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Dreaming a Little Dream of the Ideal Linux Distro
TechNewsWorld
Here in the world of Linux, with hundreds of distributions to choose from, it seems safe to say that there's something for just about everyone. Of course, that doesn't mean we can't all dream a little. While Linux is famous for its virtually infinite customizability, ...
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Shadowrun Online also getting Ouya and Linux support
Joystiq
This morning, developer Cliffhanger Productions announced the game as coming to the Ouya, as well as Linux-based systems. Cliffhanger co-founder Michael Paeck is all about the news, saying, "Adding these platforms will make Shadowrun an even better ...
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Privilege escalation security hole found in Nvidia Linux driver
ZDNet (blog)
Summary: A new security hole has been discovered in Nvidia's Linux driver. Nvidia has allegedly known about the vulnerability for more than a month but has yet to fix it. Emil Protalinski. By Emil Protalinski for Zero Day | August 1, 2012 -- 17:35 GMT (10:35 ...
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Android 4.0 ported to Raspberry Pi's $35 Linux computer
Ars Technica
Recent versions of the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, for example, aren't compatible. The Raspberry Pi foundation provides a special version of Fedora that is tailored to run on the device. There is also a specially optimized Debian port called Raspbian ...
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Valve cranks up Linux gaming, makes it faster than Windows
The Verge
Valve's distaste for Windows 8 has led the company to take on an increasing interest in Linux, and the new Valve Linux blog shows that, with some work, the Source Engine actually runs faster on it than it does on Windows. The company used a testbed with ...
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Don't count your penguins before they've hatched
ExtremeTech
The noted free software activist has come out against Steam for Linux, writing that "Nonfree game programs (like other nonfree programs) are unethical because they deny freedom to their users. (Game art is a different issue, because it isn't software.) ...
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ExtremeTech
Valve gets L4D2 running faster on Linux than Windows
Geek
Last month Valve confirmed that the first game coming to Steam running on Linux would be Left 4 Dead 2 (L4D2). The Valve Linux Team has been working hard to optimize both Steam and the Source engine code to run on the Linux platform, and they've now ...
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Geek
Valve: OpenGL is faster than DirectX — even on Windows
ExtremeTech
The Valve Linux Team breaks it down on their shiny new blog: With an Nvidia GTX 680, Intel i7-3930k, and 32GB of RAM, Windows 7 and DirectX, Left 4 Dead 2 maxes out at 270.6 fps. With the same hardware, but different software — Ubuntu 12.04 and ...
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ExtremeTech
'Shadowrun Online' planned for Ouya, Linux
The Verge
Cliffhanger is building Shadowrun Online on the Unity3D engine, which will support Linux in its upcoming version 4.0. Unity 4.0 has no release date at this point, so while Cliffhanger can't guarantee that the game will be available on Linux at launch, the studio ...
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Red Hat CEO Likes CentOS Linux – Oracle Linux, Not So Much
InternetNews.com (blog)
Red Hat makes its money from selling support subscriptions for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Mostly the same bits are available entirely for free by way of the community led CentOS project that clones RHEL. I recently chatted with Red Hat CEO about ...
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InternetNews.com (blog)
Valve Ports Left 4 Dead 2 to Linux OS
Gameranx
When Valve delayed the Cold Stream DLC for Left 4 Dead 2, they attempted to soften the blow with the announcement of native L4D2 support on Linux operating systems. Today, Valve revealed that they finally have the zombie-survival FPS running on the ...
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Gameranx
Shadowrun Online coming to Ouya and Linux
Joystiq
Shadowrun Online coming to Ouya and Linux We don't know much about Shadowrun Online, but we do know that it's theoretically coming to the new Android-powered Ouya console as well as Linux-based PCs. We say theoretically because Cliffhanger's ...
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Gumstix Waysmall Silverlode is a tiny PC with Ubuntu Linux
Liliputing
The Gumstix Waysmall Silverlode is a tiny, low power computer designed for commercial or industrial applications. But under the hood it's running a version of Ubuntu Linux optimized by Linaro to run on ARM-based processors. So it could also theoretically ...
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Kernel Log: Development of Linux 3.6 under way
The H
The kernel developers have added the VFIO userspace driver framework and a hybrid standby option to Linux 3.6. The 64-bit ARM code will be called "arm64" after all. The widely used software collection util-linux has been extended to include a range of new ...
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Azul Open Sources Zing JVM
Dr. Dobb's
What this means is that apps supporting commodity x86 servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, CentOS, and Ubuntu Linux will be able to use the Zing JVM's low latency and scalability attributes. Azul Systems president and ...
