September 7, 2015 · General · 1 comment

This PPA provides updated X (2D) and mesa (3D) free graphics drivers for radeon, intel and nvidia hardware. Updates packages provide:

* OpenGL 4.1+ support and new OpenGL extensions: http://mesamatrix.net

* packages built against llvm-3.6

* gallium-nine support installed by default. Read the specific section below

* VDPAU, OpenMAX IL Bellagio, VAAPI and XvMC Gallium3D accelerated video drivers
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September 1, 2015 · General · (No comments)

The friendly interactive shell (FISH). fish is a user friendly command line shell intended mostly for interactive use. A shell is a program used to execute other programs.
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August 29, 2015 · General · 1 comment

Atom is a text editor that's modern, approachable, yet hackable to the core—a tool you can customize to do anything but also use productively without ever touching a config file.
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August 17, 2015 · General · (No comments)

X2Go enables you to access a graphical desktop of a computer over a low bandwidth (or high bandwidth) connection.

X2Go is a Remote Desktop solution, which some vendors vaguely call Remote Control. This is not to be confused with Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection, which is a competing Remote Desktop solution and protocol.
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