• Dual-core Android phones from LG and Samsung break cover

    Updated: 2010-11-30 20:41:52
    More photos have been posted of an & LG Star,& rumored to be the first Android smartphone to offer a dual-core Nvidia Tegra 2 processor. Meanwhile, a more imminent LG Androider called the LU3000 has been tipped in South Korea, and the FCC has posted details on two Samsung Android phones, one of which appears to be the rumored Nexus S....

  • x86 servers move forward despite power concerns

    Updated: 2010-11-30 18:13:59
    Enterprises looking for more energy-efficient server platforms shouldn't look to AMD's upcoming & Bobcat& architecture -- at least not yet, according to an AMD executive blog. Meanwhile, x86 servers are increasingly being adopted instead of high-end RISC- or Itanium-powered alternatives, says Gartner....

  • OpenSky Blog: Inheritance in PHP, or why you want to use an Interface or an Abstract class...

    Updated: 2010-11-30 17:09:17
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  • Fast-boot OS offered in free browser-only version

    Updated: 2010-11-30 16:39:08
    Splashtop Inc. (formerly DeviceVM) released the first downloadable version of its Linux-based Splashtop instant-on companion operating system for Windows, and also signed a deal with Microsoft to make Bing the default search engine on all Splashtop products. Based on the Google Chromium browser, Splashtop OS (beta) is billed as a lightweight, web-centric OS optimized for notebooks and netbooks....

  • Community News: PHP Unconference Europe 2011

    Updated: 2010-11-30 16:05:59
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  • Ibuildings techPortal: Using MongoDb in PHP Applications

    Updated: 2010-11-30 15:52:48
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  • Holiday Cheers and Credit Card Fears

    Updated: 2010-11-30 15:00:00
    The so-called Cyber Monday is behind us, but the online sales keep ramping up. The Wall Street Journal shows that online shoppers have spent more $1.1 billion over a two-day period, and traffic to shopping sites has been steadily up. Good for business, but also a very attractive target for attackers from inside and outside companies that deal with credit card data.

  • Kernel Prepatch 2.6.37-rc4

    Updated: 2010-11-30 15:00:00
    Linus has released the 2.6.37-rc4 prepatch. "As suspected, spending most of the week in Japan made some kernel developers break out in gleeful shouts of 'let's send Linus patches when he is jet-lagged, and see if we can confuse him even more than usual'. As a result -rc4 has about...

  • Haas: MySQL vs. PostgreSQL, Part 1: Table Organization

    Updated: 2010-11-30 15:00:00
    PostgreSQL developer Robert Haas has begun a series of articles comparing the architecture of PostgreSQL and MySQL. "So, all that having been said, what I'd like to talk about in this post is the way that MySQL and PostgreSQL store tables and indexes on disk. In PostgreSQL, table data and...

  • Kinect's Open-Source Ambitions

    Updated: 2010-11-30 15:00:00
    Kinect's role as a tinker toy for garage developers signals a change in how Microsoft is approaching openness in an otherwise closed gaming ecosystem.

  • The Vega State Tracker Gets Cleaned, OpenVG 1.1

    Updated: 2010-11-30 15:00:00
    Chia-I Wu, the developer who previously worked on the EGL state tracker, brought Mesa to Android netbooks, and allowed Nouveau to work on Wayland (and now is doing work for LunarG), has some improvements to the Vega state tracker. Namely he has cleaned up this Gallium3D state tracker for Mesa...

  • Savannah.gnu.org Compromised

    Updated: 2010-11-30 15:00:00
    The Savannah front page currently reads: "There's been a SQL injection leading to leaking of encrypted account passwords, some of them discovered by brute-force attack, leading in turn to project membership access." The site is being restored to its state as of November 3; changes committed after that date will need...

  • RubyMine Places Focus on Rails 3

    Updated: 2010-11-30 15:00:00
    JetBrains is promoting version 3.0 of its Ruby development environment RubyMine as the first IDE to support the latest version of Rails...

  • Leveraging Linux for Supercomputing

    Updated: 2010-11-30 15:00:00
    High-performance computing applications such as numerical simulation -- whether for forecasting, mechanical and structure simulation, or computational chemistry -- require a large number of CPUs for processing. To meet these needs, customers must buy a large-scale system that enables parallel processing so that the simulation can be completed in the...

  • The GNOME 3.0 Shell Is Advancing Too

    Updated: 2010-11-30 15:00:00
    Last night an update was published as to the state of Unity in Ubuntu 11.04 Alpha 1, which is the Unity desktop interface that Canonical will be using in their next Ubuntu release rather than the GNOME Shell. Most all other GNOME distributions, however, will be using the GNOME Shell...

  • GPUs Could Speed Scientific Discovery

    Updated: 2010-11-30 15:00:00
    Scientific Computing reports that the advent of GPU parallel processing and heterogeneous systems like Tianhe-1A could speed the advance of science. Such hybrids will probably take over in the future. “If we want bigger or faster machines, this is what the future looks like: undoubtedly multicore and almost undoubtedly heterogeneous...

  • Distribution Release: Vine Linux 5.2

    Updated: 2010-11-30 15:00:00
    Daisuke Suzuki has announced the release of Vine Linux 5.2, a Japanese general-purpose community distribution. This is mostly a security and errata update of the free distribution which does not contain any proprietary components, non-free applications or non-free fonts. Some of the more interesting changes include: miscellaneous package....

  • Christoph Dorn's Blog: FirePHP 1.0 in 5 Steps

    Updated: 2010-11-30 14:23:59
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  • Community News: Latest PECL Releases for 11.30.2010

    Updated: 2010-11-30 13:02:47
    Latest PECL Releases: hidef 0.1.5 inclued 0.1.2

  • Community News: Call for Papers for PHP UK Conference Ends Tonight at Midnight (GMT)!

    Updated: 2010-11-30 12:45:21
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  • Label Media Blog: Design Patterns in PHP - Strategy Pattern

    Updated: 2010-11-30 06:48:26
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  • Refrigerator features Linux touchscreen computer

    Updated: 2010-11-29 23:42:22
    The Brazilian subsidiary of Electrolux has joined with ProFusion Embedded Systems to develop a refrigerator that includes a Linux-based touchscreen computer. The Infinity I-Kitchen's computer is based on a 400MHz Freescale i.MX25 processor, offering a 800 x 480 display and an Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL) user interface....

  • Tablets putting a drag on PC sales, Gartner says

    Updated: 2010-11-29 22:06:04
    Tablets and smartphones are hampering worldwide PC sales, as is a lack of innovation, Gartner has announced. PC shipments are now expected to reach 352.4 million units in 2010 -- a 14.3 percent increase over 2009 figures, but down from the research firm's original expectation of 17.9 percent growth....

