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November 2013

Linux Mint 16 'Petra' Cinnamon, MATE editions released

Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Saturday 30th of November 2013 08:31:11 PM Filed under
Linux

The team took 6 months to work on the Linux Mint 16 Petra and is basically an incremental development over the latest and greatest Linux open source technologies. Some of the improvements in Linux Mint 16 are related to Login Screen, USB Stick support, software manager, performance, artwork and system improvements, and improvement to the main components.

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Linux 3.13, NVIDIA GPUs Won Over November

Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Saturday 30th of November 2013 08:23:14 PM Filed under
Linux

...this year on Phoronix I alone have written 236 full-length articles and 2,637 news articles on top of my full-time development work on Phoronix Test Suite and its commercial arm and my other business ventures.

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GNOME Music 3.11.2 Adds Pep8 Compatibility

Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Saturday 30th of November 2013 08:51:19 AM Filed under
Software

The GNOME development team is hard at work these days, preparing the upcoming GNOME 3.12 desktop environment. GNOME Music is a new app introduced along with the GNOME 3.10 release, and this new development version introduces several new features and fixes bugs.

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KDE's Painting/Image Program Now Uses OpenGL 3.0

Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Saturday 30th of November 2013 08:46:01 AM Filed under
KDE

Krita is KDE's painting and image editing program that soon will see its v2.8 release. With this next Krita release there is new usage of OpenGL 3.x within the open-source program. Under the high quality filtering mode, OpenGL 3.0 is now used for delivering a superior painting/imaging experience.

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Valve and Linux may defeat Microsoft and Sony in console gaming

Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Saturday 30th of November 2013 08:22:31 AM Filed under
Linux

Expectations have certainly become high for Valve's Steam Machines. Softpedia thinks that Valve could indeed defeat Microsoft and Sony in console gaming.

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today's howtos

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 28th of November 2013 11:43:21 PM Filed under
HowTos
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$499 Gaming Console Based on GNU/Linux

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 28th of November 2013 08:35:07 PM Filed under
Linux
Gaming

Several years ago it seemed like the dream of GNU/Linux as a gaming platform was elusive, especially after Sony had stabbed GNU/Linux users (on PS3) in their backs. Seeing a sort of comeback — where major games are ported to GNU/Linux faster than we can keep track of and consoles are launched which are based on GNU/Linux — is a truly refreshing change that will definitely accompany the ascent of the Free desktop. No more will “gaming” be an excuse for avoiding GNU/Linux as a desktop platform.

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Free Software Foundation encourages shoppers to 'Give Freely' with new Giving Guide

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 28th of November 2013 05:21:38 PM Filed under
Gadgets

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced its 2013 Giving Guide, a resource for conscientious shoppers looking for geeky gifts that respect users' freedom. Many holiday shoppers will be turning to gadgets and online services as gifts for friends and family, but these gifts are often rife with proprietary software, anti-features, or Digital Restrictions Management (DRM), all of which restrict how the gift can be used.

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KDE Developer Missing, Linux Reviews, and Lightweight Distros

Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Thursday 28th of November 2013 04:52:11 PM Filed under
Linux

Some interesting headlines have jumped out of the RSS reader in the last couple of days. Phoronix.com reported that a KDE developer is missing jeopardizing the whole Kdenlive project. The new OpenMandriva and openSUSE releases received reviews. And MakeTechEasier.com has a rundown of "Distros for Old Computers."

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Today in Techrights

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 28th of November 2013 04:16:32 PM Filed under
Linux
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  • XWayland Gets Patches For Better EGLStreams Handling
    While the recently released X.Org Server 1.20 has initial support for XWayland with EGLStreams so X11 applications/games on Wayland can still benefit from hardware acceleration, in its current state it doesn't integrate too well with Wayland desktop compositors wishing to support it. That's changing with a new patch series.
  • Intel Mesa Driver Finally Supports Threaded OpenGL
    Based off the Gallium3D "mesa_glthread" work for threaded OpenGL that can provide a measurable win in some scenarios, the Intel i965 Mesa driver has implemented this support now too. Following the work squared away last year led in the RadeonSI driver, the Intel i965 OpenGL driver supports threaded OpenGL when the mesa_glthread=true environment variable is set.
  • Geometry & Tessellation Shaders For Mesa's OpenGL Compatibility Context
    With the recent Mesa 18.1 release there is OpenGL 3.1 support with the ARB_compatibility context for the key Gallium3D drivers, but Marek Olšák at AMD continues working on extending that functionality under the OpenGL compatibility context mode.
  • Mesa Begins Its Transition To Gitlab
    Following the news from earlier this month that FreeDesktop.org would move its infrastructure to Gitlab, the Mesa3D project has begun the process of adopting this Git-centered software.

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