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Yesterday, David Recondon announced the launch of the New Open Web Foundation, a virtual place where developers must come to an agreement regarding the development and ratification of web standards. “The foundation is trying to break the trend of creating separate foundations for each specification, coming out of the realization that we could come together and generalize our efforts,” says the official statement released by the
supporting group.

Some of the companies that decided to enter the foundation and join their creative forces in order to decrease efforts and add-up their capabilities are BBC, Facebook, Google, MySpace, Yahoo!. Although the organization has more interest in going unnoticed, the great names that back it up will make it be in the center of attention.

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The Phoronix Media team proudly announced, in a press release, the latest and stable version of their Phoronix Test Suite, the best Linux-based benchmarking and testing platform for software and hardware validation. “With over 50 test profiles and 23 test suites, the Phoronix Test Suite offers unparalleled benchmarking for the Linux OS and can effectively gauge a computer’s performance from video gaming to file encryption to audio-video encoding tasks.”

Highlights of Phoronix Test Suite 1.0.0:

• 23 test suites;
• 57 test profiles;
• Installed software and hardware components are automatically detected;
• All tests are written in a standardized and documented XML-based specification;
• Multiple test support;
• Tests can be automatically installed;
• Batch testing support;
• Unified system (thermal, voltage, fan speed) monitoring while tests are running;
• Automatic control of screensaver and power management;
• Test results can be compared side-by-side;
• Test results have integrated visual graphing support;
• Online results repository via PTS Global;
• The test profiles are directly compatible with many Linux distributions and architectures.

“The overall flexibility and usability of the Phoronix Test Suite makes it easy to create complex testing configurations and still have the results presented in a readable and understandable fashion”, said Andrew Schofield, Phoronix Test Suite developer.

Source : news.softpedia.com

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Parted Magic bisa diidentikkan dengan Partition Magic di Microsoft Windows

Anda biasa menggunakan partition magic di lingkungan windows maka tidak akan asing dengan Distro Linux satu ini karena program bawaannya yaitu GParted 0.3.7 tampilan GUI hampir mirip/identik dengan Partition Magic.

Detil paket program yang disertakan dalam Parted Magic 2.2 seperti dilansir oleh SoftPedia (08/05/2008) adalah :
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