For those using our Phoronix Test Suite for performance benchmarking, regression monitoring, or running other automated tests atop our open-source platform/framework, the 2.8.1 update to “Torsken” is out this morning. There’s just a couple of small bug…
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Earlier this year AMD rolled out the ATI FirePro V8800 workstation graphics card as their new high-end offering derived from their Evergreen architecture and to serve as the next-generation solution to the FirePro V8700 / V8750. The FirePro V8800 2GB t…
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While Unigine Corp has been busy finishing up their first in-house game, OilRush, they haven’t stopped work on further refining their upstream game engine. Unigine Corp has just reported on some of the most recent advancements to the Unigine Engine, wh…
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The Linux Foundation announced speakers for the Linux Foundation End User Summit, scheduled for Oct. 12-13, 2010 at the Hyatt Regency Jersey City, in New Jersey. The invitation-only event, which features keynotes from the Linux Foundation’s Jim Zemlin…
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For those interested in the X Developers’ Summit (XDS) that is taking place next week at a tobacco factory in France, a tentative schedule has now been published by Matthieu Herrb for the 50 or so people that will be participating in the summit…
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Amazon.com opened pre-order sales for a $370, seven-inch, Android 2.2 tablet from Stream TV Network. The eLocity A7 tablet is equipped with a 1GHz Nvidia Tegra 2, 512MB RAM, 4GB of flash memory, and offers a seven-inch capacitive display, an HDMI port…
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Via announced a Mini-ITX board teaming 1.2GHz or 1.3+GHz versions of its embedded-oriented Nano E-Series 3000 processor with the HD video-ready VX900 core logic chip. The Via Epia-M850 offers support for HDMI, VGA, and LVDS displays, up to 8GB of DDR3…
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Linux Mint has just released their new distribution: Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE). It is a rolling distribution based off of Debian Testing instead of Ubuntu. Their goal is to have LMDE lo…
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Axiomtek announced a Mini-ITX motherboard employing Intel’s Q57 PCH chipset, offering support for Intel Core i3/i5/i7 processors. Designed for DVR and other video-enabled applications, the Mano800 supports up to 8GB of DDR3 memory, and offers four RAI…
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Wind River announced a series of Wind River Linux-ready development kits developed in partnership with eight different embedded board vendors. Embedded Development Kits are now available from Emerson Network Power, Eurotech, and Kontron, with more kit…
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