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New Linux kernels bring performance improvements
The H
Although the changes will most likely not make typical Linux systems noticeably faster, in certain environments they should lead to the kernels working better and faster. This is evidenced by comments on two of the accepted changes (1, 2); on an SGI UV ...
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Faster zombies! Valve say that Left 4 Dead 2 runs better on Linux than on Windows
PCGamesN
Not only does Valve's Linux work in tweaking Left 4 Dead 2 improve their own games, but it benefits Linux gaming as a whole by improving the public graphics drivers. Valve explain: "The third category [of performance improvement, optimising the graphics ...
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Valve says Left 4 Dead 2 runs faster on Linux
The H
Valve says Left 4 Dead 2 runs faster on Linux. Valve logo. In a post on its Linux blog, the Valve team reports that the Linux port of Left 4 Dead 2 (L4D2) is running faster on Linux than Windows. On a high-end test system with an Intel Core i7 3930k processor, ...
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Another round of Leapocalypse
ITworld.com
August 02, 2012, 8:38 AM — Some Linux sever administrators found out that time was not on their side yesterday, when an errant signal from some Network Time Protocol (NTP) servers broadcast a new leap second that adversely affected many servers ...
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Free Software Foundation: Steam on Linux "Unethical"
Spong
I think his points are valid at a philosophical level. However, GNU/Linux has now progressed to the point that a serious publisher is offering support. I personally cannot fathom how closed-source paid-for software harms anyone's freedom. Certainly, the ...
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Microsoft: Windows, Mac malware gets in via Adobe, Java, Office
ZDNet (blog)
... gets in via Adobe, Java, Office. Summary: Microsoft has outlined the main third-party software through which cross-platform attacks Windows, Mac, and Linux computers: old vulnerabilities in Java, Adobe Flash, Adobe PDF applications, and Microsoft Office.
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Shadowrun Online Kickstarter adds Linux and Ouya support
VG247
We are very happy to be able to add Linux, which has a dedicated following amongst gamers, and connect all our players into one base," said Cliffhanger co-founder Michael Paeck. "You can now easily play the game on your tablet, switch to your desktop PC ...
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Vulnerability in proprietary NVIDIA driver for Linux
The H
Linux kernel and X.org developer Dave Airlie has published a program that exploits a vulnerability in NVIDIA's proprietary graphics driver on Linux to give root privileges to an arbitrary user on the system. The program was handed to Airlie anonymously and, ...
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Blackmagic Releases DaVinci Resolve 9 Public Beta
TV Technology
DaVinci Resolve 9 public beta is now available for free download for Windows, Mac and Linux customers from the Blackmagic Design site, to existing full featured DaVinci Resolve customers, as well as the free DaVinci Resolve Lite. The user interface was ...
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Don't buy that security software!
PC Advisor
Most commercial products are for Windows only, or sometimes Windows and Mac, while their open source cousins serve Mac, Linux, Unix, and other platforms. In this roundup we look at some good open source apps for securing and rescuing our data on ...
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Understanding the SysRq Key – The Magic Key To Control Linux
LXer (press release)
Linux do(es) crash. It is not so frequent, but it happens. You know what to do when an application refuses to obey, but if everything fails, the last solution is using the supreme power on Linux: the magic SysRq key. By using this key with a combination of "Alt" ...
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Open WebOS: No (official) support for existing devices
The H
Unlike the WebOS 3.0.5 Community Edition that was released in June, Open WebOS 1.0 will require Linux Kernel "3.3+", the developers said in their blog posting. They explained that existing Pre, Pre2, Pre3, Veer and TouchPad devices are not compatible ...
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Raspberry Pi to Taste Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich
iTechPost
Raspberry Pi is soon going to break the Linux shackle and taste Ice Cream Sandwich, reported the makers of the device. The Raspberry Pi Foundation revealed on Wednesday that the team has been working on porting Android 4.0 on the tiny computer which ...
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Blogs13 new results for Linux
 
Linux Today - Linux lessons for Hadoop doubters
The Register: While Hadoop is all the rage in the technology media today, it has barely scratched the surface of enterprise adoption.
Linuxtoday.com
[Phoronix] NVIDIA Linux Driver Hack Gives You Root Access
The code was forwarded to NVIDIA Corp more than one month ago, but the official NVIDIA Linux proprietary driver developers have yet to act on the vulnerability. As a result, it was decided to release this to the public. Now maybe NVIDIA will ...
