Review: Ubuntu 13.04
April 25, 2013 By Michael Perks Leave a Comment
The Canonical developers seem to present more work onUbuntu touch to be employed than with traditional Linux distribution: The technical innovations that brings Ubuntu 13:04 against the previous version 12.10 include more in the cosmetics category. Had to "Raring Ringtail" not changed some icons of the Unity desktop, most users would probably barely notice the difference. … [Read More...]
Door Kickers from KillHouse Games heading to Linux soon!
May 20, 2013 By Michael Perks Leave a Comment
Door Kickers is an innovative Real-Time Tactics game that puts you in charge of a SWAT team. With your help we can make this The Ultimate Swat Team Command Simulator. LXer Linux News … [Read More...]
Get Better Linux Desktop Performance And More With pf-kernel
May 20, 2013 By Michael Perks Leave a Comment
pf-kernel is a custom Linux Kernel that comes with some popular patches not merged into the mainline Kernel, such as:-ck patchset with BFS CPU scheduler: Con Kolivas' ck1 patchset which includes the BFS scheduler that brings better desktop interactivity and responsiveness;BFQ I/O scheduler : using this patch, the disk should be virtually as responsive as if it was idle, no matter what the load is … [Read More...]
KVM Virtualization Still Being Ported To 64-bit ARM
May 20, 2013 By Michael Perks Leave a Comment
After KVM virtualization was brought to ARM last year with the ARM Cortex-A15 SoCs supporting hardware virtualization, support for the Kernel-based Virtual Machine for 64-bit ARM (AArch64) SoCs is being prepared... Phoronix … [Read More...]
Video Review: openSUSE 12.3
April 23, 2013 By Michael Perks Leave a Comment
What do you think openSUSE's target audience is?== A review of openSUSE 12.3 featuring the KDE desktop. Overall, a polished release with some powerful conf... Video Rating: 4 / 5 … [Read More...]
Today’s Linux News
Door Kickers from KillHouse Games heading to Linux soon!
May 20, 2013 By Michael Perks Leave a Comment
Door Kickers is an innovative Real-Time Tactics game that puts you in charge of a SWAT team. With your help we can make this The Ultimate Swat Team Command Simulator. LXer Linux News … [Read More...]
Btrfs vs. EXT4 vs. XFS vs. F2FS On Linux 3.10
May 20, 2013 By Michael Perks Leave a Comment
Building upon our F2FS file-system benchmarks from earlier in this week is a large comparison of four of the leading Linux file-systems at the moment: Btrfs, EXT4, XFS, and F2FS. With the four Linux kernel … [Read More...]
Linux Mint 15 brings prettier desktop, new software and driver managers
May 20, 2013 By Michael Perks Leave a Comment
The Linux Mint project yesterday unveiled version 15 of the increasingly popular desktop operating system, with upgrades to the MATE and Cinnamon desktop environments as well as new applications for managing … [Read More...]
Swartz’s Last Gift, the Invasion of the Androids & More…
May 20, 2013 By Michael Perks Leave a Comment
On Monday a U.S. judge in Boston ordered that sealed documents in the criminal hacking case against Aaron Swartz be released. Swartz, who was charged with stealing articles from a database, committed suicide in … [Read More...]
Google’s Native Code browser tech goes cross-platform
May 20, 2013 By Michael Perks Leave a Comment
At its annual I/O conference in San Francisco this week, Google unveiled a new version of its Native Client technology that allows developers to deploy binary code for web applications in an … [Read More...]
Featured Linux Reviews
Review: openSUSE 12.3
April 15, 2013 By Michael Perks Leave a Comment
I will show you if and how openSUSE 12.3 can redeem itself. Naturally, we will go with the KDE desktop, because Gnome is not an option anymore. My test box will … [Read More...]
Review: Pardus 2013 KDE
April 5, 2013 By Michael Perks Leave a Comment
After getting past the boot menu, I was greeted by a pleasant boot splash featuring the Pardus name above a spinning progress meter on a dark gray background. … [Read More...]
Featured Linux Hardware
OpenSUSE Considers Replacing LXDE With E17
May 20, 2013 By Michael Perks Leave a Comment
In an effort to make Enlightenment E17 available through the openSUSE installer and DVD, the lightweight LXDE desktop environment may be pushed … [Read More...]
Linux Mint 15 “Olivia” Approaches With New Tools
May 20, 2013 By Michael Perks Leave a Comment
The first release candidate of the Ubuntu-based Linux Mint 15 distribution is now available. Linux Mint 15 incorporates the latest MATE and Cinnamon desktop … [Read More...]
Featured Linux Howtos
Desktop Search Tool `Recoll` Updated With Significant Improvements
May 19, 2013 By Michael Perks Leave a Comment
Recoll is a full text search tool for Linux that comes with a Qt GUI, an Ubuntu Unity Lens and it can also be used via command line. The application can find … [Read More...]
Securing SSH On Ubuntu Precise With WiKID Two-Factor Authentication
May 18, 2013 By Michael Perks Leave a Comment
Securing SSH On Ubuntu Precise With WiKID Two-Factor Authentication SSH offers a highly secure channel for remote administration of servers. However, if you … [Read More...]
Featured Android
Sony brings AOSP open-source Android to Xperia Tablet Z
May 20, 2013 By Michael Perks Leave a Comment
Vanilla, open-source Android available for 10-inch tablet on Sony GitHub Like the Xperia Z before it, Sony has announced that it's bringing the Xperia … [Read More...]
Google H840 could replace the abandoned Nexus Q
May 20, 2013 By Michael Perks Leave a Comment
The Nexus Q was a short lived project, revealed at Google I/O, it was abandoned a year later due to poor sales. Questions were raised on the price of the media … [Read More...]