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Ubuntu's "Lucid Lynx" Enters Beta 366

Posted by timothy on Tuesday March 23, 2010 @10:32PM from the but-that-danged-button-arrangement-sucks dept.

ActionDesignStudios writes "The upcoming release of Ubuntu, titled 'Lucid Lynx,' has just entered the beta cycle. Alongside the usual desktop and server versions, a special version has been released that is designed to run on Amazon's EC2 cloud service. This release of Ubuntu does away with the brown 'Human' Gnome theme we've all become accustomed to, replaced by a new version Canonical says is inspired by light. The new release also includes much better integration with social networking services such as Twitter, identi.ca and Facebook, among others."

Microsoft, Blizzard Crack Down On Piracy, Cheating 150

Posted by Soulskill on Monday November 17, 2008 @03:32AM from the no-means-no dept.

Microsoft has confirmed that they've been wielding the banhammer lately over modifications to the Xbox 360 which allow players to run pirated games. Xbox Live's Major Nelson said the action would also void the warranty on the offending console, and that Microsoft will "continue to employ and bolster anti-piracy security measures to counter piracy in the gaming industry and improve security in the Xbox LIVE community." Meanwhile, Blizzard dealt with 350,000 of their own problem users on Battle.net, saying simply that they wouldn't tolerate cheating. This is likely one of many steps to clean up the system before it gets revamped for use with StarCraft II.

Comment Re:iPod (Score 1) 668

by hagn on Friday November 07, 2008 @01:16PM (#25677173) Attached to: iTunes On OS X Finally Has Competition

Amarok can sync both iPods and iPhones. It is therefore a replacement by your working definition.

Last time I checked Amarok could not sync iPhones with a firmware >2.0. That means with a iPhone 3G you are out of luck.

Feed IBM kicks out energy-efficient 4.7GHz POWER6 processor (engadget.com)

From feed by engfeed on Tuesday May 22, 2007 @07:32AM

Filed under: Desktops

Nah, it's no BlueGene L supercomputer, but IBM's latest dual-core microprocessor runs at a cool 4.7GHz while sporting 8MB of total cache per chip. The device reportedly runs "twice as fast" and packs four times the cache as the POWER5, and boasts a processor bandwidth of 300Gbps. Interestingly, the massive power increase doesn't seem to come with a boost in energy requirements, as IBM claims that the 65-nanometer POWER6 somehow ups its game while "using nearly the same amount of electricity" as its predecessor. The company plans on shoving the new darling into the System p570 server, and preliminary testing showed that all four of the "most widely used performance benchmarks for Unix servers" were shattered by its CPU. Unfortunately, there's no word on pricing nor availability just yet, but we're anticipating a bit of sticker shock when it does finally land.

[Via LinuxDevices]

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