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A look at Portal 1 Beta running in the native Linux Steam Client from within Ubuntu 13.04. The game runs beautifully at 1920×1080 with all effects turned up …
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Nvidia Releases Linux Graphics Drivers 319.12 Beta With Initial Optimus Support
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Four months after confirming plans to build a version of its Steam gaming platform for Linux, Valve today announced the launch of a limited access Steam for Linux beta.

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A video featuring the latest Ubuntu 12.10 beta 2 (with Unity) and the changes since beta 1. For more info, see our post: www.webupd8.org You may also want to check out the changes in Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal beta 1: www.webupd8.org Music: Aviation Weather – 16.5
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Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) is shaping up to be a controversial release, with a solution for dual-booting with Windows 8 and a new online scope for Dash search providing Amazon shopping suggestions.

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Late last week, however, the free and open source Linux distribution made its debut in beta form on the way to its final release, which is expected in October.
So what’s new in this first beta release? Quite a bit, actually. Here’s a quick rundown of some of the highlights.

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spectrwm is a minimalistic tiling window manager that tries to stay out of the way so that valuable screen real estate can be used for much more important stuff. It has sane defaults and does not require one to learn a language to do any configuration. It was written by hackers for hackers and it strives to be small, compact, and fast.

Release Notes: This is a BETA release which will turn into 2.0.0 in a few weeks. It completely rewrites the entire window manager to switch from Xlib to xcb, resulting in a much snappier experience. The configuration file is 100% backwards-compatible and now supports Xft fonts in bar_font. This release also fixes a couple of long-standing minor issues.

Tags: Desktop Environment, Window Manager, tiling, WM

Licenses: ISC

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Exactly three months after the first alpha version of Ubuntu Linux 12.04 “Precise Pangolin” made its debut, the project’s developers on Thursday launched the first beta release of the operating system. Read more here

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ExpressionJ is a Java library for interpreting simple numeric expressions, which may be used in all applications that have to combine numeric values but do not want to use full-blown scripting languages.

Release Notes: This release fixes exporting expressions with associative operations with enclosed parenthesis. For example, the export of 1 + 2 + 3 is 1 + 2 + 3 (which is expected) and not (1 + 2) + 3 (which was correct but uselessly complex). It fixes the jar building keeping some HTML files.

Release Tags: Minor

Tags: Java library

Licenses: LGPL

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