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Taiwanese mainboard manufacturer Gigabyte is not letting its AMD Radeon video card lineup unprepared in the face of the new GK107 and GK106 assault from Nvidia.
The company shows new pre-overclocked video cards with quiet cooling solutions.
The official denomination of the first of the two new AMD Radeon cards is... |
9 September 2012 21:21 GMT |
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The GNOME Project unleashed a few minutes ago, September 9th, the immediate availability for download and testing of the second and last Beta release of the upcoming GNOME 3.6 desktop environment.
The Beta releases of GNOME 3.6 are a very important milestone for the development of the GNOME 3.6 desktop environment,... |
9 September 2012 21:11 GMT |
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Linus Torvalds announced yesterday, September 9th, that the fifth Release Candidate of the upcoming Linux 3.6 kernel is available for download and testing.
Linux kernel 3.6 Release Candidate 5 brings some ARM updates, CIFS improvements, and the usual updated drivers, including mmc, sound, video, PCI, networking (bo... |
9 September 2012 20:01 GMT |
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PureOS, a Live CD distribution that allows the user to discover and use a GNU/Linux operating system without modifying the contents of the hard-disk, is now at version 6.0.
PureOS 6.0 is based on Debian Testing and it uses GNOME 3.4 as the default desktop environment.
Highlights of PureOS 6.0:
• Linux kernel... |
9 September 2012 19:41 GMT |
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Empathy, a messaging program which supports text, voice, video chat and file transfers over many different protocols, is now at version 3.5.91.
Empathy 3.6 Beta 2 (3.5.91) now comes with support for Gstreamer 1.0 (--enable-gst-1.0=yes). The developers have underlined the fact that this feature is highly experiment ... |
9 September 2012 18:31 GMT |
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The Chakra Development Team, through Anke Boersma, proudly announced last evening, September 8th, the immediate availability for download of the Chakra GNU/Linux 2012.09 operating system.
Chakra GNU/Linux 2012.09 is dubbed Clair, and it is dedicated to the memory of Claire Lotion, a KDE contributor. This release in... |
9 September 2012 17:47 GMT |
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0 A.D., a free, open-source, cross-platform real-time strategy (RTS) game of ancient warfare with historically-based war/economy, that allows players to relive or rewrite the history of Western civilizations, is now at version Alpha 11.
The latest version of 0 A.D, Alpha 11, has been dubbed Kronos and comes with th... |
9 September 2012 17:28 GMT |
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Arch Linux, an independently developed i686/x86-64 general purpose GNU/Linux distribution that focuses on simplicity, minimalism, and code elegance, is now at version 2012.09.07. Unlike the previous release of Arch Linux, this version comes with just a few updated packages and some bugfixes. Highlights of Arch Lin... |
9 September 2012 17:25 GMT |
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Chinese video card manufacturer Colorful is getting ready to launch its iGame version of Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 650 series and this card will definitely not use a reference design.
The new card is officially called Colorful iGame GeForce GTX 650 and it reportedly uses a different version of Nvidia’s GK107 ... |
9 September 2012 16:40 GMT |
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The following Linux-based operating systems have been announced last week: SolusOS 1.2 Legacy, openSUSE 12.2, Ubuntu 12.10 Beta 1 and Ubuntu Christian Edition 12.04. Softpedia Linux Blog news includes articles about NetBSD 6.0 RC1, Linux kernel 3.6 RC4, Slackware Linux 14.0 RC4, Zorin OS 6.1 Educational, Libert&eacut... |
9 September 2012 13:51 GMT |
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Well-known mainboard manufacturer, Taiwanese company Gigabyte is preparing its own versions of Nvidia GeForce GTX 650 video cards and the company is heading for the budget overclockers.
The company has decided to mount a huge 100-millimeter cooling fan on the card, but buyers should not get too excited about this as... |
9 September 2012 12:10 GMT |
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Newscoop, formerly known as Campsite, is a PHP content management system (CMS) for online news portals or newspapers.
The former darling of online bloggers and news authors, Newscoop may have lost the battle with WordPress, but that does not mean it is not a quality product.
Full of features, Newscoop not only can ... |
9 September 2012 12:01 GMT |
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The only review we have this week for you is one for Sleeping Dogs, the open-world action game from developer United Front Games and publisher Square Enix, which proved to be a nice mix of solid mechanics that fails to impress when it comes to the narrative space.
We also have the usual two Gamer Diaries, one of the... |
9 September 2012 05:41 GMT |
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