• NVIDIA GeForce 700 Series On Linux Run Excellent

• Intel’s HD4600 versus AMD’s 4600 on Linux … with special guests

  Phoronix is continuing to test the performance of open source Linux drivers on Source Engine games with this installation focusing on the performance of the Haswell i7-4770K. They compare it to a number of RV770 based AMD GPUs as well as the newer HD 6450. As you can see in the result the performance of the HD 6450 and HD 4550 are almost exactly the same and are the only two Radeons that do not leave the Intel’s GPU in the dust. If you have experience with the HD 4650 you have a very good idea as to how Intel’s 4600 performs as the results are very similar.

• Wayland’s Weston Received New Features Yesterday

  There’s been work on Weston to support run-time switchable renderers for Weston. That’s now been accomplished and with the latest Git code it’s easy to switch from Pixman to the OpenGL renderer. The debug binding of “mod-shift-space W” will now cause the compositor to switch from using the software-based Pixman renderer to the OpenGL renderer. This key-bind renderer switching is useful for debugging, stressing the run-time switchable renderer support, and there’s cases where the OpenGL renderer isn’t used right away by Weston since the Pixman renderer is able to start-up more quickly.

• Khronos Keeps Advancing, Pushing Its Standards

• AMD Radeon R9 290 On Linux

• The State Of Mesa OpenGL GL3/GL4 Updated

  With the forthcoming release of Mesa 10.0 there is now OpenGL 3.2 and OpenGL 3.3 compliance. That compliance is for core Mesa and the Intel DRI driver. The Radeon and Nouveau drivers don’t have as advanced OpenGL support since most of the upstream GL / GLSL enablement is done by Intel developers and thus the focus on their own driver while the Radeon/Nouveau support usually trails.

• Libdrm 2.4.48 Has New Hardware Support

  Libdrm, the DRM library that interfaces between the user-space graphics components (namely Mesa and the X.Org drivers) with the Linux kernel DRM drivers, is now up to version 2.4.48. Big with libdrm 2.4.48 is Intel “Broadwell” and AMD Radeon “Hawaii” GPU support.

• Perl Bindings Come For Wayland

• OneNote Alternatives

  OneNote is a proprietary computer software package for free-form information gathering and multi-user collaboration. It enables a user to capture what is important in their personal and professional life, captured by making notes, to-do lists, photos, audio clips, or videos. Information is stored in a non-linear form. OneNote is developed by the behemoth, Microsoft. Whilst the program is available for Android, it has not been ported to Linux.

• Aqua Connect Releases New Load Balancer Product for Linux

  Aqua Connect, Inc., the worldwide leader in Mac Remote Desktop Services, announced today a new product offering in their line of Mac OS X remote access solutions. The Aqua Connect Load Balancer for Linux was designed to improve on the current functionality of the Mac version while providing a more cost efficient platform for load balancing.

• Viber updates desktop app, brings support for stickers; launches Linux client

  Viber Desktop is now also available on Linux, in addition to Windows and Mac platforms.

• Viber introduces paid sticker shop, drag/drop photos, Linux support and more to its desktop app

• Viber Desktop 4.0 Brings Official Linux Support

• Partition Tables

• TCP/IP Protocol: Network Time Protocol (NTP)

• 13th installment: how slow is too slow for a motion detection security cam system?

  I decided I could take at least some action toward stemming the theft and perhaps catching the perpetrator, by setting up a security camera. I knew that GNU/Linux had utilities for recording from motion detection cameras, and some preliminary searching revealed that the motion program was likely to suit my needs.

  It so happened that a friend had recently passed along to me a decent webcam, so all I needed to do was find a target machine on which to set up the software. An old laptop would have been ideal because of the small size, but I didn’t have one available.

