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New Open-Source ATI Driver Releases

Wednesday, 03 March 2010 00:00 Phoronix

With the Linux 2.6.33 kernel having been released last week where the ATI kernel mode-setting (KMS) DRM code left the kernel's staging area, we knew a new ATI X.Org driver release was imminent. Over the night a new stable DDX driver update has been pushed out for xf86-video-ati as well as a new pre...

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Open Source Hardware Takes Baby Steps Toward the Gadget Mainstream

Wednesday, 03 March 2010 00:00 ComputerWorld

The success of open-source software raises a tantalizing question: Could the same design philosophy work for tech gadgets?

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Atom-based SBCs Offer Multimedia and PoE+ Daughter-Cards

Tuesday, 02 March 2010 03:16 LinuxDevices

ADI Engineering announced a line of 3.46 x 4.33-inch single board computers (SBCs) with PoE+, multimedia, and DVI/VGA video expansion daughtercards. The Cinnamon Bay SBCs are built around Intel's Z5xxP- and -PT Atom processors and offer Arium’s microSD-bootable AE Linux distro....

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IBM Rethinks Industry-Standard Servers

Tuesday, 02 March 2010 00:00 CNET

Big Blue's new line, dubbed the eX5 portfolio, features architecture tweaks that let the customer add more memory without buying an entirely new server.

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Major Linux 2.6.34 Kernel GPU DRM Updates

Monday, 01 March 2010 00:00 Phoronix

There's already quite a bit of code that has been merged into the Linus 2.6 Git tree for the Linux 2.6.34 kernel tree, but the first pull request for the DRM (Direct Rendering Manager) code has went in this morning. As was mentioned last week, the "vga_switcheroo" that allows for dual GPU switchin...

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