  • Advantech moves up in the industrial PC league

    Updated: 2010-11-29 21:07:56
    Advantech has surpassed Kontron to become the world's number two manufacturer of industrial PCs (IPCs), according to a report by the China Economic News Service. The company enjoyed year-on-year growth greater than 50 percent during the first ten months of this year, the report adds....

  • Linux e-reader ships with 2450-dpi pen input

    Updated: 2010-11-29 21:07:34
    Asus launched its Linux-based Asus Eee Note EA800 (previously Eee Tablet) e-reader, available now available in Taiwan for about $230 and due in the U.S. in 1Q 2011, according to various reports. The Eee Note has an eight-inch, 1024 x 768 monochrome display with Wacom touchscreen technology, permitting 2450 dots per inch (dpi) pen input....

  • Till Klampaeckel's Blog: Tracking PHP errors

    Updated: 2010-11-29 19:20:07
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  • Secure NFC platform supports Android, Linux

    Updated: 2010-11-29 18:19:37
    French near field communications (NFC) chip manufacturer Inside Contactless announced an Android- and Linux-ready NFC system-in-package for short-range wireless transactions. SecuRead integrates the company's MicroRead NFC controller and open source Open NFC protocol stack with an Infineon Technologies security controller and a GlobalPlatform-compliant Java Card OS from Giesecke Devrient, says the company....

  • Google has a problem retaining great engineers? Bullcrap.

    Updated: 2010-11-29 17:57:27
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  • Continuum phone's secondary display isn't much use, says review

    Updated: 2010-11-29 16:49:59
    Samsung's Continuum has a lot going for it, but the phone lives up to its name by essentially supplying a Samsung Fascinate, but with screen size sacrificed for a largely useless secondary ticker display, says this eWEEK review. The Continuum is said to be the latest example of Android phone manufacturers taking iteration to the extreme....

  • What's Coming in Mandriva 2011

    Updated: 2010-11-29 12:15:11
    After the wonderful news that Mandriva would be continuing as usual despite financial difficulties and an exodus of developers comes the technical specifications and other tidbits for Mandriva 2011. There are quite a few exciting changes ahead, many of which prove that Mandriva is still a cutting edge distribution. 

  • Distribution Release: Quirky 1.4

    Updated: 2010-11-29 12:15:09
    Barry Kauler has announced the release of Quirky 1.4, a mini-distribution by the founder of Puppy Linux, but built with a different toolkit: "Yes, this is an official public release. The main purpose of releasing Quirky 1.4 is to test my experimental simplified module loading and interface configuration....

  • PyPy 1.4 Released

    Updated: 2010-11-29 12:15:08
    Version 1.4 of the PyPy Python compiler is available. "This is a major breakthrough in our long journey, as PyPy 1.4 is the first PyPy release that can translate itself faster than CPython. Starting today, we are using PyPy more for our every-day development. So may you." LWN looked at...

  • Lightspark 0.4.5 With New Graphics Engine Nears

    Updated: 2010-11-29 12:15:07
    Lightspark 0.4.5 is nearing release with its new graphics engine. The release candidate for Lightspark 0.4.5 just came this Saturday, boasting this new graphics engine that more heavily leverages Cairo for graphics drawing and offloading more of the workload to the graphics processor for this free software project aiming to...

  • VA-API Support For Google Android Platform

    Updated: 2010-11-29 12:15:06
    We have been tipped off that a few VA-API patches have hit the upstream libva tree for furthering along Google's Android support for this video acceleration API. VA-API is arguably the second best video playback acceleration API available to Linux users, after the NVIDIA-created VDPAU...

  • The Performance Of Fedora Core 3 Through Fedora 14

    Updated: 2010-11-29 12:15:05
    Recently we published benchmarks of Debian with the Etch, Lenny, and Squeeze releases. This is as far back as we could benchmark before hitting the 2.4 Linux kernel and running into hardware compatibility issues and other problems, considering Debian GNU/Linux doesn't seen an official release nearly as often as Ubuntu,...

  • Installing KVM Guests With virt-install On Ubuntu 10.10 Server

    Updated: 2010-11-29 12:15:04
    Unlike virt-manager, virt-install is a command line tool that allows you to create KVM guests on a headless server. You may ask yourself: "But I can use vmbuilder to do this, why do I need virt-install?" The difference between virt-install and...

  • KWin Is Now Running On OpenGL ES 2.0

    Updated: 2010-11-29 12:15:03
    For a while we have known that KDE developers have been interested in supporting OpenGL ES 1.1/2.0 (and OpenGL 3.x) within the KWin compositing window manager as well as using more OpenGL within the Plasma Desktop and on the KWin front the developers, led by Martin Gräßlin, they have been...

  • ADeskBar Combines Ubuntu's Taskbar and Menu Bar into One Feature-Filled Dock

    Updated: 2010-11-29 12:14:48
    While Docky is still a favorite among Ubuntu users, panel replacement app ADeskBar replaces both the Menu Bar and Taskbar in Ubuntu, adding a few other features to the mix as well like quick Terminal access, stacks, and a quick search box. More raquo;...

  • Hands-On: A First Look at Diaspora's Private Alpha Test

    Updated: 2010-11-29 12:14:46
    The Diaspora project has launched a private alpha test of its open source social network. It is opening up its own hosted instance of Diaspora to a select group of testers, starting with people who contributed financial support when Diaspora was first getting off the ground. The initial group of...

  • Lorna Mitchell's Blog: 3 Ways to Access a Namespaced PHP Class

    Updated: 2010-11-29 06:49:36
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  • KDE Release Day 4.5.3 for 10.04

    Updated: 2010-11-25 08:42:43
    Packages for the release of the KDE Software Compilation 4.5.3 are available for Kubuntu 10.04. Bugs in packaging should be reported to kubuntu-ppa on Launchpad. Bugs in the software to KDE. Users of 10.04 can install it from the Kubuntu Backports PPA. To update, use the Software Repository Guide to...

  • Boxee Review: Good At One Thing, Bad At Everything Else [Video]

    Updated: 2010-11-25 08:42:42
    Theoretically, Boxee is like a cheaper Google TV that can play back every file type imaginable, as well as stream internet videos through its browser + Flash player setup. In reality, it only does one of those things well.

  • Tutorial: Troubleshooting Linux Servers

    Updated: 2010-11-25 08:42:41
    You thought you had it all working, didn't you? But then your users report slowdowns, or your logfiles are empty, or jobs don't run-- so how do you find out what's going on?

