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PC-BSD 8.0 Release Focuses On Desktop Use 154

Posted by kdawson on Friday February 26, 2010 @12:32PM from the fresh-bits dept.

donadony writes "Last Monday PC-BSD 8.0 was released. PC-BSD is based on FreeBSD and uses KDE as its default desktop environment. PC-BSD is designed to make BSD much easier for desktop use. The 8.0 release includes support for 3D acceleration with NVIDIA drivers on amd64 and improvements in the USB subsystem. The PC-BSD team has also developed a friendly package manager system with a simple-to-use GUI tool (see the screenshots tour). For a full list of changes, refer to the changelog."

Linux 2.6.33 Released 17

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday February 24, 2010 @08:24PM from the new-stuff dept.

diegocg writes "Version 2.6.33 of the Linux kernel has been released. This version includes the Nouveau driver, Nintendo Wii and Gamecube support, DRDB, TCP 'cookie transactions,' a syscall for batching recvmsg() calls, several new perf subcommands (perf probe, perf bench, perf kmem, perf diff), experimental support for cache compression through swap, Xen PV-on-HVM support, drivers for virtual network and graphic cards from VMWare and other improvements. See the full changelog here."

Dad Delivers Baby Using Wiki 249

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday December 15, 2009 @05:29PM from the 9cm-edited dept.

sonamchauhan writes "A Londoner helped his wife deliver their baby by Googling 'how to deliver a baby' on his mobile phone. From the article: 'Today proud Mr Smith said: "The midwife had checked Emma earlier in the day but contractions started up again at about 8pm so we called the midwife to come back. But then everything happened so quickly I realized Emma was going to give birth. I wasn't sure what I was going to do so I just looked up the instructions on the internet using my BlackBerry."'"

Comment Re:Direct download links (Score 1) 433

by wolfdvh on Tuesday October 28, 2008 @02:06PM (#25544519) Attached to: Lame Duck Challenge Ends With Free Codeweavers Software For All

Would an existing user comment about both versions? Having 'games' in the name implies it is optomised for gaming, but does one use both for gaming, or is the pro a more light weight version without the gaming tweaks? Finally does one license number cover both? --ADVthanksANCE

Royal Society Opens Free Online Archive 68

Posted by kdawson on Thursday September 14, 2006 @10:16AM from the mr.-newton-meet-mr.-boyle dept.

greenechidna writes "The Register reports that the Royal Society has put its archives online. From the article: 'One of the world's most important historical records will be made available online for the first time today. All the Royal Society's journals are free for two months and include stone-cold scientific classics going back to 1665 and the foundations of modern inquiry.'" You can set up your own account at the Royal Society; if you follow the link in the Reg article, you get logged in to some random account.

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