March 11, 2010
00:50
MEN Micro announced a COM (computer-on-module) employing its own ESMexpress format along with Intel's Atom Z5xxP or PT processors. The XM1L has up to 2GB of soldered-on RAM plus a SATA port, uses less than seven watts, operates from -40 to 185 deg. F, and withstands shocks up to 15G, the company says....
Author: Linux Devices 
March 10, 2010
20:00
Fedora 13 Alpha was released yesterday with a plethora of new features and updated packages for this Red Hat Linux distribution. Aside from the features like Btrfs system rollback support and PolicyKit One support for Qt/KDE applications to excite end-users, each Fedora release always pulls in the very latest Linux graphics code. Fedora was the first distribution shipping with the Nouveau driver, then its KMS driver, and now with Fedora 13 it's the first OS deploying Nouveau's Gallium3D driver (there's benchmarks behind that link). Fedora 13 is also carrying the latest packages for the unreleased X Server 1.8, DisplayPort monitor support for more graphics cards, the latest ATI driver code from the xf86-video-ati DDX to the in-development DRM, and then there is the very latest Intel work too. To get an idea for the direction that the Intel 3D support is heading in this release, we have carried out a few quick OpenGL benchmarks.

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Author: Phoronix 
17:26
It's a pity that the customer I work for has to use #OOXML instead of #ODF because it is an expensive process to convert XML-FO to Word...
Author: ddevine 
17:16
openclipart.org - an open clipart library which does not suck!... The Aiki Framework (PHP) looks interesting too. #clipart #office #cc
Author: ddevine 
16:01
@chicagonpg Except Intrepid they are pretty much all horrible, especially when compared to #Fedora past themes.Solar is the best theme ever!
Author: ddevine 
Comment by DDevine 11 hours ago
Once again, XKCD says what I am thinking.
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Comment by DDevine 12 hours ago
It seems they start at $90k.
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Haiku OS, the nine year old project to develop an open-source BeOS-compatible operating system, is hoping it will receive a new OpenGL stack this year. The Haiku project, like X.Org, will be participating in this year's Google Summer of Code project where the search engine giant pays many student developers to work on code for various open-source projects. There's a long list of ideas for where Haiku OS could use some help, and one of them includes a hardware 3D acceleration stack...


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09:32
Portwell announced a network appliance using Freescale's PowerPC-based, 45nm-fabricated QorIQ system-on-chip. The Linux-ready, 1U rackmount & CAK-2000& offers a dual-core QorIQ P2020, clocked to 1.2 GHz and equipped with an integrated security engine, and also provides up to 4GB DDR3 RAM and six gigabit Ethernet ports....
Author: Linux Devices 
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07:19
GE Intelligent Platforms announced a rugged COM Express module with an Intel Core 2 Duo CPU. The Linux-ready bCOM2-L1100 offers soldered processors and memory, shock and vibration protection, an extended temperature version, RAID support, and an optional carrier board, the company says....
Author: Linux Devices 
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Comment by DDevine 19 hours ago
*sigh*... Gimps.
March 9, 2010
17:14
The Linux Format subscription thing looks awesome. http://www.tuxradar.com/subscribe - a use for my tax return?
Author: ddevine 
17:11
!linux 2.6.34RC1 - 6500+ files changed, 400,000+ lines added, ~175,000 lines deleted. ~850 developers according to Linus's email.
Author: ddevine 
17:01
@fabsh How long have you been up?
Author: ddevine 
17:00
Through Phoromatic you can easily build a benchmarking test farm with minimal effort and combined with Phoromatic Tracker you can monitor the performance of a given software or hardware component over the course of time. We used our own tools to launch a Linux kernel tracker that monitors the performance of the very latest Linux kernel code on a daily basis at kernel-tracker.phoromatic.com. We are also announcing another new, important public tracker coming soon, but first off, we needed a few more low-powered Intel Atom systems. We ended up purchasing two MSI Wind Box NetTops (the 6667BB-003US and 6667BB-004US) that are both based around an Intel Atom 330 dual-core processor within a very low-profile enclosure. The MSI 6667BB-003US utilizes Intel GMA 950 graphics while the 6667BB-004US boasts an ATI Radeon HD 4330 graphics processor. Here is our Linux look at these two Intel nettop computers.


