Mozilla's high-performance TraceMonkey JavaScript engine, which was first introduced in 2008, has lost a lot of its luster as competing browser vendors have stepped up their game to deliver superior performance. Firefox now lags behind Safari, Chrome, and Opera in common JavaScript benchmarks.
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GNOME Do to get more kick-ass than Chuck Norris
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Yesterday evening the jolly folk behind launcher-and-then-some GNOME Do held a meeting to set out some goals for the future of the project.
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Linux Arpeggiators, Part 1
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In my last article I looked at performance loopers for Linux. This week I begin a 2-part review of similar applications called arpeggiators.
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Linux-ready plug-in enables IPv6 traffic over IPv4 nets
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Access subsidiary IP Infusion announced a new Linux-ready "stateless tunneling" product that enables the coexistence of IPv4 and IPv6 networks. Based on the IETF's "6rd" (IPv6 rapid deployment) specifications, ZebOS Rapid Deployment forwards IPv6 traffic though existing IPv4 networks, enabling carriers to more easily transition to IPv6, says IP Infusion.
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SCALE 8x: Free software legal issues
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The casual view of open source software is that the code always comes first: releases are made when the code is ready, new contributors prove their chops by the quality of their code, and so forth.
Read more »And thank you for the penguins
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Of the many thousands of things we have Linus Torvalds to thank for, one of them is the venerable penguin, symbol of all things Linux. But what if Linus had chosen to instead use the Gnu, or a beaver, or a bear, or maybe a demon like Freebsd uses?
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PCLinuxOS 2010 mini review
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The much awaited PCLinux OS 2010 was released in beta yesterday. Time for another celebration and another install test. PCLinux OS (PCLOS) is all I wanted, a stable KDE distro with the latest KDE 4.4.1 and Firefox 3.6. I spared no time and tried the beta on my Virtualbox setup.
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Two front ends for Clamav
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Clamav is the most popular free anti virus program for Linux environment.( Of course it scans for widows virus) However, clam is a command line utility and you need some skills for manipulating is properly. There are several graphical front ends for clam av which can make your life easy. The most popular among them are clamtk and Klamav.
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Mozilla to update MPL license
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The Mozilla Foundation, the organisation behind the popular Firefox web browser, has announced the launch of a new public process to update the 10 year old Mozilla Public License (MPL)
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Virtual Hosting With vsftpd And MySQL On Debian Lenny
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Vsftpd is one of the most secure and fastest FTP servers for Linux. Usually vsftpd is configured to work with system users. This document describes how to install a vsftpd server that uses virtual users from a MySQL database instead of real system users. This is much more performant and allows to have thousands of ftp users on a single machine.
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Mozilla announces first Jetpack SDK milestone
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The Mozilla Labs developers have announced the availability of the first milestone for the Jetpack SDK, which will "replace the Jetpack 0.8 prototype over the coming months"
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Install openshot video editor 1.1 in ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid) /9.10 (Karmic)
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OpenShot Video Editor is a non-linear video editor. It is meant to be an easy-to-use, powerful, non-linear video editor, with a focus on user interface, work flow, and stability.
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Rebuttal: Linux on the desktop: Still not happening
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I am seriously annoyed by the constant disingenuous articles that state GNU/Linux is not ready for the average user’s desktop PC as the primary, or only, operating system. What a dump truck load of manure!
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System 76 Lemur Review
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System76 are well known in the Open Source community for shipping Ubuntu on their machines, being active community members and for helping LoCo teams with machines too. I have never owned a System76 box so I thought this was a good opportunity to give it a ride and share some feedback.
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Ubuntu Road Test
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Every now and again at work, I am involved in helping end users (sales representatives) with their machines. Sometimes I am amazed at the beating those machines get, it is surprising they even boot after a year in the field.
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