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FreeBSD Moves Along On ARM Support

Wednesday, 02 January 2013 06:17 Phoronix

While Linux continues to move along quite briskly on ARM hardware support and already has 64-bit ARM AArch64 support, that's not the case in the BSD world. With FreeBSD, they're still working on bringing up ARMv6 support and pulling in support for the different ARM SoCs/boards...

The Most Popular Linux Hardware Of 2012

Monday, 31 December 2012 06:47 Phoronix

Here's a look at some of the most popular PC components for Linux users this year. Similar to The Most Popular Linux Benchmarks Of 2012 article that was published earlier today, by leveraging the vast amount of hardware/software data being continuously collected and analyzed on OpenBenchmarking.org in conjunction with the Phoronix Test Suite...

6 Linux Distros Born in 2012

Wednesday, 12 December 2012 08:29 Katherine Noyes

Variety and choice have long been hallmarks of the Linux world, not least because new distributions emerge practically every day.

The Cortex-A15 Continues Running Strong On Linux

Monday, 10 December 2012 07:51 Phoronix

Over the past several weeks of running the Samsung Chromebook with its Exynos 5 Dual SoC that is comprised of an ARM Cortex-A15 dual-core processor, I've grown quite fond of this latest ARM processor...