In the past Ive done Wine on Linux versus native Windows 7 benchmarks for 3D applications. Source engine games are some of my favorite benchmarking applications. Since Valve ported Steam to OSX earlier this year and I recently acquired an OSX PC I figured this would be an opportune time to see how Wine performance measures up to a native client.
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Interest in SUSE is Decreasing
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Freelock Computing says that interest in SUSE as a server platform is decreasing
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Irssi - A Really Good Terminal Based IRC Client For Linux
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The only IRC client I ever used was XChat. I decided to try something different and Irssi client was a great find. Irssi is a terminal based IRC client for Unix systems and is probably the best I have used till now.
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Preview of KDE Software Compilation 4.5
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Just as KDE 3.5 was intended to be a stabilizing, long-term release, the primary goal of KDE SC 4.5 is to fix outstanding bugs and increase stability. Users will not be blown away by the new features, but there are a few worth noting. Last week I installed the release candidate for KDE SC 4.5 from the Kubuntu repositories and took it for a spin.
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Dell expands Ubuntu Linux desktop offerings
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The latest panic in desktop-Linux-land was that Dell would no longer be selling Ubuntu pre-installed on laptops and netbooks. Alas, for those who love drama, it wasn't true. In fact, Dell is expanding its Ubuntu desktop offerings.
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Licensing server for Android
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Google wants to address one of the concerns expressed by Android developers over application copying by introducing a licensing server. The server will verify whether or not an application has been legitimately purchased.
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"Can Open Source be secure" BCS riposte
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An article published by the BCS was brought to my attention, and it was full of such glaring omissions and implicit attacks on free software that it had to be dealt with.
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Get a Dynamic Interplanetary Background with Xplanet
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This tutorial shows you how to setup an interplanetary background in Linux, including live-updates for current cloud coverage and daylight! Set an image of Earth, Mars, the Moon, or the entire solar system as your background, and have it update every hour with a cron job. Very cool!
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Why Android won
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The LiMo Foundation and GNOME sent out a press release this week touting their cooperation and the media laughed. Mean-spirited? Yes. Snarky? You betcha. But filled with real truthiness. The OS wars in the mobile space appear to be over and there are two left standing, the iPhone and Android, a Linux distro. Why is that?
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GNOME 3.0 delayed to March 2011
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der Standard: "Developers want to take more time to "polish" their next major release - GNOME 2.32 in September"
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Two Gnus on Decoding Digital Humanities: The Gnu Project and the Gnu GPL - London, 24th August 2010
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«For the next Decoding Digital Humanities meeting, I’d like to propose reading two fundamental documents of the free software movement, Richard Stallman’s Gnu Project and the Gnu GPL (General Public License)...» — via Two Gnus: The Gnu Project and the Gnu GPL —
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WOFF - Now loading fonts on websites
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The first public draft of the W3C's Web Open Font Format represents a first step towards standardising dynamically loadable fonts on the web. The method has already been implemented in Firefox and in WebKit
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Fedora 13 Samba Standalone Server With tdbsam Backend
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This tutorial explains the installation of a Samba fileserver on Fedora 13 and how to configure it to share files over the SMB protocol as well as how to add users. Samba is configured as a standalone server, not as a domain controller. In the resulting setup, every user has his own home directory accessible via the SMB protocol and all users have a shared directory with read-/write access.
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Open source startup takes over OpenSSO
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A Norwegian startup is assuming responsibility for maintaining an open source web authentication technology originally developed by Sun Microsystems, and seemingly neglected by Oracle, which purchased Sun in January.
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BlueDevil, the new KDE bluetooth stack is here
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We’re proud to announce the first release of BlueDevil, the new bluetooth stack for KDE SC.
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