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Leftovers: Gaming
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Steam and HandBrake repository update
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Wednesday 6th of August 2014 05:09:25 PM Filed under
The HandBrake repository has seen some updates; it now contains the current development version for Fedora 20 and later, based on feedback in the previous weeks. It contains less and less bundled libraries and now uses the GTK3 interface.
libdvdnav is now on the final 5.0.0 release. Not much changed since the previous release that contained all the fixes required to avoid the HandBrake crash while opening a DVD for scanning with the default settings.
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Leftovers: Gaming
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Sunday 3rd of August 2014 11:05:19 PM Filed under»
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Valve Updates SteamOS and Fixes the Custom-Built Compositor
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Sunday 3rd of August 2014 07:35:18 PM Filed under
Valve has released a new update for the development version of its Debian-based SteamOS operating system, bringing updates for some of the packages and a very important fix for the compositor.
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Steam for Linux Now Has More Than 600 Games
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Sunday 3rd of August 2014 12:26:44 PM Filed under
Steam for Linux has been released a years and half ago and now it has accumulated more than 600 games, which should make Linux a very successful platform.
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Leftovers: Gaming
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Saturday 2nd of August 2014 09:04:11 PM Filed under»
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SteamOS Beta 126 Better Handles XBMC
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Friday 1st of August 2014 03:54:26 PM Filed under
Valve has pushed another update out to SteamOS, with this time around there being benefits to fans of the XBMC multimedia software.
SteamOS Update 126 was pushed out to Alchemist Beta and it incorporates additional packages needed into the SteamOS archive for running XBMC media software. There's also compositor fixes and various package updates to handle security issues.
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3D Engine for Linux UNIGINE Now Features a Complex City Traffic System
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Friday 1st of August 2014 11:28:21 AM Filed under
UNIGINE, a real-time 3D engine built to run on all major platforms, including Linux, has been updated again and its developers have implemented numerous features, including a comprehensive City Traffic System.
The UNIGINE Engine is built by Unigine Corp., the company behind the Heaven DX11 Benchmark software. The technology they develop is getting better all the time and the updates for the engine always bring numerous improvements...
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ownCloud Desktop Client 2.2.4 Released with Updated Dolphin Plugin, Bug Fixes
ownCloud is still alive and kicking, and they've recently released a new maintenance update of the ownCloud Desktop Client, version 2.2.4, bringing some much-needed improvements and patching various annoying issues.
| Early Benchmarks Of The Linux 4.9 DRM-Next Radeon/AMDGPU Drivers
While Linux 4.9 will not officially open for development until next week, the DRM-Next code is ready to roll with all major feature work having been committed by the different open-source Direct Rendering Manager drivers. In this article is some preliminary testing of this DRM-Next code as of 29 September when testing various AMD GPUs with the Radeon and AMDGPU DRM drivers.
Linux 4.9 does bring compile-time-offered experimental support for the AMD Southern Islands GCN 1.0 hardware on AMDGPU, but that isn't the focus of this article. A follow-up comparison is being done with GCN 1.0/1.1 experimental support enabled to see the Radeon vs. AMDGPU performance difference on that hardware. For today's testing was a Radeon R7 370 to look at the Radeon DRM performance and for AMDGPU testing was the Radeon R9 285, R9 Fury, and RX 480. Benchmarks were done from the Linux 4.8 Git and Linux DRM-Next kernels as of 29 September.
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How to Effectively and Efficiently Edit Configuration Files in Linux
Every Linux administrator has to eventually (and manually) edit a configuration file. Whether you are setting up a web server, configuring a service to connect to a database, tweaking a bash script, or troubleshooting a network connection, you cannot avoid a dive deep into the heart of one or more configuration files. To some, the prospect of manually editing configuration files is akin to a nightmare. Wading through what seems like countless lines of options and comments can put you on the fast track for hair and sanity loss.
Which, of course, isn’t true. In fact, most Linux administrators enjoy a good debugging or configuration challenge. Sifting through the minutiae of how a server or software functions is a great way to pass time. But this process doesn’t have to be an exercise in ineffective inefficiency. In fact, tools are available to you that go a very long way to make the editing of config files much, much easier. I’m going to introduce you to a few such tools, to ease some of the burden of your Linux admin duties. I’ll first discuss the command-line tools that are invaluable to the task of making configuration more efficient.
| Why Good Linux Sysadmins Use Markdown
The Markdown markup language is perfect for writing system administrator documentation: it is lightweight, versatile, and easy to learn, so you spend your time writing instead of fighting with formatting.
The life of a Linux system administrator is complex and varied, and you know that documenting your work is a big time-saver. A documentation web server shared by you and your colleagues is a wonderful productivity tool. Most of us know simple HTML, and can whack up a web page as easily as writing plain text. But using Markdown is better.
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