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Comment Re:Friends don't tell friends to install Linux (Score 1) 727

by EvilRyry (#28041791) Attached to: Ubuntu 9.04 For the Windows Power User

Except CentOS follows upstream's releases quite closely. Ubuntu essentially takes Debian unstable once in a while and tries to stabilize it as much as they can and release it within 6 months.

Compare that to the amount of time it takes for Red Hat or Debian to stabilize a release. Usually they won't release until they're happy with it either, unlike Ubuntu's "stick to the schedule at (almost) all costs" approach.

Comment Re:Big surprise (Score 1) 262

by EvilRyry (#27404025) Attached to: Ubuntu vs. Windows In OpenOffice.org Benchmark

Try changing your the audio resample method on pulse audio as described here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/330006/comments/14

After doing this, my old IBM T30 runs full screen flash videos much smoother. Even with external speakers, I'm unable to tell a difference in audio quality except that it doesn't stutter.
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Congress Mulls API For Congressional Data 121

Posted by kdawson from the it's-a-start dept.
Amerika sends in a Wired blog post on the desire in Congress to make data on lawmaking more easily available to the public. The senator who introduced the language into an omnibus appropriations bill wants feedback on the best way to make (e.g.) the Library of Congress's Thomas data more available — an API or bulk downloads, or both. Some comments on the blog posting call for an authenticated versioning system so we can know unequivocally how any particular language made its way into a bill. "Congress has apparently listened to the public's complaints about lack of convenient access to government data. The new Omnibus Appropriations Bill includes a section, introduced by Rep. Mike Honda (D-Calif.), that would mark the first tangible move toward making federal legislative data available to the public in bulk, so third parties can mash it up and redistribute it in innovative and accessible ways. This would include all the data currently distributed through the Library of Congress's Thomas web site — bill status and summary information, lists of sponsors, tracking timelines, voting records, etc."
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Nvidia Mulls Cheap, Integrated x86 Chip 211

Posted by timothy from the putting-integration-together dept.
CWmike writes "Nvidia is considering developing an integrated chip based on the x86 architecture for use in devices such as netbooks and mobile Internet devices, said Michael Hara, vice president of investor relations at Nvidia during a speech that was webcast from the Morgan Stanley Technology Conference this week. Nvidia has already developed an integrated chip called Tegra, which combines an Arm processor, a GeForce graphics core and other components on a single chip. The chips are aimed at small devices such as smartphones and MIDs, and will start shipping in the second half of this year. 'Tegra, by any definition, is a complete computer-on-chip, and the requirements of that market are such that you have to be very low power and very small but highly efficient,' Hara said. 'Someday, it's going to make sense to take the same approach in the x86 market as well.'"

Comment Re:Patenting mistakes (Score 1) 644

by EvilRyry (#26996859) Attached to: Has Microsoft's Patent War Against Linux Begun?

They don't need to go GPL, you can write an ext driver under whatever license you want. The important part is the patents, which are never really safe given the rather thick minefield of software patents out there.

I'd be interested to see UDF become the standard. I believe Vista actually has decent support for it and the drivers work in XP. Linux and OSX also have semi-decent support AFAIK.

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