In what has become an unfortunate tradition for the past few releases, prior to the release of Ubuntu 10.10, AMD provided Canonical with a pre-release of their latest proprietary Catalyst driver at the time.
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Linux 2.6.35.7
I’m announcing the release of the 2.6.35.7 kernel. This is only needed if you run Xen, there was a typo that caused problems. My fault, sorry.
Linux 2.6.36-rc6 Kernel Released
The Linux 2.6.36 kernel is just about here.
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Bringing Up Hardware First In Linux, Then Windows
After reading the Linux 2.6.37-rc3 release announcement on the Linux kernel mailing list, another interesting thread was found and it’s about getting hardware vendors to do their initial hardware bring-up under Linux prior
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Sapphire Radeon HD 6870 On Linux
In this review today at Phoronix we are testing out the Sapphire Radeon HD 6870 Vapor-X 1GB graphics card to see how this popular AMD Radeon graphics processor is performing under Linux.
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Have yourself a very Linux Christmas
Whether you cut your teeth downloading Linux 0.x source code or you want to give Linux a try for the first time, we’ve got presents for you.
What do you get for the Linux lover in your life?
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How to test if a laptop is working with Linux
One interesting observation is that Ubuntu Lucid has almost twice the framerate than RHEL6 with glxgears. No idea why.
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Removing the big kernel lock.
Yesterday we delivered benchmarks showing how the open-source ATI Radeon graphics driver stack in Ubuntu 10.04 is comparing to older releases of the proprietary ATI Catalyst Linux driver. Sadly, the latest open-source ATI driver still is no match even for a two or four-year-old proprietary driver from ATI/AMD, but that is with the classic Mesa DRI driver.
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Not All Chrome Glisters
Because Chrome OS is open source, it has been available for people to explore for some time, which means that it’s not really possible for any elements of it to be a surprise, rather deflating any attempt to launch it in the traditional sense.
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Notes on Linux: Linux Audio Blog #9
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Stable kernels 2.6.36.3 and 2.6.32.28
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The GPL/LGPL App Store For Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, BSD, and Solaris
What if someone ported a graphical version of Apt and/or Yum to the two propri
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