PCLinuxOS (PCLOS, for short), the once popular Mandriva-derived Live distribution, came up with a shiny new release a couple days back.
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Early Mesa 9.2 Benchmarks With Nouveau
While the release of Mesa 9.2/10.0 is still a ways away, for those users of the Nouveau reverse-engineered open-source NVIDIA graphics driver, here are some early benchmarks for reference compared to the stable Mesa 9.0 and 9.1 series…
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Linux Kernel Power Management Targeting Memory
One of the areas of hardware power management that can yield a surprising amount of power-savings but is often overlooked comes down to the system memory. Fortunately, new Linux kernel patches continue to be written for improving the Linux kernel RAM power management…
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Calxeda: ARM-based HP Moonshot ‘later this year’
HP’s Moonshot servers went production with Intel’s Atom processor first, but expect a fast follow with an ARM system powered by Calxeda.
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Hacking for Charity: How One Former Hacker is Getting Techies Lending a Hand in Africa
j0hnnyhax didn’t know much about Uganda, but he knew about hackers…
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LLVM/Clang Makes Progress On Building LibreOffice
LLVM’s Clang C/C++ compiler has been making much progress in recent months on being able to build high-priority open-source/Linux software packages. When using the latest LLVM/Clang compiler, it appears to be in good shape for handling LibreOffice…
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How To Run LinOTP On OpenSuSE 12.3 With PostgreSQL
How To Run LinOTP On OpenSuSE 12.3 With PostgreSQL
This describes the installation of LinOTP on OpenSUSE 12.3 using PostgreSQL as a token database. LinOTP is a two factor authentication solution with One Time Passwords. In the following Howto we are showing how to enable SSH authentication with LinOTP.
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X.Org/Mesa Might Get Better GLAMOR, GLSL, Shatter
After a snafu yesterday with the Google Melange web-site not listing all participating organizations, it turns out that the X.Org Foundation is in for the 2013 Google Summer of Code. Here’s some of the possible X.Org/Mesa projects that might see some attention this summer…
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GSoC Names Mentors, GNOME Seeks Internship Applicants
Google has announced the 177 mentoring organisations for its Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2013. Meanwhile, the GNOME Outreach Program for Women is looking for applicants for its sponsored internships.
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