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Mini-ITX board offers latest Core processors

Portwell announced a Mini-ITX board designed to accept Intel's & Sandy Bridge& Core i3, i5, or i7 processors. The WADE-8012 supports up to 8GB of DDR3 memory, has six SATA ports and three video outputs, and provides two gigabit Ethernet ports, according to the company....

AMD Fusion E-350 Linux Performance

By now you have likely seen the AMD Fusion E-350 APU showcased on a number of Windows web-sites, but how is this AMD Accelerated Processor working in the Linux world? At Phoronix today are the first in-depth Ubuntu Linux benchmarks being published from this promising, low-power solution designed to compete with Intel's Atom.

Aligning SSD Partitions

  • Linux Magazine » Channels (Posted by bob on Mar 16, 2011 8:22 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Linux
Do you have a brand new SSD? Do you plan to partition it? Let's talk about the best way to set up your SSD so partitions -- and the resulting file systems -- align on page boundaries, thus improving performance and minimizing the number of rewrite cycles.

Microsoft Is Said to Pay Nokia More Than $1 Billion in Deal

  • Bloomberg; By Dina Bass (Posted by bob on Mar 9, 2011 2:37 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Microsoft
Microsoft Corp. will pay Nokia Oyj more than $1 billion to promote and develop Windows-based handsets as part of their smartphone software agreement, according to two people with knowledge of the terms.

Tutorial: Easy Linux File-sharing With WebDav

  • LinuxPlanet (Posted by bob on Mar 8, 2011 12:13 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Linux; Story Type: News Story
You don't need some big fancy expensive groupware suite for simple file sharing; just set up a good stout Linux server with WebDav and be done with it. No muss, no fuss.

FreeBSD and PC-BSD Release New Versions

  • Linux Journal (Posted by bob on Mar 7, 2011 11:02 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Linux
The FreeBSD project announced the release of versions 8.2 and 7.4 on February 24. Both bring lots of new features and bug fixes. FreeBSD can be run on a large variety of architectures and is still considered one of the most stable and hardened systems available.

Background: German Foreign Office drops Linux

  • h-online; By Oliver Diedrich (Posted by bob on Feb 23, 2011 10:06 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Microsoft
The German Foreign Office will migrate its desktop computers from Linux back to Windows. However, no truly compelling reasons for the decision appear to exist.

Various German Foreign Office documents leaked, for instance, to netzpolitik.org, and then in part published, demonstrate that the German Foreign Office has no compelling reasons for its recent decision to migrate its desktop and notebook computers from Linux back to Windows.

On-the-fly Data Compression for SSD's

  • Linux Magazine (Posted by bob on Feb 23, 2011 9:09 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Linux
The key to good SSD performance is the controller. One SSD controller that has received good reviews is the SandForce SF-1200. However, a recent test of a SF-1200 SSD reveals some interesting things about what this controller does and just how it does it. Depending upon your point of view and, radically, your data, performance can be amazing. Continue reading →

Opinion: 20 Linux Misconceptions That Must Die

  • Datamation; By Matt Hartley (Posted by bob on Feb 23, 2011 6:04 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Editorial; Groups: Linux
New Linux users still, after all these years, think it should be a free Windows clone. Well it's not. Matt Hartley presents 20 new user misconceptions that need to die once and for all.

Fluxbox 1.3 Released

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Feb 21, 2011 3:28 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Fluxbox, the X window manager derived from Blackbox, has reached version 1.3...

Enough with the Apple AppStore apathy

Open sourcers unite! Open...and Shut Microsoft used to be the bête noire of open-source advocates, riling freedom-loving software developers with its sometimes anti-competitive behavior.…

News: Linux Supercomputer is a Contestant on Jeopardy

Who is smarter, Linux or people? IBM's SUSE Linux powered supercomputer Watson faces off against human contestants on the TV game show "Jeopardy".

Oh Nokia, We Loved You So...

  • Linux Journal (Posted by bob on Feb 11, 2011 6:25 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Linux
Nokia, we invited you into our house. We let you put your feet on the coffee table.  And yet this is how you treat us? Heck, we even tolerated the resistive screen on the N900, because it was a full blown Linux computer. We even put MeeGo on the cover of our March issue, and now you decide to defect to the dark side? Oh, Nokia... more>>

Nouveau Fermi Acceleration Merged Into X Driver

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Jan 17, 2011 3:49 AM EDT)
  • Groups: Linux; Story Type: News Story
The Nouveau (and PathScale) developers working on reverse-engineering the NVIDIA Linux binary driver in turn to write a free software driver with 2D/3D acceleration for all of NVIDIA's graphics processors, have another accomplishment under their belt today. They've now merged the NVC0 (a.k.a. "Fermi") acceleration support into the xf86-video-nouveau DDX driver...

Unigine Engine Ported To Android Phones, Tablets

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Jan 16, 2011 9:53 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Linux; Story Type: News Story
The Unigine Engine, which is developed by the Linux-friendly Unigine Corp and is known as providing the most advanced and demanding OpenGL Linux game engine at this time, has been ported to run on tablet computers and smart-phones running Google's Android operating system. Wow...

Can DragonFly's HAMMER Compete With Btrfs, ZFS?

The most common Linux file-systems we talk about at Phoronix are of course Btrfs and EXT4 while the ZFS file-system, which is available on Linux as a FUSE (user-space) module or via a recent kernel module port, gets mentioned a fair amount too. When it comes to the FreeBSD and PC-BSD operating systems, ZFS is looked upon as the superior, next-generation option that is available to BSD users. However, with the DragonFlyBSD operating system there is another option: HAMMER. In this article we are seeing how the performance of this original creation within the DragonFlyBSD project competes with ZFS, UFS, EXT3, EXT4, and Btrfs.

Create an IBM Cloud instance with the Linux command line

  • IBM developerWorks : Linux (Posted by bob on Jan 6, 2011 9:03 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: IBM, Linux
Learn how to use the command line from Linux to create an instance in the IBM Smart Business Development and Test on the IBM Cloud environment. The author also shows you how to create multiple instances with a simple script.

Tutorial: More Excellent Plugins for Yum

  • LinuxPlanet (Posted by bob on Jan 4, 2011 9:54 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Last week we learned that Yum supports a robust ecosystem of plugins, and how to find and manage them. Today we look at some good Yum plugins for security, and managing package priorities.

Intel Sandy Bridge Linux Graphics? It's A Challenge

  • Phoronix; By Michael Larabel (Posted by bob on Jan 3, 2011 2:32 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Intel, Linux
This week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas (I'll be there again looking out for Linux), Intel will officially launch their next-generation Sandy Bridge micro-architecture and CPUs. The NDA though expired at midnight on these first CPUs so there is now a stream of reviews coming out. Is there any Linux graphics test results for the Core i5 2500K and Core i7 2600K? Unfortunately, there is not...

Amazon EC2 Micro: Barely Faster Than A Nokia N900?

In December we published our first set of Amazon EC2 benchmarks for their Elastic Compute Cloud using Ubuntu EC2 and the different instances that were compatible. Now though we are in the process of carrying out a new set of benchmarks from Amazon's cloud that not only contains more tests, but using the official Amazon Linux AMI we tested nearly every instance type. Except what is missing are the results for the "micro" (the t1.micro API name) instance. Why? It is simply too slow and irregular.

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