Dan Kegel has been running some DirectX and OpenGL benchmarks on Ubuntu + Wine and Windows Vista, Here is the results of Dans recent benchmark test.
Yagmarkdata now has data from five different benchmarks: 3dmark 2000, 2001, 2006 and heaven2_opengl, d3d9, and running on a semi-whimpy e8400 dual core box with an nvidia gt 220 card, on both Vista and Ubuntu+Wine.
Read more »The smartbook has yet to emerge from pre-product purgatory, though a couple of high-profile devices are due soon.
Read more »A week ago, on April 29, Linux distro Canonical released Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. It featured a new look that some rate more attractive and up-to-date than Snow Leopard’s.
Read more »The Midgard Project has released the first release of Midgard2 10.05 "Ratatoskr" LTS. Ratatoskr LTS is a Long Term Support version of Midgard2 Content Repository.
Read more »For those that haven't been paying attention to our recent coverage of Valve's Steam Client / Source Engine coming to Linux, last month we discovered Linux references in the Steam Mac OS X client and other Linux support references, which that combined with word from sources yielded no doubt that Steam/Source is coming to Linux.
Read more »Docky is a full fledged dock application that makes opening common applications and managing windows easier and quicker.
Read more »Video from last year shows a revealing remark about Ron Hovsepian and Microsoft
Read more »gettext is an important step for the GNU Translation Project, as it is an asset on which we may build many other steps. This package offers to programmers, translators, and even users, a well integrated set of tools and documentation. Specifically, gettext utilities are a set of tools that provides a framework to help other GNU packages produce multi-lingual messages.
Read more »Zile is a lightweight Emacs clone. Zile is short for Zile Is Lossy Emacs. Zile has been written to be as similar as possible to Emacs; every Emacs user should feel at home. This release fixes a potential buffer overrun, and a long-standing bug in the handling of the key string "C-_", and cleans up the code a little more.
Read more »The mobile application for Android got updated today with the ability to snap a picture of some words and instantly translate them into the language of the owner. Google's Goggles mobile application has always been a fun tool.
Read more »Other than the default Ubuntu that we all know of, there are also the Kubuntu (KDE), Xubuntu (XFCE), Edubuntu, Mythbuntu etc that run different desktop environment and serve different purpose. And yes, there is a new buntu addition to the family. Let’s welcome: Lubuntu. Lubuntu is a Ubuntu variant built using the LXDE desktop, which is in turn based on Openbox.
Read more »SpringSource, the open source Java division of VMware, has announced that it has agreed to acquire enterprise data management solution specialist GemStone Systems
Read more »DeaDBeeF (as in 0xDEADBEEF) is free software audio player for GNU/Linux systems with X11 (though now it also runs in plain console without X windowing system under FreeBSD and OpenSolaris). It contains big quantity of features and added yet more in this new release.
Read more »The final release of Ubuntu's Lucid Lynx (Ubuntu 10.4) has finally arrived. Wondering what's in store? We've got seven reasons for Ubuntu users to make the leap to Lucid.
Read more »Over the last year we have been working with a large company that is moving all of their servers from Microsoft to Linux, specifically CentOS. This is an international company that is leveraging their growth by cutting costs on the server operations.
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