October 2010
Optimization in KWin 4.6
Submitted by srlinuxx on Sunday 31st of October 2010 09:50:51 PM Filed under
blog.martin-graesslin.com: Apart from the scripting interface KWin will not ship any major new feature in 4.6. Most of the work I did for 4.6 was to improve the overall performance of our compositing engine.
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The 4 Best Free Linux Anti-Virus Programs
Submitted by srlinuxx on Sunday 31st of October 2010 09:49:31 PM Filed under
makeuseof.com: Does a Linux user need antivirus software? If you insert your thumb drive regularly into Windows computers, for example, it might be infected, meaning you’re spreading malware with it and not even knowing it.
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Unity: Some Further Clarification Points
Submitted by srlinuxx on Sunday 31st of October 2010 09:47:53 PM Filed under
- Jono Bacon: Unity: Some Further Clarification Points
- Using Unity – Day 5 How Does It Compare to Gnome Shell?
- Ubuntu 10.10 upgrade woes
- 4 steps to freedom
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Star Trek Enterprise Owner's Manual
Submitted by srlinuxx on Sunday 31st of October 2010 09:44:43 PM Filed under
- Star Trek's Enterprise now has an owner's manual
- Texas Supreme Court Cites The Wisdom Of Spock On Star Trek
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Jumping the shark, no. 14.
Submitted by srlinuxx on Sunday 31st of October 2010 05:49:50 PM Filed under
paul.frields.org: With only two days left until Fedora 14 release, I went ahead and upgraded the behemoth in my home office, a Dell XPS 730x workstation, to the new “Laughlin” release.
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KDE Developers Discuss Merging Libraries With Qt
Submitted by srlinuxx on Sunday 31st of October 2010 05:47:50 PM Filed under
phoronix.com: Well, here's some interesting weekend news: there's a polarized discussion taking place right now among core KDE developers about merging the KDE libraries into upstream Qt.
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The best anti-virus out there
Submitted by srlinuxx on Sunday 31st of October 2010 05:46:33 PM Filed under
idreamoflinux.com: Last week my mom forwarded an email to me and I started to laugh. The email was to warn me about a virus that is spreading and destroying peoples data.
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Eating Your Own Dogfood
Submitted by srlinuxx on Sunday 31st of October 2010 02:24:03 PMJon maddog Hall: I started saying this many years ago when I noticed that the Unix product managers at Digital Equipment Corporation were not using Unix in their day to day work. They had Microsoft Windows systems on their desktop, and would often go over to VMS to use “EDT” (the VMS text editor) for doing “real editing”.
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Open Source License Used Widely In App Store Apps
Submitted by srlinuxx on Sunday 31st of October 2010 02:22:15 PM Filed under
groundreport.com: According to a study from OpenLogic, a software services vendor, licensing for open source are used widely in app store apps for mobiles.
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Minecraft Halloween Update
Submitted by srlinuxx on Sunday 31st of October 2010 02:20:55 PM- Minecraft Halloween Update is out – can you take on The Nether?
- Generative wallpapers for Ubuntu: Game of Life
- Happy Halloween With Ubuntu Pumpkin
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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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Ben Widawsky: Framebuffer Modifiers Part 1
In a now pretty well established tradition on my part, I am posting on things I no longer work on!
I gave a talk on modifiers at XDC 2017 and Linux Plumbers 2017 audio only. It was always my goal to have a blog post accompany the work. Relatively shortly after the talks, I ended up leaving graphics and so it dropped on the priority list.
I'm splitting this up into two posts. This post will go over the problem, and solutions. The next post will go over the implementation details.
| Linux Lite 5.4 Will Be Based on Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS, Release Candidate Ready for Testing
Linux Lite is a user-friendly distro that aims to bring more ex-Windows users to the Linux and Open Source ecosystem. The new release of this Ubuntu derived distribution, Linux Lite 5.4, will be based on Canonical’s recently released Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS (Focal Fossa) operating system.
But Linux Lite 5.4 will ship with the long-term supported Linux 5.4 LTS kernel instead of the much newer Linux kernel 5.8 from Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS. However, users will be able to install any other kernel they want up to the recently released Linux kernel 5.11 from the software repositories with just two commands.
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