Some heavy lifting has been done to move Chrome to the 64-bit world. It's Linux-only for now, though, and don't expect doubled performance over 32-bit versions.
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3 Gimp Plugins For Photographers
In the age of digital photography, almost everyone performs at least a few edits on their photos. For simple thing, programs like F-Spot or Google's Picasa may be enough, but you may also need something more. That's where Gimp does an excellent job, offering more tools for editing your photos.
Read more »Mozilla to EU: Microsoft Settlement Proposal Not Enough
Mozilla has taken a position on the European Union's proposed settlement with Microsoft about browser integration in Windows 7. Both Mozilla Foundation's Mitchell Baker and Mozilla's general counsel feel that Microsoft is benefiting all too well from the settlement.
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Linux kernel developers increase by 10 percent
The Linux Foundation has published an update to last year's study on Linux kernel development. The updated study reports that for each kernel release there has been a 10 percent increase in the number of contributing developers, resulting in a 42 percent increase in patch acceptance.
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How To: Renaming files on the command line
Suppose you have a directory full of files with filenames such as oldfile, my-new-file, some_document. Suppose you would like to rename these files to File1, File2, file3.
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Creating an old school shoot'em'up with SDL
SDL Tutorials are hosting a game programming competition to create an old school style of shoot'em'up using SDL. I thought I would enter, and write up a tutorial series will show you how to create a shoot'em'up of your own from scratch using SDL and C++.
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ROSE Blog Interviews: Carla Schroder
I enjoyed that meeting so much that I've decided to continue my efforts to find out what women in open source are doing and why they do it... Carla Schroder took time out of her hectic schedule yesterday to answer my nosy questions.
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How to: Install DD-WRT (X86) On a PC
Normally, when we cover DD-WRT and other firmware replacements for wireless routers, we discuss flashing (or uploading) the firmware to a router. However, DD-WRT also has an X86 version that can be installed onto just about any generic PC.
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Fixing Linux
An old and obscure problem with the gcc compiler was recently discovered to have left a security hole in essentially every version of Linux that anyone is likely to be running. Here's what you need to know about fixing it.
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Path Free for Python with Qt and AMD's OpenCL
The PySide LPGL Python binding for Qt is new and the Python::OpenCL wrapper now runs with AMD's ATI Stream SDK.
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40 years of Unix
Think then what the Unix operating system deserves because in August 2009, it celebrates its 40th anniversary. And it has been in use every year of those four decades and today is getting more attention than ever before.
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Build a High Powered Linux Workstation on the Cheap
For this series of articles we set out to build a high powered workstation with the latest Linux virtualization software capable of running multiple operating systems (OS) at the same time. Our goal was to get the fastest multiple-core processor and most memory while staying close to the $500 price tag of the other off-the-shelf machines.
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Top ten Linux distributions
Ubuntu stands out as the most popular Linux distribution but which other versions make up the top ten?
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Novell vs. Red Hat: How their Linux strategies affect your data center
More than 90% of all commercial Linux server subscriptions are from Novell and Red Hat, with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), respectively. A Gartner report gives Red Hat more than 60% of the paid Linux market, and Novell more than 30%. Why is Red Hat the Linux market share leader?
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Austrumi Linux 1.9.3
I thought I’d take a look at Austrumi Linux in this review. Austrumi Linux is based on Slackware and is pretty tiny in terms of size, weighing in at about 108MB.
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