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Intel ‘Skylake’ Spec Leak: Up to 41 Percent Graphics Boost

Skylake, the follow-on to Broadwell, looks like it will be the most important processor update that Intel has released in a decade.

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Kernel Prepatch 4.2-rc4

The fourth 4.2 prepatch is out for testing. Linus says: “I really wish that things were calming down, but it hasn’t happened quite yet. It’s not like this is particularly big or scary, but it’s also not at the stage where it’s really starting to get quiet and the bugs are really small and esoteric.

Read more at LWN

Manjaro Linux Needs Your Help, Here’s How You Can Contribute

The Manjaro development team, through Philip Müller, posted an interesting article on the project’s website informing the entire Linux community that they need your help to contribute to the Arch Linux-based distribution.

According to Mr. Müller, the Manjaro Community is a bunch of great people, but the Manjaro Linux distribution still needs talented members who love to work in a gr… (read more)

Audio Programming with Open Source Languages

This article offers a roundup of my favorite free audio programming languages. They are all released under an open source license, and run on multiple platforms.

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POLL – 5 Best Linux Desktop Environments With Pros & Cons


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I am sure all of you remember the 7/7/2015 post 5 Best Linux Desktop Environments With Pros & Cons. We all discussed the post in the comments and I really appreciate that LinuxAndUbuntu readers took part in discussion, mentioned their favorite(s) DE and also took poll. Today I’m going to reveal the poll taken by our readers and also the most liked DE in Comments.

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 Everpad Client To Use Evernote In Ubuntu


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Evernote is one of the most popular note-taking services on the globe. But Evernote client app is still not available for Linux. So are you feeling unfortunate? You don’t need to. We have Everpad! Evernote can be used on Linux with Everpad. You can easily install it and use it on the go on your Ubuntu or other Linux Distributions.
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This Week in Linux News: Linux Foundation Offers Discounts to India, RHEL 6.7 is Out, and More!

 CNCF Logo  1 page This week in Linux news, The Linux Foundation offers discounts on select training and certification materials to residents of India, RHEL 6.7 is out, and more! Keep reading for the top headlines from this past week of Linux news.

1) Starting now, if you live in India, you’ll be able to purchase the Linux Foundation’s LFS201 Essentials of System Administration bundle with included LFCS exam for 5,000 Rupees (~$79).

Linux Foundation Offers Cheaper Courses and Certifications for India – IT World 

2) ​The latest version of Red Hat’s enterprise operating system is ready for download and deployment.
 
 
3) Seven current Linux trends reflect a “more conservative, less innovative” attitude. 
 
 
4) Comparing the new Linux Foundation-hosted Cloud Native Computing Foundation to the new Open Container Initiative.
 
 
5) North Korea’s Red Star Linux OS tracks users by tagging content with hidden tags.

North Korea’s Red Star Linux Inserts Sneaky Serial Content Tracker – The Register

The Perfect Server – Ubuntu 15.04 (nginx, BIND, Dovecot and ISPConfig 3)

This tutorial shows the steps to install an Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet) server with Nginx, PHP, MariaDB, Postfix, pure-ftpd, BIND, Dovecot and ISPConfig 3. ISPConfig 3 is a web hosting control panel that allows you to configure the installed services through a web browser. This setup provides a full hosting server with web, email (inc. spam and antivirus filter), Database, FTP and DNS services.

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Why Android Auto May Not Be Worth the Wait (Yet)

Limited apps and software, combined with a mediocre messaging experience shows that Google still has some work to do with Android Auto.

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Where AMD’s Catalyst Driver Does The Best On Linux

Earlier this week I finished up a 15-way AMD/NVIDIA graphics card comparison on Linux with the very latest proprietary Linux drivers. That earlier article focused on the OpenGL performance and simply put the Catalyst performance on the tested Radeon hardware was abysmal compared to NVIDIA’s Linux driver performance. However, there is one area where the Catalyst Linux driver really excels at performance and routinely beats out the green competition.

Read more at Phoronix