Published this weekend was a very primitive back-end for LLVM that generates TGSI, the standard intermediate representation (IR) used by Mesa’s Gallium3D drivers…
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A Very Early Gallium3D TGSI Back-End For LLVM
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GTK+ Is Becoming Very Usable With Wayland
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Google open sources very slow compression algorithm
March 1, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Google has open sourced a new compression algorithm called Zopfli that it says is a slower-but-stronger data squasher than the likes of zlib. The product of Googler Lode Vandevenne’s 20 per cent time, the day a week Google allows its staff to work on side projects, Zopfli is said to reduce files to sizes 3.7–8.3 per cent smaller than its rivals (PDF). The catch is that it takes one hundred times longer to do so.
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IBM Researcher Feeds Watson Supercomputer The Urban Dictionary; Very Quickly Regrets It
January 12, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Watson, IBM’s Jeopardy-contestant supercomputer, showed the world that, with the right programming, any puny human could be bested in a mildly snooty game show that handed out answers and asked for questions. However, the quest for true artificial intelligence is still ongoing.So, in the interest of science, the whole of human knowledge (Internet Edition™) was dropped into Watson’s brain and then… the problems began.
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Top 10 articles celebrating Creative Commons’ very uncommon last 10 years
December 16, 2012 by Leave a Comment
To a lot of people all over the world, Creative Commons is more than a license. The organization and their mission is a shining copyleft-light for work rendered by artists, designers, writers, and the list goes on. Here at Opensource.com all of our original content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-SA) which means that you are welcome to share (copy, distribute, and transmit the work), to remix (to adapt the work), or to make commercial use of the work. And many of our contributors choose to attribute thier work under the same license. Why?
How to easily install the very latest GNOME in any Distro with JHBuild
December 16, 2012 by Leave a Comment
The point for having an upstream GNOME installation built from sources is if you are going to build an extension, a theme or a GTK App and take advantage of all the new features of next GNOME. However it is also useful if you want to help GNOME to get better by submitting bugs ..or it could be useful if you are just curious to see what’s coming next 
The tool for building GNOME is nothing else than JHBuild.
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Ubuntu Unity Proves Very Slow To KDE, GNOME, Xfce, LXDE
September 7, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Earlier this week when benchmarking the latest Unity and Compiz packages for Ubuntu 12.10, I mentioned a new OpenGL desktop comparison was forthcoming. Those results from the Ubuntu 12.10 development snapshot are now available with the default Unity desktop being compared to KDE, GNOME, Xfce, and LXDE. In no test did the Unity desktop yield the fastest performance with nearly every time the default Ubuntu desktop being left in last place for performance.
Ubuntu 12.04 ARM Performance Becomes Very Compelling
February 6, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Last week I delivered benchmarks showing how Ubuntu 12.04 is ARM-ing up for better performance with ARM-based hardware and detailed some of the plans Canonical has for this architecture going forward. While those benchmarks last week illustrated some significant performance improvements with the Ubuntu 12.04 stack — in large part due to the switch to hard floating-point support — the gains are not over. In fact, there are already some striking improvements if using the Texas Instruments OMAP4460 SoC as found on the PandaBoard ES.
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