The Lima graphics driver for open-source ARM Mali GPU support on Linux has some performance advantages of ARM Holdings’ binary blob, but there’s no upstream interest in having the driver mainlined in Mesa…
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The Inside Story of How Samsung Cranked out the Galaxy Gear
Samsung had its smartwatch ready for a public unveiling in early September. CNET takes you through the preceding months as the company scrambled to get the device ready for prime time. [Read more]
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Valve’s Steam Box Won’t Challenge Consoles, Says ‘Borderlands’ Studio Boss
Randy Pitchford doesn’t see Valve’s Steam Box as a threat to consoles. Pitchford, head of Borderlands developer Gearbox Software, stated to Gamesindustry.biz that although Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo will watch Valve’s new hardware “curiously,” they’ll remain “largely unaffected by anything Steam does along this vector of OS, machines and controllers over the next two or three years.”
The studio boss said Valve’s recent trio of announcements — SteamOS, Steam Machines, and the SteamController — would cause Sony and Microsoft executives to “exhale a bit,” and “imagine that [they] don’t really have anything to worry about too much coming from this direction for a while.”
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Distribution Release: NexentaStor 3.1.5
Michael Letschin has announced the release of NexentaStor 3.1.5, a new version of the project’s specialist distribution optimised for virtualisation and network-attached storage – based on the Illumos kernel and ZFS file system: “Nexenta is pleased to announce the availability of our latest software release, NexentaStor 3.1.5. This….
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