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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gayan kalhara" data-source="post: 3709343" data-attributes="member: 60168">I hv found this artical just, now.. and i saw many of us hv probs with linux based software, lyk running Games, Grapix, and GUI.. So pls Check this out..KDE 4: Just as the near year came about, <a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjI3Nw" target="_blank">KDE  4.0</a> was released. This major overhaul to the K Desktop Environment included  porting the applications to the Qt 4.x tool-kit, introducing a new device integration  framework, bringing forth the Plasma desktop and interface tools, and the Phonon  multimedia API. This Linux desktop environment update was so huge that Google  had even hosted <a href="http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=11710" target="_blank">a release  event party</a>. <a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=search&q=KDE+4.0" target="_blank">KDE  4.0</a> was a bit rough around the edges, but <a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=search&q=KDE+4.1" target="_blank">KDE  4.1</a> was released in July that brought forth many refinements. The KDE community  is currently preparing for the release of <a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=search&q=KDE+4.2" target="_blank">KDE  4.2</a> in January with even more features. Trolltech had also released the Qt  tool-kit used by the K Desktop Environment <a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjI4OA" target="_blank">under  the GPLv3 license</a> this year, was <a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjMwNg" target="_blank">acquired by Nokia</a>, and then <a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Njc1NQ" target="_blank">renamed to Qt Software</a>.WINE 1.0:When the <a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=search&q=WINE" target="_blank">WINE  project</a> began as a compatibility layer to run Windows programs atop Linux,  the Windows 3.1 operating system was dominating the market. It took fifteen years  for this free software project to come out with <a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=search&q=WINE+1.0" target="_blank">a  version 1.0 release</a>, but it reached this milestone in June. WINE now is able  to run many Windows programs out there, and even many OpenGL / DirectX video games,  but the development community has been continuing in a steadfast manner working  to prepare the <a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=search&q=WINE+1.2" target="_blank">WINE  1.2</a> stable release for next year. WINE is now even <a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjI0Mg" target="_blank">being used by Google</a> for their Picasa Linux port as well as other uses. Some of the progress that's been made this year following the  1.0 release has been support for <a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjcwOQ" target="_blank">Google  Chrome</a>, <a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjczMw" target="_blank">substantial  JS support</a>, <a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Njc3Nw" target="_blank">X11  desktop work areas</a>, the start of <a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjgxMA" target="_blank">Direct3D  10.0 support</a>, <a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjgzOA" target="_blank">improved  memory management</a>, and many other features.64-bit Flash & Java Plug-Ins:This is not exactly an innovation and should have been around  a while ago, but it's important nevertheless. A month ago <a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Njg1OQ" target="_blank">Adobe  had released 64-bit Flash For Linux</a>, which allow those running a x86_64 user-land  to easily use the Flash plug-in without needing to run a 32-bit web browser, use  NSPluginWrapper, or rely upon an alternative player like <a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=search&q=Gnash" target="_blank">Gnash</a>.  Partially what makes 64-bit Flash for Linux significant is that it was released  before any 64-bit Flash for Microsoft Windows. Just a few weeks after 64-bit Flash arrived, Sun Microsystems  released a <a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjkyOQ" target="_blank">64-bit  Java Plug-In for Linux</a>. This x86_64 plug-in for Linux was released at the  same time as their first Windows x64 build, but before making it available for  their own <a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=search&q=Solaris" target="_blank">Solaris</a>  or <a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=search&q=OpenSolaris" target="_blank">OpenSolaris</a>  operating systems. With native 64-bit plug-ins, it makes the Linux x86_64 experience  easier for many users.Graphics Execution Manager:At the start of this year, most X.Org developers would have thought  Tungsten's <a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=search&q=TTM" target="_blank">TTM  memory manager</a> would have entered the mainline Linux kernel and become the  de facto standard for GPU memory management within the kernel, but Intel's <a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=search&q=Graphics+Execution+Manager" target="_blank">Graphics  Execution Manager</a> shook everything up. As developers <a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjQ3NQ" target="_blank">voiced  concerns over TTM</a> and its complicated API, the Intel team led by <a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=search&q=Packard" target="_blank">Keith  Packard</a> had announced <a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjQ3Ng" target="_blank">GEM</a>,  or the Graphics Execution Manager. Since its May introduction, it has rattled the X.Org scene and  was released with the mainline <a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=search&q=Linux+2.6.28" target="_blank">Linux  2.6.28 kernel</a> earlier this month. While the Graphics Execution Manager can  be looked at as being superior to the Translation Table Maps, its timing wasn't  ideal since it caused <a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=search&q=DRI2" target="_blank">DRI2</a>  to be stripped out from <a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=search&q=X.Org+7.4" target="_blank">X.Org  7.4</a> / <a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=search&q=X+Server+1.5" target="_blank">X  Server 1.5</a> and when it was first proposed to enter the mainline kernel it  was referred to as <a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Njc5Mg" target="_blank">untested  crap</a>. GEM by itself isn't something for end-users to get excited over,  but it will allow for faster performance once the code has been optimized, kernel  memory management is a prerequisite for <a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=search&q=KMS" target="_blank">kernel  mode-setting</a>, and also caused the introduction of <a href="http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=13306" target="_blank">a  new but faster acceleration API</a>. The <a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=search&q=xf86-video-intel" target="_blank">Intel  driver</a> fully utilizes the Graphics Execution Manager while the open-source  ATI and NVIDIA drivers will be using a mix of TTM and GEM. The drivers will implement  the GEM API but internally will be using a form of TTM (<a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjY3Ng" target="_blank">A  GEM-ified TTM manager</a>).Open-Source Hardware Drivers:Late last year AMD made the major announcement of their open-source  initiative to provide fully open-source 2D/3D ATI drivers for all of their hardware  on Linux while continuing to produce their performance-oriented Catalyst Linux  driver. AMD has continued pushing out new code and documentation this year, but  many other hardware companies have joined the open-source bandwagon too. Creative Labs had been released buggy <a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=search&q=X-Fi" target="_blank">X-Fi  Linux drivers</a> for over a year after their original binary driver was years  late and riddled with different shortcomings, but last month they had conceded  and <a href="http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=13083" target="_blank">open-sourced their X-Fi  driver</a>. Earlier in 2008 they also had provided <a href="http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=11797" target="_blank">X-Fi  hardware specifications</a> to 4Front Technologies so that there could be an open-source  X-Fi driver in the Open Sound System. However, to date there still is no Creative  X-Fi driver within the <a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=search&q=ALSA" target="_blank">Advanced  Linux Sound Architecture</a>. After several failed attempts in the past at being open-source  friendly, this year VIA Technologies announced <a href="http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=12168" target="_blank">a  new open-source strategy</a>. Because of VIA's bad attempts in the past, many called  their <a href="http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=12316" target="_blank">open-source efforts  a bluff</a> and it took them a while to <a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjUyMg" target="_blank">evaluate  their open-source role</a>, but what VIA has released to date includes <a href="http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=13134" target="_blank">2D/3D  register documentation</a>, a partnership with the OpenChrome driver team, <a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Njk1NQ" target="_blank">Chrome  9 Series DRM support</a>, <a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjY4NA" target="_blank">a  new X.Org driver</a>, <a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjYyMg" target="_blank">republished  old programming guides</a>, <a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjYxNA" target="_blank">an  open-source liaison</a>, and <a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjQ2Nw" target="_blank">a  kernel frame-buffer driver</a>. Atheros is another company that was once notorious with Linux  users, but this year they had turned around after they hired two <a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=search&q=MadWiFi" target="_blank">MadWiFi</a>  