  What I did have was an old all-in-one unit, an early LCD monitor with a built-in computer–in the person of a laptop motherboard–in its base. I even had Debian (Squeeze) already installed on that machine, since I’d set it up for my father-in-law to use when he visits. But I’d taken the machine out of service a couple of years ago, judging that, as a single-core machine with a 433 MHz Celeron and 192 megabytes of RAM, it was getting a little long in the tooth to be useful anymore. So, could this ancient machine actually be used for a motion detection security camera?

• Install and set-up Roundcube webmail interface

• How to configure Raspberry Pi for the first time

  You flashed an SD card with Raspberry Pi image, and plug the SD card into Raspberry Pi. Then what next? The first thing to do after booting Raspberry Pi is to configure your Raspberry Pi. Each Raspberry Pi system comes with its own software configuration tool. For example, use raspi-config for Raspbian, firstboot for Pidora, etc.

• Python3 Scripting (Part 1?)

• How to install Nagios 4.0.1 (Monitoring Tool) in ubuntu 13.10 server (Saucy Salamander)

  Nagios® Core™ is an Open Source system and network monitoring application. It watches hosts and services that you specify, alerting you when things go bad and when they get better.Nagios Core was originally designed to run under Linux, although it should work under most other unices as well.

• Learn to Install, Configure, Maintain, Update, and Secure Linux

• Running ownCloud 5.0 On Nginx (LEMP) On Debian Wheezy

• How to configure keyboard layouts in Cinnamon (video)

• How to install WordPress Multisite on Centos VPS with Apache

• Manage Your Configs with vcsh

• RCPlive: Inter-VLAN Routing

• Using TrueCrypt on Linux and Windows

• How to manage Linux server with GUI

• Ubuntu 13.10 Desktop Installation Guide Step by Step

• LibreOffice Math Introduction

• Install MariaDB on CentOS 6.4

  MariaDB is the community developed fork of Mysql and is a great alternative to it. Its free and open source and is developed by the original developers of mysql. MariaDB is much superior to mysql in terms of features. Check out the comparison between mariadb and mysql.

• How to monitor system temperature on Linux

• OSv: The Open Source Cloud Operating System That is Not Linux

  For most tech professionals, the words “open source operating system” naturally translate to Linux. And so it’s understandable that those same tech pros would be a bit confused by startup Cloudius Systems’ announcement in September of a new open source operating system for the cloud, OSv.

• 25 Open Source Alternatives For Costly Applications

• Inspiring words from a Citrix open source exec, using GitHub for beehive building, and other interesting news

• Inside the OpenMIND: Open Source Social Media Datamining and “Predictive” Policing

  Records obtained by DBA Press and the Center for Media and Democracy (DBA/CMD) shed new light on a technology, OpenMIND, utilized by law enforcement/counter-terrorism fusion center personnel in gathering and analyzing mass amounts of “open source intelligence” derived from the online lives of Americans.

• SourceForge responds to GIMP grump with crowdsourcing caper

• Andy Hunt: What are you going to invent next?

  Andy’s first point began with an astute observation. Open source software is often discussed in terms of being a “stack” (LAMP, for instance). It is no longer a stack, however, but a tower. A tower that spans software and hardware. With the source or schematics being available, not only can we stand on the shoulders of the giants of our field but on the shoulders of everyone who contributes. It’s an embarrassment of riches.

• How to Run Your Small Business With Free Open Source Software

  From simple bookkeeping packages to full-blown ERP systems, open source software can provide free options for small businesses that don’t have the budget for big-ticket enterprise applications.

• GIMP leaves SourceForge, EFF Tackles NSA & More…

• Then, now, and the future of open source fonts

  In August, the Fedora Project held its first Flock conference, a replacement for the North American and European FUDCon (Fedora Users and Developers Conference) events. Flock was a four-day, planned conference with talks, workshops, and hackfests, in contrast to FUDCon’s barcamp model. In the interest of reaching beyond the community and reminding everyone that Fedora is so much broader than just a Linux project, the invited keynote speakers were from open source areas outside of the Fedora Project. One of those keynotes was by Dave Crossland, creator of the open font Cantarell and an active part of the free font movement.

