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What Goes On Within AMD's Linux Beta Program?
What Goes On Within AMD's Linux Beta Program?
This year NVIDIA has been following the "release early, release often" mantra with it seeming like two weeks can't even go by without seeing a new Linux driver -- whether it's a beta driver, an official driver update, or one of their legacy drivers picking up a few fixes (at times they have even ...
[Phoronix] System76 Serval Professional Notebook Review
[Phoronix] System76 Serval Professional Notebook Review
phoronix.com — Finding a laptop that can run Linux is no longer much of a challenge. As we have shared in numerous netbook and notebook reviews , a majority off the shelf PCs shipping with Windows can easily be replaced with Linux and chances are most -- if not all ... (more) [Phoronix] System76 Serval Professional Notebook Review
[Phoronix] AMD FirePro V8700 1GB Review
[Phoronix] AMD FirePro V8700 1GB Review
phoronix.com — The ATI FireGL graphics cards have been a staple of the workstation graphics scene for about a decade, but last year AMD made the decision to end the FireGL series and create the FirePro 3D series in its place. The FirePro 3D series is now made up of ... (more) [Phoronix] AMD FirePro V8700 1GB Review
[Phoronix] ASUS Eee Top Fails With Linux Review
[Phoronix] ASUS Eee Top Fails With Linux Review
phoronix.com — ASUS is among the few tier-one hardware vendors that understands Linux. Of the dozens of ASUS products we have tested over the years, it is hard to remember a product from ASUS that did not work well with Linux. ASUS was even the first motherboard ... (more) [Phoronix] ASUS Eee Top Fails With Linux Review
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What Goes On Within AMD's Linux Beta Program?
DriverHeaven.net — This year NVIDIA has been following the "release early, release often" mantra with it seeming like two weeks can't even go by without seeing a new Linux driver -- whether it's a beta driver, an official driver update, or one of their legacy drivers picking up a few fixes (at times they have even released four drivers at once). On the opposite spectrum, ...

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