phoronix.com - 11/1/2008
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Earlier this week we published benchmarks of all Ubuntu releases from 7.04 to the release candidate and had found the performance degraded with time , at least with the test system we used. As part of our testing to explore this issue, we had repeated many of the same tests on Fedora with all of ...
phoronix.com - 11/6/2008
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The Sound Blaster X-Fi sound card driver for
Linux from Creative Labs was awful. That's simply the...
nicest way to put it. The driver was home to many bugs, initially only supported 64-bit Linux, and it was arriving extremely late. The open-source ...
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[Phoronix] Creative Gives In, They Open-Source Their ...
ubuntu.com - 10/30/2008
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ubuntu.com —
What do I need to create and use
my Ubuntu CD? A blank CD and the ability...
to “burn” blank CDs A modern Intel or AMD compatible computer At least 256MB of RAM Installation requirements » Choose a version Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop (the latest version): ...
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Ubuntu 8.10 available for download
phoronix.com - 10/29/2008
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phoronix.com —
In early September we shared that UVD2 and
XvMC is coming to Linux and that two new...
library files had begun shipping with the ATI Catalyst driver: AMDXvBA and XvBAW. Earlier this month the Unified Video Decoding 2 (UVD2) support was then enabled by ...
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[Phoronix] AMD's X-Video Bitstream Acceleration
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Fedora 7 to 10 Benchmarks
DV Hardware —
Earlier this week we published benchmarks of all Ubuntu
releases from 7.04 to the release candidate and had found the
performance degraded with time, at least with the test system we used.
As part of our testing to explore this issue, we had repeated many of
the same tests on Fedora with all of their releases going back to Fedora
7. Has Fedora's desktop performance degraded too? Read more at Phoronix to find out.
Fedora 7 to 10 Benchmarks - More news at DV Hardware
All Saints Day Shortbread
The Tech Report: News —
... LAN Hardware Secrets on the top five features to include when building the dream luxury notebook PCStats posts November shopping list Software and gaming PC World reports Windows Update due update again Hot off the press: CodeFocus on IE8 InformationWeek reports Google makes scanned documents searchable Techdirt's editorial : don't buy the open source DRM hype Review: Ubuntu 8.10 is the real deal Phoronix runs Fedora 7 to 10 benchmarks MVKTech posts nvFlash v5.72 Tropics demo 1.1 featuring DX 10.1 ...
Tech Roundup - November 3, 2008
Techgage News —
... Apple October '08 Macbook Refresh Hands-On - TheTechLounge
Fedora 7 to 10 Benchmarks - Phoronix
Pantech C610 Phone - TestFreak
Wicked Lasers "The Torch" - APH Networks ...
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