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Using Strings To Safely Get Program Usage Information On Linux And Unix
07/01/2008 
How to find out what options a command takes, and what it does, when you have no clue what it's used for and don't want to make a huge mess! ... 
libdrm Updated For X.Org 7.4, Mesa 7.1
07/01/2008
As we mentioned yesterday when X Server 1.5 RC4 was released (only to be outdone by 1.5 RC 5 that same day), this new version of the X Server (and the ...
Phoronix IRC Channel Reminder
07/01/2008
Last month with Phoronix.com turning four years old, we decided to finally launch the Phoronix IRC channel. This is just a general reminder that by jo ...
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400
07/01/2008
Back in March we had looked at the Intel Core 2 Duo T9300 mobile processor with its Penryn core and 6MB of shared L2 cache between its two cores clock ...
RuneSoft's Jack Keane Coming To Linux
07/01/2008
It was up in the air whether or not RuneSoft's Jack Keane adventure game would be released for Linux, but today it's been confirmed by this game devel ...
Linux's dirty little secret
07/01/2008
OK, so over the past few months I’ve grown from being a Linux skeptic into being quite a Linux fan. I’ve still got lots to learn but ità ...
Hands on: 12 quick hacks for Firefox 3
07/01/2008
Firefox 3 has been out for two weeks now, so get with the program: It's time to hack it. The newest version of Mozilla's browser has plenty of new fea ...
PlayOnLinux 3.0.7 released
07/01/2008
Due to some issues with the PlayOnLinux's IRC server, the integrated IRC client now connects you directly at irc.freenode.com, on the #playonlinux cha ...
Linspire + Xandros = Anything of value?
07/01/2008
In math, two negatives make a positive. In the fledgling world of desktop Linux, unfortunately, this is unlikely to be the case. According to reports ...
It Feels Like Freedom is Coming
07/01/2008
Freedom has many facets. I wanted to capture many of these in this song I composed and uploaded to YouTube. ...
Microsoft tactics push India toward Linux
07/01/2008
One of India's 28 states plans to distribute 100,000 Linux laptops to students there. It sounds like Tamil Nadu's volume purchasing agent decided to u ...
Big Buck Bunny builds a better Blender
07/01/2008
Big Buck Bunny is the colorful product of the Peach open movie project: an animated short released online and on DVD. But in addition to the 'toon its ...
Mass-market WiFi router invites Linux hackers
07/01/2008
NetGear has announced an 802.11g WiFi router and access point made to be hacked. Seemingly created in homage to LinkSys's hacker-friendly"WRT54GL," th ...
Surprise Desktop Linux Move: Xandros Buys Linspire
07/01/2008
In what seems like a battle of ants in a case full of lions, Practical Technology has learned that Xandros has bought Linspire."In an announcement tha ...
Dell 'Windows Vista Bonus' is a PC with Windows XP instead
07/01/2008
According to Microsoft, Windows XP died on June 30th when it stopped sending it to the likes of Dell and HP, as well as ceasing shrink-wrapped distrib ...
The Windows Ubuntu Expierience
07/01/2008
One of Firefox's key promotional advantages is that it runs on Windows. Ubuntu, too, can make itself run"on" Windows, at least for trying it out. ...
SMPlayer Review - One of the Most Powerful Video Players for Linux
07/01/2008
SMPlayer is a complete video player built in Qt 4.4.0 and based on the powerful, open-source MPlayer. The version I decided to test in this review is ...
Installing VMWare Server 2 Beta in Ubuntu Hardy 64bit
07/01/2008
Here is a step-by-step guide that should save you a few hours. ...
Ndiswrapper in Slackware
07/01/2008
The following article is about using a HP-530 laptop with Slackware-12.1 and Lantech wireless router with WEP encryption. It can be used as a general ...
Win4Lin 5.0 makes big improvements
07/01/2008
There is no dearth of software that can help you run that indispensable Windows app over Linux. Win4Lin has managed to survive through the years as an ...
Review of the Last.fm Open-Source Radio Player for Linux
07/01/2008
Last.fm is an open-source application licensed under the GPL, allowing you to listen to Last.fm radio stations and submit the songs in the same time. ...
42 of the Best Free Linux Audio Software
07/01/2008
There is an extensive amount of free audio software available on the Linux platform which is both mature and sophisticated. In fact, Linux has all the ...
X Server Oops, Another Release Today
07/01/2008
The much-delayed X Server 1.5 RC4 (v1.4.99.904) release made it out today, but it's already being replaced by a newer version. No, there wasn't a big ...
Tomboy - Yet Another Notes-Taking Application
07/01/2008
A few days ago I reviewed BasKet, the wonderful KDE application for taking notes, so today I decided upon Tomboy, which is an application for GNOME. T ...
NVIDIA Makes A Trivial OSS Driver Update
07/01/2008
It's been seven weeks since the obfuscated xf86-video-nv driver was last updated, so this afternoon NVIDIA's Aaron Plattner decided to release version ...
Free medical tool tackles disease
07/01/2008
A free and simple piece of open source software is helping manage the spread of disease in developing countries. The Open Medical Record System (OpenM ...
Super Micro C2SBX+ On Linux
07/01/2008
Super Micro, are you familiar with them? Chances are that unless your focus is on the workstation and server markets, you probably haven't heard of th ...
Make Firefox fly: building from a minefield of source
07/01/2008
The new, record breaking, Firefox 3 web browser is the fastest version of Firefox yet. But are you really getting the biggest bang for your buck (meta ...
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