December 2008
Graphics shuffle
Submitted by srlinuxx on Wednesday 31st of December 2008 10:54:10 PM Filed under
blogs.gentoo.org: On Christmas Eve, a special present arrived from UPS: the HIS Radeon X1950 Pro I purchased on eBay. For the week prior to Christmas I removed the discrete nVidia 7600GT and ran off the integrated nVidia Geforce 8200 chip in my motherboard. Utter pain!
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Linux Needs Fewer Friends
Submitted by srlinuxx on Wednesday 31st of December 2008 10:52:36 PM Filed under
linuxtoday.com: It's a cliche, but it's an apt one: "God save me from my friends - I can protect myself from my enemies." Theodore Ts'o wrote an anti-Free Software rant this week that could have come straight from the massive, never-sleeping Redmond FudMachine.
Ten open source projects I learned to love in 2008
Submitted by srlinuxx on Wednesday 31st of December 2008 10:49:23 PM Filed under
opencomputer.net: As the last post of the year I wanted to sum up a short list of the best open source projects I met in 2008. Several from the list were created way before, but only got used by yours truly this year.
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A Good Foundation for 2009
Submitted by srlinuxx on Wednesday 31st of December 2008 08:58:02 PM Filed under
- A Good Foundation for 2009
- GNOME Foundation: Open Source Collaboration at Work!
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Top 10 Linux Virtualization Software
Submitted by srlinuxx on Wednesday 31st of December 2008 08:56:26 PM Filed under
- Top 10 Linux Virtualization Software
- 3D acceleration in virtual machines - Part 1: VMware & DirectX
- Insight Named First U.S.-Based Reseller Partner to Serve VMware Cloud Initiative
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EMTEC to bring 10-inch Gdium netbook stateside
Submitted by srlinuxx on Wednesday 31st of December 2008 08:53:36 PM Filed under

- EMTEC to bring 10-inch Gdium netbook stateside
- Netbooks: Psion vs. Intel, Round Two
- Netbooks Aren't Bad, Just Misunderstood
- Bare Minimum
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PortableApps in Puppy Linux
Submitted by srlinuxx on Wednesday 31st of December 2008 06:53:18 PM Filed under
aronzak.wordpress: Puppy Linux can be installed on your USB stick. So can PortableApps, a collection of cross platform open source software that can run on Windows.
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Linux clipboard utilities lead to frustration and defeat
Submitted by srlinuxx on Wednesday 31st of December 2008 06:51:26 PM Filed under
aplawrence.com: I went looking for Linux clipboard manager utilities and found plenty to choose from. The trick is figuring out what to Google for: "Linux clipboard manager" and "Linux clipboard viewer" seem to do the trick.
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AMD move brings open source gaming closer
Submitted by srlinuxx on Wednesday 31st of December 2008 06:49:58 PM Filed under
blogs.zdnet.com: The problem has always been that the graphics drivers needed for really high-end gaming just were not available through open source. Yesterday AMD tore down that wall.
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Why I use Linux.
Submitted by srlinuxx on Wednesday 31st of December 2008 06:48:02 PM Filed under
lowkster.blogspot: I use openSUSE and Linux because it allows me to use my computers the way I want. I have some almost new hardware and some really old stuff.
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| Documentation Improvements in KDE
Doxyqml, our documentation bridge between QML and doxygen, got various improvements, thanks to Olaf Mandel and Lasse Lopperi. Now QML enums are supported and the lexer/parser got various bug fixes.
Speaking of QML documentation, the Kirigami API documentation was improved and now uses more correctly @inherit tags and @property tags. There is still room for improvements, but the current state is already a lot better. Most Components are now showing all their properties correctly and the type of the property is correct. (kirigami!239)
Another improvement is that the generated Kirigami documentation now shows more accurate names: e.g. Kirigami.Page instead of org::kde::kirigami::Page. This makes it easier to read and navigate the documentation.
There was also a bit of background work inside KApiDox, Jannet added support for QDoc, allowing to use QDoc as an alternative to Doxygen. This might be a better solution for generating documentation for projects with a lot of QML.
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| What is GNU/Linux Copypasta?
I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.
There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux!
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