The SuperTuxKart open-source Mario Kart inspired racing game will soon be presenting a brand new graphics engine to power the game…
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Allwinner A80 Octa-Core Hardware Coming Next Month
In June we should start seeing the Allwinner A80-based hardware designs hitting the market for a much needed performance boost for Allwinner SoCs…
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CyanogenMod 11.0 M6 is Available
The developers of the CyanogenMod Android derivative have announced the availability of the 11.0 M6 release. The announcement also includes details about changes in the release scheme; there will be no more “stable” releases; instead, the project will attempt to produce reliable “M” releases with increasing frequency. “Our goal is to get a release out every 2 weeks with the same quality and expectations you would have of a ‘stable’ release (label for that yet undecided). But with that goal, it further underscores how the label ‘stable’ no longer works for us. With the current M cycle, we have gotten our routine down to every 4 weeks; to get it to 2 weeks is ambitious, but we can do it, and it would benefit everyone.” See the announcement for a list of changes in this release.
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XBMC 13.0 Released
Version 13.0 of the XBMC media center application is available. “The dark night of waiting is finally over. Because here it is. The stable release of XBMC 13.0 Gotham edition. It has been months of hard work, improvements and testing since the 12.x releases.” New features include better Android support (including hardware video decoding), support for some 3D movie formats, better touchscreen support, better UPnP support, a reworked audio engine, and more.
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The 3.15-rc4 Kernel Prepatch is Out
Linus has released the 3.15-rc4 prepatch. “There’s a few known things pending still (pending fix for some interesting dentry list corruption, for example – not that any remotely normal use will likely ever hit it), but on the whole things are fairly calm and nothing horribly scary. We’re in the middle of the calming-down period, so that’s just how I like it.“
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How to Record and Replay a Terminal Session on Linux
You are a go to person among your friends and family when it comes to Linux related questions. Someone asked you how to install and configure a tool, and you you wanted to show the procedures. How would you do that if he or she is not in front of you? There could be various […]
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Install XBMC 13.0 On Ubuntu / LinuxMint / ElemetaryOS
XBMC Media Center an open source and an award winning media player available for Linux operating systems and also available for other operating systems Windows , OS X.
XBMC allows you to play all popular audio & video formats like MP3,MP4,FLAC, WAV,WMA,OGG, AVI, MKV,MPEG-2,DIVX,XVID and etc
Step 1: Add the Official PPA
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc/ppa
Step 2:update the Repository
sudo apt-get update
Step 3: Install XBMC 13.0 Gotham
sudo apt-get install xbmc
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Torque 2D 3.0 Has Full Linux Support
The Torque 2D game engine now has full support for Linux along with Android and web support…
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kmousetool and dragon naturally speaking for RSI
I’m currently using windows 7, but I am seriously thinking of switching over to linux. Ubuntu seems like a good place to start and seems to be one of the most popular distributions. Like a lot of people I’m becoming increasingly unhappy with windows, especially the support for XP ending, and the complete mess up of the start menu in windows 8. I’m also looking at installing on my mother’s 10 year old laptop, as that has really slowed down after the support ending for XP. But my mother is not in any way technical like myself.
There are one or two sticking points for me though. I have repetitive strain injury and currently use nib autoclick software. I’ve been looking at kmousetool and managed to get left click right click and double click working OK, but can’t seem to figure out the click and hold. Also once I’ve got the programme started and running in the background, I can’t get the settings up. Do you have to leave the settings page open while you’re using the program? I would also like to know how easy it is to highlight text using the click and hold?
The second thing is using dragon naturally speaking in wine. How easy is this to install? Can the speech recognition be opened quickly and the text copied and pasted from the dragon pad in wine, to the main desktop environment? I’ve had a look on the wine forum and version 10 seems to work the best.
Just one more thing when you install software that is outside the main software centre, like skype for example, does that slow things down and do any upgrades come from the software centre or would they come from skype?
Thank you for your help
Regards
Ryan