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OpenGL 4.0

Last Updated on Monday, 15 March 2010 23:24 Written by Michele Petrecca Monday, 15 March 2010 23:18

The Khronos Group announced today the release of the latest version of the OpenGL specification, which provides for an API for creating 2D and 3D graphics on any platform. The new spec, 4.0, includes lots of updates for advanced technologies. The changes in the OpenGL 4.0 spec help bring OpenGL more in line with Direct3D 11. Part of the spec are the GLSL 4.00 update to the OpenGL Shading language, which lets developers utilize the GPU acceleration present on the most recently released video cards. New features include two additional shader stages that let the GPU offload geometry tessellation from the CPU; per-sample fragment shaders and programmable fragment shader input positions, allowing the drawing of data generated by OpenGL or external APIs without the interference of the CPU, shader subroutines and 64-bit double precision floating point shader operations. For more information click here.

The 2.6.33 kernel is out

Last Updated on Thursday, 25 February 2010 18:10 Written by Michele Petrecca Thursday, 25 February 2010 18:06

"The most noticeable features in 2.6.33 are likely the Nouveau and DRBD integration (and a _lot_ more people will notice the Nouveau part of that). And the Radeon KMS parts aren't considered experimental any more. Oh, and the AS IO scheduler is gone, since keeping it around and just causing confusion seemed to not be worth it any more. You're supposed to use CFQ instead!". At last, Linus Torvalds has released the 2.6.33 kernel. The best place for information on new kernel releases is KernelNewbies, and the KernelNewbies 2.6.33 in this case.

OO.org thumbnail plugin version 1

Last Updated on Monday, 18 January 2010 23:22 Written by Michele Petrecca Monday, 18 January 2010 23:15

OpenOffice.org Thumbnail plugin is a plugin for KDE file managers (Dolphin and Konqueror) to preview OpenOffice.org files (Open Document Format, odf extension the default file format since OpenOffice.org 2, not the old binary file format ) as thumbnails. You do not need to install OpenOffice.org for it to work (it only uses KDE API). For more information and download about this plugin click here.

Thunderbird 3 is out!

Last Updated on Wednesday, 09 December 2009 14:04 Written by Michele Petrecca Wednesday, 09 December 2009 14:03

The Thunderbird 3.0 release is out. New features include a number of search improvements, tabbed windows, a new message archiving mechanism, an improved address book, Gmail integration, a number of performance improvements, and more. Click here to see the release notes and details.

KDE 4.4 beta 1 is out!

Last Updated on Friday, 04 December 2009 21:49 Written by Michele Petrecca Friday, 04 December 2009 21:46

On the 3rd December, KDE's team has released a first preview the KDE Software Compilation (KDE SC) version 4.4 Beta1. The first beta version of KDE SC 4.4 provides a preview and base for helping to stabilize the next version of the KDE Desktop, Applications and Development Platform. In this version there is a long list of changes. For more informationa about this new version, read here.

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