• Open Source: A Platform for Innovation

  The hobbies that inspired the scientific curiosity of my generation were Erector Sets, Science Fair Electronic Kits from Radio Shack and model rockets with balsa wood fins that we meticulously assembled and painted. While these toys piqued our curiosity in science and engineering our ability to share our discoveries were limited by geography. These fascinating distractions were often purpose-built and confined our creativity within their intended purpose.

• A developer’s story about passion for Open Source and Security

  This story is definitely a first for me. Not just because every story is unique in itself, but that it’s one of personal matter. The thing is, I quit my well-paid job, just to spend time on the things I’m very passionate about: open source development and information security. Not only was quitting my job a serious step, also the decision to share my personal story after 10+ years of working with open source software and security. Well, here you go. It’s my hope to intrigue others, find their passion in life and also go for it!

• Salsa: an open source syllabus creator for educators

  Who wants to tackle the complex problem of helping educators create learning service agreements? I don’t see too many hands. How about you there, reading this article? Wait, you weren’t aware that this is an issue that impacts the education system? Well, here’s an open source project that solves this problem and needs more collaborators.

• Facebook Open Compute Project picks switch specs

• Facebook’s hardware VP says we’re very close to open source switches

• Cisco-threatening open switch coming from Facebook, Intel, and Broadcom

• This 23-year-old’s open-source project, a server running on Raspberry Pi, gives the middle finger to Google

  For most of us, Google shutting down Reader was annoying. For Jacob Cook, it was a call to arms.

  He’s now building an operating system that anyone can use to replace all of the services that Google provides — or any other cloud company, for that matter. Email, chat, file sharing, web hosting: With Cook’s arkOS, you’ll be able to run all of those essential services on a secure, private server in your own home that’s about the size of a credit card.

• HHVM Going On A Big Performance, Feature Push

  Facebook’s HipHop Virtual Machine (HHVM) open-source project that’s been seeking to implement a high-performance PHP, is in the middle of a lock-down and for three weeks they are focusing on nothing bot boosting the performance of their PHP implementation and seeking to hit feature parity.

• Matt Dugan Makes Case for Enterprise Open Source

  There was nothing new in what Matt Dugan said. There were no ground breaking revelations. He just methodically made his case, point by point, explaining why open source was usually, if not always, the best solution for business.

  To me, this was just what the doctor ordered. I’d just sat through a forty-five minute lecture in that very same room from an open core guy that had left me fearing that enterprise open source companies were just as greedy and potentially as unethical as the proprietary guys. Dugan fixed that and quickly reaffirmed my faith in the notion that open source is where the good guys live.

• Machine Learning with Apache Mahout: Refining the Recommender

  Mahout components implement popular algorithms and can be unplugged easily when no longer needed.

• MediaCore CE renamed to MediaDrop

  MediaCore CE is the community edition of MediaCore, a Web application that powers a multimedia hosted platform targeted towards the educational market and run by MediaCore, Inc. It is a Python application built atop the Django Web framework.

  Published under the GNU General Public License version 3, MediaDrop is free to download and use. However, because it is a Django application, installing it is a little bit more involved than the point-and-click process commonly associated with PHP applications.

• OpenWFD Aims to Bring Wireless Display Streaming to Tablets, Phones

  Wireless connectivity between devices and display monitors remains mostly fantasy today, Google’s Chromecast notwithstanding. But it could become a big deal for tablets, smartphones and even traditional PCs in the future. And it may even work on Linux, if the nascent OpenWFD project succeeds—which would be very good news for open source hardware vendors.

• Open-Source HTML5 Terminal Emulator To Support X11

  The Gate One HTML5-powered terminal emulator and SSH client that goes without needing any browser plug-ins and supports many SSH/terminal features is working on bringing X11 support to the web-browser. The developer claims that this X11 support in the browser written in HTML5 will be fast enough to support video playback and he’s made a video demo as proof.