  • Xen Dom0 Support May Come Back To Fedora

    Updated: 2010-11-25 08:42:40
    With Xen Domain 0 support finally going into the mainline Linux kernel, those interested in virtualization atop Fedora are now looking at getting the Fedora Xen host support back up to speed for the next release (Fedora 15) or by the time that Fedora 16 rolls out. The Linux kernels...

  • Mini PC Has Dual-Core Atom, Ion 2

    Updated: 2010-11-25 08:42:39
    Habey USA announced an & Apple TV-style& PC that includes a dual-core Intel Atom D510 processor and an Nvidia Ion 2 GPU (graphics processing unit). The & EPC-6568& is offered today for approximately $260, but will be the subject of a Newegg.com & Black Friday& deal later this week, the...

  • Linux Touchscreen Computer Runs on Dual-Core Atom

    Updated: 2010-11-25 08:42:37
    Philadelphia-area start-up Telikin has started taking orders for a & crash-resistant& computer with an 18.6-inch touchscreen and a custom Linux stack aimed at computer novices. Apparently based on the MSI Wind Top AE1920 all-in-one PC, the $700 Telikin computer incorporates a dual-core 1.8GHz CPU, 2GB of SDRAM, a 320GB hard...

  • Unix Copyrights to Stay with Novell in Merger

    Updated: 2010-11-25 08:42:36
    Novell says it will retain the copyrights to Unix, which the company fought hard to keep over the greater part of the decade. Though the question of how that plays into the Attachmate acquisition is still up in the air.

  • Android Market Adding Content Ratings to All Apps, Past, Present, and Future

    Updated: 2010-11-25 08:42:35
    Mandatory content ratings were added to Apple's App Store back in iPhone OS 3.0, and now it's Google's turn on news that they'll become obligatory for Android developers "in a few weeks" (at least, those that want their content in the Market).

  • Shuttleworth's Ubuntu Makes like Space Shuttle

    Updated: 2010-11-25 08:42:34
    It looks like astronaut and tech magnate Mark Shuttleworth's investment in the Ubuntu commercial Linux distribution is about to pay off. Ubuntu is taking off like a rocket, and the sale of Novell to Attachmate plus the higher prices Red Hat is charging for its Enterprise...

  • Attack of the Backup: Clonezilla Linux Rampages Over Disaster Recovery

    Updated: 2010-11-25 00:41:47
    Disaster recovery and backups are the "eat your vegetables" of the IT world. Most folks just don't get excited about backups, or do it often enough. Buck the trend with Clonezilla, a Linux distribution that makes it dead easy to clone and restore systems.

  • Walmart offers $200 Black Friday notebook deal

    Updated: 2010-11-24 21:36:54
    Walmart says it will be offering a 15.6-inch notebook for under $200 in its post-Thanksgiving & Black Friday& sale. The eMachines eME528-2325 includes a 15.6-inch screen, 2GB of RAM, a 250GB hard disk drive, an HDMI output, and a DVD drive, according to the reseller....

  • Linux touchscreen computer runs on dual-core Atom

    Updated: 2010-11-24 21:14:18
    Philadelphia-area start-up Telikin has started taking orders for a & crash-resistant& computer with an 18.6-inch touchscreen and a custom Linux stack aimed at computer novices. Apparently based on the MSI Wind Top AE1920 all-in-one PC, the $700 Telikin computer incorporates a dual-core 1.8GHz CPU, 2GB of SDRAM, a 320GB hard disk drive, and four USB drives....

  • Mini PC has dual-core Atom, Ion 2

    Updated: 2010-11-24 21:10:46
    Habey USA announced an & Apple TV-style& PC that includes a dual-core Intel Atom D510 processor and an Nvidia Ion 2 GPU (graphics processing unit). The & EPC-6568& is offered today for approximately $260, but will be the subject of a Newegg.com & Black Friday& deal later this week, the company adds....

  • Toshiba spins shake-and-bake hard disk drives

    Updated: 2010-11-24 18:29:43
    Toshiba announced a pair of 2.5-inch hard disk drives it claims offer the industry's widest temperature range for 24/7 operation. Suitable for ATMs, digital surveillance, automation, and other embedded devices, the MK1060GSCX and MK8050GACY spin at 4,200rpm and offer 100GB or 80GB capacities, respectively....

  • Freedesktop.org Shenanigans

    Updated: 2010-11-24 15:00:00
    Subscribers to the xorg-devel list will have seen Luc Verhaegen's November 23 note complaining about a prank commit added to the (moribund) radeonhd tree. As he rightly noted, this kind of trick (which required root access to carry out) can only serve to compromise the community's trust in the X.org...

  • 3 FOSS PIM Apps, 3 Personality Quirks

    Updated: 2010-11-24 15:00:00
    New app choices have a habit of getting in the way of older favorites. Sometimes, a new approach or design can tempt you to give up one approach to solving a computing need by replacing it with another. That is the case with personal information manager apps. Open source software...

  • Thunderbird 3.3 Alpha Drops PowerPC Macs

    Updated: 2010-11-24 15:00:00
    Another coffin nail arrives for those with the older lineage: the Mac version of Mozilla's upcoming e-mail software will work only on Apple's newer Intel-based machines.

  • Observation: Cloud Computing is Nothing New

    Updated: 2010-11-24 15:00:00
    Cloud computing is not only the latest buzz term, it might well be the model of computing that powers the 21st century. However, it’ easy to forget that personal computing, in which each user has a standalone system that can operate without a network, is itself a relatively new approach.

  • Google Wave to Become Apache project

    Updated: 2010-11-24 15:00:00
    According to a proposal submitted by Google, Novell employees and several independent developers, some of the code base of Google's existing communication platform is to be migrated to the Apache Software Foundation...

  • Attachmate: Novell's openSUSE Project is Safe

    Updated: 2010-11-24 15:00:00
    Following the announcement that it would acquire Novell, the Attachmate Corporation has confirmed that, if the acquisition closes successfully, the openSUSE Project will continue to operate as it always has in the past...

  • OpenStreetMap Founder Joins Microsoft's Bing Maps Team

    Updated: 2010-11-24 15:00:00
    OpenStreetMap project founder Steve Coast has announced that he has joined Microsoft to work on its Bing Maps team as a Principal Architect at Bing Mobile...

  • For Google, the Browser Does It All

    Updated: 2010-11-24 15:00:00
    The company already has a browser named Chrome and the Android operating system, but it said questions would be answered when it released a netbook running the Chrome operating system.

  • Ubuntu To Turn Into A Rolling-Release Distribution?

    Updated: 2010-11-24 15:00:00
    There's been a lot of Ubuntu announcements coming down the pipe lately from ditching the GNOME Shell in favor of their own Canonical-developed Unity desktop to eventually shipping with the Wayland Display Server instead of X.Org. Here's another interesting one: Ubuntu may become a rolling-release distribution...

