Welcome to the CentOS 4.7 release. CentOS is an Enterprise-class Linux Distribution derived from sources freely provided to the public by our Upstream OS Provider (UOP)1.
The Elive Team is proud to announce the release of the development version 1.8.8
This weekend I decided to take the Linux distribution known as gOS 3.0 beta for a spin. The gOS is an Ubuntu 8.04.1 derivative that shows some promise with it’s integration of Web applications. Although they are not affilated with Google, gOS has incorporated many Google online tools into their desktop.
Unigine Tropics is set around a tropical environment (hence its name) and it runs through various scenes of an island during both the day and night. Some of its technical features though include a dynamic sky with light scattering, live water with a surf zone and caustics, special materials for vegetation, HDR rendering, parallel split shadow map for the sun, depth of field, and real-time ambient occlusion. Whether you are interested in benchmarking or not, this is one impressive graphics demo just to watch -- permitting your graphics card can handle it!
After a short vacation during which I made a traveling test with Linux, which was very successful, I decided to continue the test by using it as much as possible for my work this week. As I have mentioned previously, I have my primary laptop set up to multi-boot Windows XP Professional, Ubuntu or Mandriva, so it is just as easy for me to boot Linux as Windows at any time. I was very curious as to how many times during the week I would "have to" boot Windows.
So, want to give it a shot? PowerDevil is, at the moment, in kdereview, but will be soon moved to kdebase and will be the default powermanager in KDE 4.2.
Rob Scheepmaker introduces his work on "Extenders in Plasma": I've been working on Extenders for my Google Summer of Code project, and while there are still a couple of known (and probably also unknown) problems, they are basically ready for use. I'd like to take this opportunity to explain and show what this extender thing actually is, and why it is awesome.
Thanks to extenders, it is now very easy for applet developers to embed relocatable widgets in your applet. Any QGraphicsWidget can be wrapped in a so-called "ExtenderItem", which allows the widget to be simply dragged anywhere by the user. Items that have been "detached" this way, can live on even when the applet that created them goes away, and can even be persistent between sessions. Widgets can also be reordered by the user, they can be collapsed and expanded, and custom actions can be registered for easy interaction. Take a look at the following simple screencast to get an idea about what all this means.
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Technie
2008-09-14 17:14:43
Roy Schestowitz
2008-09-14 17:29:02