LLVM/Clang 3.3 Delivers Speed Improvements

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April 19, 2013

Last month I delivered benchmarks showing LLVM/Clang 3.3 offers performance improvements and then LLVM/Clang 3.3 is very competitive to GCC 4.8. For further confirming this information, LLVM/Clang 3.3 SVN development benchmarks were carried out from an entirely different system to confirm the earlier findings. LLVM/Clang 3.3 is indeed much faster over its predecessor in a wide variety of Linux benchmarks.

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My Experiments with Installing Ubuntu 13.04 (Pre-Release) with UEFI Boot

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ZDNet

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April 19, 2013

The Live image is Secure Boot compatible, but the installed system is not?

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Monitoring VMware ESX/vSphere With Opsview

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Falko Timme

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April 19, 2013

Monitoring VMware ESX/vSphere With Opsview

Opsview offers a powerful, flexible way to monitor virtualized devices. In this post we’ll show you howto monitor VMware ESX and VMâ€™s running on ESX, using Opsview.

Compressed Textures, Tiling Merged For RadeonSI

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Phoronix

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April 19, 2013

The RadeonSI Linux driver that supports the Radeon HD 7000 series and future HD 8000 series of graphics cards can now handle compressed textures and 2D tiling…

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Intel Graphics Will Change In The Linux 3.10 Kernel

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Phoronix

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April 19, 2013

The Linux 3.10 kernel that’s soon entering development will feature a fair number of graphics driver changes…

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IBM Reportedly in Advanced Discussions to Sell Part of Server Business to Lenovo

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The Verge

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April 19, 2013

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Close to eight years after IBM made waves by selling off its consumer PC business to Lenovo, the corporation is said to be in advanced discussions to sell part of its server business to the Chinese company. The news comes from multiple sources, including The Wall Street Journaland Bloomberg, with the latter saying the deal could be made for $2.5 billion to $4.5 billion. Reports say that a deal would see IBM’s low-end x86 server business, which is branded System x, go to Lenovo. That business has been underperforming, and news of a possible sale comes shortly after IBM announced disappointing earnings for the first quarter of 2013.

Revenue dropped five percent over that period as the company missed expectations, with a 13 percent drop…

Systemd 202 Starts Playing With D-Bus In The Kernel

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Phoronix

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April 19, 2013

Systemd 202 has been released and it begin experimental work on supporting kdbus, the implementation of D-Bus within the Linux kernel. There’s also other fixes and features to this new systemd release…

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Distribution Release: Manjaro Linux 0.8.5 “MATE”, “LXDE”, “KDE”

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DistroWatch

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April 19, 2013

The Manjaro development team has announced the release of three community editions of Manjaro Linux 0.8.5, featuring the MATE, LXDE and KDE desktop environments: “We are happy to announce three new Manjaro community editions featuring MATE 1.6, LXDE 0.5.5 and KDE 4.10.2. The community editions of Manjaro Linux….

Open Recall: Fresh Linux Releases and Something to Read

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The H

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April 19, 2013

In this edition: a Foresight Linux release, a new Network Security Toolkit, the second update for ROSA Marathon 2012, a new issue of IFOSSLR, and the results of the Future of Open Source Survey from Black Duck

Intel Working on Android Powered Notebooks?

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Muktware

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April 19, 2013

Intel is supposedly working on convertible netbook tablets which Lenovo will bring to the market in May.