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The first release candidate of the next stable version of the open source graphics editor adds experimental support for GPU hardware acceleration of graphics operations... ...

ShareTweet Sorry to keep bugging you guys about this stuff. I now have a backup script that works for everything except one small part. This backup script can rsync and create a tarball to push out to a mount point with zero issues, but when i try to push the tarball via ftp, it craps ...

ShareTweet An anonymous reader writes “Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak says that Apple and other tech companies’ patent hoarding could prevent entrepreneurs doing the same thing that he and Steve Jobs did in starting a computer company in a garage. Woz also says the jury is still out on Tim Cook as the right CEO to ...

The next WordPress release is just around the corner, and the first beta came out on April 5th. If you're a WordPress user, or thinking about using WordPress in the near future, here's what you have to look forward to. ...

The cloud computing cognoscenti seem to remain convinced that Citrix's CloudStack and OpenStack are gearing up for a battle that will leave one and only one winner. Meanwhile, there seems to be little discussion going on at all surrounding other cloud computing platforms, such as Eucalyptus. There are some good reasons to believe that--just ...

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ShareTweet I have always wondered why I never have an option to format a partition with ext1 the lowest is ext2. Does Linux (kernel in this sense) even still support it? LinuxQuestions.org ...

ShareTweet MrSeb writes with ExtremeTech’s account of how director (and deep sea explorer) James Cameron spent a reported $ 18 million converting his blockbuster movie, Titantic, to 3D. The article “looks at the primary way of managing depth in 3D films (parallax), how you add depth to a movie that was originally filmed in 2D, ...

ShareTweet An anonymous reader writes “Last year Slashdot ran a story on scientists from the Max-Planck-Institute for Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden, Germany developing a novel method to improve password security. A strong long password is split in two parts; the first part is memorized by a human, and the second part is stored ...

ShareTweet Published at LXer: GIMP 2.8 will bring major new features including single-window mode, layer groups and on-canvas text editing. Just few days back, GIMP 2.8 RC1 was released which is probably last snapshot before final version 2.8 is available. GIMP PPA by Matt Walker has not been updated with latest packages yet. However, Strycore ...

ShareTweet The Bad Astronomer writes “HD 10180 is a near-twin of the Sun about 130 light years away. It’s known to have at least six planets orbiting it, but a new analysis of the data shows clear indications of three more, for a total of nine! This means HD 10180 has more planets than our ...

{lfnews}The day after one of The Linux Foundation events is always a bit like the day after a really great party: you're exhausted but in a good way. ...

As the annual Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit was wrapping up yesterday in San Francisco, we asked a few attendees to weigh in on their favorite sessions. The invitation-only event brought together 430 Linux kernel developers, Linux Foundation members and other Linux community insiders for keynote talks, work sessions, training , project updates, industry trends ...

David A. Wheeler cautions against the practice of using bundled libraries ...

FTP is a great way to transfer files to the cloud, and you have some pretty good choices of FTP clients on Linux. However, our favorite is the powerful, cross-platform FilezZilla. ...

I have a question for you GTK and/or WebKit folks. ...

Red Hat's Matthew Garrett talked this week again about the troubles in supporting UEFI under Linux... ...

Another one of the interesting presentations from the LF Collaboration Summit this week in San Francisco was covering the improvements made to GCC 4.7, which is the latest GNU compiler update with several new features for developers... ...

ShareTweet I just want to know if theres a way for me to increase my swap without having to reinstall Ubuntu . LinuxQuestions.org ...

ShareTweet If you’ve ever worked with pranksters, you’ve probably come across this classic office prank. First, the unsuspecting victim leaves his computer and goes to lunch or a long meeting and doesn’t lock his screen. The prankster then takes a screenshot of his current desktop, hides all the desktop icons and any taskbars, and sets ...