Some forks do better than others. In the case of the Madriva fork known as Mageia, it’s doing quite well, this week releasing its third major update in less than three years.
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Linux Top 3: Mageia 3, Linux Mint 15 and New Linux Kernels for All
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Mageia 3 out, no more delays
May 20, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Mageia 3 has finally been released after a two week delay, fixing the installation bugs of the release candidate, and bringing with it updates and refinements over Mageia 2
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Door Kickers from KillHouse Games heading to Linux soon!
May 20, 2013 by 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.
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Btrfs vs. EXT4 vs. XFS vs. F2FS On Linux 3.10
May 20, 2013 by 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 file-systems, each was benchmarked on the Linux 3.8, 3.9, and 3.10-rc1 kernels. The results from this large file-system comparison when backed by a solid-state drive are now published on Phoronix.
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Linux Mint 15 brings prettier desktop, new software and driver managers
May 20, 2013 by 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 software and drivers.Code-named “Olivia,” Linux Mint 15 is based on the most recent version of Ubuntu and will be supported until January 2014. Linux Mint 15 is in the Release Candidate stage, with a final release coming later.
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Swartz’s Last Gift, the Invasion of the Androids & More…
May 20, 2013 by 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 January.
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Google’s Native Code browser tech goes cross-platform
May 20, 2013 by 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 architecture-independent way. With the original version of Native Client (NaCl), developers could write modules in C or C++ and compile them into binary packages to be executed inside the browser at near-native speed. The initial release only supported 32-bit and 64-bit Intel x86 architectures, but Google added support for ARM in January.
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Linux’s Ondemand Governor Is No Longer Fit
May 20, 2013 by Leave a Comment
By default the Linux kernel uses the “ondemand” CPU frequency governor for achieving maximum clock frequency when system load is high and a lower clock frequency when the system is idle. However, it turns out that for at least modern Intel CPUs, this is likely no longer the case. This default kernel choice may lead to poor battery life and performance for modern Linux systems.
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DNF Still Advancing As Experimental Yum For Fedora
May 20, 2013 by Leave a Comment
DNF is the experimental fork of the Yum package manager that premiered in Fedora 18. While much hasn’t been heard of this experimental Yum replacement since its debut, work on it has still been progressing and is turning out to be in great shape, is slowly approaching feature-parity with Yum, and is faster…
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Can’t update Iceweasel from Experimental on Jessie
May 20, 2013 by Leave a Comment
I use the Debian Experimental repository to update Iceweasel to the latest Firefox release version provided by the Debian Mozilla team.
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Not all laptops are designed equal
May 20, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Over time it is common for fans in laptops to become clogged with dust, fluff and even hair. The symptoms are usually a hotter laptop and a noisier fan that runs more frequently. The solution is to open up the laptop’s body in order to get at the fan and remove the crud with tweezers and by blowing. However, dismantling many laptops to access the fan makes the Mission Impossible break-in look simple, and this seems to be getting worse as laptop prices continue to decrease. If you are not confident you can unblock the fan yourself, you’ll have to find a local computer repair shop and you may find it’s not cheap.
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4 Open Source Alternatives To Adobe Photoshop
May 20, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Adobe Photoshop is not just a requirement for web designers, but it is a growing need of professional photographers as well. Not everyone who wants to use the Adobe photoshop can use it and the reason for it is not the lack of skills, as we all know there are plenty of tutorials available for almost every functionality of this image editing tool. The reason why so many people cannot use Adobe Photoshop or the reason why so many people are looking for open source alternatives to it is its price. The current version, which is the Adobe Photoshop CS6, costs $ 628.88 on Amazon.com. Now considering its price as high as it is, it is almost impossible for many people to afford it, which is why we have compiled the best 4 open source alternatives to Photoshop, so you can fulfill your photoshop needs without having to spend a fortune over it.
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