February 11th, 2010
The Nvidia ION powered Intel Atom processor netbooks and nettops are the rage these days.
Affordable, lightweight and powerful graphics processor.
The Nvidia ION is actually an Intel Atom CPU coupled with a Nvidia 9400m graphics chipset.
Most linux distributions install fine on most netbooks and nettops. However, their default video player may not be optimized for the Nvidia ION chipsets. For HD video playback, without tweaking the parameters of the video player application, the end result may be lacklustre and the playback may even be not in sync or skipping frames.
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Tags: 1080p, acceleration, atom, geforce, hd, intel, ion, movies, mplayer, netbook, Nettop, trailers, vdpau, video
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February 4th, 2010
For linux users whom have been drooling over Apple’s video editor, Final Cut Pro and Adobe Premier Pro on the Windows platform, there is now an opensource video editor out on Linux!
Introducing the OpenShot Video Editor for Linux!
Easy to use “drag & drop” graphical user interface
Combine video clips and insert in nice transitions between the scenes.
Videos can be in 4:3 or 16:9 format.
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Tags: adobe, Apple, clips, drag and drop, final cut pro, frames, freeware, graphical, GUI, mac, openshot, opensource, osx, premier, transition, video, Video Editing
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January 20th, 2010
Ubuntuforums had an official post from Canonical asking users to submit recommended apps in a survey site.
In the survey, a preselected list of apps for voting includes closed-sourced applications such as ITunes, Photoshop, Spotify and Pandora.
Would the upcoming Ubuntu distro include these applications if the demand is large enough? Will Canonical implementation be Wine-based of the popular applications originally created on only the Windows platform? Or will it be coded natively on Linux?
If these closed source apps are created originally for Windows, eg Apple’s ITunes and Adobe’s Photoshop, how is Canonical going to convince them to code for Linux?
Many argue the fact that opensource linux OS users aren’t a large significant market and therefore many paid apps are not developed for the linux platform. But the recent rise of popularity of Ubuntu and its variants may just shake up the market share of users on linux and attract such developers to write apps for the rising numbers of Linux users.
Source : WebUpd8 Canonical To Bring Closed Source Apps Like iTunes And Photoshop To Ubuntu?!?!.
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January 18th, 2010
ARE YOU SOMEONE WHOM:
1) is sick of dual booting just to play games using Windows?
2) Prefers not to corrupt hardened linux workstation with linux games?
3) Complains of not having enough games on linux?
Supergamer is a permanent fix if you answered YES to any of the question!
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SuperGamer is a games oriented Live CD/DVD Linux OS. It has all the normal Linux desktop applications such as the Firefox Browser, OpenOffice.org, etc., but also has a great many native to Linux games added, as well as some demos of proprietary games.
Here is the list of games it comes pre-installed with :
Quake Wars
Doom 3
Prey
Unreal Tournament
Quake 4
Savage 2
Postal 2
Enemy Territory
Penumbra Black Plague
Sauerbraten
Urban Terror |
Soldier Of Fortune
Torcs
Tremulous
AlienArena
True Combat
America’s Army
Nexus
OpenArena
PlaneShift
Drop Team
Frets On Fire |
Chromium B.S.U.
Mad Bomber
X-Moto
BZ Flag
Mega Mario
Glaxium
GL-117
NeverBall
NeverPutt
Super Tux
PPRacer |
Download torrent here
or
Purchase the Live-DVD direct from On-Disk if you feel 8 gigabytes will take too long to download.
Source : Linux Journal
Or visit Supergamer website!
You might also wanna read up what Distrowatch has to say about the Supergamer linux distribution here.
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January 15th, 2010
What is lm_sensors?
By Wikipedia’s definition of lm_sensors :
lm_sensors (Linux-monitoring sensors), a free open source software-tool for Linux, provides tools and drivers for monitoring temperatures, voltage, and fans. It also monitors chassis intrusion detection.
lm-sensors is already included in many popular linux distribution repositories.
For Gnome desktop users, values obtained from the lm_sensors can be placed in the “top panel” by installing “sensors-applet”.
Here is a good “lm-sensors” guide for Ubuntu users to add lm-sensors to your customized installation [ for both Gnome and KDE users ]
For those with bleeding edge hardware, the usual repositories lm-sensors package may not yet support all the latest sensors on their mainboards and graphics card.
However, there has been some new developments in the detection of new yet to be supported sensors that can be installed with a simple script.
More on this lm-sensors update here from Phoronix.
Source: Phoronix
via LM_Sensors Gets A New Configuration Utility.
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January 11th, 2010
If only they can pack in a HDMI port… this little baby will be flawless!
2.0 GHz Arm-based processor
Wifi, Bluetooth, Gigabit Ethernet, Mini-USB port and “Ready to download” Linux 2.6 SDK for developers.
Low power, low price, small form factor
Below is an extract from UberGizmo
[CES 2010] Marvell has just launched its Computer 3.0 platform based on the Armada 300 processor. New the system still uses an ultra-low power and thermal envelope, but manages to reach 2Ghz and includes Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and built-in 1.8″ hard drive. The overall package is also much smaller (and sexier) than previous generations. Once again the semi-conductor mantra “smaller, better, cheaper” is beautifully applied by Marvell to these tiny computers. Developers can already get their hands on the SDK, and we’ve heard that a number of big-name brands are working on products based on Plug Computer 3.0.
Source : Marvell Plug Computer 3.0.
Other links of same product news
Linuxfordevices : Plug-in computer rev’d with WiFi, 2GHz SoC
LoopyGadgets : Marvell Plug Computer 3.0 with Built-in Wifi and Bluetooth
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Tags: appliance, ARM, bluetooth, compact, formfactor, gigabit, marvell, mini, plug, usb, wifi
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January 11th, 2010
The computing juice required for creating an epic animated hybrid movie, such as the movie Avatar is exceptional.
In fact, the data centre that was in charge of rendering the visual effects of Avatar, uses up to 4000 blade servers and is positioned at 197 of the top 500 supercomputers in the world we live in today!
The operating system used for such a huge array of blades…
LINUX
Because, nothing else comes close..
News Source : Opendotdotdot
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December 31st, 2009
Broadcom has recently released its driver source code for their HD Video Accelerator Mini PCI-E card.
Since the launch of this hardware to accelerate HD video playback on netbooks, only Windows drivers were supported.
Just days ago, they decided to release the source code for linux kernels 2.6.11 and higher.
Read the full article at Liliputing.com: Linux drivers for Broadcom HD Video Accelerator
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December 30th, 2009
Create Stencil art using Gimp!
From Eternity on a Rock: Nathaniel in Stencil Art.
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December 30th, 2009
As a linux distro gets updated with a new version, it is always a good idea to do a fresh install than to do an upgrade [which may cause some unforeseen problems].
But with the frequent updates of newer versions of distros such as Ubuntu [every 6 months], it gets a bit tiring to re-install from scratch and do “apt-get” commands for all the packages required for customization and personalization of the OS. To make matters worse, it is hard to remember each and every package that was installed previously.
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