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Linux Kernel 2.6.32 Released 195

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday December 03, 2009 @11:04AM from the download-compile-reboot-repeat dept.

diegocg writes "Linus Torvalds has officially released the version 2.6.32 of the Linux kernel. New features include virtualization memory de-duplication, a rewrite of the writeback code faster and more scalable, many important Btrfs improvements and speedups, ATI R600/R700 3D and KMS support and other graphic improvements, a CFQ low latency mode, tracing improvements including a 'perf timechart' tool that tries to be a better bootchart, soft limits in the memory controller, support for the S+Core architecture, support for Intel Moorestown and its new firmware interface, run-time power management support, and many other improvements and new drivers. See the full changelog for more details."

Brian Eno Releases Second iPhone App 196

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday September 21, 2009 @12:53PM from the oblique-strategies-ftw dept.

Brian Eno, or as he is known to many in my office, "God," has released his second iPhone App. A followup to Bloom, this one is called Trope and supposedly creates darker music. You create music by drawing shapes on the iPhone's screen.

Comment Re:two billion dollars... (Score 1) 414

by nico60513 on Wednesday July 08, 2009 @01:54PM (#28625453) Attached to: Pickens Calls Off Massive Wind Farm In Texas

The issue is, wind power is needs a lot of space to operate. And for aesthetic reasons, they need to be placed in fairly remote locations away from urban centers, which reduces efficiency.

As opposed to nuclear plants? They don't tend to get built in densely populated areas either.

(I agree with most of your points - I just think wind farms aren't alone with the NIMBY issues).

Comment Re:Pandora's blog has been opened (Score 2, Funny) 211

by nico60513 on Wednesday April 01, 2009 @11:31AM (#27418217) Attached to: The Guardian Shifts To Twitter After 188 Years of Ink

No thanks. Even if I get all of the achievements they'll just add more achievements to get me to buy new slashdot downloadable content.

Comment Re:why linux doesn't do desktop (Score 1) 696

by nico60513 on Thursday December 18, 2008 @03:38PM (#26163833) Attached to: 2009, Year of the Linux Delusion

I don't understand what you mean by "... those companies have already made it clear what their terms and conditions are and we won't compromise."

I work for a company that sells software (and support contracts for that software) for Linux (Red Hat RHEL and SuSE SLES). The user-space ABI is fairly stable. We build on two platforms RHEL 3 and RHEL 5 and run on five RHEL 3, 4, 5 and SuSE SLES 9 and 10.

Yes, the kernel driver interfaces change more frequently -- but that affects people who write device drivers, not user-space applications.

I'm fairly certain that the main reason there aren't more commercial applications on Linux is market share. All of the other reasons (e.g. ease of install, attitudes of the community) have fallen by the wayside as the Linux desktop and server experience have improved.

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