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The Bidding War For 3PAR Continues; HP Offers $2 Billion In Cash

 Here we go again-again. HP just offered $2 billion, or $30 per share in cash for data storage company 3PAR. This morning, Dell announced...

H.264 Will Be Royalty Free For Internet Video Forever, Mozilla Still Doesn’t Care

MPEG LA, the group who who licenses the h.264 video codec, has extended its royalty-free use (for free internet video) from 2016 until, well,...

BuGLe – OpenGL Debugging Wrapper

BuGLe is a tool for OpenGL debugging, implemented as a wrapper library that sits between your program and OpenGL. Although it's still in development,...

LLNL Talks To Us About Their Linux ZFS Port

Following this morning's article entitled Native ZFS Is Coming To Linux Next Month where the work by a small company from India that ported...

Bcache Testing: Throughput

Get your wetsuit on, we're going data diving. Throughput benchmarks using IOzone on a common SATA disk, an Intel X25-E SSD, and Bcache, using...

Intel’s Patches Proposed For Adding Legacy UMS

Back in July we reported on driver work done by Intel's Chris Wilson to add back user-space mode-setting support to the Intel X.Org DDX...

Mainline Mesa Now Supports MESA_drm_image

The work going into Mesa the past few months that will eventually be released as Mesa 7.9 continues to get more exciting. There's many...

Apple’s Enhanced OpenGL Stack Versus Linux

While our primary focus at Phoronix is on providing Linux benchmarks, we do enjoy trying out and benchmarking other operating systems like FreeBSD, Solaris,...

2 Task Manager Apps: Choose the Features You Can Live Without

Today, if you're in need of a task manager application, you're looking at a category filled -- perhaps even overfilled -- with options. If...

Talking KDE and openSUSE with Jos Poortvliet

Recently I had the pleasure of chatting with newly minted openSUSE community manager, and former KDE marketing lead, Jos Poortvliet about user-visible changes brought...