The sixth update to the 1.5.x branch of the SystemRescueCd features a number of updates and package changes, including the latest major GNOME Partition Editor 0.6.0 update
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Mutter Can Cause A Gaming/OpenGL Performance Hit Too
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Last month we looked at the cost of running Compiz. Today we are seeing if and how using Mutter, the window manager for the GNOME 3.0 desktop that uses Clutter-based compositing, will affect the performance of several different open-source games.
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Dell in talks with Google over Chrome OS
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Dell Inc is in talks with Google Inc over the use of the Chrome operating system on its laptops, a top company executive said on Monday.
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What does Microsoft think of open source?
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It's easy to forget that Microsoft is a software company. Given our near ubiquitous exposure to the Windows operating system (OS), many people don't think of an OS as software in quite the same way as an application - or "app" as it is increasingly becoming known. Of course Microsoft is a software company. What does Microsoft think of open source?
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FreeBSD 8.1 RC1 released
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One week later than originally scheduled, the FreeBSD development team have issued a first release candidate (RC1) for version 8.1 of their popular free Unix derivative. The release note gives little detail of the precise nature of the changes made
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Run your own Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud Guide
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Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud is the product, powered by Eucalyptus, that allows you to easily run your own Amazon-EC2-like private cloud. It’s a lot simpler than you’d think.
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Preview: OpenSUSE 11.3 Release Candidate 1
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Just a few days ago the OpenSUSE developers released the first release candidate of the soon to be available OpenSUSE 11.3. We are still about a month from that final release, so I decided to check it out.
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Wine 1.2 gets a fourth release candidate
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The Wine development team have issued a fourth release candidate for version 1.2 of their Windows API implementation, fixing more than 70 bugs from the previous development preview
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WattOS R2 Screenshots
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Screenshots of the recently released WattOS R2 Linux distribution, known for being energy efficient and providing a lightning fast LXDE desktop.
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Solaris, OpenSolaris, and the Oracle wall of secrecy
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Sometimes, Google's search engine does a better job of telling us about IT vendors than the vendors' own public relations and marketing machines. So it is with the next commercial and development iterations of Oracle's Solaris Unix operating system.
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Keepnote – Cross platform tote taking and Organization application
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KeepNote is a note taking application that works on Windows, Linux, and MacOS X. With KeepNote, you can store your class notes, TODO lists, research notes, journal entries, paper outlines, etc in a simple notebook hierarchy with rich-text formatting, images, and more. Using full-text search, you can retrieve any note for later reference.
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Microsoft Buys Speech Placements in Another Open Source Conference (MOSC, Malaysia)
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Microsoft still uses the language of money to "infiltrate" events of the very same entity it's competing against and suing
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evoluspencil – The Sketching and GUI Prototyping addon for Firefox
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The Pencil Project's unique mission is to build a free and opensource tool for making diagrams and GUI prototyping that everyone can use.
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New stable version (1.3.3) of Turpial lands in PPAs
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Turpial is twitter client written in Python. Light, fast, fully functional and integrated to the user desktop.
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Disk Space: The Final Frontier
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Disk space is always at a premium but how do you handle it when you have a disk or filesystem that’s full? After today, you’ll know how to boldly go into that dark realm.
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