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IDC analysts say processor shipments will grow 9.3 percent this year, a drop from the 10.3 percent predicted earlier, due in part to lower consumer demand for PCs. However, the research firm adds that CPUs with integrated graphics -- such as Intel's & Sandy Bridge& Cores and AMD's Fusion line -- are thriving, accounting for more than 60 percent of processors through 2Q 2011....

We can classify all of the Linux/Unix commands into two types- Internal And External. Internal commands are the shell built-in commands while external commands are files present in the $PATH. (Remember we treat everything in the Linux as a file). Commands like pwd, cd ,echo comes under the category of the internal commands while ls,cp etc comes in the other category. To check whether the command is internal or external we will use the typeutility (type itself is internal one)

OpenBox, the window manager originally derived from Blackbox and is used by the LXDE desktop environment and other niche configurations, has just reached its version 3.5 milestone release...

Following the news yesterday that FreeBSD 9.0 Beta 1 is now available, the PC-BSD crew has spun their first 9.0 beta release. Beyond incorporating the updates from FreeBSD 9.0, the PC-BSD 9.0 release is set to carry other desktop-friendly advancements on top...

Florian Effenberger recently posted statistics of the number of developers contributing to the LibreOffice project. Several months ago, Cedric Bosdonnat offered data on the number of contribution and contributors from the various sources. more>>

This tutorial explains how to set up a USB flash drive with two partitions: one with a full Linux system and a separate FAT32 partition for sharing files with other systems. I call it my 'very portable computer'.

The Desktop Summit is beginning at the end of this week as the joint conference between the GNOME and KDE communities. This year's Desktop Summit is taking place in the wonderful city of Berlin and will go from the 6th to 12th of August. At Humboldt University there will be a number of interesting Linux desktop talks and other events...

Few Ubuntu users may have noticed, but GNOME 3 has been officially released now for several months. How does this open source desktop environment, so long in the making, compare to its competitors? Here's the analysis.

Wind River announced a new version of Wind River Platform for Infotainment, its Genivi-compliant automotive stack designed for building Linux-based in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) systems. The new version adds support for ARM processors, as well as Apple iPhone and iPod integration, Wind River Hypervisor support for multi-OS virtualization, and a new application and GUI framework, says the company....

Link-Dead is a side-view multiplayer only combat game placed in a post-nuclear war setting. You can pick one of two teams. One is an advanced elite warrior faction calling themselves the Ubermen. They walk in full body armor and possess futuristic guns that can be modded with a range of gun attachments. Ubermen's goal is to hunt Mutants which are a race of post-war people adapted for living underground. They don't have any advanced technology but use guerrilla tactics like building improvised bombs with laser tripwires and using predator-like camouflage to hide.

At the request of our readers, the following tutorial will teach Ubuntu and Kubuntu users how to install the KDE SC 4.7 on the Ubuntu/Kubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) operating system.

Sometimes using Windows applications is unavoidable, so in this tutorial we will make use of Wine to show you how to run Windows applications seamlessly within Linux…

I got a comment from a fellow redditor the other day that got me thinking: Awesome. This was my dream for quite a while. I thought every company should release PC games using a LiveCD, so Linux and Windows users would get equal opportunity to play them. (n2dasun) If you think about it, it makes a lot of sense!

One part of the Deskolo project is to estimate the electricity consumption by considering only activity indicators of a computer. The solution proposed by CEA-LIST consists in using some Machine Learning techniques which are able to construct a predictive model from a dataset of examples.

At the CompTIA Breakaway conference this week, Canonical is outlining seven potential profit opportunities for partners that back Ubuntu Linux. What are the opportunities? The are outlined here.

Mandriva Desktop 2011 will be the next stable release of the popular desktop Linux distribution developed by Mandriva, a Linux software publisher based in France.

Though the second release candidate still spots some bugs, the installer will not change when the stable edition is released on August 29, 2011. This article shows how to install Mandriva Desktop 2011, using a release candidate 2 installation ISO image, on a btrfs file system.

Subversion (svn) is an open-source version control system (VCS), used in the development of many software projects. This tutorial shows how to install Subversion on Debian Squeeze and how to configure it to allow access to a repository through different protocols: file://, http://, https://, svn://, and svn+ssh://.

The numbers show that less than half of Android users surveyed (47%) say they plan to buy another Android phone. That means user dissatisfaction with the platform is so high that the majority of people currently using an Android have already given up the on the platform. Aside from the kind of tech geeks who desire an overly complicated Linux-based phone, most current Android users are explainable either by the fact that the iPhone wasn’t on their preferred carrier at the time or an instance of a salesgeek promising them that Android would be “just like iPhone but better.”

The Android market now boasts of more than 200,000 applications, 70 % of which are free. It is clear that there’s an ‘app’ for everyone, even for hardcore book lovers. With the rise in e-reading, more and more people are ditching the paperbacks for this rapidly evolving platform. So, if you’re one of those bibliophiles, here are the 5 best apps that you must install on your Android device.

Apple Australia is demanding that Samsung send the entire stock of its Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablets to be destroyed and the case will reach the Australian courts later this month. Competition between Apple and Samsung has now reached the point where the two firms are suing each other in no less than nine countries.