Then, there’s Dreamlinux. The last time I tried it, Dedoimedo was still having just a few hundred visits a day, I believed splitting articles into many parts to garner more clicks was a good thing to do, IPv6 was going to run out soon, and it was my first really proper review that I can recall. And yes, Dreamlinux showed some real promise. Fast-forward to now, it hasn’t quite made it big, as the development has been rather slow, but I still remember the good feeling of testing and using it. Can Dreamlinux make me not hate Xfce?
SMPlayer 0.7.0 Brings YouTube And Mplayer2 Support
Kazam Screencaster 1.0 Released
Kazam Screencaster 1.0, a cool screencasting application for Linux, has been released today.
FreeBSD Made Much Progress Last Quarter
Cleaning Up The R600 Gallium3D Driver
Marek Olšák, the well-known independent contributor to Mesa that’s made a great deal of enhancements to the Radeon driver stack over the past few years, has a new patch-set. The latest patch-set he published last night cleans up the R600g driver and reworks its cache flushing code. This patch-set affects more than 2,000 lines of code, which is significant for this open-source Gallium3D driver..
Having SNAppy Intel 2D Acceleration In 2012
Here’s a new look at Intel’s Sandy Bridge New Acceleration (SNA) architecture within their DDX graphics driver. Testing in this article was done across three systems (mobile and desktop class Sandy Bridge hardware as well as an Ironlake system) seeing how well the latest code is performing in an effort to provide a better Intel 2D experience.
Linux Game Publishing Shake-Up: CEO Steps Down
Linux for Users: A Bulletin Board for Text Notes
This piece did not set out to re-define the term, “computer bulletin board,” but that is the easiest way to describe Wboard, a window that provides a background for text notes and allows you to manage and save groups of notes easily.
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Command-line programs for everyday use in Linux
I must admit, I’m a command line geek. Whenever I have the chance, regardless of desktop environment or distribution, I open a terminal and start fiddling something. This does not mean everyone must be like me, of course. If you’re the person who is mouse and GUI-oriented, no problems. However, there are situations when all you have at your disposal for a while is the command line. One of those situations might be an upgrade of your kernel/graphics drivers that leave you high and dry until the bug is reported and the developers look at the issue. You have to send a very important e-mail or you have to check the evolution of prices of your favorite laptop. All the essential desktop tasks (with some exceptions, though) that you do on a GUI-enabled machine can be done on a CLI-only machine as well, so if you’re interested…
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