VIA Shows Us Next-Gen Hardware Results, Info
The S3 Chrome 600 series / VIA VT3456 (VX11) still hasn’t been officially announced, but here are some benchmarks of the forthcoming chipset from a VIA Nano quad-core system…
KDE Software Compilation 4.8 Officially Released
KDE e.V. and the developers behind the KDE project has proudly announced a few minutes ago, January 25th, the final and stable release of the highly anticipated KDE Software Compilation 4.8 environment.
TI ships Linux-ready DLP eval module for pico projectors
Texas Instruments announced a Linux-based evaluation module featuring the digital light processing technology from its DLP Pico Projectors. The DLP LightCrafter combines an ARM9-based, 300MHz DaVinci TMS320DM365 processor, a 20-lumen RGB LED light engine and projector, as well as TI’s 0.3-inch, WVGA DLP chipset, enabling up to 4000 binary patterns per second, says TI….
Martin Odersky on Scala
Dr Dobb’s talks with Martin Odersky, designer of the Scala Language, about the latest developments and directions in this increasingly popular language.
This week at LWN: LCA: Addressing the failure of open source
Bruce Perens wore a suit and tie for his linux.conf.au 2012 keynote for a reason, he said: it reflects our community’s need to think more about how it appears to the rest of the world. Despite our many successes, he said, we have failed to achieve the goals that our community set for itself many years ago. We have failed to engage and educate our users, and are finding ourselves pulled into an increasingly constrained world. To get out of this mess, we will have to make some changes – and expand our scope beyond software and culture.
Did Linus Jump the Gun on a Kernel security fix?
"On January 17th, Linus Torvalds committed a patch to the mainline Linux kernel for a memory handling flaw. As it turns out the flaw was exploited quickly once Torvalds put out the patch with a proof of concept emerging rapidly. So what’s the problem with this picture?
NVIDIA Talks Of Optimus Possibilities For Linux
A NVIDIA Linux engineer is trying to work on code that could lead to official Optimus support under Linux, but there’s a catch… And it falls outside of NVIDIA Corp as the fate of this multi-GPU notebook feature could now fall with the Linux kernel developers…
Creating Your Own Distributable Ubuntu DVD (Relinux)
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Creating Your Own Distributable Ubuntu DVD (Relinux)
KDE 4.8 Released, New Features And Improvements
The KDE project has announced the release of KDE 4.8 which provides major updates to KDE Plasma Workspaces, KDE Applications, and the KDE Platform.
Graphics hardware in $25 Raspberry Pi Linux box outperforms iPhone 4S GPU
The board is built around the Broadcom BCM2835 chipset, which is designed to handle intensive multimedia. In a recent interview, Raspberry Pi founder Eben Upton claimed that the Broadcom graphics hardware in the Raspberry Pi offers twice the performance of the iPhone 4S GPU and soundly beats NVIDIA’s Tegra 2. Upton worked for Broadcom on the team that developed the hardware.