February 9, 2010
17:26
David Airlie has re-based his drm-radeon-testing tree and there's now a whole lot of new code and features that users can play with and test. The drm-radeon-testing tree is a branch of the Linux kernel and is code for the Radeon DRM area that will ultimately make it into the mainline tree in the Linux 2.6.34 kernel series and later. To be found in drm-radeon-testing right now is new I2C code that supports the hardware I2C engines found on Radeon graphics cards and exposes it to user-space, a PLL algorithm rework, DRM power management support, basic Evergreen "R800" KMS support, and various other fixes and new additions. Like the recent R800 Evergreen in xf86-video-ati DDX support, the kernel mode-setting support lacks IRQ and any acceleration (2D, 3D, X-Video) support at this time for these Radeon HD 5000 series products...


Author: Phoronix 
17:10
As we alluded to last week, we have been in the process of benchmarking many Radeon HD 2000/3000/4000 series graphics cards using the open-source ATI Linux graphics stack with the Mesa R600/700 DRI driver. We have now carried out our first batch of R600/700 3D tests using this constantly evolving open-source driver to provide OpenGL acceleration and here are the results.


Author: Phoronix 
16:43
@firusvg Your best bet would actually be Android. Anything other than that would be too resource intensive. New computer would be better.
Author: ddevine 
14:27
Norwegian study shows #OOXML! unsuitable for their government. Hopefully they follow Denmark and use #ODF. Hope it works out.
Author: ddevine 
09:55
Author: OS News 
Comment by DDevine 5 hours ago
I thought this might be the case. Not that I am really one to defend Microsoft. Everybody knows XP sucks and does not have the built-in infrastructure to effectively monitor hardware status.
09:34
Author: OS News 
08:29
Google's Nexus One Android phone is selling at a much slower rate than the Droid, according to a research firm -- but happy customers include Linux creator Linus Torvalds, who endorsed the phone. Last week, meanwhile, the Torvalds-directed Kernel.org announced that Android code has been deleted from the Linux kernel....
Author: Linux Devices 
Comment by DDevine 4 hours ago
Just go read Linus's blog at http://torvalds-family.blogspot.com.

The Nexus One is a clear hit. If it can impress Linus (he seems to be the same as me in terms of phones) then I wonder if I would like it too. I think I would rather a Maemo device.
07:38
Author: OS News 
Comment by DDevine 4 hours ago
It's kinda cool except the market really isn't there because people are too stupid to understand it.
Just use a thing called a "docking station".
05:38
Author: OS News 
01:54
With state trackers emerging for the Gallium3D driver architecture to provide acceleration for a range of APIs from OpenGL ES and OpenVG to OpenGL and OpenCL, we knew it was likely that at some point there would be support for Microsoft's DirectX API. There was even a rumor of Tungsten Graphics already having a working DirectX state tracker...


Author: Phoronix 
Comment by DDevine 4 hours ago
Hell yeah.
February 8, 2010
23:23
Author: OS News 
Comment by DDevine 4 hours ago
Mono crap, but its good to have a fully free alternative. People need to stop pirating PhotoShop just to crop pictures.
17:21
Just requested a #storytlr feature request for #wiki functionality. This will make adding static content such as articles and guides easy!
Author: ddevine 
11:17

There's plenty of ways to introduce subtle bugs into your code that give you a hard time finding and fixing. In this post I'd like to introduce you to malloc_debug, a heap implementation with added debug helpers, and outline how it can be used to find some of these problems.

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Author: Haiku OS 
05:11
Author: OS News 
Comment by DDevine 1 day ago
LOL!
February 7, 2010
14:58
KFC: The Better Way to Fly.
Author: ddevine 
02:05
Peter Hutterer has put out a new release candidate for X Server 1.7.5, which also marks this point release as being just about complete. There are still two weeks left before the 1.7.5 release is expected to be made and then after that we still may see X.Org Server 1.7.6...


Author: Phoronix 
Comment by DDevine 1 day ago
The young Aussie has been keeping X releases on schedule. Awesome.
February 6, 2010
13:00
#Linux compatible #3D game based on the awesome #Unigine engine coming out! http://unigine.com/press-releases/100205-primal_carnage/ Cool!
Author: ddevine 
09:46
Author: OS News 
Comment by DDevine 3 days ago
"17-Year-Old *Windows* Bug"
09:34

Hey, that rhymes even! :P Lesson 4 is now out. Decision-making and repeating instructions are on the agenda for this one, expanding the repetoire of basic skills for writing code. Learning to Program With Haiku, Lesson 4.

Author: Darkwyrm: Haiku 
09:28
Author: OS News 
08:24
Author: OS News 
Comment by DDevine 3 days ago
LOL! Fail.
07:50
Author: OS News 
Comment by DDevine 3 days ago
Now I'm interested. As soon as a compiler or OS can self host it become relevant to me.

