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<b>Phoronix:</b> "to test the performance claims of Arch versus others, we have compared the performance of the newest Arch 2010.05 media against Ubuntu Linux."
<b>Motho ke motho ka botho:</b> "I tease the Gnome crowd a lot for being chubby, but I didn't realize that the weight problem had exceeded 256Mb. That's not overweight, that's clinical obesity."
<b>Linux.com:</b> "If you work in an educational or training environment where you instruct users on the ins and outs of using computers, or you need to be able to (for whatever reason) control the PC user's use of a machine, the tools available are often quite expensive or quite difficult to use. Neither is the case in the Linux environment, where tools like iTalc are available."
<b>Linux Magazine: </b>"The Khronos Group today announced OpenCL 1.1, a backwards compatible update that boosts performance in the parallel programming standard. OpenCL is a free programming standard designed from the ground up to optimize coding in muliticore processors."
What is fueling the advance of high tech? Not the old, closed, restrictive proprietary tech companies. The growth, progress and excitement are coming from the FOSS world.
<b>Ghacks:</b> "How many times have you migrated from one Linux box to another, only to say goodbye to your email and knowing you were going to have to set your email client up all over again"
As the transition from Yahoo's advertising system to Microsoft's adCenter approaches, users of Yahoo's tools wonder aloud whether key features they like will make the transition, too.
<b>SourceForge.net: </b>"PLplot is a cross-platform software package for creating scientific plots. This is a development release of PLplot. It represents the ongoing efforts of the community to improve the PLplot plotting package."
Longer passwords with numbers and capitalizations may make life a bit more difficult for identity thieves, but the truth is the relative strength or weakness of users' passwords should be beside the point.
An appellate court upheld a lower court's finding that eBay did not engage in trademark infringement by providing a marketplace for sellers to auction off counterfeit Tiffany Co. jewelry.
An appellate court upheld a lower court's finding that eBay did not engage in trademark infringement by providing a marketplace for sellers to auction off counterfeit Tiffany Co. jewelry.
<b>Groklaw:</b> "I'm starting to get the impression that they don't want us to have time to actually read and think about this super-fast proposed deal."
Tired of being nagged about making room for Macs on your enterprise network? We have good news: You don't have to. Commodity PCs and Linux have seen to that.