I notice that like 2 months ago, after upgrading from a Radeon 5850 to a 7850. Since my CPU is an old Core Duo 2.4GHz I didn't expect that much of a performance boost, but expected a noticeable change. When comparing the Haven benchmark results with the previous card, the higher frame rate went up as expected (15-25 fps not remember now), but the lower frame rate went down too from 18 fps to 6 fps on new card. Tried with some driver revisions, being 10.10 the last one tested having same behavior on the 7850. So I guess is an architecture glitch (or driver to architecture bug) since don't affected my old 5850. During games (usually play SWTOR) I notice the lag spikes, but always blame SWTOR, but now looks like the problem is somewhere else.

For this???? for the app market??? are you sure????

Unlike the MS Explorer issue which is the one they got kicked as you said, they are not the first company to implement an App Market, so any accusation will go nowhere since Mac OS has one, Android has one, iOS have one, Blackberry have one, hey even Ubuntu has one market.

Even more, the last Mac OS do not allow any software installation outside the app market, something that Windows 8 still allows, but probably Win9 will follow Mac example if app market is accepted by people. In other words, there are more restrictive markets for personal computers than the one Windows 8 came with.

Also these days the disadvantage inclusion of IE can be discussed. Again Apple includes it's own Browser Safari, most Linux desktop distributions include a default web browser (usually Firefox). Smart phones include a web browser (depends on the phone OS)

Users will be able to install software outside the MS App Market for Windows 8, but eventually (WIn 9?) they will very likely go the Apple way and disable any outside Market app installation.

And why they have to be open source?

Canonical as a company made ATI/AMD improve the rate of support for new X releases. Everyone knows that before Canonical, ATI drivers where behind X releases as long as 6-8 months. Now that Valve is working closely with them it only means more pressure to AMD and NVIDIA and better binary blobs.

Either open or closed is a win/win for end users.

I know Nvidia drivers are not perfect. No closed or open source driver is perfect, but they are far better than AMD binary ones. My point is since they provide "good" drivers and "support", they use that as an excuse to not provide documentation on how their chips work internally.

You are really dumb.
The woman ask about Nvidia Optimus that is not supported on Linux. He said they are the worst...can't you think why.... Then go back and read my post.

Brief reply for short minded (dumb) people.... No binary drivers from Nvidia + No hardware developer docs = NO SUPPORT (open, closed or whatever).

Do I said you are really dumb?

I haven't watched the video, but probably Torvalds is pissed about the lack of contribution to open source projects (kernel, drivers). While their proprietary drivers are top notch. What will happen if one day Nvidia decide that making a Linux driver is too cost effective. Answer: a lot of unsupported video cars and SoC.

I understand the (bla bla bla) Intellectual Property they paid millions in research (bla bla bla) they don't want to give that information for free. But if the current architecture is so different than previous one, then why don't make public development information for previous generations of their chips as soon a new (different) generation is out.

While Intel graphics is still lacking, they are the only intelligent ones that have the brilliant idea of working the support for their next generation chips before those chips become available for sell.

You should check a Hacking/security book that covers your installed OS. In terms of knowing any security issues, that is a little more complicated. Most Linux distributions are tied to version freeze where they do not include new version of packages, they only back-port security patches. For example, in Debian 6 (Squeeze) the latest (as today) version of php5 is 5.3.3-7+squeeze13, which in fact may give the assumption is outdated (latest in 5.3 branch is php 5.3.14), but it have been patched with all known released security patches. The problem with that approach (which RedHat Enterprise and clones also do btw), is that some security apps that check for vulnerabilities in packages may report false positives.

In short, you should trust the distribution you use, keep updated, and read both distribution site, and lwn.net for new vulnerabilities on a daily basis.

Also the server is more about maintenance than installation. You need to keep an eye on resources, logged sessions, watch logs, list of process running, updates.

My bad, the update was not committed May 13, was April 13. so yes, nearly 2 months.

The author of the article mention a couple of distributions found vulnerable to this bug. In one of them is Arch Linux. But he also said that systems with versions up to 5.1.61, 5.2.11, 5.3.5, 5.5.22 are vulnerable. Then... How the heck can Arch (a rolling release distribution) be affected if they have an updated version of the package already in place, lol. The article is dated June 11, Arch fixed upstream release was committed May 13. So it has been already fixed for nearly 2 months.... wow https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/log/trunk?h=packages/mysql

KDE is a big project, and has lots of apps where you can learn from. You can find small apps, big apps, libraries, WM, nearly everything in that project. It's well documented, easy to code thanks to Qt. You can start from the bottom with small tutorials, and move up in the chain when your experience improves.

You could try Code::Blocks http://www.codeblocks.org/

well, they need a lot of money since all console manufactures loss money on consoles, that's why they also sell games. And they will need an inhouse or very close game publishing company, and a lot of power for a low price to compete.