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DeviantArt brings Comic Book Publishing to the Community with Madefire partnership

Tuesday, 02 April 2013 04:05

"We’re trying to build tools that empower creators to do the next wave of storytelling," says Ben Wolstenholme. Last year, his Madefire publishing platform was released to a select group of people from the comics industry (like Watchmen artist Dave Gibbons) with the idea of pushing the grammar of comic...

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Is Assembly Still Relevant To Most Linux Software?

Tuesday, 02 April 2013 01:39 Phoronix

Steve McIntyre and the Linaro Enterprise Group recently analyzed Ubuntu and Fedora software packages to see what software was still relying upon hand-written Assembly code. This was done to see how much real Assembly is being used, to see what the code was used for, and whether it was worth...

RDP Back-End Merged For Wayland's Weston

Tuesday, 02 April 2013 00:12 Phoronix

One month ago a FreeRDP-based remote compositor for Wayland's Weston was proposed. Now having undergone six code revisions, the Weston Remote Desktop Protocol back-end has been merged...

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Node.js Integrates with M: A Tutorial, Part One

Monday, 01 April 2013 23:00 OpenSource.com

We have talked recently about the significance of integrating the Node.js language with the powerful M database, particularly in the space of healthcare applications. The efficiency of Node.js combined with the high performance of M, provides an unparalleled fresh approach for building healthcare applications. Here is how you can try...

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Valve Publishes Packages For Their Linux Distribution

Monday, 01 April 2013 21:06 Phoronix

For Valve's forthcoming Linux-based Steam gaming console the first packages are starting to emerge within a package repository on the SteamPowered web-server...

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