  • ZFS For Linux Is Now Available To The Public!

    Updated: 2010-11-24 14:04:27
    For those with some extra time this holiday week in the United States, perhaps you want to try out the ZFS file-system on Linux? As was said this week when publishing ZFS benchmarks on Linux using the native kernel module developed by LLNL/KQ Infotech, the public release of this kernel...

  • Review: Stage 2 of The Linux Experience: Bodhi

    Updated: 2010-11-24 08:41:05
    Canonical is attracting hordes of new Linux users with a ready-to-go, good-looking distro. But where does a noob go when they are no longer a noob? What is there for an IT pro with little Linux experience? How about the brand-new Bodhi Linux?

  • SBC Adopts Atom E6x5C CPUs, Featuring Integrated FPGA

    Updated: 2010-11-24 08:41:04
    Kontron announced a PCIe/104 SBC (single board computer) featuring Intel's new Atom E6x5C processors, which include Altera FPGA (field programmable gate arrays). The Microspace MSMST has PCI Express and HSMC (high speed mezzanine card) expansion interfaces, two SATA ports, up to 2GB of soldered-on RAM, plus LVDS and SDVO video...

  • Verizon ships faster, global roaming version of Droid 2

    Updated: 2010-11-24 05:35:25
    Verizon Wireless has begun selling a new version of the Droid 2 Android slider with a faster 1.2GHz processor and quad-band GSM global roaming. Otherwise identical to the previous Droid 2, the Motorola Droid 2 Global is also said to offer an improved keyboard and lower battery life....

  • SBC adopts Atom E6x5C CPUs, featuring integrated FPGA

    Updated: 2010-11-24 02:46:20
    Kontron announced a PCIe/104 SBC (single board computer) featuring Intel's new Atom E6x5C processors, which include Altera FPGA (field programmable gate arrays). The Microspace MSMST has PCI Express and HSMC (high speed mezzanine card) expansion interfaces, two SATA ports, up to 2GB of soldered-on RAM, plus LVDS and SDVO video outputs, the company says....

  • Programmable ARM9 SOC available in Profibus version

    Updated: 2010-11-24 00:32:44
    Texas Instruments (TI) announced a new member of its industrial-focused, ARM9-based Sitara AM1x system-on-chip (SoC) family that adds an integrated Profibus interface. The AM1810 Sitara is clocked to 375MHz, includes EtherCAT support, and ships with a Linux-ready development module, says the company....

  • SAP Ordered to Pay Oracle $1.3bn

    Updated: 2010-11-23 23:28:09
    Drop-your-pants time (again) In a final act of ritual humiliation, SAP has been ordered to pay Oracle $1.3bn over stolen intellectual property.…...

  • Acer unveils Android smartphone, two Android tablets

    Updated: 2010-11-23 22:16:59
    Acer announced three Android tablets due in April 2011, as well as a & Clear-Fi& media-streaming service and an & Alive& app store. The Android tablets include a Dell Streak-like 4.8-inch, telephony-enabled & smartphone& model with 1024 × 480 resolution, a dual-core, seven-inch, 1280 × 800 tablet, and a 10.1 inch model with 1080p video playback....

  • Skyfire 3.0 for Android integrates Facebook into browser

    Updated: 2010-11-23 18:16:58
    Skyfire has added more social networking content to its mobile web browser, which is available for Android and uses the company's servers to render web pages complete with Flash. Skyfire 3.0 with Facebook Connect adds a new content-sharing & SkyBar& toolbar and a Fireplace Feed Reader that offers a filtered view of a user's Facebook feed, says the company....

  • Seven- and 10-inch tablets run Android 2.1 on 1GHz chips

    Updated: 2010-11-23 16:47:54
    Internet Connectivity and Networking (ICAN) has launched both a seven-inch and a 10-inch tablet running Android 2.1 on a 1GHz processor. The $400 ICAN! 7 and $500 ICAN! 10 ship with 16GB of internal storage, plus SD expansion, Wi-Fi, a 1.3-megapixel webcam, dual USB 2.0 ports, and HDMI ports, says the company....

  • Top Five Linux Deployment Mistakes

    Updated: 2010-11-23 15:00:00
    The days when Linux is an unknown quantity in a business are largely over — but that doesn't mean that every organization has tons of experience deploying Linux. Even if your organization has deployed Linux before, there are some common mistakes to be aware of. Here's five things you need to watch for when planning a new Linux deployment.

  • Is it Too Late For an Open Source Challenge to Facebook?

    Updated: 2010-11-23 15:00:00
    If you're like most people, you're spending a lot more time on social networks than you ever did before.

  • Image Processing with OpenGL and Shaders

    Updated: 2010-11-23 15:00:00
    The Linux Journal has an article on computing with the GPU. "This article discusses using OpenGL shaders to perform image processing. The images are obtained from a device using the Video4Linux 2 (V4L2) interface. Using horsepower from the graphics card to do some of the image processing reduces the load...

  • Open Source and the Federal Budget Squeeze, Part 2

    Updated: 2010-11-23 15:00:00
    The marketing stars appear to be coming into alignment for the vendors of open source offerings who are targeting the U.S. government. Significant barriers to adopting open source technology at the federal level are breaking down, and tight budgets provide an opportunity for vendors to emphasize the cost savings features...

  • Intel Windows vs. Linux GPU Performance Q4'2010

    Updated: 2010-11-23 15:00:00
    Yesterday we shared benchmarks of the ATI R600 Gallium3D driver compared against the classic Mesa R600 driver and then the proprietary AMD Catalyst driver. The proprietary driver was much faster than the open-source drivers were, but the Gallium3D driver did possess higher performance in most of the tests than with the...

  • NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit 3.2 Available

    Updated: 2010-11-23 15:00:00
    Graphics processors and chip-set manufacturer NVIDIA has released a new version of its developer package for writing CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture) programs...

  • OSADL Opens Embedded Farm for Real-Time Kernel tests

    Updated: 2010-11-23 15:00:00
    The OSADL has set up a computer farm with a wide range of embedded systems to test the Linux kernel in real-time operations. The test results will be published so that companies using the Linux kernel in real time applications will know when a kernel version and patch set is...

  • Seven- and 10-inch Tablets Run Android 2.1 on 1GHz Chips

    Updated: 2010-11-23 15:00:00
    Internet Connectivity and Networking (ICAN) has launched both a seven-inch and a 10-inch tablet running Android 2.1 on a 1GHz processor. The $400 ICAN! 7 and $500 ICAN! 10 ship with 16GB of internal storage, plus SD expansion, Wi-Fi, a 1.3-megapixel webcam, dual USB 2.0 ports, and HDMI ports, says...