Author: Phoronix 
14:35
There wasn't any issues that indicated the router - but I rebooted it and guess what...
Author: ddevine 
14:32
My webserver has stopped serving web! Appears to be the ISP screwing with things.
Author: ddevine 
10:26
@fabsh I reckon! I had to drag myself out of bed to get to work at 10am.
Author: ddevine 
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Comment by DDevine 1 day ago
Lack of direct access to the lower level systems and hardware is my main gripe with Android - but this appears to be being slowly fixed. Maemo/Meego still looks better to me.
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Author: OS News 
Comment by DDevine 1 day ago
There has been a few hints of a Linux version so I haven't lost hope yet. Maybe a Linux version would be trivial to make if they have designed the Mac client to be more of a "Unix Client" in a Nvidia-esque fashion.
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Back in December we shared that a dinosaur game is coming to Linux known as Primal Carnage and it's using the Unigine engine. The Unigine engine is the most advanced game engine that we have seen available for Linux that offers incredible OpenGL graphics now with their Unigine Sanctuary and Tropics tests and also coming soon with Heaven and its OpenGL 3.2 renderer...


Author: Phoronix 
Comment by DDevine 1 day ago
Lets hope that ATi (proprietary) doesn't spoil things.
March 8, 2010
22:33
Xfce, LXDE, and other desktop environments are often referenced as being lighter-eight Linux desktop environments than KDE and GNOME, but what are the measurable performance differences between them? Curious how much of a quantitative impact the GNOME, KDE, Xfce, and LXDE desktops have on netbook systems, we carried out a small set of tests to look at the differences in memory usage, battery power consumption, and thermal performance.


Author: Phoronix 
17:59
Impulse bought something off DealExtreme for my girlfriend. http://ur1.ca/oqyo She never reads my site or my identica so still surprise!
Author: ddevine 
17:39
"2.6 kernel/Gentoo release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux". WTF? Think government needs some help with this !Linux thing? http://is.gd/9Wgg3
Author: ddevine 
17:10
@sirpengi I have been on F11 for quite a while, I only upgraded to F12 a month ago... and now F13 is almost here.
Author: ddevine 
07:47
There's a few months left until it's summertime in the northern hemisphere, but Google is already preparing for their annual Summer of Code (SoC) project as are their projects involved. X.Org will once again be part of the Summer of Code program where Google pays various student developers to work on different free software projects...


Author: Phoronix 
Comment by DDevine 2 days ago
It would be cool to see the smaller OS projects collaborating in the GSOC projects. That way Haiku and Hurd can push Gallium3D better because they can compare notes.
March 7, 2010
05:34
This week NVIDIA had to pull its latest WHQL-certified graphics drivers on Windows due to a bug that would cause the fan controller to not respond correctly to the current conditions of the GPU workload and in some cases would even turn the GPU's fan off. This bug could potentially kill the NVIDIA graphics card due to overheating...


Author: Phoronix 
Comment by DDevine 2 days ago
I have not read the article yet, but I recall hearing the same problem recently happening on Windows. NVIDIA's code base is over 70% shared between Linux and Windows.
March 6, 2010
11:56

There have been quite a few comments on people being excited about when these start addressing the Haiku API, so I'm going to speed things up a bit. I originally planned on calling this week a Buy One, Get One Free week, but that won't fit now. Why? I had planned on publishing review questions after Lesson #5, but I must have forgotten to upload them, so I'm making them available along with Lessons 8 and 9 and the questions for review after Lesson 9 has been completed. Here they are in order. Enjoy!

