Source SDK for Linux!
A new update to the Source Development Kit has been released which supports Linux now.
Playing with desktop files aka application launchers in Linux
Desktop files are text files, with .desktop extension, that launches applications. In this tutorial, I wish to explore different ways you can use desktop files to run range of applications.
Illuminating Linux Podcasts
This article offers a survey of Linux podcasts, and podcasts that have close links to Linux. Whilst the survey does not offer exhaustive treatment, it gives an opinion on 20 different podcasts.
Whats wrong with every open source firewall/router on the market now
I once read that a network firewall was as much a central point for getting visibility into your network as it was a point for restricting and securing your network. It is my personal belief that these things go hand in hand. How can you secure your network if you don't understand what is actually going on inside it? how can you differentiate between what is good and bad traffic, if you can't actually see the traffic? A few years ago, I invested a serious amount of time searching for an open-source firewall that I could insert into a network on some standard hardware and see what was happening, then respond to this. I was disappointed to say the least.
Different methods to change the delimiter in file content
In this article, we will see different methods to change the delimiter in file content, for example: from a comma to a colon.
PCBSD is the future of computing – Interview with Kris Moore the Founder of PCBSD
We interviewed the founder of PCBSD at Texas Linux Fest. He also works for iX Systems.
Performance on Linux. Just how far *can* we go?
As the title suggests, Linux and performance in the same sentence makes for an interesting topic of discussion. Everyone knows there is a multitude of options available to us. In this article, I’m going to attempt to cover a few of them.
New Unix Chips Coming
At the upcoming Hot Chips Conference in late August, Oracle, IBM and Fujitsu are all set to announce the release of new high-performance Unix chips.
GCC vs. LLVM/Clang On The AMD Richland APU
Along with benchmarking the AMD A10-6800K "Richland" APU on Linux and its Radeon HD 8670D graphics, I provided some GCC compiler tuning benchmarks for this AMD APU with Piledriver cores. The latest Linux testing from the A10-6800K is a comparison of GCC 4.8.1 to LLVM/Clang 3.3 on this latest-generation AMD low-power system.
Testing Radeon DPM Using Sysfs/Debugfs
For those looking to test out the long-awaited Radeon dynamic power management support within the Linux 3.11 kernel, here's some information on the new debugfs and sysfs interfaces for dealing with this "DPM" feature. The Radeon updates for the Linux 3.11 kernel are very exciting as the GPU clock speeds and voltages can dynamically adjust based upon load. This leads to power-savings when idling, especially for battery-backed systems, and also to greater performance on newer hardware by being able to up-clock the GPU from its boot speeds.
Limit Theory Developer Update on Linux Port
Limit Theory is a crowdfunded Space Sim whose universe is based around the concept of procedural content generation: nearly everything in LT, according to the developer words, will be computer generated (quests, solar systems, enemies, nebulas, etc.).
DRM/KMS Driver Published For Snapdragon Graphics
Rob Clark has expanded his Freedreno efforts from just being a reverse-engineered user-space (Gallium3D) graphics driver for Qualcomm's Adreno/Snapdragon hardware. Rob has now written his own DRM/KMS kernel driver for dealing with the Snapdragon graphics hardware.
Oculus Rift First Impressions and Official Linux Support
A couple of days ago, version 0.2.3 of the official SDK for the Oculus Rift was released with Linux support, and I thought now would be a good time to put together a belated unboxing/first impressions video.
Announcing eDeploy: Linux systems provisionning and updating made easy
eDeploy is a new generation tool to manage baremetal deployments and upgrades of Linux based systems. Upgrades have been the main focus with the possibility to rollback upgrades if needed.
NO, LXDE-QT IS NOT BLOATED
After posting a preview screenshot for LXDE-Qt, I got quite a lot of feedback from various sources. Generally the responses from the users are positive, but there are also some people saying that LXDE is no longer lightweight.
Please, in the free world we’re all friends and let’s not spread FUDs to hurt each other. I’m not going to respond to groundless accuse or get involved in toolkit wars. Just see the screenshot.
Please, in the free world we’re all friends and let’s not spread FUDs to hurt each other. I’m not going to respond to groundless accuse or get involved in toolkit wars. Just see the screenshot.
How to change or disable login sound in Linux Mint 15
I never liked the login sound of Linux Mint so I disabled it immediately after installing Linux Mint 15. If you want to do the same, here is how:
OS4 OpenLinux 13.5 Screenshot Tour
With this release we bring lots of enhancements and feature updates to the OS4 OpenLinux operating system. We have made several kernel enhancements that make the default kernel in OS4 OpenLinux that much faster and efficient. Also, many new hardware drivers are included that support more hardware, out of the box. Along with a new logo and an enhanced look and feel from our previous release, we have made OS4 OpenLinux one of the easiest to use operating systems that allow you to complete tasks quickly and efficiently. We have made some new changes in the application line-up.
LXLE gets DuckDuckGo, Distrowatch and an update.
