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Enlightenment E17 Alpha 6 Packs Many Changes

Wednesday, 28 November 2012 08:12 Phoronix

It's time yet again for another Enlightenment E17 Alpha release. It's only been four days since E17 Alpha 5 but there is now already E17 Alpha 6 with a huge number of changes...

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LF: There's Less Concern About ARM UEFI SecureBoot

Tuesday, 27 November 2012 07:12 Phoronix

James Bottomley wrote a new blog post this morning about why the Linux Foundation really isn't concerned about UEFI SecureBoot on ARM hardware (smart-phones, tablets, etc) compared to the work they are doing on x86 PCs with UEFI SecureBoot support for Linux.

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6 Preloaded Linux PCs For Your 2012 Holiday Wishlist

Tuesday, 20 November 2012 09:17 Katherine Noyes

Vendors are increasingly selling Linux preloaded and ready to go as a compelling Windows 8 alternative.

Masters: ARM Atomic Operations

Tuesday, 13 November 2012 07:58 LWN

Jon Masters has put together a summary of how atomic operations work on the ARM architecture for those who are not afraid of the grungy details. "To provide for atomic access to a given memory location, ARM processors implement a reservation engine model. A given memory location is first loaded...

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Intel Pushes Their Linux-Friendly Xeon Phi

Tuesday, 13 November 2012 05:17 Phoronix

In addition to NVIDIA and AMD announcing new high-end server/workstation GPUs to coincide with this week's SuperComputing SC12 conference in Salt Lake City, Intel has announced new details and release information on their Xeon Phi co-processors...

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