AtomBOB suggests a Phoronix review comparing the performance of a Quadro graphics card on Windows Vista Ultimate, Solaris Express Developer, and Ubuntu Linux. The graphics card used was a NVIDIA Quadro FX 1700 mid-range workstation part. The cross-platform benchmark used was SPECViewPerf 9.0 from SPEC. Quoting Phoronix: “Using the Quadro FX1700 512MB and the latest display drivers, Windows Vista wasn’t the decisive winner, but the loser… Ubuntu 8.04 Alpha 5 with the 169.12 driver had overall produced the fastest results within SPECViewPerf. In only three benchmarks had Solaris Express Developer 1/08 outpaced Ubuntu Linux, but with two of these tests the results were almost identical.”"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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About LyX
A document processor that encourages an approach to writing based on the structure of your documents, not their appearance. It is released under a Free Software / Open Source license.

LyX is for people that write and want their writing to look great, right out of the box. No more endless tinkering with formatting details, ‘finger painting’ font attributes or futzing around with page boundaries. You just write. In the background, Prof. Knuth’s legendary TeX typesetting engine makes you look good.

On screen, LyX looks like any word processor; its printed output — or richly cross-referenced PDF, just as readily produced — looks like nothing else. Gone are the days of industrially bland .docs, all looking similarly not-quite-right, yet coming out unpredictably different on different printer drivers. Gone are the crashes ‘eating’ your dissertation the evening before going to press.

LyX is stable and fully featured. It is a multi-platform, fully internationalized application.

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About MySQL
The world’s most popular open source database. Its architecture makes it extremely fast and easy to customize. Extensive reuse of code within the software and a minimalistic approach to producing functionally-rich features has resulted in a database management system unmatched in speed, compactness, stability, and ease of deployment. The unique separation of the core server from the storage engine makes it possible to run with strict transaction control or with ultra-fast transactionless disk access, whichever is most appropriate for the situation.

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About BitNami Joomla! Stack
An open source installer that eases the task of getting the the Joomla! Content Management System up and running. It includes Apache, MySQL, PHP and all required libraries for Joomla! to run. Joomla! creates multiple format sites from simple websites to complex corporate applications and allows users to manage each aspect of their website through a simple, browser-based interface. Once Joomla! is up and running, users with basic word processing skills can add or edit content, update images, and to manage the critical data. Joomla! also allows developers to create and include add-ons to further customize their site.

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About Molecular Workbench
Software offers interactive, visual simulations that have been widely used to teach science and engineering. As a free, open-source and extensible modeling platform, it provides not only a powerful environment for creating interactive simulations (including molecular simulations, mechanical simulations and discrete-element simulations), but also an easy-to-use authoring tool for building user interfaces and writing guided activities. In addition, it is equipped with a report and assessment system for collecting data and measuring learning with models and simulations. All these functionalities are seamlessly integrated under a simple user interface, which makes the sum of many difficult tasks orders of magnitude easier than they used to be for educators.

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About BZFlagA free Open Source OpenGL multiplayer multiplatform network 3D tank battle game. You can play against opponents from all around the world or on a local network, with friends. There are many playing styles and game maps, with a plethora of flags, weapons, and worlds to play in.

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