In recent days and weeks there have been many Phoronix news stories about Wayland support improvements going into different GNOME components like the GNOME Shell and GTK+ tool-kit. The GNOME 3.10 official release is due later this month and overall the support for running GNOME Shell on Wayland appears in rather good standing…
Red Hat’s JBoss Developer Studio 7.0 Serves Up Cool Tools
Red Hat has now released version 7 of its Jboss Developer Studio, which offers developers a lot of cool tools. It includes support for multiple programming models and frameworks, including Java Enterprise Edition 6, RichFaces, JavaServer Faces (JSF), Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB), Java Persistence API (JPA), and Hibernate, JAX-RS with RESTEasy, Contexts Dependency Injection (CDI), HTML5, and a number of other popular technologies.
A blog post from the Jboss Developer team emphasizes enhanced features that will help developers quickly get started developing Java applications, and takes note of Browsersim, a mobile browsing simulator that allows developers to test web apps with various resolutions, dimensions and features, and use Firebug for debugging. The post notes:
Cray Powers Japan’s Railway Technical Research Institute
Today Cray today announced that the Railway Technical Research Institute (RTRI) in Japan has a pair of the company’s supercomputers into a single virtual system performing complex simulations aimed at advancing railway technologies. Comprised of a Cray XC30-AC supercomputer, a Cray CS300 cluster, and a Cray Sonexion storage system, the 100 Teraflop installation gives researchers […]
Newkia Aims to Rise from Nokia’s Ashes on Android Wings
Singapore-based Newkia was formed the day the $7.2 billion Microsoft-Nokia deal was announced, with the goal of acquiring Nokia employees and know-how but focusing on the Android platform. [Read more]
Jelly Bean Chews up 45 Percent of Android Devices
The latest flavor of Android continues to pop up on more devices, leaving Ice Cream Sandwich and Gingerbread further behind. [Read more]
Winter is Coming, Get Your Code Inside!
- It is already September! Haven’t you noticed? Bad weather is coming, it will be freezing soon!
According to the roadmap, Full Feature Freeze will be upon openSUSE Factory on September the 19th. On that day, openSUSE 13.1 Beta will see the harsh light of day.
But already, the Toolchain and Base System are deeply frozen and only leaf packages have time left to scurry in. Two weeks, to be exact, 14 days and it will be Winter in Factory. Time to get your package updates in before they freeze in the cold! Read on to learn how to make it happen.
Intel DRM-Next Haswell Performance Benchmarks
For those curious whether Intel’s queued up driver changes for landing in the Linux 3.12 kernel offer much in the way of better performance, for at least common Intel HD Graphics systems it doesn’t appear that way…
For the New Galaxy Note, USB 3 is the Magic Number

With all the news coming from it’s big event yesterday, Samsung glazed over the importance of one new feature of its Galaxy Note 3 — it’s the first phone we know of that that uses USB 3.0. The benefits of the switch to the more modern standard are two-fold. The obvious plus for USB 3.0 is that it offers far faster data rates, potentially increasing the speed of transferring music, videos, and photos to and from your phone. “Potential” is an important word here: the speeds you’ll actually achieve will depend on the quality of the storage Samsung has included in the Galaxy Note 3.
11 Myths About GNU/Linux Desktop Operating System
Linux is a best distribution for Server, Administration and Geeks. But when it comes to Desktop Computing, Linux is still far behind. Why? well when I asked the same question to myself I come to knew that there are a large number of prevalent myths about Linux. There I was forced to uncover the…
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EXT4 Gains Aggressive Extent Caching, Improved Recovery
Ted Ts’o has filed his EXT4 file-system changes for the Linux 3.12 kernel, which includes two new features and various other fixes/refinements for this widely-used and stable Linux file-system…