Late last week Distrowatch decided to create some room for LXLE on their infamous distro discovery site. I was really happy to see an official page for LXLE with an official url. Mid this week DuckDuckGo contacted me after months of review, with news that LXLE would be accepted into the fold of distributions...
For the First Time, You Can Actually Own the Digital Comics You Buy
If you’ve ever bought a digital comic book, your experience probably went something like this: You opened up an app like ComiXology, paid around $1.99 to $3.99 — likely, the same price as a print issue — but never downloaded the file for the comic to your hard drive. That’s because you don’t really own it — you’ve simply licensed the right to look at it in someone else’s library.
Ubuntu Touch no longer launched by Android
Pre-release test images of Ubuntu Touch now launch an Ubuntu system directly, with the Android userland environment, used to run Android applications under Ubuntu Touch, running in an LXC Linux container within Ubuntu.
Why DRM-free comic books are a big deal, even if you don’t read comics
If you're not familiar with the world of big digital publishing, it works a bit like this: you can generally get digital versions of comics the same day they're released to brick-and-mortar stores, either through a subscription or a specialized app. Now when I say "get," I don't really mean "buy." Yes, money is leaving your bank account and going into the publisher's (with maybe a cut going to a middleman like Comixology), but the reality is that you're just renting the content. You buy a license to view the comic—you don't actually own it. Want to read it outside of the app you bought it from? Good luck with that.
Radeon DRM: Dynamic Power Management Updates
The DRM pull request has yet to be submitted for the Linux 3.11 kernel and already there is another revision to the Radeon DRM kernel driver to be submitted. This latest Radeon DRM work provides additional dynamic power management fixes and some new sysfs features...
More AVX2 Crypto Optimizations For Linux 3.11
Recent Linux kernel releases have seen a number of crypto performance optimizations for this kernel subsystem by taking advantage of newer CPU instruction set extensions for accelerating various cryptographic workloads. This theme has continued for Linux 3.11.
AMD Radeon HD 8670D: Gallium3D vs. Catalyst
This morning there were the RadeonSI Gallium3D vs. AMD Catalyst Linux benchmarks for the high-end Radeon HD 7850/7950 "Southern Islands" graphics cards. While the new Southern Islands GPUs understandingly have a long way to catch up on their new open-source Linux Gallium3D driver compared to Catalyst, how is the AMD Radeon HD 8670D "Richland" APU performance between the open and closed-source drivers? Here are some benchmarks.
PyGObject 3.8.3 Is Now Available for Download
The third maintenance release of the stable PyGObject 3.8 library for the GNOME desktop environment was announced earlier today, July 5, fixing various bugs found in the previous release.
Korora 19 Screenshot Tour
We are pleased to announce that Korora 19 'Bruce' is now available for download, which for the first time ever coincides with the release of Fedora. Features: GNOME 3.8; KDE Plasma Workspaces 4.10; the Anaconda installer has support for many English locales. Of course this release comes with the usual Korora extras out of the box, such as: third party repositories (Chrome, RPMFusion, VirtualBox); full multimedia support including Adobe Flash plugin; Jockey device manager to handle drivers such as ATI and NVIDIA; Firefox as the default web browser (with integration theme for KDE); Firefox extensions enabled (Adblock Plus, DownThemAll, Flashblock, Xclear).
An Interview and Preview with IndieCity on Linux!
Todays GamingOnLinux.com question time is all about IndieCity and their soon to arrive Linux client, this means alongside Steam and Desura we will have another client on Linux.
Carla, omnivore audio/MIDI plugins host, released
After 2+ years of work Filipe Coelho finally called it a day and released the first stable version of Carla — an audio/MIDI plugins host for Linux and Windows.
Carla is omnivore indeed: it loads both LV2, VST, DSSI, and LADSPA plug-ins, and beyond that it supports GIG, SF2, and SFZ samples via FluidSynth and LinuxSampler.
Open-Source RadeonSI Gallium3D vs. AMD Catalyst On Linux
Towards the end of June I published AMD RadeonSI Gallium3D benchmarks, the open-source Linux graphics driver supporting the Radeon HD 7000/8000 series hardware on Linux. While the alternative to the Catalyst driver can accelerate OpenGL, it's very slow. Open-source driver benchmarks were shown in that article compared to older generations of AMD Radeon hardware backed by the mature R600 Gallium3D driver. In this article are benchmarks comparing the open-source "RadeonSI" driver to the proprietary AMD Catalyst GPU driver on the Radeon HD 7850/7950 graphics cards. As an additional driver reference point were also Radeon HD 7950 Cayman results; all testing happened from Fedora 19 Linux.
AMD helps LibreOffice to speed up Spreadsheets
AMD, the giant CPU and GPU manufacturer, is now a member of the Open Office Foundation’s advisory board, the organization behind LibreOffice. This was announced by the Open Office Foundation in a press release on Wednesday. AMD is planning to make an impact immediately by using its expertise to help optimize the LibreOffice spreadsheet app for GPUs.
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