Canonical Contributing Too Little to Kernel Development?
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more »Path Free for Python with Qt and AMD's OpenCL
Aug 20, 2009The PySide LPGL Python binding for Qt is new and the Python::OpenCL wrapper now runs with AMD's ATI Stream SDK.
more »Kernel Statistics: Who's Writing Linux?
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more »Rpath to Foresight Linux: Change to Fedora!
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more »Linux from Scratch 6.5 Available
Aug 18, 2009The Linux from Scratch (LFS) intensive training has been updated to version 6.5.
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more »Sun Stops Solaris Express Community Edition
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more »Program for Eleventh Real-Time Linux Workshop
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