developers and then proceeded to release <a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjYyMw" target="_blank">an  open-source 802.11n Linux driver</a> (named ath9k) and then in September released  the <a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Njc1MA" target="_blank">Atheros  802.11a/b/g HAL</a> under a BSD-derived free software license. Just yesterday AMD had released <a href="http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=13322" target="_blank">open-source R600/700 3D code</a> and they're on their way with new documentation as well. NetworkManager 0.7:Making the process of configuring wired and wireless networks  on Linux is made dramatically easier by NetworkManager, which started out four  years ago as a Red Hat project. While in development for quite a while and development  snapshots had appeared in recent Fedora releases, NetworkManager 0.7 came to fruition  this year. <a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjYwMg" target="_blank">NetworkManager  0.7</a> brings to desktop users PPP integration so that SM/GPRS/EDGE/UMTS/HDSPA/HSUPA/EVDO  cellular cards now work "out of the box" on Linux, support for having  multiple simultaneous network devices, enhanced wireless security support, system-wide  configuration support with boot-time connection capabilities, Internet connection  sharing support, and full static IP support. What didn't make its way into NetworkManager 0.7.0 though were  more Bluetooth enhancements and IPV6 support. NetworkManager 0.7.0 can be found  in recent Linux distributions like <a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=search&q=Fedora+10" target="_blank">Fedora  10</a> and <a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=search&q=Ubuntu+8.10" target="_blank">Ubuntu  8.10</a> with all of its wonderful network connection management features.GIMP 2.6:The GIMP may still have a tough time competing against Adobe Photoshop,  but <a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Njc1Nw" target="_blank">GIMP  2.6</a> was released in October with some significant changes. In particular,  major changes were made to the GIMP user-interface. GIMP 2.6 also marked the first  release partially supporting GEGL, the Generic Graphics Library. GEGL has been  in development for eight years but is finally getting ready to enter the limelight.  Some of the other improvements in GIMP 2.6 include an enhanced free select tool,  brush dynamics, and other tool optimizations.VirtualBox 2:Earlier this year Sun Microsystems had acquired the company behind  the <a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=search&q=VirtualBox" target="_blank">VirtualBox</a>  virtualization software and this year this project has seen several new features  that push the limits for OS virtualization. VirtualBox 2.0 was released in September  with a new GUI written in Qt4, support for VHD disk images, networking improvements,  and 64-bit guest support, but more significant was VirtualBox 2.1. <a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjkzOA" target="_blank">VirtualBox  2.1</a> was released earlier this month and most notably it features experimental  3D acceleration via OpenGL.VDPAU:The API for XvMC, or <a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=search&q=XvMC" target="_blank">X-Video  Motion Compensation</a>, has been around for a number of years now, is riddled  with limitations, and is only able to accelerate MPEG-2 files. On modern hardware  XvMC has been of limited use, but Intel remains interested in <a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjM1Ng" target="_blank">extending  XvMC</a>. Last month though NVIDIA had introduced the <a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=search&q=VDPAU" target="_blank">Video  Decode and Presentation API for Unix</a>. VDPAU offloads the video decoding and  processing to the GPU for MPEG, H.264, VC-1, and WMV3 video files. As our <a href="http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=13109" target="_blank">VDPAU  benchmarks</a> have shown, this video API with its implementation within NVIDIA's  binary driver has done a great job at offloading HD video decoding to the GPU  and we were even able to play high definition videos on Linux using <a href="http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=13232" target="_blank">a  $20 CPU and $30 GPU</a>. VDPAU is less than two months old but there are patches out there  for FFmpeg, MPlayer, <a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Njg4Ng" target="_blank">MythTV</a>,  <a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Njk0MA" target="_blank">Xine</a>,  and <a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Njk1NA" target="_blank">VLC</a>.  VDPAU support can only be found within NVIDIA's binary driver at this time and  in 2009 it will need to compete against <a href="http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=13034" target="_blank">AMD's  X-Video Bitstream Acceleration</a> and <a href="http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=13300" target="_blank">Intel's  VA-API</a>.</blockquote>

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