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The ubuntu developers just announced the first alpha release of the next Ubuntu version – 8.04 (codenamed “Hardy Heron”). major changes include:
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Putty, a free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Win32 and Unix platforms, is out with a new version – 0.60 with some important bug fixes:
According to a recent article at The Inquirer, chip firm Intel was getting ready to do some very noticeable price cuts on the Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Quad lines, some up to 40%.
According to a few sources, the new prices are already in the wild, so if you are looking to buy a new Intel CPU, now would be a good time.
For a full price quote of Intel’s server and desktop princing for April 2007, visit the folks at digitimes, but here are some of the big cuts:
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Linux Kernel 2.6.21 has just been announced by Linus Torvalds.
2.6.21 improves the virtualization features merged in 2.6.20 with VMI (http://lwn.net/Articles/175706), a paravirtualization interface that will be used by Vmware (and maybe -probably not- Xen) software.
KVM does get initial paravirtualization along with live migration and host suspend/resume support (http://lwn.net/Articles/223839).
2.6.21 also gets a tickless idle loop mechanism called “Dynticks” (http://lwn.net/Articles/223185), a feature built in top of “clockevents” which unifies the timer handling and brings true high-resolution timers.
Other features are: bigger kernel command-line, optional ZONE_DMA; support for the PA SEMI PWRficient CPU, for a Cell-based “celleb” architecture from Toshiba, better PS3 support: support for NFS IPv6, IPv4 <-> IPv6 IPSEC tunneling support, UFS2 write support, kprobes for PPC32, kexec and oprofile for ARM, public key encription for ecryptfs, Fcrypt and Camilla cipher algorithms, NAT port randomization, audit lockdown mode, many new drivers and many other small improvements.
Ed Finkler, for the past couple of weeks, has been collecting data from the NIST NVD to get stats on PHP application vulnerabilities. In his blog,
he released the top 20 PHP security issues statistics.
The data covers only reported vulnerabilities, between April 1 2006 and April 1 2007.
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This morning we launched the Google AJAX Feed API, an API that takes the pain out of developing mashups in JavaScript. Now you can mash up feeds using only a few lines of JavaScript rather than dealing with complex server-side proxies.
LEGIT REVIEWS TESTED AMD’s answer to Intel’s Conroe offensive. With the latest price cuts of AMD CPUs, it was interesting to see whether an X2 5600+, a sub-$200 CPU fare with Intel’s own E6300, which fits nicely into the same category. When testing in real world games, a surprise happened in S.T.A.L.K.E.R., where Intel took a beating. AMD took the lead in Doom 3 as well, while Quake 4 returned point for Intel. However, AMD demolished Intel in Serious Sam 2. Head over there and read a highly surprising review. But to see almost 50% faster frame rate in Serious Sam… even worse than Athlon 64 vs. Intel Pentium 4 in Unreal Tournament 2k4.
Thanks to The Inquirer.
According to a recent post at ocworkbench forums, a chinese website called pcinlife has leaked a series of pictures of the upcoming card Radeon HD2600XT.
According to original the author, it is said that the board uses 256MB of GDDR4. The 65nm manufacturing process GPU comes with a BIOS dated Apr 4th. Max wattage is 80W or lower. There is no additional power connector unlike the NVIDIA 8600GTS. In one of the 1080P video tests, cpu utilization is lower than 5% on the average. That is amazing.
More information can be found on the forum post.