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Enlightenment Desktop on Linux Tablet PC Demo
Linux powered, Enlightenment desktop with a touch screen optimized interface running on an Asus T101MT Tablet/Netbook covert-able. See how powerful Linux can be on your touch screen computer.
AMD Looks To Ramp Up Its Linux Engineer Count
NVIDIA isn't the only one looking to expand its Linux team, but AMD is now in a mad dash to dramatically ramp up its engineering teams. AMD has been looking to hire at least another open-source developer in recent months to work on its graphics stack, but Advanced Micro Devices has now announced they're looking to hire over one thousand "tech professionals" where the software engineers are skilled in Linux and open-source development.
10 best alternative operating systems
Right now, someone, somewhere is developing the killer operating system feature of the future - a feature that will change computing and make us wonder how we lived without it. However, the person responsible probably isn't grafting away in the labs of Microsoft, Apple or Red Hat - he or she is more likely to be working in a bedroom or loft.
Ryzom MMORPG for Linux Removes Game Limits, Almost Free to Play Now
Ryzom 3D MMORPG for Linux has removed lots of limits and caps for new players who want to play the game without a paid subscription. Instead, the developers have chose to keep a Level limit of 125 beyond which new players will stop getting experience points. This is a nice move as now it is almost free to play the game without any time or place limits.
HTML5: The new gaming platform
For many years HTML has simply been a way of marking up bits of text and images so that they are displayed attractively on the Internet. Now there is HTML5 and the long-standing mark-up language is no longer just about building websites.
3 Open source monitoring programs
If in your work you are responsible for just one server, you will surely wonder: What is the best way to get the situation under control? In the world there are good open source software that allow you to monitor the status of servers, services and programs. In this article we’ll see an overview some of the softwares in this category, and in particular some related to Nagios
How to create lists of WordPress posts from the command line
WordPress is a great online publishing system. One of its strengths, as far as I am concerned, is the administration interface, which I find flexible, efficient and easy to use. However, sometimes even that interface isn’t flexible enough. Recently, for example, I needed a quick way to create and insert into another Web page an HTML list of all and only the posts I had published in a certain date range. If you only have four of five posts to manage it’s OK, but what when, as in my case, there are many tenths of them?
Android makes tablet gains, but iPad to stay strong in 2011, say studies
Apple's share of the media tablet market fell to 73 percent in 4Q 2010, due to the arrival of Android tablets led by the Samsung Galaxy Tab, says IDC. Still, the iPad will maintain a 70-80 percent share in 2011, the research firm adds, while Forrester puts the figure at 80 percent, and projects that only Amazon.com could mount significant competition via a color Kindle.
Fedora shows off Gnome 3.0
Fedora braves the first release of Gnome 3.0. Living up to its reputation for being one of the more adventurous Linux distributions on offer, Fedora 15's alpha release includes Gnome 3.0.
How To Play Dragon Age 2 on Ubuntu
The following tutorial will teach you how to install the famous Dragon Age 2 role-playing game on a Linux platform, especially a Debian-based one, such as Ubuntu.
Joli OS 1.2 release! With Screenshots Tour
Joli OS 1.2, a new name of an Ubuntu-based distribution formerly known as Jolicloud, has been released, this new release comes with many new features and improvements, features like application sharing (the little star) can now be found more easily.
Carmack: Direct3D Now Better Than OpenGL
id Software mad scientist and first-person shooter "granddaddy" John Carmack said that DirectX has matured to the point where it's now a better API than OpenGL. It handles multi-threading better and newer versions manage state better. But he doesn't have plans in moving to DirectX any time soon, blaming inertia for the studio's continued use of OpenGL.
Download DraftSight - Free AutoCAD-Compatible 2D CAD Software For Linux
The first DraftSight - an AutoCAD compatible CAD software - public beta for Linux was released today.
Big dreams for Ubuntu Ocelot
Mark Shuttleworth names next Ubuntu release and lays out future plans. Oneiric Ocelot. It's the name of the next release of Ubuntu, which was announced earlier this week by Ubuntu chief Mark Shuttleworth.
OpenSUSE 1.4 touted for performance boost, new rolling release option
The OpenSUSE project released OpenSUSE 11.4, and launched an optional rolling release repository called "Tumbleweed." OpenSUSE 1.4 is built on Linux 2.6.37, offers improved performance, scalability, and boot time, and provides a faster the ZYpp package management system, LibreOffice 3.31, and Firefox 4.0, says the project.
Weekend Project: Benchmark Your Browsers on Linux
With the Firefox 4.0 release right around the corner, the big question for a lot of users is how fast is Firefox 4.0? How does the new Moz compare with Google Chrome, Opera, and the rest? If you're curious, take some time this weekend to perform your own benchmarks and see for yourself. Consider this an audience participation article: We're looking for your feedback as well.
7 of the Best Free Graphical User Interfaces for R
R is an open source programming language and software environment for statistical computing and graphics. It consists of a language together with a run-time environment with a debugger, graphics, access to system functions, and scripting.
Bodhi Linux Final Release Candidate Goes Live
The Bodhi Linux team and I are proud to announce the release of our third and final release candidate. This release includes several important bug fixes including several that increase boot time...
Thinking About Writing
So, I am sitting in my apartment in the North East Georgia mountains, an unlit cigarette is hanging out of my mouth, I have no idea what to write, and I am realising that this unfortunate bout of writer's block is likely due to the fact that nothing is really going wrong with my Linux box(es).
Protecting Nagios From Zero-Day Exploits with ModSecurity
You have built a rock solid firewall, tested it with nmap scanning for ports that were open, locked down SSH with port knocking, restricted outgoing ports with iptables, setup psad to block attacks, and tcp_wrappers to limit access so you are set right? Well, not exactly....
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