Author: Darkwyrm: Haiku 
March 5, 2010
22:38

It's not just Stippi's project that's a huge success (see the
WebKit/Web+ progress documented in his
blog posts
). Our call for donations for this kind of contractual
work is also doing very well!
In the two weeks since our announcement to hire developers for specific
projects, donations have picked up significantly. Since then we
received over $1,600USD and a few more people opting for small but
recurrent monthly funding.

Our thanks go out to all contributors! This shows that our Haiku
community is strong and effective when called upon!

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Author: Haiku OS 
17:11
Following the very heated kernel DRM discussion that came about as the result of a major interface break in the Nouveau DRM code, David Airlie has asked on the Nouveau mailing list about potentially releasing Nouveau 1.0.0. Right now the Nouveau interface is at 0.0.16 and is wondering if developers will accept just renaming the current code to version 1.0.0. This proposal is being considered so that all old user-space compatibility is gone, there is no more user-space mode-setting to support (the code is already removed), and so that there can finally be an officially released version that Linux distributions can utilize and support...


Author: Phoronix 
16:42
PC-BSD 8.0 was released last week and while we have already delivered FreeBSD 8.0 benchmarks including against Debian GNU/kFreeBSD and Fedora / Debian / OpenBSD / OpenSolaris for which PC-BSD is based, we took this opportunity to deliver a fresh set of *BSD benchmarks. In this article we have benchmarks of PC-BSD 8.0 x64 against Kubuntu 9.10 x86_64.


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Comment by DDevine 2 days ago
It's a shame that UFS sucks so much, else FreeBSD would have had much more success against Linux. I'm surprised Kubuntu could even run all of the tests actually, given its' buggyness.
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Author: OS News 
Comment by DDevine 4 days ago
Apple is getting eviler by the week. Microsoft certainly looks like a nice friend compared to Apple.
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Author: OS News 
March 4, 2010
23:12
Author: OS News 
20:34
@techwizrd Do you need to !group !spam !so !much ?
Author: ddevine 
20:31
Just when I thought #Ubuntu couldn't get any sillier, they made their theme uglier and thier desktop worse.
Author: ddevine 
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Author: OS News 
04:00
From right to left: Scott, Bruno and myself (the three Haiku stooges?) at the Hollywood Walk of Fame. From right to left: Scott, Bruno and myself (the three Haiku stooges?) at the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

The Southern California Linux Expo – or the SCaLE show as it is also widely known – was the very first mainstream open source conference that Haiku exhibited at. This was back in February of 2007, when Michael Phipps, Axel Dorfler, Bruno G. Albuquerque and myself gathered in LA to show Haiku to the world for the first time (photos here). Following the once a year tradition that SCaLE has become since then, Bruno G. Albuquerque, Scott McCreary and myself gathered to represent Haiku at the SCaLE 2010 conference, recently held in Los Angeles on the weekend of February 20th and 21st.

On Saturday morning, the three of us gathered on the exhibit floor at around 9:00AM, one hour before the exhibition was scheduled to open to the public. This gave us plenty of time to prepare the booth, especially because we had already setup the projector screen on the backwall the evening before. We placed the HAIKU table runner over the 7 feet long table that we had at the booth, and then laid out – from left to right – Scott's AMD dual core laptop, my small cube-sized Intel dual core desktop hooked to a projector, and an 8-core laptop that belonged to Bruno's girlfriend. As handouts, we had the new Haiku flier as well as 50 alpha 1 CDs that Scott had burned on Lightscribe media.

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Author: Haiku OS 
02:33
Archos announced two low-cost, WiFi-enabled tablets that run Android on a 600MHz ARM9 processor. The Archos 7 Home Tablet offers a seven-inch touchscreen and is designed for mobile use, while the eight-inch Archos 8 Home Tablet is designed for fixed kitchen-computer and digital picture frame (DPF) duties, says the company....
Author: Linux Devices 
Comment by DDevine 4 days ago
Here we go!
The SmartQ v5/7 are cheaper but Archos has a better community. I'll keep an eye on this.
March 3, 2010
15:00