• 5 Open Source Platforms That Will Define 2014

  Linux and MySQL are old news. Partners must now open their minds to NoSQL, Hadoop, KVM, OpenStack and OpenDaylight

• Deciphering Top

• Write LaTeX documents with LyX

  LaTeX is a typesetting system that gives you full control over how everything in your document is rendered. The problem is its really steep learning curve. One option is to use a basic text editor and learn all the markup you need for your document. The other option is to use an application that wraps the markup to some degree. LyX does this very nicely. While a fully WYSIWYG editor for LaTeX doesn’t make sense (since your doc isn’t fully rendered until sent to an output device), LyX does provide a pseudo-WYSIWYG interface where you can see how different regions will be rendered.

• Lightworks Linux Build now offers DVD, YouTube export options

  Key updates include:
  • Background rendering/export support
  • Curve effect added to FX Colour Correction effects
  • Magnetic snapping enabled on all panels (can be turned off)
  • Ruler added to timelines
  • Right click functionality (Export, Add FX)
  • Free users can now specify where media folders are located
  • ‘Insert/Replace’ source option added

• Google Drive for Linux? Patience, patience…

  More than a year and a half ago, Google promised to bring its Google Drive to the Linux. Those who want to use the cloud-synchronized file system on the the open-source operating system, though, will have to keep on waiting.

  In April 2012, when Google Drive launched, Google said, “The team is working on a sync client for Linux.” In May 2013, the update was, “The team is still working on it.” I asked for another update and got it Sunday: Google doesn’t “have anything new to share at this time in terms of timing.”

• Screencasting and video editing using Ubuntu Linux

• Wine 1.6.1 Stable Release Fixes iTunes 7 Issues

• Install Nginx + Php FPM + APC on CentOS 6.4

• 10 Lesser Known Commands for Linux – Part 3

• How to install WordPress from the command line

• How to draw flowchart or diagram on Linux

• How to install Ghost blogging platform on Linux

• Install Tweak Tools in Ubuntu 13.10

  You can use GNOME Tweak Tool and Unity Tweak Tool to change your configuration options in Ubuntu 13.10.

• Time-Saving Tricks on the Command Line

• Using Wireshark on Ubuntu

• rbash : Set Restricted shell in Linux

• arkOS: build your Cloud with a Raspberry Pi

  Recently I’ve discovered this project that has great ambitions:

  arkOS is an open-source platform for securely self-hosting your online life.

  Everything started from the founder Jacob Cook and the CitizenWeb Project he founded. It’s designed to run on a Raspberry Pi – a super-low-cost single board computer – and ultimately will let users, even of the non-technical variety, run from within their homes email, social networking, storage and other services that are increasingly getting shunted out into the cloud, and so under the control of big companies.

• Linux, VR, and Steam Machines the Focus of Steam Dev Days Presentations

  Valve has outlined a number of presentations that will taking place at their upcoming developer conference event, the inaugural Steam Dev Days, hosted in Seattle early next year. A session schedule includes presentations involving reps of AMD, Intel, Nvidia, Unity and Oculus, and of course a whole bunch hosted by the Valve Software team.

• FORCED Adds First Content Update For PC, Mac and Linux

• Charity Humble Store goes up against Steam

• Geekbuzz – 5 Top Linux Games

  For the first time in the history of Linux gaming, we have the trifecta: video game engines, digital distribution, and finally hardware manufacturers all working together.

• Pandora: First Contact A Spiritual Successor To Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri Released

  Pandora: First Contact is a science fiction 4X turn-based strategy game on a planetary scale – a spiritual successor to Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri.

• Nuclear Dawn FPS/RTS Hybrid Open Linux Beta Should Hit In A Few Days

  Originally due to start today the open beta for Nuclear Dawn the FPS/RTS game should hit in a few days!

