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Radeon Kernel Driver Deprecates UMS Mode-Setting

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

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

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

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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FreeBSD Moves Along On ARM Support

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...

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The Most Popular Linux Hardware Of 2012

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...

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