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The Btrfs File-System Repair Tool Is Available
After writing about Btrfs LZ4 compression support and that the Btrfs FSCK tool wasn't available, it turns out that there is the new Btrfs...
Development Release: Porteus 1.2 RC1
Jay Flood has announced the availability of the first release candidate for Porteus 1.2, a Slackware-based mini-distribution featuring Trinity (KDE 3), KDE 4, LXDE...
What Greg Does
With my recent job change, I'm starting to run into a bunch of people asking "What exactly are you going to be doing now?"I've...
Why Custom HPC Processors Don’t Cut it Any More
Nvidia’s Sumit Gupta writes that the recent flap over the $Billion-dollar cost of the Japanese K Supercomputer brings to light that supercomputers do not...
There’s Hope For DMA-BUF With Non-GPL Drivers
There's some resurrected hope for the kernel symbols of the DMA-BUF buffer sharing mechanism to be not restricted to only GPL drivers, which started...
Radeon HyperZ In Open-Source On Older Hardware
Recently there has been a lot of talk about Hierarchical-Z/HyperZ support for R600g since its set to provide a measurable performance benefit the open-source...
Distribution Release: Scientific Linux 6.2 “Live”
Urs Beyerle has announced that, following the recent release of Scientific Linux 6.2, live images with the distribution are now also available: "Scientific Linux...
Blender 2.62 Arrives, and Some Free Tools for Getting Going With It
The Blender Foundation has announced that version 2.62 of its hugely popular 3D animation and graphics application--which features some significant enhancements--is now available. You...
Mozilla’s Boot to Gecko OS Is Moving Forward
In the summer of last year, we considered the question, "Could Mozilla Pull Off a Firefox OS?" While Mozilla hasn't traditionally been a player...
Whamcloud Goes Global with Lustre Training
Whamcloud’s Dan Ferber writes that the company has seen worldwide demand for its Lustre training, with more courses pending this March in Australia and in...