Driver 169.07 featured some performance enhancements for GeForce 8 series onwards, but above all features the linux port of PowerMizer powersaving feature.
Read more »nVidia PowerMizer powersaving/cooling in Linux
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Android 2.0 source code now available
Google has made the source code for the current 2.0 release of Android available to download from its Android Open Source Project page.
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Amazon EC2 Image Released for opentaps Open Source ERP + CRM
You can now deploy opentaps Open Source ERP + CRM on Amazon EC2 using new Amazon Machine Images for opentaps. These images allow you to deploy an Amazon EC2 server with opentaps with demo data pre-installed on either a MySQL or PostgreSQL database. To use them, just search for “opentaps” under “Community AMIs” when launching a new Amazon EC2 instance.
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A Virtual Gallium3D Driver Coming For VMware
It was almost exactly one year ago that VMware acquired Tungsten Graphics, but now their motives behind that acquisition are becoming more clear. Being hosted at VMware's headquarters today in Palo Alto, California was a Gallium3D Workshop, where various open-source Mesa developers are currently at and others connecting remotely.
Read more »HookSafe Protects Kernel from Rootkits
A research group in the computer sciences faculty at the North Carolina State University has written a prototype for a rootkit protector that uses kernel object hooks.
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Patching in Eclipse Galileo
Eclipse Galileo includes new features for applying patches, including the ability to copy a patch to the clipboard and paste it directly into the Project Explorer. This article introduces this and provides an overview of the method for creating and applying patches, and includes an overview of the patch format used by Eclipse.
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Reviewed: Parallels Desktop 4 for Linux
After conquering the desktop virtualisation space on the Mac, Parallels has decided to take the fight to VMware with a client for Windows and Linux desktops. So, what does Parallels Desktop 4 for Linux (let's just call it PD4) have over the competition?
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Is Mozilla's contributions program working?
It's been just under four months since Mozilla launched its pilot program for contributions, a way for users to donate to add-on developers for their time and effort.
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Introduction to Computer Vision with OpenCV on Linux
The purpose of this document is to help a reader to get started with Computer Vision library OpenCV on Linux system. OpencCV is a multi-platform library, but this article will be focused only on OpenCV using Linux operating system.
Read more »Linux Remote Networking over the Internet (part 3)
Remote Linux PC access over the Internet requires extra security precautions. Today we lock down the OpenSSH server more tightly, get through a firewall without opening the LAN to the world, and decide if we want password authentication or certificate authentication.
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Install OpenGoo for in house collaboration tools
OpenGoo is an open source collaboration tool that is fully web-based, easy to use, simple to install, and free to use. But is OpenGoo for you and your company? This tutorial will show you how to get an OpenGoo installation up and running so you can kick the tires and find out if it is exactly what you need.
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How Much Linux Is in Android?
In a talk at the Embedded Linux Conference Europe in Grenoble, France, a speaker took a critical look at the design and development model of Google's first step toward Linux.
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Go: new open source programming language from Google
Go is a new programming language from Google that aims for performance that is nearly comparable to C, but with more expressive syntax and faster compilation. What it won't do, however, is liberate the coding masses from bracist tyranny. Google's Go is yet another take on C.
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Linux introspection and SystemTap dynamic kernel analysis
Modern operating system kernels provide the means for introspection, the ability to peer dynamically within the kernel to understand its behaviors. With this knowledge, you can tune or modify the kernel to avoid failure conditions. Discover an open source infrastructure called SystemTap that provides this dynamic introspection for the Linux kernel.
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Just how flawed is Firefox?
Please don't shoot the messenger, but all is not well in Firefox land. According to one new report, Firefox is responsible for some 44% of all the browser vulnerabilities that were reported during the first six months of 2009 and that's far more problematical than Internet Explorer.
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