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KDE SC 4.7 May Use OpenGL 3 For Compositing

KDE SC 4.5 is about to be released and KDE SC 4.6 is being discussed. However, Martin Graesslin has revealed some details about what they are planning for KDE 4.7.

According to Martin's blog post, they are looking at OpenGL 3.0 to provide the compositing effects in KDE SC 4.7. OpenGL 3.0 provides support for frame buffer objects, hardware instancing, vertex array objects, and sRGB framebuffers.

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Author: donotreply@osnews.com (David Adams) - Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:44:09 GMT - From: OSNews.com

Details of 100m Facebook Users Collected and Published

Personal details of 100m Facebook users have been harvested and published on the net by a security consultant.

The list, which has been shared as a downloadable file, contains the URL of every searchable Facebook user's profile, their name and unique ID.

BBC News
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Author: donotreply@osnews.com (David Adams) - Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:43:33 GMT - From: OSNews.com

New BlackBerry OS Expected August 3

BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion has distributed invites to an exclusive media event in New York, where it's expected to show off the first device to run the brand new BlackBerry OS, BlackBerry 6. CIO.com offers predictions for how the event will unfold.
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Author: donotreply@osnews.com (David Adams) - Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:42:23 GMT - From: OSNews.com

LiMo + GNOME: *crickets*

The GNOME foundation and the LiMo group announced a partnership to help push Linux forward in the consumer field. The only notice that anyone has seem to have taken is mockery. So why can someone announce some dedication to promoting open source software in the mobile space and generate no enthusiasm in the mobile space? Android.
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Author: donotreply@osnews.com (David Adams) - Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:15:13 GMT - From: OSNews.com

GNOME Census

GNOME developer Dave Neary has posted the highlights of his work to determine where contributions to GNOME come from. This "Census" is a combination of data mining and surveys that gives a snapshot of gnome activity and the profile of a GNOME contributor. This project's aims were to answer three questions in particular: What does the developer community look like? What companies are investing in GNOME, and how? What does the commercial ecosystem around the GNOME project look like?
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Author: donotreply@osnews.com (David Adams) - Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:59:29 GMT - From: OSNews.com

GNOME 3.0 Delayed to March 2011

During the currently ongoing GUADEC conference in Den Haag the GNOME release team announced that GNOME 3.0 would be delayed for another six months and is now scheduled for March 2011. "We could release in September and have something working that is okayish, but it's not up to the standards we have" release team member Vincent Untz explains the reasoning. There's coverage of this issue at derStandard.at and an official GNOME press release.
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Author: donotreply@osnews.com (David Adams) - Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:47:54 GMT - From: OSNews.com

Dell expands Ubuntu Linux desktop offerings

The latest panic in desktop Linux lad was that Dell would no longer be selling Ubuntu pre-installed on laptops and netbooks. Alas, for those who love drama, it wasn't true. In fact, Dell is expanding its Ubuntu desktop Linux offerings.
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Author: donotreply@osnews.com (David Adams) - Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:44:52 GMT - From: OSNews.com

Apple and Intel: Destined to Clash

An interesting article at Ars Technica takes a look at some compelling data (the longer-than-normal processor update cycles in Apple's personal computer lineup) and speculates that Apple's enthusiasm for its partnership with Intel might be cooling. Like Apple's soured relationship with once-BFF Google, this may be the result of Intel's increasing activities in the mobile computing space.
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Author: donotreply@osnews.com (David Adams) - Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 07:44:33 GMT - From: OSNews.com

Touch-Free Gesture-Control for Multiple Users

Fraunhofer's FIT . . . has recently appeared on the YouTubes, where we must say it looks pretty darn good. Not only does it not require special gloves or markers, this thing also works in real time and can support multiple users (and multiple fingers).
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Author: donotreply@osnews.com (David Adams) - Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 07:38:05 GMT - From: OSNews.com

Desktop Linux: When and how to add proprietary software

Some people hate the idea of adding proprietary software to their desktop Linux. For these people, there are Linux distributions such as gNewSense that use only free software. For the rest of us, who use distributions such as Fedora, openSUSE and Ubuntu, there are times we either want to, or feel forced to, add proprietary programs such as Adobe Flash or Skype or the ability to play proprietary audio and video formats such as MP3 or commercial DVDs to your Linux desktop. Here's how to do it.
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Author: donotreply@osnews.com (David Adams) - Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 07:35:11 GMT - From: OSNews.com

Create a jQuery, PHP, XMPP Real-Time Web App

Real-Time apps have been popularized by social-notification tools like Twitter and Friendfeed. With a Real-Time web app you can get website information as soon as it's published. Learn techniques that allow you to create responsive, continually updated web applications that conserve server resources while providing a slick user experience using jQuery, XMPP and PHP.
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Author: donotreply@osnews.com (David Adams) - Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 07:34:10 GMT - From: OSNews.com

The Most Popular Web Server Linux Is...

CentOS, with almost 30% of all Linux servers. The Red Hat Enterprise Linux-derived distro is #1 according to Web Technology Surveys.
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Author: donotreply@osnews.com (David Adams) - Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 07:31:27 GMT - From: OSNews.com

Big Loss for Apple: Library of Congress Makes Jailbreaking Legal

So, there I am enjoying a nice Gilmore Girls episode after a long day's work, and Engadget's iPhone application brings the good news: the US Library of Congress has added a DMCA exemption for jailbreaking or rooting mobile phones! This is a major blow to Apple, who actively tried to keep jailbreaking a criminal offence, and a major win for everyone who believes that the phone you buy is actually yours, and not the manufacturer's.
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Author: donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) - Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:48:34 GMT - From: OSNews.com

Seven Cool Multimedia Features in RIM's New BlackBerry OS

CIO.com highlights a number of new multimedia features in RIM's new BlackBerry OS, which used to mostly business-focused.
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Author: donotreply@osnews.com (David Adams) - Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 01:13:25 GMT - From: OSNews.com

Affordable Android-powered iPad-like Tablet Computers Galore

While browsing through dealextreme.com, a popular online shop for electronic products here in Asia, I was really surprised to see several iPad-like tablet computers that are sold for as low as $99 (US). Another surprising thing is that they are all powered by Android.
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Author: donotreply@osnews.com (David Adams) - Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 01:10:20 GMT - From: OSNews.com