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Nov
30th

Mesa 7.10 Is Coming In One Month

Author: Phoronix | Files under syndicated

While we anticipated Mesa 7.10 being a late Q4’2010 or very early Q1’2011 release, today that’s now been formalized with Intel’s Ian Romanick once again stepping up to the plate to manage this next Mesa 3D release. Ian’s proposal calls for Mesa 7.10 to…


Nov
30th

Debian’s GNU/kFreeBSD Installer Will Support ZFS

Author: Phoronix | Files under syndicated

While Debian GNU/kFreeBSD has supported the ZFS file-system with its FreeBSD-8 kernel, support for installing the Debian GNU/kFreeBSD distribution to a root ZFS file-system will now be possible with the Debian 6.0 “Squeeze” release…


Nov
30th

SplashTop Hooks Up With Bing, Chromium

Author: Phoronix | Files under syndicated

It was precisely one month ago I was wondering what happened to SplashTop and found the company that we jump-started by our first-in-the-world coverage was still pushing out their instant-on Linux OS to various OEM vendors but they have lost their root…


Nov
30th

French mini-PC upgrades to Intel Atom

Author: Linux for Devices - RSS Feeds | Files under syndicated

Linutop released a new version of its small, fanless Linutop 3 PC, moving up from a 1GHz Via C7 CPU to a 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270 while dropping to under 16 Watts of power consumption. The Linutop 3 ships with 1GB or 2GB of RAM, 2GB of flash, gigabit Et…


Nov
30th

Dual-core Android phones from LG and Samsung break cover

Author: Linux for Devices - RSS Feeds | Files under syndicated

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 …


Nov
30th

Linux 2.6.37-rc4 Kernel Released On Schedule

Author: Phoronix | Files under syndicated

While Linus Torvalds spent most of last week in Japan meeting with other Linux kernel developers, the Linux 2.6.37-rc4 release is right on schedule, one week after releasing Linux 2.6.37-rc3. There are more changes found in this fourth release candidat…


Nov
30th

x86 servers move forward despite power concerns

Author: Linux for Devices - RSS Feeds | Files under syndicated

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 …


Nov
30th

Fast-boot OS offered in free browser-only version

Author: Linux for Devices - RSS Feeds | Files under syndicated

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 pr…


Nov
30th

Linux Distribution: Lightweight Portable Security

Author: Michael Reed | Files under syndicated

Lightweight Portable Security is a LiveCD distro designed by the US Department of Defense to function as a secure end node, in other words, a safe environment from which to access the web or a r…


Nov
30th

Holiday Cheers and Credit Card Fears

Author: Linux.com Editorial Staff | Files under syndicated

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 busine…