  • Nvidia Upgrades Toolkit for GPU Programming

    Updated: 2010-11-23 15:00:00
    Nvidia announced the availability of the production release of its CUDA (compute unified device architecture) Toolkit 3.2. This provides performance increases, new math libraries, and advanced cluster management features for developers creating next-generation applications accelerated via GPUs (graphics processing units), the company says....

  • Distribution Release: BackTrack 4 R2

    Updated: 2010-11-23 15:00:00
    Offensive Security has announced the release of the second respin of BackTrack 4, an Ubuntu-based distribution featuring a collection of security tools for digital forensics and penetration testing: "Yes, the time has come again -- for a new kernel, and a new release of BackTrack. Code-named 'Nemesis', this....

  • Tiny Core Linux 3.3 Released

    Updated: 2010-11-23 15:00:00
    Based on the 2.6.33.3 Linux kernel, version 3.3 of Tiny Core Linux includes reorganised boot help screens, as well as a reorganised Control Panel that places more frequently used items into the System Tools menu...

  • Nvidia upgrades toolkit for GPU programming

    Updated: 2010-11-23 14:17:58
    Nvidia announced the availability of the production release of its CUDA (compute unified device architecture) Toolkit 3.2. This provides performance increases, new math libraries, and advanced cluster management features for developers creating next-generation applications accelerated via GPUs (graphics processing units), the company says....

  • Novell agrees to be bought by Attachmate for $2.2 billion

    Updated: 2010-11-22 22:28:06
    Novell has agreed to be acquired by Attachmate Corp., a 30-year old IT host connectivity and systems management integration firm, while also agreeing to sell $450 million in IT assets to a consortium led by Microsoft. The $2.2 billion deal brings Attachmate Novell's enterprise-focused SUSE Linux distribution, which it will spin into a separate business unit....

  • Panel PC has 4GB SSD onboard

    Updated: 2010-11-22 20:36:24
    American Industrial Systems (AIS) announced a seven-inch panel PC designed for factory automation, SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition), and HMI (human machine interface) applications. The IPW07I93S-A2 includes a resistive touchscreen, a 1.1GHz Atom Z510P processor, and a Mini PCI Express-based SSD (solid state disk), the company says....

  • Testing farm pushes real-time Linux into the mainstream

    Updated: 2010-11-22 20:32:26
    OSADL, which has been overseeing real-time Linux (RTL) development patches to the Linux kernel, announced a & quality assurance testing farm& where manufacturers can test a variety of RTL systems under simulated production conditions. The multi-platform test center aims to prove RTL as a capable, and more flexible, alternative to real-time operating systems (RTOSes)....

  • Amazon one-penny sale for Droids ends today

    Updated: 2010-11-22 18:06:01
    Amazon.com is offering a one-penny sale (plus contract) for more than 100 phones, including high-end Android models like the Motorola Droid X and Droid 2. Meanwhile, mobile ad firm Adzookie says that smartphone adoption is being hindered in the U.S. by high subscription and service costs....

  • Answer by Zenek for LAMP/TURNKEY LINUX/VIRTUAL BOX: Manipulating Files on a Virtual Machine

    Updated: 2010-11-22 16:47:43
    : Stack Exchange log in careers chat meta about faq Super User Questions Tags Users Badges Unanswered Ask Question LAMP TURNKEY LINUX VIRTUAL BOX : Manipulating Files on a Virtual Machine up vote 1 down vote favorite Hi , I am running Ubuntu 9.10 and I want to install turnkey linux's LAMP server on my machine to test out my code . I installed Turnkey LAMP via VirtualBox and it seems to be working because I can access the http : localhost My question is : How do I manipulate files via VirtualBox For example , if I had installed LAMP on my machine not on a virtual machine I could easily add edit delete files in the var WWW folder . Where is the equivalent of WWW folder on Virtualbox and how can I interface with it , Thanks virtualbox virtual-machine lamp link flag asked Nov 12 09 at 1:44

  • Kernel prepatch 2.6.37-rc3

    Updated: 2010-11-22 15:00:00
    The 2.6.37-rc3 prepatch is out. "And I have to say, I'm pretty happy with how quiet things have been. Of course, maybe people are just lying low, waiting to ambush me next week with a flood of patches when I'm gone in Japan, all in order to try to be...

  • Will Debian 6 be Easier to Install?

    Updated: 2010-11-22 15:00:00
    A new and improved Debian installer awaits for Debian 6.0, but is it better than what's gone before? We take a tour of Squeeze's installer beta and find out.

  • No KMS? No Mesa? Run Wayland Off A Linux Framebuffer!

    Updated: 2010-11-22 15:00:00
    Besides needing to get the various tool-kits and other libraries ported to run atop the Wayland Display Server, another requirement limiting the adoption of this X11 Server alternative so far has been the specialized graphics requirements. From the beginning, Wayland was designed for GPU drivers that support kernel mode-setting (KMS), Graphics Execution Manager (GEM)...

  • Bringing Up Hardware First In Linux, Then Windows

    Updated: 2010-11-22 15:00:00
    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 to any Microsoft Windows or Apple Mac OS X support. A number of reasons are provided why...

  • XvMC With iDCT Now Working On Gallium3D

    Updated: 2010-11-22 15:00:00
    A month ago there was the surprising work done by Christian König to bring XvMC and VDPAU support to the open-source ATI Radeon "R600g" Gallium3D driver for the Radeon HD 2000/3000/4000/5000 series graphics cards. The XvMC state tracker with Gallium3D began working shortly thereafter for accelerating XvMC using shaders with...

  • IBM Blue Waters to Help California Prepare for Earthquakes

    Updated: 2010-11-22 15:00:00
    In California, you often hear talk about “the Big One,” the inevitable earthquake on the San Andreas Fault that could lead to widespread devastation in the state. In his presentation at SC10 last week, Thomas Jordan, Director of the Southern California Earthquake Center, gave the supercomputing community a sneak preview. Jordan showed a simulation video of a magnitude 8 earthquake being distributed around Southern California. With scenes of buildings shaking and roadways cracking, the video depicted...

  • Zenmap Tutorial: Audit Your Networks using Nmap GUI

    Updated: 2010-11-22 15:00:00
    Network administrators have many tasks, and auditing the network is at the top of the heap. This isn't a problem if you have a small network. But what happens when that network outgrows your ability to simply walk around and manually make note of what is up/down, what OS a device is running, or what ports are open? When this happens you need to make use of one of the de facto standard open source network auditing tools — Zenmap.