Phoronix
Shadowrun Online coming to Ouya, Linux - Gematsu
By Sal Romano
Shadowrun Online, Cliffhanger Productions' Kickstarter-funded turn-based online RPG for PC, smartphones, and tablets, is adding two more platforms to its.
Gematsu
Instapaper, Pocket Support Added to Linux RSS App Lightread
By Joey Sneddon
DesktopRSS app Lightread now supports two of the most popular 'read it later' services: 'Pocket' and 'Instapaper'. Both services, which claim to have some 5.5 million users between them, boast Kindle, Android, iOS and web apps that give its ...
OMG! Ubuntu!
breaking wep or routing: which is more KISSer? - Linux Forums
By emekadavid
I see so many blogs on the internet on how to break wep keys and one i read, the author said he took more than three days to learn the series of software needed to break wep keys on the Internet. I know the software for doing this are aplenty ...
Linux Forums
Saul Uribe (ch4plin)'s status on Thursday, 02-Aug-12 14:58:55 UTC ...
By ch4plin
Saul Uribe (ch4plin)'s status on Thursday, 02-Aug-12 14:58:55 UTC. Saul Uribe GNU's Not Unix , Linux , Ch Iossif. ♺ @chiossif: Linux is Sexy - http://is.gd/9l6JXw - Isn't it? !gnu !linux !ubuntu !photography !macbook !gnome !Nikon !D800 ...
linux timeline
Shadowrun Online also getting Ouya and Linux support — Michael ...
By Ben Gilbert
Shadowrun Online isn't just heading to tablets, smartphones, and computers, it seems. This morning, developer Cliffhanger Productions announced the game as coming to the Ouya, as well as Linux-based systems. Cliffhanger co-founder ...
Michael Vacirca
Linux PV Guest Performance Improvements – blog.xen.org
By dvrabel
Recently I have started looking at performance aspects of pv-ops Linux by using xentrace and xenalyze (see George Dunlap's presentation for an introduction) to compare the number and pattern of hypercalls between a classic 2.6.32 kernel ...
blog.xen.org
General Job in Greenville , SC - LogJobs.com
5 years supporting Linux-based server environments utilizing SAN attached storage 3-5 years VMware ESX 3.X, 4.X, and 5, VSphere4 and other virtual solutions used for datacenter consolidation and high availability solutions. HP, IBM, Dell ...
Logistics and Supply Chain Job...
windows - Batch file equivalent in Linux - Super User
By Vian Esterhuizen
I have a few basic commands that I need to run on a Red Hat Linux 5 Virtual Machine with GNOME to start a couple servers. Example cd /home/user/scripts sh runTHISthing.sh pub cd /home/user/logs tailf pub.log. Not a crazy amount of code ...
Recent Questions - Super User
[HowTo] Install Oversword Dark V4.5 on Ubuntu Linux + Preview ...
By admin
Facebook: www.facebook.com Twitter: twitter.com Google+: plus.google.com Oversword Dark V4.5 The latest version of Oversword Dark's GTK2 theme. See inside for full description and changelog. GPL I think this makes a perfect glossy ...
www.LinuxExpo.org.uk
Modify a wifi Auto connect script | Linux | Perl | PHP | Python ...
I have a linux script which works for wpa and wep but has the following limitations which i need removed 1. can only work with wpa and wep and not others like.
Freelancer.com - New Projects
Linux Gaming News » Blog Archive » Oculus Rift: Step Into The Game
By Maxim Bardin
Oculus Rift is a gaming virtual reality headset that will change the gaming experience forever and affordable price ! The current prototype is intended for developers who wants to make their games compatible with Oculus Rift. Doom3 BFG ...
Linux Gaming News

Web4 new results for Linux
 
CowboyNeal Reviews Oracle Linux - Slashdot
CowboyNeal writes "Last week, Oracle announced that they were making Oracle Linux available free of charge, and also provided a script that makes switching ...
linux.slashdot.org/story/12/.../cowboyneal-reviews-oracle-linu...
[Phoronix] DRM Drivers On Linux 3.6 Kernel Aren't Too Fun
There's a few prominent changes for the DRM graphics drivers in the forthcoming Linux 3.6 kernel but overall it will be quite a boring release for open-source ...
www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTE0NjU
LPI Forum in Warsaw, Poland | Linux Professional Institute (LPI)
"LPI is committed to the workforce development of Linux and Open Source professionals. In particular we embrace opportunities to work with both industry and ...
www.lpi.org/news/lpi-forum-warsaw-poland
Damn Small Linux, MyDSL Repository
Damn Small Linux myDSL Compressed ISO Extensions. 1 ...
distro.ibiblio.org/damnsmall/mydsl/uci/


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