Archive for the ‘Linux’ Category

Nero Linux 3 beta available for download

Monday, April 23rd, 2007

Powered by the industry-leading Nero Burning ROM engine, Nero Linux 3 is the definitive burning application for Linux operating systems. Record to CD, DVD, HD DVD, and Blu-ray disc, and experience the next generation of burning solutions for Linux!

Nero Linux 3 features:

  • Blu-ray and HD DVD data recording support
  • Upgrade to GTK 2.0
  • Improved graphical user interface similar to the look and feel of the current Nero Burning ROM 7 edition
  • Unicode support in all languages currently supported by Nero 7 Premium Reloaded

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Complete rewrite of the Linux task scheduler

Monday, April 23rd, 2007

Ingo Molnar released a new patchset titled the “Modular Scheduler Core and Completely Fair Scheduler”.
He explained, “this project is a complete rewrite of the Linux task scheduler. My goal is to address various feature requests and to fix deficiencies in the vanilla scheduler that were suggested/found in the past few years, both for desktop scheduling and for server scheduling workloads.”
The patchset introduces Scheduling Classes, “an extensible hierarchy of scheduler modules. These modules encapsulate scheduling policy details and are handled by the scheduler core without the core code assuming about them too much.” It also includes sched_fair.c with an implementation of the CFS desktop scheduler, “a replacement for the vanilla scheduler’s SCHED_OTHER interactivity code,” about which Ingo noted, “I’d like to give credit to Con Kolivas for the general approach here: he has proven via RSDL/SD that ‘fair scheduling’ is possible and that it results in better desktop scheduling. Kudos Con!”

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Dear AMD

Sunday, April 22nd, 2007

Dear AMD, in light of you losing $600M for Q4, I am still left wondering how you can ignore quality Linux drivers.

I would have to agree on this. though linux users might be a very small minority, ATI (and now AMD) really could and should do a lot more to have decent graphic card drivers in linux.

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Feisty Fawn has stable read/write NTFS drivers

Saturday, April 21st, 2007

Are you a Windows user trying out Feisty Fawn? Point and click to access your Windows files within Ubuntu in under a minute!
Ubuntu 7.04 can read and write files on the NTFS drives commonly used by Windows.


Latest Ubuntu delivers on the promise of Open Source

Thursday, April 19th, 2007

Ubuntu 7.04, codenamed “Feisty Fawn”, is finally released!
I have been using it for about 3 months now, and besides a whole lot of daily updates i can tell you it’s been really stable so far.

More here.

You can also go straight to Ship-it, and request your free CD’s

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