Jelly Bean Now Powering One-Third of Android Devices: Google

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June 4, 2013

With a 33 percent usage share, Jelly Bean finally has Gingerbread in its sights, and is poised to overtake the aging Android release to take the top spot.

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Intel Core i7 4770K “Haswell” Benchmarks On Ubuntu Linux

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June 4, 2013

This past weekend I shared the first experiences of running Intel’s new Haswell CPU on Linux. While Intel Haswell is a beast and brings many new features and innovations to the new Core CPUs succeeding Ivy Bridge, there were a few shortcomings with the initial Linux support. It still appears that the Core i7 4770K is still being finicky at times for both the processor and graphics, but in this article are the first benchmarks. Up today are benchmarks of the Intel Core i7 4770K when running Ubuntu 13.04 with the Linux 3.10 kernel.

Is Microsoft’s Post-PC Story Starting to Look Any Better?

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ZDNet

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June 4, 2013

Now that we know a more about what’s coming in Windows 8.1, and companies like Acer are pitching new waves of products, are Windows-based post-PC products starting to look more likeable…?

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Features Coming To LibreOffice 4.1

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Phoronix

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June 4, 2013

For those curious about the features coming to the LibreOffice 4.1 open-source office suite, here’s a list…

Wayland’s Weston Gets Systemd Notification Support

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Phoronix

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June 4, 2013

Wayland’s Weston system compositor has been hooked up to systemd so it can be used for client notification support…

PulseAudio 4.0 Released

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LWN

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June 4, 2013

Version 4.0 of the PulseAudio audio server is out. Changes include better low-latency request handling, improved JACK integration, a new role-based audio “ducking” module, various performance improvements, and more; see the release notesfor details.

Snowlinux 4 Arrives With Frosty MATE and Cinnamon Flavours

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The H

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June 4, 2013

For the latest release of their Ubuntu 13.04-based version of Snowlinux 4, the developers of the distribution have shipped the latest versions of both Cinnamon and MATE with all features included in those releases.

Smidge Enables Parallel Processing Just by Pointing to a Web Site

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insideHPC

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June 4, 2013

Image a distributed supercomputer code that doesn’t need to installed, but rather lets you pool the processing power of potentially thousands of machines just by pointing them to a single website. Called Smidge, the code is kind of ad hoc supercomputer built with JavaScript, the standard programming language of the web.

We were able to scale it across every device in the building, including everyone’s laptop, iPhone, Android phone. Even my BlackBerry ran it, which surprised me,” said Ruan Pethiyagoda. “By inserting a bit of JavaScript into a webpage, a site owner could distribute a problem amongst all the site’s visitors. Visitors’ computers or phones would be running calculations in the background while they read a page. With enough visitors, he says, a site could farm out enough small calculations to solve some difficult problems.”

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25 Lesser Known Facts About GNU/Linux

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Tecmint

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June 4, 2013

Linux is a land of excavation, the more you excavate the more you find treasure lies within it. This article tries to uncover some of the lesser known facts about Linux. To keep things simple, easy to read, easy to remember and easy to refer this article will be presented in point-wise fashion. 1….

Foxconn Taking Firefox OS to Tablets, Not Just Phones

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CNET

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June 4, 2013

The Chinese electronics manufacturer plans multiple devices, including tablets and phones, as part of a strategy to supply software and services along with hardware. [Read more]