LibreOffice 3.5.5 Update Improves Stability

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July 11, 2012

The new update to the 3.5.x branch of the open source office suite features improvements to Calc and Impress, and addresses a number of bugs that could have caused the application to crash

Debian Works Towards ARMv8 AArch64 Support

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Phoronix

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July 11, 2012

Debian developers are working towards an official armhf image for the Wheezy release and they’re also gearing up for official 64-bit ARMv8 / AArch64 support in the “Wheezy + 1” release…

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Fedora 18 to Feature 256 Color Terminals

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Muktware

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July 11, 2012

Fedora 18, codenamed Spherical Cow, is going to have 256 color terminals. This feature was planned out before, but was finally confirmed on a FESCo meeting on 9th of July.

Debian: Squeeze vs. Wheezy On Linux And kFreeBSD

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Phoronix

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July 11, 2012

With Debian Wheezy now frozen for its release sometime next year, here are some early benchmarks comparing the performance of Debian 6.0.5 “Squeeze” to the latest packages for the Debian 7.0 “Wheezy” release. For this Squeeze vs. Wheezy comparison, both Debian GNU/Linux and Debian GNU/kFreeBSD were benchmarked from an Intel 64-bit system.

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DMA-BUF Synchronization With PRIME

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Phoronix

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July 11, 2012

Now that X.Org Server 1.13 RC1 is out there with the initial support for PRIME and other exciting features, dependent projects can also now move forward…

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GCC 4.8 To Improve Diagnostics Abilities

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July 11, 2012

In a battle against LLVM/Clang, GCC 4.8 will improve the code diagnostics support to better assist developers in debugging code errors/warnings in a user-friendly manner…

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How To Recruit Open-Source Developers

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Phoronix

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July 11, 2012

Wondering how you can recruit open-source contributors for your project? Here’s how…

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Free-Software Activists Hope for Detained Engineer’s Freedom

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CNET

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July 11, 2012

Bassel Khartabil, a volunteer with copyright licensing nonprofit Creative Commons, was reportedly detained by the Syrian government on March 15. [Read more]

Bits Stored on a Single Molecule Could Lead to Petabyte SSDs

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Gizmodo

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July 11, 2012

Click here to read Bits Stored on a Single Molecule Could Lead to Petabyte SSDs

If there’s one fact of computing life, it’s that there’s never enough damn storage, and if you think it’s bad now, just wait ’til you’re downloading 4K movies. Still, research is at least keeping up, and now scientists can store bits of information on single molecules—which could pave the way for petabyte SSDs. More »

Intel Merges Mesa Hardware Context Support

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July 11, 2012

Kenneth Graunke committed the i965 Mesa driver hardware context support patch on Tuesday. Meanwhile, the Radeon Gallium3D driver has also seen improvements…

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