  We reported the game to you a few times (including with screenshots here) and it has hit multiple delays due to various issues over time, now though it looks to be hitting our platform in just a few days time.

• What is the Humble Bundle Store?

  A few days ago, in addition to the already existing Humble Bundle Sales and Weekly Sales, the Humble Bundle Store appeared on the market.

  The Humble Bundle Store will assault with reduced prices, but in comparison to Humble Indie Bundles or Humble Weekly Sales, you can not pay what you want.

• Nuclear Dawn Open Linux Beta Soon Plus Screenshots!

  Nuclear Dawn the RTS/FPS hybrid is powering it’s way onto Linux with a possible open beta later this week!

• Linux Games: Faster Than Light

  Faster Than Light (more commonly known as FTL) is a top-down, real-time strategy game on Steam, made by indie team Subset Games. The player takes control of the crew in a space vessel that’s in possession of critical information that must be delivered to an allied fleet several sectors away. However, to make the game more challenging, you are pursued by a large rebel fleet in every sector.

• You Can Trick Steam for Linux to Think It’s Running in SteamOS

  Valve is fervently working on the new operating system and users can now trick the Steam client to think that is running under SteamOS.

  Valve has started to integrate functionalities between Steam and SteamOS. In order to get a glimpse of that you will have to get the latest Beta.

• Quake Live won’t support Linux

  Wow, there’s a nasty poke in the eye to Linux and Mac gamers. id Software seems to be regressing in its support of Linux. This is quite odd given what Valve is doing with SteamOS.

  I guess Valve is just going to have to convince id Software that Linux is worth supporting. For the record, my money is on Valve. They know what they are doing, and I think the folks at id will do a quick turnabout when all is said and done.

• Mutant Gangland Turn Based Strategy With Mutants & Robots

• Chuck’s Challenge 3D Released On Desura

• Leadwerks Creation Tool Continues The Push Onto Linux

• Humble Store Opens With 24-Hour Debut Sale

Recruitment

• Linux geezers need fresh meat

  The foundation thinks that a natural way of promoting the participation of younger people in the Linux kernel development is to reach out to colleges and universities to host training activities where students and faculty learn the ropes of how to contribute to the kernel.

• The Linux kernel community learns how to grow more penguins

Version 3.13

• Linux 3.13 Supports The Neonode zForce

  There’s many exciting Linux 3.13 kernel features already, but we have another one to talk about today. In the input subsystem update for 3.13, support for the Neonode zForce has been added, an interesting touch-screen technology based on infrared light fields.

• KVM Pushes Linux Virtualization Forward In Linux 3.13

  The Kernel-based Virtual Machine updates for the Linux 3.13 kernel were filed today and includes a fair amount of improvements for virtualization on PowerPC hardware, but there’s also some x86 improvements too.

• 13 Reasons Linux 3.13 Is Going To Be Very Exciting

  While the merge window for the Linux 3.13 kernel isn’t even over yet, this next major kernel update is already looking to be rather exciting with a number of new features.

• F2FS File-System Major Linux 3.13 Enhancements

  For those in need of a high-performance specially-optimized file-system for flash storage devices, the F2FS file-system developed at Samsung has seen more “major enhancements” queued up for the Linux 3.13 kernel.

• The Linux 3.13 Kernel Is Already Super Exciting

  The merge window hasn’t even officially opened yet on the Linux 3.13 kernel but it’s already super exciting and I can’t wait for the new code to start hitting mainline and to benchmark these massive changes to the Linux kernel. Here’s just a few things to expect so far but it’s already gearing up to be a super exciting release and perhaps the best of 2013.

More Development

• AMD Publishes Cryptographic Coprocessor Linux Code

  AMD has just published a new set of Linux kernel patches, revealing Linux support for a Cryptographic Coprocessor (AMD CCP).

