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POSIX IO Must Die!
03/03/2010 
POSIX IO is becoming a serious impediment to IO performance and scaling. POSIX is one of the standards that enabled portable programs and POSIX IO is ... 
Open-source hardware takes baby steps toward the gadget mainstream
03/03/2010
The success of open-source software raises a tantalizing question: Could the same design philosophy work for tech gadgets? Open-source software is one ...
New Open-Source ATI Driver Releases
03/03/2010
With the Linux 2.6.33 kernel having been released last week where the ATI kernel mode-setting (KMS) DRM code left the kernel's staging area, we knew a ...
Improve Internet Health with a Microsoft Tax?
03/03/2010
Somebody better tell Microsoft that it's still March, because the suggestion of an"Internet usage tax" to fight Windows-powered botnets must be an Apr ...
Orange backs Intel-Nokia Linux drive
03/03/2010
Orange has given its thumbs-up to the Intel-Nokia Linux venture Meego, the OS formerly known as Maemo and Moblin. The mobile phone network essentially ...
Finally, Reiser4 Benchmarks Against EXT4& Btrfs
03/03/2010
There is no shortage of EXT4 benchmarks from comparing this evolutionary file-system's performance on netbooks to how it battles the Btrfs file-system ...
FFmpeg 0.5.1 Maintenance Release
03/03/2010
It was almost exactly one year to the day that FFmpeg 0.5 was released after this major free software project had not encountered a new release in qui ...
Elliott Associates Offers to Buy Novell
03/03/2010
The hedge fund Elliott Associates said Tuesday afternoon that it had made an offer to buy Novell in a deal that valued the business software company a ...
Novell Receives Buyout Offer; More Bidders Coming?
03/03/2010
A hedge fund has offered to acquire Novell, developer of SUSE Linux, for $1.8 billion. Moments ago, Novell confirmed that it plans to review the unsol ...
Ballmer: One day, Bing will actually make money
03/03/2010
Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer has insisted that one day, the company's Google-battling Bing search engine will actually make money."Search i ...
Nanny- A control prental for gnome | Ubuntu
03/03/2010
Gnome Nanny is an easy way to control what your kids are doing in the computer. You can limit how much time a day each one of them is browsing the web ...
Minting the Girlfriend
03/03/2010
A few weeks back the girl I have been dating for awhile now had idly made a complaint about her laptop being poky at certain tasks. I'd used the thing ...
Ubuntu 10.04: Canonical Makes Linux Software Partner Push
03/03/2010
In preparation for the Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) release, Canonical is reaching out to independent software vendors (ISVs). In fact, Canonical says th ...
Five Tools for Measuring and Improving Linux System Performance
03/03/2010
Out of the box, Linux runs just fine for many uses. But if you find yourself needing to ferret out performance problems or tune the kernel for better ...
OpenShot†' Finally, An Excellent Free Video Editor For Linux
03/03/2010
Video and photo editing tools are a necessity in today’s world of personal media. We have lots of photographs and videos these days that could lo ...
Android 2.1 to be available everywhere?
03/03/2010
All Android phones sold in the U.S. will be eligible for an Android 2.1 update, although some older phones may need to be wiped first, says an industr ...
FFmpeg 0.5.1 Maintenance Release
03/03/2010
It was almost exactly one year to the day that FFmpeg 0.5 was released after this major free software project had not encountered a new release in qui ...
New Open-Source ATI Driver Releases
03/03/2010
With the Linux 2.6.33 kernel having been released last week where the ATI kernel mode-setting (KMS) DRM code left the kernel's staging area, we knew a ...
Finally, Reiser4 Benchmarks Against EXT4& Btrfs
03/03/2010
There is no shortage of EXT4 benchmarks from comparing this evolutionary file-system's performance on netbooks to how it battles the Btrfs file-system ...
Watching the Sun Set
03/03/2010
If you click on www.sun.com, you get redirected to www.oracle.com. Sun is no more. The network is no longer the computer. The"Dot" in .COM is now a da ...
Android app brings in $13K a month
03/03/2010
One Android developer is earning more than $400 a day from his find-your-car application, proving it's not just Apple fans who'll pay for basic apps. ...
Firefox may never hit 25 percent market share
03/03/2010
Firefox is on a decline. It may not be as steady as Internet Explorer's death spiral, and it certainly has not been going on for as long, but if the l ...
Linux from Scratch 6.6 has arrived
03/03/2010
The Linux from Scratch (LFS) project has released version 6.6 of its building instructions for Linux. The project's manual contains about 300 pages of ...
CodeWeavers Releases Crossover Office 9.0 for MAC and Linux
03/03/2010
Latest Release Boasts New User Interface, Lets User Build Their Own Installation'Recipes'. CodeWeavers, Inc., a leading developer of software products ...
High-Availability Storage With GlusterFS On Fedora 12
03/03/2010
This tutorial shows how to set up a high-availability storage with two storage servers (Fedora 12) that use GlusterFS. Each storage server will be a m ...
Install Songbird in Ubuntu using Launchpad Repository
03/03/2010
Multimedia apps for Ubuntu is really coming around. Now its the Songbird, the long forgotten multimedia application. Songbird has really turned around ...
Are we about to lose?
03/03/2010
I don't have the expertise to fully comprehend these NPRMs that were recently issued, but did spend the last few hours reading large chunks of all thr ...
CrossOver 9.0 Improves Windows Application Support on Linux (with screenshots)
03/03/2010
CodeWeavers, supporter of the open source Wine project, have released their latest version of CrossOver for Linux and Mac. CrossOver 9.0 (codenamedâ ...
Clutter 1.2 Toolkit Released
03/03/2010
Following a number of 1.1 development releases, Clutter 1.2.0 has been officially released as a stable update to this Intel-sponsored toolkit. Clutter ...
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