  • Chrome OS netbooks postponed until 2011

    Updated: 2010-11-22 13:31:47
    Google CEO Eric Schmidt revealed that the company's cloud-oriented Chrome Operating System for netbooks has been delayed for several months. Google won't say why, but analysts speculate that the Linux-based Chrome OS may have been delayed due to the huge success of the search giant's own Android OS as well as the Apple iPad....

  • Telling the Open Source Story - Part 1

    Updated: 2010-11-22 13:02:08
    As open source software becomes more mainstream, it's easy to forget how amazing it is. Countless individuals, donating their time and sharing their brainpower, work to build a shared infrastructure on which the world's computing is done. Amazing. Even more amazing, in survey after survey, the big reason open source contributors give...

  • siCluster NAS Scales Out at Under $1000 per Terabyte

    Updated: 2010-11-22 13:02:07
    Last week Scalable Informatics announced their siCluster NAS scale-out network attached storage product. According to the company’ CEO Joe Landman, siCluster NAS is a cost-effective scale-out NAS built out of their siCluster products using Delta-V as the storage node, and GlusterFS v3.1+ as the storage network software. The siCluster NAS provides NFS, CIFS, and GlusterFS client access. With up...

  • Running The Native ZFS Linux Kernel Module, Plus Benchmarks

    Updated: 2010-11-22 13:02:06
    In August we delivered the news that Linux was soon to receive a native ZFS Linux kernel module. The Sun (now Oracle) ZFS file-system has long been sought after for Linux, though less now since Btrfs has emerged, but incompatibilities between the CDDL and GPL licenses have barred such support from entering the...

  • Processor Whispers: About Conflict, Conciliation and Delays

    Updated: 2010-11-22 13:02:05
    While AMD and Intel are now cooperating, many other companies are arguing - and not only about smartphone patents. AMD has revealed its CPU plans up until 2013 and Intel, bit by bit, is feeding the press with details about the Sandy Bridge. Meanwhile, Marvell has announced an ARM processor...

  • FreeNAS 8.0 Beta released

    Updated: 2010-11-22 13:02:04
    The latest development release of FreeNAS, a FreeBSD-based Network-attached storage (NAS) OS, includes a redesigned graphical user interface (GUI) built using Python and the Django web framework that's aimed at making it even easier to use...

  • Embedded PC has three expansion slots, four serial ports

    Updated: 2010-11-19 21:45:58
    Advantech announced a fanless embedded PC that includes a dual-core Atom D510 CPU, dual hard disk bays, and CompactFlash storage. The ARK-5260 has four RS232/422/485 serial ports, parallel and PS/2 ports, plus both PCI and PCI Express x1 expansion slots, the company says....

  • Low-cost network appliance offers LAN bypass option

    Updated: 2010-11-19 21:18:16
    Lanner announced a low-end network appliance powered by the dual-core Intel Atom D510 or single-core D410 processor. The FW-7539 is equipped with four gigabit Ethernet ports with optional LAN bypass, dual USB 2.0 ports, and Mini-PCIe expansion, says the company....

  • Unlocked Palm Pre 2 available in U.S.

    Updated: 2010-11-19 19:36:35
    An unlocked version of Hewlett-Packard’s Palm Pre 2 smartphone is now available in the U.S. via Palm.com and HP's SMB channels for $449. The upgraded 1GHz Pre 2 runs the new version 2.0 of the Linux-based WebOS operating system....

  • Fanless server touted for isolated COMs, wide DC input range

    Updated: 2010-11-19 18:08:51
    Aaeon announced a 1U, 19-inch rackmountable industrial communications server with eight power-isolated serial ports and a wide power input range. The GCS-1100i is equipped with a 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270, and offers four gigabit Ethernet ports, four USB 2.0 ports, and a 2.5-inch HDD bay, says the company....

  • Android ties iOS in ad impressions

    Updated: 2010-11-19 16:40:46
    Android now matches Apple's iOS in ad impressions, with each mobile operating system garnering 37 percent, says Millennial Media. Meanwhile, fellow mobile analytics firm Chitika estimates that the original Motorola Droid has the highest mobile traffic in the U.S. among Android devices at 19 percent, followed by the HTC Evo 4G and Droid X....

  • The Android Potluck Buffet

    Updated: 2010-11-19 15:00:00
    Saying the Android platform is fast is an understatement. Within one short year, it's erupted from claiming a mere sliver of market share to taking second spot worldwide for smartphone sales by operating system, according to Gartner's figures. Android had 25.5 percent of the worldwide smartphone market share in the...

  • A Linux Server OS That's Fiddly but Tweakable

    Updated: 2010-11-19 15:00:00
    ClearOS is the new name for Point Clark Network's ClarkConnect, which was a commercial server distro, released in 2000, with a limited free version. Now, though, Point Clark has restructured and the distro is managed by ClearConnect, which has made it free and open...

  • InfiniBand Grows 18 Percent in the TOP500 List

    Updated: 2010-11-19 15:00:00
    The InfiniBand Trade Association (IBTA) today announced that InfiniBand-connected systems grew 18 percent year-over-year, up to 215 systems in November 2010 from 182 in November 2009, according to the latest TOP500 list of the most powerful systems in the world.

  • AMD Powers Half of the Top Ten Supercomputers

    Updated: 2010-11-19 15:00:00
    AMD processors are used to power 24 of the top 50 fastest supercomputers ranked in the bi-annual Top500 supercomputer list, with half of the top 10 using AMD’ CPU and/or GPU technology.

  • The First NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Linux Benchmark

    Updated: 2010-11-19 15:00:00
    Earlier this month NVIDIA rolled out the GeForce GTX 580 graphics card as their fastest GPU to date with 512 CUDA cores, a 772MHz core clock, 1544MHz processor clock, 1536MB of 2GHz GDDR5 memory, and support for three-way SLI. The GeForce GTX 580 with its GF110 core is based upon...

  • EPIC FAIL: The Sorry State of Web Education in Schools

    Updated: 2010-11-19 15:00:00
    Anna Debenham brought the house down with this outstanding presentation at the Mozilla Drumbeat Festival.

  • Open Standards Policy in India: A Long, But Successful Journey

    Updated: 2010-11-19 15:00:00
    Last week, India became another major country to join the growing, global open standards movement. After three years of intense debate and discussion, India's Department of IT in India finalized its Policy on Open Standards for e-Governance, joining the ranks of emerging economies like Brazil, South Africa and others.

  • Mozilla Re-Assesses its Mission

    Updated: 2010-11-19 15:00:00
    Following the publication of Mozilla's audited financial statements for 2009, Mitchell Baker, Chairperson of the Mozilla Foundation, has taken the opportunity to re-examine Mozilla's mission, its successes, opportunities and challenges...

