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Intel HD Graphics Linux 3.13 + Mesa 10.1 Update

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Phoronix
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In continuing from yesterday’s article that offered up fresh benchmarks of Intel Sandy Bridge & Ivy Bridge CPUs with the latest Linux code atop Ubuntu 13.10, out today are new graphics benchmarks using the very latest open-source Intel Linux graphics driver code and trying out CPUs with HD Graphics 2000, 2500, 3000. The open-source Intel graphics driver has certainly matured a lot since the debut of Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge CPUs!

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Ubuntu Now Supports Cross-Compiling CMake Projects

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Phoronix
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The latest developer package uploads into Ubuntu 14.04 “Trusty Tahr” allow for cross-compiling CMake-based projects, e.g. compiling Mir and Unity 8 for ARM from an x86 system…

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10 Useful Open Source Security Firewalls for Linux Systems

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Tecmint
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Being an Nix admin over 5+ years, I’m always  responsible for the security management of Linux servers. Firewalls plays an important role in securing Linux systems/networks. It acts like an security guard between internal and external network by controlling and managing incoming and outgoing…

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How to Access Twitter from the Command Line on Linux

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The Linux Foundation
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There is no shortage of Twitter clients available, differing in terms of features, operating system support, interface, mobile capabilities, etc. If you are one of those command line junkies, there is one for you as well. A single-letter tool called “t” is a command-line Twitter client written in Ruby. Despite its bare-bone user interface, Twitter […]
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Debian 7.3 Officially Released

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Phoronix
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Coincidentally, Debian GNU/Linux 7.3 was released this weekend — the same weekend as it being known that SteamOS is Debian-based…

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Microsoft Loses Top Engineer to Google

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The Verge
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Microsoft distinguished engineer Blaise Agüera y Arcas is joining Google. Agüera y Arcas originally joined Microsoft in 2006 after the software giant acquired his Seadragon startup. He was a key software architect that helped develop and build Microsoft’s Bing Maps service and its image-stitching Photosynth software. The New York Times reports that Agüera y Arcas will work on machine learning at Google, something Microsoft’s research teams have been focusing on heavily recently.

Agüera y Arcas describes the decision to leave Microsoft as “the hardest decision of my life” in a blog post confirming his departure. Microsoft’s “lead­er­ship has been con­sis­tently good to me over these past eight years, and it has been a…

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Munich Signs Off on Open Source Project

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The Register
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Linux and OpenOffice now humming away on 15,000 Bavarian desktops

The German city of Munich has declared that its famous move to open source software is over and a success.…

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How to Install Apache OpenOffice 4.0.1 on CentOS, RHEL and Fedora

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Rahul Kumar
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Apache OpenOffice 4.0 versions have significant changes to your OpenOffice directory setup which effect your older OpenOffice profile. The Apache OpenOffice 4.0 Release Notes provide an explanation of these changes. However,you should have the opportunity to migrate your old profile settings to the new profile area.

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Still Together: New Analysis Finds Samsung A7 Inside iPhone 5S

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CNET
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Apple-Samsung enigma: New analysis finds Samsung A7 inside iPhone 5S [Read more]

 

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SteamOS vs. Ubuntu 13.10 – Intel HD Graphics Performance

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Phoronix
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When Valve announced the public release of the beta for SteamOS 1.0 “Alchemist” on Friday they listed NVIDIA graphics as a hardware requirement, but I showed that AMD Radeon graphics with Catalyst would work and it’s possible to get Intel graphics working (or the open-source graphics drivers in general) through a minor change to the Linux-based SteamOS kernel parameters. After that I ran some benchmarks and here are a few performance results comparing SteamOS 1.0 Beta to Ubuntu 13.10 with Intel HD Graphics.

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