• Btrfs-Progs Changes Meta-Data Block Size

  The btrfs-progs user-space component to the Btrfs file-system has seen a number of commits in recent weeks. Beyond lots of code improvements and bug-fixes, the default meta-data block size was changed for the Btrfs mkfs command.

Events

• Video: Question at LinuxCon Leads Linus Torvalds to Consider Bug-Fix Release

  The 3.12 Linux kernel release this week brought with it many new features including multi-threaded RAID5 support in the MD subsystem, the addition of render nodes, and TSO sizing.

• Three Ways to Follow LinuxCon and CloudOpen Europe Live From Edinburgh

• LinuxCon Europe Next Week Hosts 14 Co-located Events with First-Ever CloudOpen Europe

  The Linux Foundation is preparing to host its third LinuxCon Europe and this year for the first time will also host CloudOpen in Europe. The combination of the two events along with a variety of other co-located events taking place next week represents the largest gathering of Linux and open cloud professionals in Europe. From KVM Forum & oVirt Workshop to Xen Project Developer Summit and Yocto Developer Day to the Open Compute Engineering Workshop, there is something for everyone.

• “SysAdmin Super Star” Winner Aims to Share Knowledge with Co-Workers

  Linux Foundation Training scholarship winner Abdelghani Ouchabane is a senior software developer at eZono, a medical device startup in Germany that uses Linux to build its software and systems. He’s worked on a range of Linux projects over the past five years in this job, including kernel module and driver configuration, system and server configuration, and networking, he said. He’s also contributed to many open source projects including Fedora, CentOS, Ubuntu, Meego, Tizen and Debian.

Graphics Stack

• NVIDIA, Mentor Graphics May Harm GCC

  Yesterday there was news that OpenACC 2.0 parallel programming support was coming to GCC complete with GPU acceleration support for NVIDIA GPUs. While it was exciting on the surface, it appears that this work may be poisonous and could have a very tough time making it upstream.

  The news yesterday was about Oak Ridge, Mentor Graphics, and NVIDIA working to add OpenACC 2.0 parallel programming support to the GCC compiler for C and Fortran. GCC right now doesn’t have any support for OpenACC, even the older versions of the specification, and the patches thus far haven’t fully exploited the GPU potential besides converting OpenACC to OpenCL or another implementation that just runs OpenACC over OpenMP on the CPU. Mentor Graphics is now responsible for bringing OpenACC 2.0 with NVIDIA GPU support to the GNU Compiler Collection.

• Freedreno Graphics Driver Reaches Version 1.0

  The xf86-video-freedreno X.Org driver for providing support for Qualcomm’s Adreno/Snapdragon graphics hardware has reached version 1.0 in its first stable release.

• Sub-Surfaces Support Added To Wayland Protocol

  After the support has been within Wayland’s Weston reference compositor for several months, developers have now added sub-surfaces support to the Wayland core protocol itself. Wayland sub-surfaces can make for efficient use of video players and windowed OpenGL games on Wayland.

• Alt-Tab Support, Exposay For Wayland’s Weston

  Interesting in the Wayland camp this week has been lots of discussions about the XDG-Shell proposal but besides that, a patch-set just appeared that finally adds alt-tab support to Wayland’s Weston compositor and also updates the exposay feature.

• AMD Wants Mantle On Linux, OS X, Mobile Devices

  As part of the recent Radeon Rx 200 series and Hawaii GPU launch, AMD also unveiled Mantle as a new graphics rendering API to compete with OpenGL and Direct3D. AMD claims Mantle is easier, faster, and all-around better than OpenGL for game engines and other purposes. This week AMD has renewed their push that they want to see Mantle on Linux and other platforms.

• Intel X.Org Driver Released With New Stability Fixes

  The xf86-video-intel 3.0 driver is still on the way and Intel OTC’s Chris Wilson has put out today its latest development release that has stability fixes, including further TearFree updates.