  • Web-app Storage Standard Meets a Formal End

    Updated: 2010-11-19 15:00:00
    Web SQL Database, which enabled Web apps to store data while offline, meets its official demise as a formal standard.

  • Open Source Drupal Takes Gardens Path to Big Business

    Updated: 2010-11-19 15:00:00
    Even as we rapidly approach a future where most software lives on the web, with acronyms like HTML5 and SaaS pointing the way, it's easy to overlook a primary building blog of yesterday's web, Drupal, and its effects on the...

  • Mozilla 2009 Revenues Soar 34% to $104M

    Updated: 2010-11-19 15:00:00
    The flagship product may be free, but Mozilla still rakes in a handsome sum from its search integrations to its browser from some of the biggest companies on the Web.

  • Weekend Project: Add PubSubHubbub Syndication to Your Site or Blog

    Updated: 2010-11-19 15:00:00
    Web syndication formats like RSS and Atom have revolutionized the way we get information, but even though these formats are standardized and widespread, syndication is still evolving. PubSubHubbub is one of the more interesting advancements in syndication technology, because it actually changes the update method used by clients, from traffic-heavy periodic polling to a publisher-push model. Luckily you don't have to choose one or the other; you can add PubSubHubbub support to your site's feeds without losing compatibility with your more "traditional" readers. This weekend, update your feeds to the latest and greatest in syndication and generate your own hubbub.

  • Tiny module includes 1.2GHz CPU, Wi-Fi

    Updated: 2010-11-19 00:53:42
    Anders Electronics announced a diminutive COM (computer on module) featuring Marvell's 1.2GHz Armada 510 CPU. The Linux-ready CM-A510 offers functionality including 1GB of DDR3 memory, up to 512MB of flash storage, a camera interface, dual gigabit Ethernet ports, and onboard Wi-Fi, the company says....

  • 28nm Snapdragon will add LTE support, faster graphics

    Updated: 2010-11-18 20:02:58
    Qualcomm has shown off a new version of its Snapdragon chipset that will let handsets work with LTE (Long Term Evolution) networks as well as current 3G networks. Set to sample in 2011, the MSM8960 will also integrate Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth, and an FM receiver, according to a variety of reports....

  • Android tablets forecast to grab 15 percent share in 2011

    Updated: 2010-11-18 16:52:17
    Tablet computers based on Android will comprise 15 percent of the worldwide market in 2011, nibbling at Apple's iPad share similar to the way Android smartphones gained on the iPhone. That's the prediction from IMS Research, which adds that by 2015, Android tablets will have garnered 28 percent of the market....

  • MeeGo Conference 2010 Wrap-Up

    Updated: 2010-11-18 15:00:00
    The MeeGo project was formed only eight months ago, when Intel and Nokia announced that they were merging their two portable device distributions, Moblin and Maemo, into a single, unified "MeeGo Core" on top of which companies can built embedded Linux devices. As recently as this summer, there was still trepidation among development community members about how that merger would go — combining two code bases is never easy, much less two user and developer communities and two corporate projects. Nevertheless, when the first MeeGo Conference opened its doors in Dublin, Ireland on Monday, there were nearly 1200 attendees — double the original estimate.

  • Report: Red Hat Takes on Unix

    Updated: 2010-11-18 12:48:05
    A new release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a boost to resellers, and to Unix defectors. So what is a company that sells both Unix and Linux do?

  • Report: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Aims For Government-Ready Security

    Updated: 2010-11-18 12:48:04
    Red Hat's new enterprise Linux 6 isn't just about faster performance and scalability; it's also loaded with new security tech such as the sVirt API and 4096-bit RSA, and it's on-target for Common Criteria Certification.

  • Datapipe Unveils Managed Services For AWS

    Updated: 2010-11-18 12:48:03
    The new cloud offering for Amazon Web Services is designed to appeal to enterprises with a suite of managed services and simplified billing.

  • Within HP, Palm Still Driving New WebOS Devices

    Updated: 2010-11-18 12:48:02
    Palm, in many ways the godfather of the smartphone revolution, is continuing to push new mobile devices based on webOS after its acquisition at the hands of HP.

  • Ubuntu Global Jam: Let’s Make This Rock

    Updated: 2010-11-18 12:48:01
    Every cycle we organize the Ubuntu Global Jam; an event in which our global community gets together to help make Ubuntu better. 

  • Embedded Linux Platform Ships for MIPS Multicore SoCs

    Updated: 2010-11-18 12:48:00
    Mentor Graphics is shipping a version of its Mentor Embedded Linux development platform supporting networking applications developed on NetLogic Microsystems' MIPS-based multicore, multithreaded system-on-chips (SoCs). The Mentor platform, which is available in a free & Essentials& version as well as a commercial version, supports the XLR and XLS families today,...

  • Black Duck Buys SpikeSource, Hires Former Microsoft Open-Source Manager

    Updated: 2010-11-18 12:47:43
    Black Duck Software acquires the assets of SpikeSource also hires Sara Ford, former program manager for Microsofts CodePlex open-source project hosting site. - Black Duck Software a provider of products and services for managing the use of open source software, has acquired the assets of SpikeSource, a provider of software...

  • Video: SC10 Recap for Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2010

    Updated: 2010-11-18 12:47:42
    In this video, I talk to Joe Landman, CEO of Scalable Informatics, about what’ been happening on the SC10 show floor and what to expect for Thursday, Nov. 18.  nbsp;

  • Debian Trying to Recruit More Women

    Updated: 2010-11-18 12:47:06
    The Debian Women project is beginning training sessions to encourage more women to participate in the nuts and bolts of Debian development. 

  • Android-powered color e-reader ships ahead of schedule

    Updated: 2010-11-18 05:16:30
    Originally scheduled to ship tomorrow, Barnes Noble's color e-reader is already arriving in customers' hands, the bookseller says. The Nook Color offers 8GB of internal storage, a microSD slot, Wi-Fi, and a seven-inch 024 x 600 color touchscreen....

  • Embedded Linux platform ships for MIPS multicore SoCs

    Updated: 2010-11-17 23:08:56
    Mentor Graphics is shipping a version of its Mentor Embedded Linux development platform supporting networking applications developed on NetLogic Microsystems' MIPS-based multicore, multithreaded system-on-chips (SoCs). The Mentor platform, which is available in a free & Essentials& version as well as a commercial version, supports the XLR and XLS families today, with support for the newer XLP processors planned shortly....

  • Medical panel PC comes in two different doses

    Updated: 2010-11-17 22:10:02
    Kontron announced a fanless panel PC for medical applications, prescribing both 10.4- and 15-inch versions. The Medi Client IIA includes a resistive touchscreen, an Intel Atom N270 processor, up to 2GB of RAM, CompactFlash or hard disk storage, dual gigabit Ethernet ports, and -- on the 15-inch version -- a CAN bus option, the company says....

