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This is a wise choice for the space station, and a high-profile victory for software freedom.

Properly configured, a Linux system can breathe life into old hardware or finely-tune performance on new gear.

An anonymous reader writes "The open-source Intel Linux graphics driver has hit a milestone of now being faster than Apple's own OpenGL stack on OS X . The Intel Linux driver on Ubuntu 13.04 is now clearly faster than Apple's internally-developed Intel OpenGL driver on OS X 10.8.3. when benchmarked from a 'Sandy Bridge' class Mac Mini.

PRAWtools is currently made up of two utillities: * modutils * reddit_alert * subreddit_stats ## PRAWtools Installation ### Ubuntu/debian installation sudo apt-get install python-setuptools sudo easy_install pip sudo pip install prawtools ### Arch Linux installation sudo pacman -S python-pip sudo easy_install pip sudo pip install prawtools ### Mac ... (more)

In many scientific disciplines, the research you may be doing is completely new.

If you've been in the market for a portable computer, you may very well have considered buying a Chromebook.

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LXer is read by around 350,000 individuals each month, and is an excellent place for you to publish your ideas, thoughts, reviews, complaints, etc.

These days there are a lot of "user friendly" distros - all with a little different take on what constitutes friendliness.

From the release number, you can probably guess that it is based on Ubuntu Desktop 13.04. But what you cannot guess from the name or release number is that it ships with its own desktop environment called HY-D-V1. It also makes it super easy to test-drive other desktop environments from the same installation, without ever rebooting the computer or ... (more)

A few days ago, Canonical reiterated its commitment to restoring the Ubuntu "community" Web portal to front-and-center of official Ubuntu websites.

The other day in the Linux Journal IRC room , I was whining to the channel about no-ip.com deleting my account without warning.

A buddy of mine was thinking to move some of his Linux-based website to Azure. If you're running a Web Site that this node.js, ASP, ASP.NET, or PHP, it's easiest to use Azure Web Sites.

So Psychsoftpc is now offering consumers a choice of which Windows Version they want installed on their machines, Windows 7 or Windows 8. If they prefer Linux, Psychsoftpc offers a choice of Debian, SUSE or Ubuntu.

A new version of Python library Kivy has been released with an Android Emulator and innovations for organizing widgets and addons.

What if, just like Bill Murray in Groundhog Day , you could wake up to a fresh and identical development environment completely free of yesterday's experiments and mistakes? Vagrant lets you do exactly that.

NextStep4it has a nice little tutorial on setting up a local CentOS yum mirror using reposync.

I'm sure many of you have heard the term LAMP before A- standing for Linux Apache MySQL and PHP.

The goal of boto is to support the full breadth and depth of Amazon Web Services.

BMO Capital Market's Keirstead noted some industry concerns that growth expectations maybe be too high for companies adopting Linux.