the ridiculous setup of today's copyright law -- something that Oman was intimately involved in creating with the 1976 Copyright Act. The TV networks sued Aereo, but were unable to get an injunction blocking the service. Oman's amicus brief seeks to have that ruling overturned, and argues that an injunction is proper.

But he goes much further than that in his argument, even to the point of claiming that with the 1976 Copyright Act, Congress specifically intended new technologies to first apply to Congress for permission, before releasing new products on the market that might upset existing business models:

Google's Copyright Crackdown Punishes Author For Torrenting His Own Book

  • TechDirt; By Mike Masnick (Posted by BernardSwiss on Sep 29, 2012 4:20 AM CST)
A few years ago, Jackson, while deployed in Iraq, wrote a book about Python (the programming language) called Start Programming with Python. He decided to give away the book for free, as a "thank you" to the open source community which, he notes, has provided him with tremendous value over the years. He has always made the book available for free, and linked to various sources where you can get it. At the same time, he's offered people the option to support him via donation. He also made a little bit of money via Google AdSense ads on his site.

Last week, he was contacted by a Google bot, telling him that AdSense had been disabled. Why? Because they claimed he was distributing copyrighted content illegally. The email, which I've seen, notes that his account has been disabled for the following reason:

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