• NVIDIA GeForce GT 610 On Linux

  If you are after a low-end graphics card for use on Linux, up for review today is the Zotac GeForce GT 610 Synergy 1GB graphics card that sells for less than $50 USD. The results in this Linux hardware review compare the GT 610 to a range of other AMD Radeon and NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards using the proprietary drivers under Ubuntu Linux. Even if you’re not interested in the GT 610, this article makes for a nice 12-way Linux graphics card comparison with the very latest AMD/NVIDIA GPU drivers.

• Video Showing Off Hawaii Desktop Running On Wayland

  If you’re curious about the state of the Qt5-powered Hawaii Desktop running natively on Wayland, a new video has been uploaded that nicely shows off this new Linux desktop alternative that’s designed around Wayland.

Benchmarks

• 13-Way AMD GPU Open-Source Linux Driver Comparison On The Source Engine

  For your viewing pleasure today is a 13-way AMD Radeon graphics card comparison when testing out the open-source Radeon Gallium3D drivers on the wide spectrum of ATI/AMD GPUs while looking at the performance for Valve’s Source Engine with Counter-Strike: Source and Team Fortress 2. Given the imminent arrival of Steam Machines and SteamOS to push Linux gaming into its long-awaited spotlight, is AMD’s open-source Linux graphics driver capable of delivering a reasonable level of performance?For your viewing pleasure today is a 13-way AMD Radeon graphics card comparison when testing out the open-source Radeon Gallium3D drivers on the wide spectrum of ATI/AMD GPUs while looking at the performance for Valve’s Source Engine with Counter-Strike: Source and Team Fortress 2. Given the imminent arrival of Steam Machines and SteamOS to push Linux gaming into its long-awaited spotlight, is AMD’s open-source Linux graphics driver capable of delivering a reasonable level of performance?

• AMD Radeon R9 290 Benchmarks On Ubuntu Linux

  Last week AMD released the Radeon R9 290 “Hawaii” graphics card. The R9 290 is a cut-down R9 290X and sells for just $399 USD. Here are the first Linux benchmarks of the AMD R9 290 using Ubuntu 13.10!

• 5-Way Amazon EC2 Cloud Linux OS Benchmarks

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4, Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09, Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS, Ubuntu 13.10, and SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 have been pitted against each other in Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and the Linux performance benchmark results are now available.

• 8-Way AMD Gallium3D vs. Catalyst Ubuntu GPU Benchmarks

  This testing isn’t too different from other open vs. closed-source GPU driver benchmarks run recently on Phoronix but is a fresh look and with some different tests. The Catalyst driver in use was the latest publicly available (Catalyst 13.11 Beta 6 – OpenGL 4.3.12614 – fglrx 13.25.5) and the open-source version was Mesa 10.0-devel with an xf86-video-ati Git snapshot. The Linux 3.12 kernel was used throughout all testing and DPM was enabled for the Radeon Linux driver.

• Linux Performance Monitoring Tools

• Five free Gmail-friendly email desktop clients

• BleachBit 1.0

• Wine 1.6.1 Lands 58 Bug-Fixes

  For those still having to rely upon Wine to run your favorite Windows games or other applications, the 1.6.1 stable release is now available if you’re not running Wine 1.7 for all the latest goodies.

• Make the solid state drive (SSD) plunge with Linux

• How to add a new context menu item in Nautilus file manager

• oVirt 3.3 hackery on Fedora 19

• How to create desktop shortcut or launcher on Linux

• How to draw flowchart or diagram on Linux

• How to manually install Android 4.4 KitKat – Nexus 7 (2012/2013) WiFi, Nexus 10

• Install Synaptic in Ubuntu 13.10

  Synaptic is a package manager that gives you the same control that you get using apt-get in a terminal window in Ubuntu 13.10. Here’s how you can install it.

• Time-Saving Tricks on the Command Line