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KWin In KDE 4.11 Moves Along With Using XCB

Monday, 07 January 2013 10:19 Phoronix

KWin, KDE's window manager, in version 4.11 is moving along with being ported to using XCB rather than Xlib...

Radeon Kernel Driver Deprecates UMS Mode-Setting

Monday, 07 January 2013 06:42 Phoronix

The open-source AMD Radeon Linux graphics stack has been deprecating the user-space mode-setting (UMS) code for a while and is now finally making the kernel-space mode-setting (KMS) support the default Radeon interface for the Linux kernel...

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Open source Linux driver supports 3D acceleration with all GeForce GPUs

Thursday, 03 January 2013 06:49 The H

The Linux kernel's development branch has recently acquired all the basic components needed to use 3D acceleration with any graphics core in NVIDIA's GeForce series...

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Apache Puts Out Cassandra 1.2 NoSQL Database

Thursday, 03 January 2013 06:33 Phoronix

The Apache Software Foundation has announced the release of Cassandra. Version 1.2 of the Cassandra big data "NoSQL" distributed database introduces several new features to the open-source project...

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Nouveau NVIDIA Driver Can Be Faster With Linux 3.8

Wednesday, 02 January 2013 09:40 Phoronix

Published already on Phoronix have been benchmarks of the in-development Linux 3.8 kernel when it comes to measuring the DRM graphics driver performance improvements for AMD Radeon hardware. In this article is a look at the Nouveau driver performance, the reverse-engineered open-source NVIDIA graphics driver. There's a fair amount of...

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