  • Another step forward for ARM-based servers?

    Updated: 2010-11-17 21:40:11
    Smooth-Stone, which is looking to build ARM-designed chips for low-power servers, is changing its name to Calxeda. The company is hiring executives with backgrounds at such places as IBM, HP, Marvell, and Polycom....

  • Linux distros advance on the networking front

    Updated: 2010-11-17 21:31:39
    Wind River announced that Arkoon Network Security will use Wind River Linux to develop its FAST 360 family of network security devices. Meanwhile, Wind River rival MontaVista Software announced it has joined the OpenSAF Foundation, which promotes the high availability middleware integrated into recent releases of MontaVista Linux Carrier Grade Edition....

  • Run Applications in Secure Sandboxes with SELinux

    Updated: 2010-11-17 20:42:38
    Have an application that you want to run, but without giving it full access to the rest of your system? Welcome to SELinux's sandbox utility. In a few fairly simple steps, you can box in an application and not have to worry about it having full access to your system.

  • Linux Video Editing Apps: The Simple, the Slick and the Stumbly

    Updated: 2010-11-17 15:00:00
    It used to be that only hard-core film buffs carried video recording equipment on vacations. Unless your job required working with film, film editing software was not on most computer users' must-have list of tools. Maybe that is why until recently, few really useful film editing apps existed for the...

  • Three Unspoken Blockers that Prevent Professors from Teaching Open Source Community Participation

    Updated: 2010-11-17 15:00:00
    One of the hardest things about trying to bridge two worlds--for instance, open source communities and academic institutions--is all the stuff you don't hear on a daily basis when you're working remotely. Sometimes it takes several rounds of garlic bread and pasta for people to begin articulating what's blocking them...

  • Google Code to Stop Checking SourceForge Names

    Updated: 2010-11-17 15:00:00
    Google's Chris DiBona has announced that, from the 22nd of November, names for new projects created on the Google Code Project Hosting service will no longer be checked against SourceForge to see if the project name is already in use...

  • Linux Servers for Windows Folk: Go On, Give it a Bash

    Updated: 2010-11-17 15:00:00
    Despite all the hullabaloo about Ubuntu and other desktop offerings, for most organisations, the main use of Linux is on servers.…...

  • Red Hat Warns of Hole in OpenSSL

    Updated: 2010-11-17 15:00:00
    Red Hat warns of a race condition in the OpenSSL code for parsing TLS extensions that is said to allow arbitrary code to be injected and executed on a server...

  • Debian 6.0 "Squeeze": Call for Upgrade and Installation tests

    Updated: 2010-11-17 15:00:00
    The Debian project is proud to announce, that its upcoming release Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" has entered the final phase...

  • Miracle patch set to turbocharge Linux kernel

    Updated: 2010-11-17 05:24:23
    Heralded by Linus Torvalds as a & huge improvement,& a 233-line kernel scheduling patch written by Mike Galbraith is making the rounds to rave reviews, reports Phoronix. Due for possible inclusion into Linux kernel 2.6.38, the & sched: autogroup& patch is claimed to reduce latency by a factor of 10, with noticeable improvements in 1080p video playback, according to & before-and-after& videos run at Phoronix....

  • NFC heads for Android and new commerce network

    Updated: 2010-11-17 05:20:13
    Verizon Wireless, AT T, and T-Mobile announced a new & Isis& venture that will roll out a mobile commerce network based on smartphones embedded with near field communications (NFC) networking chips. Isis supporters include Apple and Nokia, as well as Google, which revealed this week that Android 2.3 will add support for short-range NFC wireless communications....

  • Cortex-A9 SoC targets 1080p-ready Android devices

    Updated: 2010-11-16 23:36:51
    Amlogic has begun sampling a new system-on-chip (SoC) that combines a 1GHz ARM Cortex-A9 processor, an ARM Mali-400 GPU, and Amlogic's proprietary HD video decoding engine. Targeting next-generation consumer electronics running Linux and Android 2.2, the AML8726-M supports full 1080p HD video capabilities and a range of connectivity options, says the company....

  • Ubuntu-ready netbook moves to dual-core Atom

    Updated: 2010-11-16 22:29:12
    System76 is shipping a new version of its Ubuntu Linux-ready Starling Netbook equipped with a dual-core Intel Atom N550 processor, starting at $384. Meanwhile the company has begun shipping to the U.K, and is contemplating developing a tablet PC....

  • Type 10 COM Express module offers Atom E6xx CPUs

    Updated: 2010-11-16 21:19:16
    Kontron announced a COM Express module that features a Type 10 pinout and a choice of Intel Atom E6xx processors. The nanoETXexpress-TTc includes soldered-on memory plus a microSD slot, and will be available with an onboard flash drive in the future, the company says....

  • SOHO NAS servers tap 1.6GHz Armada 300 SoCs

    Updated: 2010-11-16 20:43:36
    Qnap Systems announced a new family of & TS-x19P+& network-attached storage (NAS) servers for home and SOHO users, integrating Marvell's 1.6GHz Armada 300 SoC. The new models run on Linux firmware, and include the one-drive TS-119P+, dual-drive TS-219P+, and four-drive TS-419P+, with the latter offering up to 8TB of networked storage, says the company....

  • Google's Samsung-built Nexus S phone spotted

    Updated: 2010-11-16 00:13:41
    Google is preparing a Nexus One follow-up called the Nexus S, says reports. Built by Samsung and headed for T-Mobile, the Android 2.3 smartphone was rumored to have been bandied about by Google CEO Eric Schmidt at the Web 2.0 conference today....

  • New Btrfs Free Tutorial and Request for End User Feedback on Btrfs

    Updated: 2010-11-15 23:46:36
    Those who follow Linux have certainly heard of Btrfs, a relatively new high performance file system that has a lot of people excited about its potential. Two months ago during LinuxCon Japan, we were pleased to sit down with lead developer Chris Mason from Oracle to record a short webinar that focuses on demonstrating RAID5 [...]

  • Using SenSEO Firefox Plugin to Improve SEO and Page Rankings

    Updated: 2010-11-15 23:25:47
    In this short video I show you how to install and use SenSEO – a free firefox plugin. [...]

  • Adding ‘catalog_product’ Type Attributes Programmatically in Mysql4 Install Files

    Updated: 2010-11-04 06:02:20
    If you want to write an extension that requires some additional product attributes, I recommend that you look [...]

  • The Easiest Way to Sell Digital Goods Online with a Large Budget (4/4)

    Updated: 2010-11-03 14:00:07
    Ok, so what else can be done to improve our online sales if we have an even bigger [...]

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