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In recent days there have been updated Mesa 8.1 development benchmarks put out looking at the R600 Gallium3D, R300 Gallium3D, and Nouveau Gallium3D open-source drivers. Those results for the different drivers show that Mesa 8.1 is generally faster than the current Mesa 8.0 stable series, but that does not appear to be the case for Intel at the moment. It looks like there are some active regressions that are lowering the Intel Ivy Bridge graphics performance with their Mesa 8.1-devel driver.

Calculate Linux 12.0 released. Major changes: Calculate Utilities 3 are now used to install and set up your system - network client-server solutions via SOAP/WSDL are supported, both console and graphical interfaces are implemented, multiple installations are supported, system settings can now be configured either from the command line or in a graphical environment; Calculate Linux Xfce has a better appearance - the new Adwaita theme

Microsoft’s Windows 8 is taking some heat in the world of online games. Both Valve (builder of the Steam gaming platform) and Blizzard (World of Warcraft) appear to be criticizing Microsoft's Windows Store strategy, and Valve is hedging its Windows bets with a Linux strategy. Why should business partners care? Here’s the update.

What are Red Hat‘s top four priorities for its fiscal year 2013? Sure, driving adoption of key technologies (virtualization, cloud and storage) is one top priority. But what are the other “big three” focus areas? And where do partners fit into the Red Hat conversation? Here are some clues,

Freedreno, the reverse-engineered open-source Qualcomm Snapdragon graphics driver, continues to advance. The latest accomplishment of the Freedreno Linux driver is that it now has its own working shader assembler, which means Freedreno can now work without any binary blob dependence...

GNOME, the project responsible for what has been one of the open-source world’s most popular desktop interfaces for well over a decade, is teetering on the edge of crisis mode. Here's a reality check.

Richard Stallman has commented on Valve's plans to bring their games/software to Linux. Of course, he isn't happy about more non-free software coming to Linux...

How to disable update manager in the notification area in Linux Mint 13

Some days ago I had posted about the new upcoming Gnome mail application and a reader let a comment about Geary. What is Geary? A mail client app, written in Vala which seems to share many common design goals with Gnome Mail. I didn’t know about Geary since then, so I checked it and.. Wow, it is a fantastic App, the best mail client by far, -in its special kind. But this post isn’t about just Geary, it is about this modern company. YORBA!

Welcome to the 210th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!

Speaking during a panel discussion at the NetEvents Americas, a BT expert claimed, "We analyzed more than 1,000 Android applications and found a third compromised with some form of active or dormant malware."

Hitting OpenBenchmarking.org this weekend are some interesting benchmarks comparing performance of AHCI vs. IDE modes under Linux from an AMD Fusion system.

LXer Feature: 29-Jul-2012

The latest installment of the LXer Weekly Roundup for your reading pleasure. Enjoy!

As Microsoft's partners and fans start to back away from Windows 8 on the desktop, it's time to re-consider the alternatives.

The Wine development release 1.5.9 is now available.

So, what's Mednafen? This unproneunceable program is none other than a powerful multisystem terminal-based emulator for Linux! And this time i used it to play some old Nintendo 8-Bit (NES) games!

Download Monitor is simple UI and useful apps that can be used to monitor the amount of data downloaded and uploaded over a network. It can displays an easy-to-read graph in monthly, daily, and hourly.

phpvirtualbox is a web-based VirtualBox front-end written in PHP that allows you to access and control remote VirtualBox instances. It tries to resemble the VirtualBox GUI as much as possible to make work with it as easy as possible. It is a nice replacement for the VirtualBox GUI if you run VirtualBox on headless servers. This tutorial explains how to install phpvirtualbox on an OpenSUSE 12.1 server to manage a locally installed, headless VirtualBox.

ProxBash is a bash script to manage Proxmox VE. It currently has the following features: Add / Delete OpenVZ CT, Start/Stop OpenVZ CT, Info on VM/CT, list all VMs/CTs, command execution in OpenVZ CT and an OpenVZ Shell dropper.

While some GNOME developers and users see the once fledging desktop environment fading into abyss, other GNOME developers see nothing but GNOME getting better with the best yet to come. It's been called for this week from GUADEC that GNOME 4.0 to be released in March of 2014 along with GNOME OS. That's not all of their ambitious plans but they think they can gain a 20% market-share by 2020 and they also have some other plans on their agenda...