today's leftovers
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LightSail [Linux-powered] solar spacecraft gets back in touch with its ground crew
The Planetary Society reports that the Carl Sagan-inspired spacecraft rebooted as predicted, and the ground team is once again in touch. There's already a software fix waiting in the wings, and there will be a decision on when to deploy it "very soon" -- if all goes according to plan, the Society will deploy the vehicle's namesake sails soon afterward.
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Linux 4.1-rc6 Kernel Released
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Linus Torvalds Announces Linux Kernel 4.1 Release Candidate 6
It's Sunday, so guess what?! Linus Torvalds has just announced yet another Release Candidate (RC) version for the forthcoming Linux kernel 4.1, available for download and testing right now.
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Intel Broadwell HD Graphics Tests With Mesa 10.7 Git
While Mesa 10.7 just recently entered development, the Git code is often benchmarked on Phoronix, and with not having delivered any Intel Broadwell Linux graphics tests in some time, here's the latest numbers as of this weekend.
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Libav Adds H.264 & HEVC Encoders For NVIDIA's NVENC
Following FFmpeg in supporting NVENC for NVIDIA's GPU-based video encoding on Linux systems, the forked Libav project has now written up their own NVENC support for H.264 and H.265/HEVC.
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How Warm Does The Intel Compute Stick Get?
The Compute Stick plastic case does get warm when benchmarking, but not scorching hot.
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New Benchmarks Of Eltechs ExaGear For x86 Apps On ARM
In the past we've written about Eltechs' ExaGear Desktop software that claims to be 4.5x faster than QEMU and allows x86 Windows/Linux programs to run on ARM. The company has sent over their latest benchmark results of their latest performance claims.
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Xen Orchestra 4.0 Brings Docker Support, Improved Design
The Xen Orchestra team announced this week their next big release: Xen Orchestra 4.0. Xen Orchestra 4.0 has been in development for over nine months now and is codenamed Double Bass.
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Synergy - Keyboard and mouse sharing utility
Using two machines concurrently can cause a few problems. I find it's too cumbersome to use two keyboards and two mice to control the computers. KVM cables are frankly overkill for my needs, taking up too much room in what already is tight a space. But there is a software solution that meets my simple requirements. The software is called Synergy, a simple keyboard and mouse sharing utility. It's multi-platform software (running on Linux, Windows and OS X) and released under an open source license (GNU General Public License v2).
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Warlocks Vs Shadows, 2D Action RPG Tested On Linux, Very Promising
I’ve taken some time to take a look at Warlocks Vs Shadows which is a really great looking 2D side-scrolling action RPG.
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Evolving KDE survey: You still have time
On Monday morning, June 1, Lydia will be extracting the Evolving KDE survey results for us to review. Which means that you still have all day today (Sunday) to take this very short survey. As we’ve stated before, the survey will remain open afterward, but this deadline is for analysis and presentation at Akademy.
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Debian 8.1 to Arrive on June 6
Debian 8 (Jessie) was announced only a month ago, and now its developers are preparing the first point update for it and they even have a precise date in mind.
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wattOS R9 Switches Back to Ubuntu, Now Based on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Biff Baxter from the wattOS team had the pleasure of announcing this past weekend that the ninth release of their Ubuntu-based operating system is available for download.
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