Apple has convinced millions that they can make the switch from Windows to OS X, but those curious about Linux have to see for themselves if they can work or play on a free desktop. The short answer is that, for most halfway tech-savvy people who aren't hardcore gamers, yes, you can.
Read more »Make Your Linux Desktop More Productive
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Checking your multi-core optimizations with a free tool from Intel
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This video uses Intel Concurrency Checker 2.1 to benchmark threading metrics on a parallelized and multithreaded application. Watching this video you will find out that there is an easy to use utility to test multicore optimizations in any executable.
Read more »Emacs 23.2 released
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"GNU Emacs 23.2 has been released, and is now available at [...] The 23.2 manuals are not yet on the website; I will do this sometime in
the next few days..."
TrueCrypt version 6 released
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This version introduces parallelized encryption and decryption on multi-core processors (or multi-processor systems). Increase in encryption/decryption speed is directly proportional to the number of cores and/or processors. For example, on a quad-core processor, encryption and decryption is four times faster than on a single-core processor with equivalent specifications
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BumpTop: Software toy or useful desktop replacement?
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Nearly three years ago, a video demo of a new desktop user interface, the BumpTop, captivated YouTube viewers. A year later the creator, Anand Agarawala, was called to the august TED conference to present. Now the BumpTop software is here, ready for you and your Windows PC. I gave it a spin.
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Inkscape - The next Helping Hands Event
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On Friday, August 15, at 14:30 UTC, Helping Hands is proud to host
Inkscape, presented by our very own jimmac. He’ll introduce you to some of the cool graphics tricks you can do on your desktop.
gNewSense is looking for developers
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"Are you a GNU/Linux developer? Do you care about your freedom? Would you like to enhance a wonderful distribution? gNewSense is looking for developers..."
Read more »Weather Forecast From the Command Line
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For years, I've been getting my weather from Firefox plug-ins, usually ForecastFox. The trouble with these is they have to update every few minutes, causing a brief lag in bandwidth and even a small blip in performance if you're using some other program while Firefox is running. Recently, my ForecastFox started misbehaving for no particular reason. It would blank out and freeze up and so on.
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Join us with GNU Emacs 23 pretest
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"As expected, GNU Emacs 23 enters the so-called pretest stage. This means, defined numbered snapshots of the current development head are made, 23.0.90 being the first one ..."
Read more »Google: Friend or Foe of Ubuntu?
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Google enjoys a pretty favorable image within the free-software community. In some respects, it deserves this reputation, as it strongly supports many open-source projects. On the other hand, Google is reluctant to open the code of most of its own software. Given this hesitancy, can we trust the company to be always on Ubuntu’s side?
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Learn to Develop Responsive Multi-Threaded Applications in C# with New Book
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A new book from Packt on Threaded Programming that acts as a guide to building scalable, high performance applications using parallel programming with C# has been published. Written by Gastón C. Hillar, C# 2008 and 2005 Threaded Programming: Beginner's Guide will help users develop applications that run several tasks, and manage parallelized processes and threads.
Read more »Desktop Cost: Linux vs. Windows
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How much did your computer cost? $500? $1,000? $2,000? How much has it cost you since you bought it? The price of a computer is not a one-time expense — it is rather, an ongoing one. How much you pay for your computer over a year's time, or the entire lifetime of the computer, depends greatly on your choice of operating system.
Read more »Music DRM
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Just yesterday I bought my first non-DRM'd songs (The Last Vegas, in keeping with my 'I only listen to things from Guitar Hero' theme).
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Speedboot explained
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For those of you not following Mandriva Linux development closely, we just released Mandriva Linux 2009 Spring Beta and this is our first release featuring speedboot feature, in its initial phase.
Read more »Linux forensics - Part 1: Helix
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In this article, we will introduce and review Helix, a vastly powerful Linux forensics distribution. Helix is a live Linux CD carefully tailored for incident response, system investigation and analysis, data recovery, and security auditing.
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Anybody up to writing good directory software?
Tue, 2007-02-20 11:17 — David JonathanSince the very beginning, directories (of any kind) have had a very central role in the internet. (I have recently grown fond of Free Web Directory. Even Slashdot can be considered a directory: a collection of great news and invaluable user-generated comments. As far as software is concerned, doing a quick search on Google about software directories will return the free (as in freedom) software directories like Savannah, SourceForge, Freshmeat and so on, followed by shareware and freeware sites such as FileBuzz, PCWin Download Center and All Freeware (great if you're looking for shareware and freeware, but definitely less comprehensive than their free-as-in-freedom counterparts).
Is better education the key to finding better software?
Sat, 2007-03-03 03:25 — Edward RusselI read David Jonathon's article Anybody Up To Writing Good Directory Software? the other day, which got me thinking about software directories in general. As David mentioned, many of the software directories one finds when doing a quick google search are free as in beer, not as in freedom. But what interests me is the software directories that already exist, providing a combination of both free as in beer software, and open source software. Sites such as Freeware Downloads and Shareware Download don't advertise themselves as providing free as in liberty software, but each of them have a good selection of open source software available... if you know where to look.
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