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GTK+ Support Merged For Wayland CSD

Sunday, 17 March 2013 19:31 Phoronix

For a fair amount of time now there's been work on client side decorations for Wayland so that the Weston compositor with GTK+ can do the window decorations on the client-side rather than server-side as done with the X.Org Server. That work has now been merged to master...

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Linux 3.9-rc3 Kernel Brings More Changes

Sunday, 17 March 2013 17:06 Phoronix

Linus Torvalds put out the Linux 3.9-rc3 kernel on Sunday afternoon...

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Developer Releases Source Code of Linux Speech Recognition Program

Sunday, 17 March 2013 07:53 Muktware

James McClain has developed a program which uses Google Voice API in the back-end to conduct various tasks on a GNU/Linux machine, just the way Siri does on the iDevices.

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Wayland's Weston With Bubble-Style Notifications

Thursday, 14 March 2013 18:47 Phoronix

For those using Wayland's Weston compositor with the stock shell, a patch was proposed today for implementing "bubbles list" style notifications...

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The 2013 Top 7 Best Linux Distributions for You

Thursday, 14 March 2013 09:00 Katherine Noyes

Katherine Noyes chooses the best Linux distributions in seven categories including best desktop, laptop, enterprise desktop, enterprise server, security-enhanced, multimedia, and gaming distros.