I first tried Haiku when I heard it was GCC 4 capable and self hosting.
07:41
Author: OS News 
Comment by DDevine 3 days ago
I am yet to run across a Silverlight application in the wild...
06:13
ARM Holdings announced that more than 1.3 billion chips based on its designs were sold during the fourth quarter of 2009. Reporting better-than-expected financial results, the company added that it's signing up licensees for three new designs, code-named & Eagle,& & Heron,& and & Merlin.& ...
Author: Linux Devices 
04:20
Intel has signed an agreement to acquire Virtutech, and Intel subsidiary Wind River will add the Virtutech product line, including its Simics virtualization and simulation software, to an embedded software product portfolio that already includes Wind River Linux. Intel's acquisition of Virtutech is expected to close this quarter, says Wind River....
Author: Linux Devices 
Comment by DDevine 3 days ago
Mobile virtualisation ahoy! They would be competing against VMware and OKL4.
01:14
We have just received official word from Unigine that they still are not ready to release their OpenGL Linux version of their Unigine Heaven benchmark. "Unfortunately we were asked by a hardware vendor not to release current version :(," said Denis Shergin, the Unigine Corp CEO...


Author: Phoronix 
Comment by DDevine 3 days ago
*Sigh*
Comment by DDevine 3 days ago
Yay a Unigine Linux game (not from Unigine) is coming out!
00:46
There seems to be no #awesome-wm package for !fedora. WTF!?!?!
Author: ddevine 
00:39
@fabsh BTW, if a phone supports Exchange it should integrate fully with Zimbra!
Author: ddevine 
00:35
I feel like giving #awesome wm a go. It's time.
Author: ddevine 
February 5, 2010
17:25
@cyberkiller 32Bit LibGL can be a pain in the ass to sort out if you use #Wine for games. The 64bit NVIDIA driver only installs 64bit LibGL.
Author: ddevine 
17:17
11:24
@pizzagirl I'm on a boat.
Author: ddevine 
09:41
Author: OS News 
Comment by DDevine 4 days ago
But at the same price Joe Sixpack would almost certainly go for the one he has actually heard of.
It would be good to have the iPad's guts in the JooJoo's box (plus 3G) running Linux.
09:13
Author: OS News 
09:12
Author: OS News 
08:16
@mmuman I wish I could see the alt-os talks but I am not even in the same country as the conference...
Author: ddevine 
08:15
@mtah Build your own! Use a router distro and a computer with two NICs. Just get whatever modem your ISP supports and a switch.
Author: ddevine 
06:48
Author: OS News 
03:18
Author: OS News 
Comment by DDevine 4 days ago
OK, so this "problem" is fixed and now they can get onto fixing real stuff like migrating to 24bpp or something that professionals can use.
00:01
While the Linux community is still waiting on the native Linux release of the OpenGL3-using Unigine Heaven tech demo with its heavenly graphics (it's being held off by a bugged ATI Catalyst driver), the core developers working on this advanced game engine continue adding in new features. One of the latest features added into this proprietary engine is physical destruction with a destructible body type currently offering three destruction patterns...


Author: Phoronix 
Comment by DDevine 4 days ago
Unigine is great (and runs on Linux of course) but there has been no good games released that use it. I hope Unigine hires a few game devs one day and does a fill title themselves.
February 4, 2010
23:45
Last week we delivered our first Linux benchmarks of Intel's Core i3 Clarkdale processor with a variety of computational tests through the Phoronix Test Suite. While the Core i3 packs a nice performance punch, that is not all it has to offer. Also found on the Clarkdale (and mobile Arrandale) processors is an integrated 45nm graphics processor that is supposed to offer a decent level of performance in comparison to earlier Intel IGPs normally found on the motherboard's Chipset. In this article are these first Intel benchmarks for the Clarkdale graphics processor as we see how its open-source Intel driver stack compares to that of AMD with their open-source Radeon stack up through the Radeon R700 series.


Author: Phoronix 
20:10
Author: OS News 
16:08
#limit280 #limit300 or even #limit420 but I definitely think that a comment expanding syntax ('+' on the 141st char) would work better.
Author: ddevine 
15:42
Go to http://status.net/2010/02/03/poll-character-limit-on-identi-ca to vote on identi.ca's character limit!
Author: ddevine 
15:19
Perhaps a check-box could be added which would force your message to be twitter compatible?
Author: ddevine 
15:18
I think that a #limit300 would be good. Then then there would be "micro-blogs" and not "micro-sentences". Twitter compat would break though.
Author: ddevine 
10:38
Oops, I screwed up a firewall on a remote machine, and now I am locked out. #linux
Author: ddevine 
10:13
Author: OS News 
Comment by DDevine 5 days ago
It's still an ugly beast...