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Nvidia Is Now Using a New Linux Kernel Module Source Layout

The latest list of the world’s fastest supercomputers, Top500 June 2015, shows the fastest of the fast growing ever more powerful. Tianhe-2, the world’s fastest supercomputer, runs, like almost all other supercomputers, Linux. For example, the only new entry in the Top 10 supercomputers is Shaheen II, a Cray XC40 system installed at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia, in the seventh spot.

If you are new to Linux then I’m sure you are giving up lots of time choosing Desktop Environment of your Linux Distribution.

Over the years, I’ve heard both Windows users and Linux enthusiasts make the claim that professional media production on Linux is impossible.

There are pivotal times in our collective and personal histories when we remember exactly where we were. For me, that first memory was President of the United States John Kennedy being assassinated. I wasn’t old enough to understand the weight or importance placed upon the event, but I knew, based on the reactions around me, something terrible and far-reaching had happened. And then, there I was, standing in my pajamas at 10:30 pm, staring at the screen of our first color television set.

How do you know if you are a potential candidate to become a Linux user? It’s this simple: What’s the first app you fire up after booting into your system? If you said ‘browser’, then you are a potential Linux user. Gone are the days when the operating system used to be the primary component of your computing. Today, the … Read More

The first Panasonic VIERA Smart TVs powered by Firefox OS are now available in Europe and will be available worldwide in the coming months.

Google’s latest version of Android Wear makes it easier to get to apps, improves notification handling and adds brilliant emoji features. oogle’s smartwatch operating system, Android Wear, is on its third major revision, and this time it is a coherent and useful platform that does what a smartwatch does best – handle notifications – making it the best platform out there.

Hardly a month goes by without someone explaining what Linux lacks, or how it needs a particular feature, application, or service to be usable– and, as often as not, the complaints are misguided. In other cases, such as optical character recognition or speech recognition, free software tools are available but primitive compared to proprietary ones.

Do you want to use OpenStack, but you’re afraid of the headaches of getting its architecture just right? Well, EMC is here to help with OpenStack reference architectures for three leading OpenStack vendors: Canonical, Mirantis, and Red Hat. It demonstrates how to use EMC storage systems, Mirantis OpenStack, and Cinder block storage drivers together in an OpenStack environment.

Snuggly situated in an industrial section of Oakland, CA is Next Thing Co. a team of nine artists and engineers who are pursuing the dream of a lower cost single board computer.

Gaming within a Windows 7 Virtual Machine running on Ubuntu Linux, utilizing QEMU/KVM VGA PCI Pass-Through.

Jeff Hoogland, the founder and lead developer of the Ubuntu-based Bodhi Linux operating system, announced plans for dropping the current version of the Enlightenment desktop environment used in the recently released Bodhi Linux 3.0 distro for Moksha Desktop, which is based on the older Enlightenment E17 desktop environment.

Server Backup Manager 5.10 is now available for download! Along with updating our branding in the product, this release provides five new value-adding features and improvements: New Features Include: Site-to-Site Replication Improved Filesystem Support for ext4 with 64-bit Feature File Download Logging Persistent Maintenance Mode Tuning Options for h2 Internal Database To see the full list of fixes and read more about … Read More

Red Hat has introduced a new business resource planner to help enterprises quickly and efficiently address complex scheduling and resource planning challenges