OpenBSD 5.3 Improves Hardware Support

One day after releasing the feature-rich DragonFlyBSD 3.4, the OpenBSD camp has announced the latest major release of their BSD operating system…
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Wine 1.5.28 Improves PostScript Driver, Mac Driver

It’s time for another bi-weekly development release of Wine…
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Cairo-Dock 3.2 Improves Multi-Screen Support

Cairo-Dock 3.2 has been released and it improves multi-screen support for the animated application launch bar/dock. There’s also a new applet and plug-in…
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Ubuntu Touch Improves, Comes To More Hardware

A weekly status update on Ubuntu Touch has been shared that illustrates more work on their key applications and more ports of this phone/tablet-oriented Ubuntu Linux heading to more hardware…
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Wine 1.5.20 Improves C++ Runtime

Wine 1.5.20 was officially released on Friday as the latest pre-Christmas Wine update…
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LLVM 3.2 Improves PowerPC Compiler Support

In addition to featuring an auto-vectorizer, Polly optimizations, and countless other improvements, the forthcoming release of LLVM 3.2 brings numerous improvements to its PowerPC back-end…



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LLVM 3.2 Improves PowerPC Compiler Support

In addition to featuring an auto-vectorizer, Polly optimizations, and countless other improvements, the forthcoming release of LLVM 3.2 brings numerous improvements to its PowerPC back-end…
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New Catalyst For Linux Driver Improves Performance

Weeks after NVIDIA released a new Linux driver to massively improve its OpenGL performance in large part to make the Source Engine and Valve’s games run better on Linux, AMD is out with a similar Catalyst update. The latest Catalyst Linux beta is said to bring “significant performance improvements” for Left 4 Dead 2…
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LM_Sensors 3.3.3 Improves Linux Hardware Sensors

This week marked the release of a new LM_Sensors user-space update…



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Ubuntu 12.04 Update Improves Multi-Monitor Experience

An update to Ubuntu 12.04 (daily builds) has tweaked the Unity UI to make the systems more useful on multi-monitor set-up. I noticed it when I rebooted the system after an update. Now, launcher is available on all monitors, in addition to the top banner and menu items.
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Linux 3.2 goes bigtime on file systems, improves thin provisioning

Linus Torvalds announced the release of the Linux 3.2 kernel, featuring file-system enhancements such as support for Ext4 block sizes up to 1MB, and faster scrubbing with Btrfs. Other Linux 3.2 highlights are said to include process scheduler improvements, better thin provisioning support in the Device Mapper, improved desktop responsiveness for heavy write-backs, and new Wi-Fi and graphics drivers….
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